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MIT Project Oxygen - Future Environment.| Category | | | Summary | | Imagine this. You walk into work and a small speaker alerts you that the market analysis you have requested is done. A second later, your mini hand held screen turns on, and shows you the data in your favorite format, a pie chart. You ask in plan simple |
| | Body | This could soon become a reality thanks to Project Oxygen an R&D from MIT. I will be talking about the vision of Project Oxygen, the components that make up the larger system, the challenges and problems to be overcome, and applications for use in the future. As you read in the first paragraph, The possibilities are only limited by the imagination, once the Project is complete.
It wouldn't have to be limited to business related work either. It could be used in homes or hospitals and hooked up to heart rate monitors to alert nurses and doctors of any irregularities. The hope for this project is to make the computers serve us, rather than us having to learn computer languages, carry them around or enter data with keyboards or mice. Being able to use plain old English (or any other language) to communicate, and have the computers around us, in buildings, lampposts and cars, would allow us to be much more productive and leave the most repetitive tasks to the computers that surround them. We could print documents, update information, keep notes and have address books and planners where ever we go, as all of our data would be stored in a secure database.
Project Oxygen, will consist of many smaller parts that will work together to form the whole complete infrastructure that will be known as Project Oxygen. These devices are split into three main groups, hand helds (Handy21s or H-21s), interactive environments (Enviro21s or E-21s), flexible software applications (O2S) and finally, a flexible network infrastructure that allows for fixed and mobile devices to come and go, and to communicate using multiple network protocols (N-21s). The hand held devices would have to be optimized for battery usage, and most likely have low power processors and a low range communications transceiver.
The hand held devices would link via an N21 to an E21 where power usage is of no concern, as they are on the mains grid and could do most of the data computation and long range data transmission. The software would be small and flexible for storing a multitude of data, from emails and documents to appointments and contact information.
The challenges faced by the members of Project Oxygen are that the hand helds must be power efficient, so that you don't have to replace/recharge the batteries too often. Project Oxygen as a whole must be constant and be persistently online 24/7, and be able to deal with many requests for data. All parts of Project Oxygen must be able to communicate with each other, but also be customizable and be able to add extra features. It must be able to understand human speech, gestures and be able to parse that data to form commands. Along with this, it must be able to understand what the humans mean, not just what they say. So, if it is asked to find the nearest printer, it will search for it without anyone having to state an address. Project Oxygen must be widespread enough to be useful to the general public and it must allow users to come and go, without limiting their mobility.
The applications for Project Oxygen are almost limitless, limited only by the technology that we can create. It could be used to check on people in nursing homes or be used in security systems, or it could alert you if you were on vacation, and that you have received an important package. You could then communicate with the delivery man, and arrange to pick it up or leave it in the garage, etc...
In conclusion, Project Oxygen will change our lives if it is successful. I think that it could better our lives and the lives of others. I look forward to it maturing.
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