6.893Pervasive Computing.ppt

6.893Pervasive Computing Larry Rudolph Course Overview Two sets of students -- MIT and SMA Two parts to class Individual technologies (PS Quiz) Group projects Materials iPaq, backpaq, cricket, ?? Slides, handouts, notes (raw) TA’s -- filter for your questions Albert @ MIT, ???@ SMA What is pervasive computing? Post PC -- PC not the center Digital devices all around us Ubiquitous Computing Mark Weisner -- Calm Computing Oxygen Vision Pervasive, Human-Centric Computing What do these words mean? Computers are already pervasive even in Boston and Singapore Computers are already human-centric are they for the birds? It’s not really about computing we already know how to do that So, what do we mean? Pervasive Should be where we need them not have to go to them or set them up Human-centric Computers should adapt to humans computation enters our world/environment Computing Computer-mediated function digital media Look back to see ahead Monolithic Programs Hardware Decompose into interactive pieces Compose to build large thing Continue decomposing into autonomous, interacting components Finding and naming stuff Few items Use list Many items Use heirarchy Very many items Use multi-index Organization of material Top-down would be nice to start writing apps but we are not there yet Bottom-up Build on what is known Keyboard, mouse, pen Location, Speech, Multimodal Integrative Technologies H21 components Hardware iPAQ Backpaq Wireless Communication Location sensing iPAQ 3870 Linux on H21 Why Linux? Linux allows full access to all software Common development with desktop Can use open source code from many sources Porting Linux to a handheld device More difficult than standard PC or Laptop Non-standard interfaces (screen, control FPGAs, touch screen, …) Requires rewritable Flash ROMs For iPaq, port done by HP’s Cambridge Research Lab H21 Backpaq Redesigned BackPaq (Version 3) Philips imager (640x480 CMOS color imager UPA1022) Larger FPGA (Xilinx Virtex 300E) 256k x 16 SRAM