MIT, Nokia team up for intelligent handhelds

Brian · 10-27-2005, 05:27 PM

Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) have announced a new research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts near the MIT campus where researchers will work together on a new vision for mobile computing. The Nokia Research Center Cambridge will be composed of about twenty researchers from Nokia and twenty researchers from MIT under the direction of a joint steering committee and will begin operations on January 1, 2006, according to the press release.

The collaborative work of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge will center on a view of the future where small handheld devices such as mobile phones will become parts of an "ecosystem" of information, services, peripherals, sensors and other devices. Research will address new user interfaces that incorporate speech and other modalities, new mobile computing platforms - including low power hardware platforms and wireless communication, as well as new software architectures. Researchers will also address new ways of managing information: The use of Semantic Web technologies - an extension of the current Web developed in part at CSAIL and at the Nokia Research Center - will enable devices to more intuitively and automatically understand interconnected terms, information and services.

This news in addition to the MIT Media Lab's Reality Mining Project could lead to incredible breakthroughs in for mobile computing devices that incorporate artificial intelligence. Handheld devices that predict behavior, are location and context-aware, and have improved vision and speech recognition capabilities could usher in a mobile computing renaissance.

Read the full press release here.

Related: Where are the intelligent handhelds?, Futurists make tech predictions

Colin Dunstan · 10-28-2005, 08:04 AM

Great news. It's about time that research around small mobile devices goes in new directions. I am tired of meaningless updates such as Windows Mobile 2003 -> 5.0 promising so much, yet delivering so little new.

10-27-2005, 05:27 PM	#1
Brian MobileRead Editor Posts: 447 Karma: 84 Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Massachusetts Device: Treo 700p, Zodiac2	MIT, Nokia team up for intelligent handhelds Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (MIT CSAIL) have announced a new research facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts near the MIT campus where researchers will work together on a new vision for mobile computing. The Nokia Research Center Cambridge will be composed of about twenty researchers from Nokia and twenty researchers from MIT under the direction of a joint steering committee and will begin operations on January 1, 2006, according to the press release. The collaborative work of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge will center on a view of the future where small handheld devices such as mobile phones will become parts of an "ecosystem" of information, services, peripherals, sensors and other devices. Research will address new user interfaces that incorporate speech and other modalities, new mobile computing platforms - including low power hardware platforms and wireless communication, as well as new software architectures. Researchers will also address new ways of managing information: The use of Semantic Web technologies - an extension of the current Web developed in part at CSAIL and at the Nokia Research Center - will enable devices to more intuitively and automatically understand interconnected terms, information and services. This news in addition to the MIT Media Lab's Reality Mining Project could lead to incredible breakthroughs in for mobile computing devices that incorporate artificial intelligence. Handheld devices that predict behavior, are location and context-aware, and have improved vision and speech recognition capabilities could usher in a mobile computing renaissance. Read the full press release here. Related: Where are the intelligent handhelds?, Futurists make tech predictions

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10-28-2005, 08:04 AM	#2
Colin Dunstan Is papyrophobic! Posts: 1,926 Karma: 1009999 Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: USA Device: Dell Axim	Great news. It's about time that research around small mobile devices goes in new directions. I am tired of meaningless updates such as Windows Mobile 2003 -> 5.0 promising so much, yet delivering so little new.

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