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.
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