MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Fall 2001 Catalogue Supplement

6.964 Pervasive Computing- Projects in Project Oxygen (G)

TR2-3, First Meeting Lounge on 2nd Floor Building NE43
Dr. Larry Rudolph, NE43-208, 3-6562, Prof. Anant Agarwal, NE43-624b, 3-1448
Prereq.: Permission of Instructor
3-0-9

This course will cover many of the maturing technologies in input/output, networking, information infrasture, and ease-of-use that will become necessary as computers become small, pervasive, and in constant connection with each other. Some of the I/O interfaces that will be investigated include speech, vision, gestures, combinations of sensors, and location sensors.

The course will consist of lectures and tutorials. The tutorials will help the student in building three projects: one involving speech recognition, visual gesture recognition, and a final project that integrates several technologies. The projects will be carried out on an iPaq handheld computer augmented with some custom hardware and software. A wide range of computer skills will be necessary.

Enrollment is limited to 20 students with preference given to upperclass students.