NRI scientist handheld computing
"as easy as breathing."

Washington, Nov 18, 2004

NRI scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is working on a project aimed at making hand-held computing "as easy as breathing." Anant Agarwal, a professor and researcher at the MIT, is involved in 'Project Oxygen' along with 149 other researchers, The Washington Post reported today.

At the centre of the research, which is in its fifth year, is a reprogrammable chip called RAW, for "raw architecture workstation".

MIT's USD50 million project funded partly by the Defence Advanced Research: Projects Agency of the Pentagon, which develoved the Internet and achieved many other major breakthroughs.

HE SAID:

• He wants to redesign chip software and hardware for the mobile age, creating chips that will be chameleon-like, fulfilling many purposes, so that people could get more done with less gear.
• It will theoretically make computing more mobile.
• This embedded in "intelligent" rooms and stationary objects could accomplish more by simply retrieving new instruction sets. "Call it a universal logic chip that can do anything

 

• MIT Project Oxygen-----> more

• Leader of Raw, which is a project in the Computer Architecture Group (CAG) within CSAIL.
• He hacks on WebSim in his spare time. WebSim is a prototype of a web-based electronic circuits laboratory. His other projects include LOUD, Oxygen, Alewife, Virtual Wires, and Fugu.