ERIT Proposal As submitted - Rice Mobile Information System

Rice Mobile Information System ERIT Proposal The power and capability of mobile devices continues to improve Equally important, the ability to pass digital data to and from a mobile device is starting to see great improvement A couple of years ago, it was not uncommon to find a person carrying a pager, a cell phone, a PDA and a notebook computer Many advances discussed later in this proposal are resulting in smart phone systems offering better connectivity, storage, and computing capacity in one device than all the first three devices, and in many cases even eliminate the need to carry a notebook computer The main thrust of this proposal is to put Rice at the forefront in the area of using connected intelligent mobile devices (primarily Smart Phones and cellular connected PDA’s) combined with customized backend software and agents to create a connected mobile information system There are some related projects taking place at CMU and Duke that are well funded; however both institutions have chosen an approach that limits their abilities Rice’s effort in this area is primarily centered on a course shared between Computer Science (COMP-446) and Electrical and Computer Engineering (ELEC-446) with additional support from IT We have also received a small amount of funding from Microsoft and HP If Rice wants to be at the forefront of this technology, we need to step up our effort significantly before we are left behind The proposed system would use a new breed of Windows Mobile based Smart Phones and connected PDAs connecting over 2.5G and 3G cellular wireless data networks Although these devices are capable of connecting directly to the internet, the proposed system will improve response time and functionality using features such as a NET backend gateway and client level caching It will tie into XML portal efforts being undertaken by Rice IT Based on such a platform, we will then build pervasive services for education, campus safety, and personal health for the Rice community members The main purpose of the ERIT grant will be to greatly accelerate this project beyond what could be done with only a classroom / project scenario including understanding how to best leverage this technology to improve the educational and campus life of Rice students If fully funded, the money would add two full time graduate students to the project In the minimal, “planning grant” scenario, the project would be augmented by undergraduates working over the summer and during the course’s off semester to keep the project moving forward and to add continuity External funding opportunities Industrial funding opportunities 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) We will be seeking funds from Microsoft and probably Samsung and Motorola to help with our hardware and software needs Since we will be leveraging cellular wireless networks, we can also seek funding from Sprint, Verizon, Cingular and T-Mobile The larger the Rice based initiative is, the higher the funding level we should be able to achieve from these outside sources Intel, with its new reorganization, is devoted to promoting digital health, i.e., utilizing information technology to enhance healthcare Our mobile information system with its potential service for pervasive personal health monitoring and reporting will be very interesting to Intel We will seek funding from Intel through its University Program Lin Zhong has worked with Microsoft Research on Windows based Smart Phones, their interfaces and new services Microsoft has been striving to establish a prominent presence in the cell phone/smart phone market It is eager to see more applications and services that can be enabled on Windows based Smart Phone Our mobile information system and its services will be of great interest to Microsoft I have already spoken to Microsoft Academic Relations Manager Bradley Jensen about coupling the CITI grant to the ability to get more Microsoft funds, and he is receptive to the dialog Federal funding opportunities National Science Foundation: NSF, through its program in Computer Information Science and Engineering (CISE), has a number of proposal solicitations that are highly related to our project For example, the Advanced Learning Technologies (ALT) solicitation will be very interested in our mobile information system with its educational services Building the mobile information system will be a research challenge highly related to the CISE Computing Research Infrastructure (CRI) solicitation National Institute of Health: The mobile information system with the pervasive personal health monitoring and reporting service is likely to revolutionize the way diseases are diagnosed and treated In collaboration with researchers from the Dept of Bioengineering and the Texas Medical Center, we will actively seek funding from NIH for the application of our mobile information system for healthcare Dept of Homeland Security: The prototype mobile information system will provide a campus safety (physical parameters such as toxicant and radiation level) monitoring service through multiple Smart Phone end users Such a service can be eventually leveraged to cover a metropolitan area such as Houston We will also actively seek funding from the Department of Homeland Security for this big picture Deliverables and objectives Our deliverables are: 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) • Design the technologies required to implement an effective mobile information system for Rice students, faculty and staff based on Smart Phone devices communicating over 2.5G and 3G cellular data networks • Develop server and client side caching technologies to overcome issues related to slow and unreliable connectivity This greatly increases response time and increases functionality when out of communications range • Study the changes to the environment at Rice that result from this new level of information access and determine how to best use it to further the education process at Rice Investigate the human factors involved in the design of such a mobile information system, and study the user and social acceptance of it • Fully integrate into planned Rice IT efforts around XML based Portal systems • Develop a NET XML web service backend system to format data for small devices, act as an always available fixed resource and user agent and to increase data and information security • Develop a prototype service for personal health/safety for the Rice community based on such a mobile information system A Smart Phone will function as the personal server that collects and reports physical information Our overall objectives are: • Be one of the premiere institutions leveraging highly portable technology to improve campus life We feel we have a significantly better approach than those being used at CMU and Duke and can interface well with MIT’s iCampus initiative • Keep Rice at the leading edge of smart, connected mobile device systems thereby increasing our ability to obtain external funds • Providing Rice with the reputation of providing a leading edge infrastructure for incoming freshman and graduate students Current state of the art Notebook Computers have been around for many years, yet most people not carry one with themselves at all times and they not fit into pockets PDAs are becoming more capable; however most lack sufficient wide area connectivity and are too large Cell phones have a small form factor, but traditionally did not provide significant levels of data communications, readability and performance On May 10th, Microsoft introduced its next generation of smart phone devices (for which Scott Cutler and some students in COMP446/ELEC446 were part of the Beta test program) along with a large number of 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) prominent hardware and software vendors We are starting to see great convergence devices capable of working with modern computer science tools As mentioned previously, we are not the only ones working on such systems There is a large multi institution portal effort called uPortal (http://www.uportal.org/) that, while targeting desktop computers, contains capabilities for mobile clients Rice is working on an implementation of uPortal At present, this does not address the smart phone, connected environment It is not a competitive threat for us and is likely to be a great collaborative resource for us since it gathers data in standard formats Duke gained great publicity early this academic year by announcing that every incoming freshman would be given an Apple iPod While this was good for publicity and attracting students, it was not a great success as the iPods were primarily useful only in audio centered tasks They lacked a wireless communications option and were quite limited in functionality Duke is scaling back on this program for next year CMU has a program called MyCampus (http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~sadeh/mycampus.htm) MyCampus is based on wireless LAN connected PDAs and has concentrated primarily on the permission and privacy issues in a user agent scenario When we contacted them for more details than we found on the web, we were told by the project leader that the bulk of the project was on the web What was most surprising about this program was the list of faculty, researchers and sponsors The list was much more impressive than the technology shown on the web The most promising external effort is MIT’s iCampus initiative (http://icampus.mit.edu) iCampus is a project funded by Microsoft Research and based at MIT that promotes a wide range of information technologies to promote the educational process It has connections with MIT’s Open Courseware initiative as well as it iLabs experimental infrastructure It is also acting as an umbrella program for other educational efforts leveraging information technology and this project, particularly with our connection to Connexions, would fit well with iCampus Innovative aspects of the proposal This project is centered on many emerging technologies • New smart phone devices are powerful, well connected, have useful input and output mechanisms yet still fit easily in one’s pocket or purse They are true convergence devices • Utilization of XML data feeds, RSS concurrency and NET web services • A truly mobile information system geared for academic institutions, particularly Rice that is likely to be continuously carried by students, staff and faculty • Portable access to content well suited to electronic distribution such as Connexions modules The mobile information system we propose has the following innovative aspects: 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) • • • • It will be the first prototype of a connected, distributed Smart Phone system of collaborative users that provide collective data services through existing 2.5 G and 3G network By designing and prototyping such a system, we will be able to explore many important research issues With a prototype system, we will be able to experiment advanced pervasive/ubiquitous services These will be itemized next Many issues involved are important research topics: energy-efficient design for longer Smart Phone battery life; operating system and middleware supports for system management; user and society-aware design of such a system involving many users in a community Based on the mobile information system, we will be able to prototype and experiment many novel pervasive/ubiquitous services The pervasive personal health and campus safety monitoring and reporting services that we will prototype will be the first For the personal health and campus safety services, we will design and prototype a personal-area network (PAN) of wireless biosensors to collect physical information and report to a Smart Phone, and to become an integral part of the mobile information system Such a PAN will be the first of this nature Meeting the energy efficiency, security/privacy, and usability challenges will make significant contributions to the research community Interdisciplinary aspects of the proposal This project already collaborates with IT, Computer Science and ECE As it grows, it will interface will all aspects of life on the Rice campus aided by Rice uPortal and Sharepoint projects It will incorporate a Connexions reader as well as an interface into our Digital Library efforts In the long run, the project will involve researchers from the Dept of Bioengineering for sensors that collect the user’s physiological data for pervasive personal health services through a Smart Phone We will seek collaborations from the Texas Medical Center for leveraging the mobile information system for better healthcare Moreover, since the mobile information system involves massive end users, the user and social acceptance studies are important We are seeking collaborations from the Depts of Psychology and Anthropology This project aims to provide a revolutionary level of connectivity and access in an entirely mobile fashion As such it will change the dynamics of many areas of our campus and could change the way we teach and live There will be a wealth of opportunities to leverage the humanities and social science communities of Rice and this is why Chris Kelty, Assistant Professor of Anthropology is participating in the project Impact and exploitation plan There are many ways this project will impact Rice • It will be a very useful information platform for the entire Rice community • It will generate great publicity / recruiting tool showcasing Rice at the forefront of some fun and interesting technologies • It provides collaborative opportunities between Rice IT and academic departments 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) • • Leadership in this area will greatly help us achieve additional funding from Microsoft as well as new cell phone sponsors (particularly Motorola and Samsung) ECE just hired Lin Zhong to start as a new Assistant Professor in September 2005 He has a strong interest in mobile devices and this could be a great initial project for him in this area He will actively seek external funding to continue research as this seed funding will start Project work plan, timetable, and milestones Timetable • • • The test run of COMP446 / ELEC446 took place in the spring 2005 semester with a carefully recruited set of students The first real run of COMP446 / ELEC446 with smart phones is set for the fall 2005 semester ERIT funding will be used starting January 2006 to hire an undergraduate student, one graduate student or two graduate students depending on the funding level we receive It is a race against the clock I believe we are in a good position to take a leadership role, however if we not move fast enough, we are likely to lose the lead, and thus our ability to receive primary Microsoft and other funds Milestones • • • • • • Initial deployment of backend server, mobile technology tool kit, a user’s website and a developer’s website will be completed by the end of the fall 2005 semester Full feature plan to be developed over the spring 2006 semester By the beginning of summer 2006, we expect the mobile information prototype system to be ready The system will consist of multiple Windows Mobile based Smart Phones for the end users and several backend servers By the end of summer 2006, we expect to implement and experiment prototype services for campus safety and personal health monitoring and reporting based on the mobile information system With the increased funding levels, we will complete interfaces to Rice’s uPortal and/or Connexions programs by January 2007 With two staff, we will both of these, with one, we will have to choose As noted, we are still exploring the interests of a number of co-investigators, each of which will offer a milestone in conjunction with their efforts Budget The budget is given for three funding levels The small project covers a very modest development of the system and adds continuity between offerings of the project course The desired, medium level program significantly increases both the system growth and our exploration into improving Rice with the technology 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) The large level support provides the resources required to have Rice be a significant leader in this area The pertinent elements are: • One undergraduate (employee) for a semester and summer as a minimum • One graduate student (full support) for a year for the base case of the full project • Two graduate students (full support) for a year for the large project • We will also have some extra hardware, software and service expenses o Software for development ($3K -$10K, donated from Microsoft) o Smart Phones (minimum of 6, max 25, $500 each with an excellent chance of full or partial donations from Samsung and/or Motorola) o Service $20/month/phone for data services There is a good potential of having this funded from Cingular, Sprint and Verizon • With this grant, it is quite reasonable to assume we will receive funds and equipment from external sources I would anticipate the ability to get matching funds for any CITI dollars up to a total of $50,000 and potentially move this project well beyond what is proposed here I have already spoken to Microsoft Academic Relations Manager Bradley Jensen about coupling the CITI grant to the ability to get more Microsoft funds, and he is receptive to the dialog 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) 2006 ERIT Proposal Budget 5-23-05 Software (MSFT Donation) Equipment Wireless Service Cutler Baraniuk Kelty Zhong Undergraduate Student Grad Student Total $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ Anticipated external support Net requested from ERIT 3,000 3,000 1,500 1,000 1,000 7,000 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 16,501 $ 5,000 5,000 2,500 2,500 3,000 5,000 5,000 20,000 48,001 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 10,000 12,500 6,250 5,000 6,000 10,000 5,000 40,000 94,751 $ $ 6,501 $ 10,000 $ 18,001 $ 30,000 $ 31,751 63,000 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) Scott Cutler, Adjunct Professor and Lecturer Contact Information Office: Duncan Hall, Room 2001 Voice: 281–364–2291, FAX: 713–348–5686, E-mail: cutler@rice.edu Education B.S M.S Ph.D 1973 1973 1976 MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science MIT, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Positions Held 2001–present 1998-2001 1995-1998 1990-1995 1984-1990 1976-1984 Present position Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Compaq Computer Corp, Commercial PC Group Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Digital Equipment Corp, PC Group Vice President, Software Architecture, Chips and Technologies Inc Vice President, Software, Tandy Computer Corp Engineering and Management Positions, General Electric Corporate Research and Development Current Courses ELEC694 “Future Personal Computing Technologies” ELEC446/COMP446 “Mobile Wireless Services Project” Honors GE Dushman Award PC Magazine Award for Technical Excellence Professional Memberships Past Senior Member, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Past Treasurer, IEEE Consumer Electronic Society Former Chairman of GE’s “GOSAM” - 3500 member internal Electrical Engineering professional organization Professional Activities and Development Member, Houston Angel Network Board member of numerous cultural organizations such as the Houston Symphony Chaired corporate patent committees and engineering promotion boards Institutional Service Rice University Committee to establish an Undergraduate Business Program for Engineering Students Computer and Information Technology Institute Advisory Board Connexions Review Team Research • • Current research in the area of digital media and its use in personal computing environments with a concentration in small, wireless mobile devices 25 years of industrial experience advancing the personal computer industry from its inception o Creation of products sold in the millions of units and billions of dollars in sales o Technologies for eliminating performance bottlenecks in personal computing systems 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) o Object oriented game technologies and the use of virtual machines to avoid early computer hardware limitations Significant Industrial Achievements • • • • • • Conceived and then brought to market the first iPAQ computer It finished its first year of production at a $1B run rate and was the fastest product to reach 100,000 units Devised various corporate strategies that created two $B businesses and poised one company for acquisition by Intel Identified and developed chip architectures optimized for Microsoft Windows o Wingine - First cost effective high performance Linear Frame Buffer graphics for Windows – allowed graphics performance to linearly scale with processor frequency o Printgine - First commercial implementation of Enhanced Capabilities Printer Port (ECP) Developed Tandy’s DeskMate family of products including o DeskMate runtime became the industry standard MS-DOS low-end graphical user interface in the late 1980’s Significant DeskMate applications included the first graphical version of Lotus 123, the first graphical version of Intuit’s Quicken and TandyLink online community, which later grew into America Online when it was ported to Microsoft Windows First use of personal computers for business uses at General Electric Co-authored the “ZORK” family of computer games – one of the first games to sell over 1,000,000 copies and still in production 25 years later Consulting Positions Board Member or advisor to small technology companies Consulting in the use and deployment of personal computing technologies to government and industrial groups Expert witness in the area of microprocessor architecture and applicability Publications Issued US Patents 4,533,960 System for encoding and decoding video signals 4,425,628 Control module for energy management system 4,386,347 Method of, and apparatus for, increased resolution slewing of a bar-graph-display data input/output system 4,376,969 Control signal and isolation circuits 4,310,896 Method of interfacing remote units to a central microprocessor 4,301,509 Method for cooking meat or poultry in thermal oven 4,291,303 Touch pad and display tube circuitry 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) 10 Lin Zhong, Assistant Professor in ECE, Rice University (Since Sept 2005) CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: (609) 258-1354 (Office) (609) 439-1895 (Home) Email: lzhong@princeton.edu http://www.princeton.edu/~lzhong EDUCATION Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Ph.D in Computer Engineering, expected August, 2005 M.A., May 2002 Tsinghua University, Beijing, China M.S in Electronic Engineering, July 2000 B.S in Electronic Engineering with Honors, July 1998 RESEARCH INTERESTS -Mobile & pervasive computing systems: energy efficiency, user interfaces & new services -Networked embedded system design and optimization -Power analysis and optimization of ICs and systems -Architecture and CAD of circuits using emerging nanometer devices -High-level synthesis and statistical modeling of ICs HONORS & AWARDS -Harold W Dodds Honorific Fellowship, Princeton University, 2004-2005 -AT&T Asian Pacific Leadership Award, 2000 -Excellent Graduate of Tsinghua University, 1998 -Completed the five-year undergraduate curriculum of Tsinghua University in four years -Received merit-based scholarships from Tsinghua University every year 1994-1999 PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Hardware Devices Group, Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA Summer Research Intern: June 2004 to Aug 2004 and June 2005 to Aug 2005 System-level Design Department, NEC Labs, America, Princeton, NJ Summer Research Intern: June 2003 to Sept 2003 Dept of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ Graduate Research Assistant: Sept 2000 to present Assistant Instructor: ELE206 - Introduction to Logic Design: Spring 2002 and Spring 2003 Dept of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Graduate Research Assistant: Sept 1998 to July 2000 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Refereed Conference Proceedings Mobile &Pervasive Computing 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) 11 Lin Zhong and Niraj K Jha, "Graphical user interface energy characterization for handheld computers," in Proc IEEE/ACM Int Conf on Compilers, Architectures & Synthesis for Embedded Systems (CASES), Oct 2003 Lin Zhong and Niraj K Jha, "Dynamic power optimization for interactive systems," in Proc Int Conf on VLSI Design, Jan 2004 Yunsi Fei, Lin Zhong, and Niraj K Jha, "An energy-aware framework for coordinated dynamic software management in mobile computers," in Proc IEEE/ACM Int Symp on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer & Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS), Oct 2004 Lin Zhong and Niraj K Jha, "Energy efficiency for handheld computer interfaces: Limits, characterization, and practice," to appear in USENIX/ACM MobiSys, June 2005 Le Yan, Lin Zhong, and Niraj K Jha, "User-perceived latency based dynamic voltage scaling for interactive applications," to appear in IEEE/ACM Design Automation Conf (DAC), June 2005 CAD & VLSI Lin Zhong, Jiong Luo, Yunsi Fei and Niraj K Jha, "Register binding based power management for high-level synthesis of control-flow intensive behaviors," in Proc IEEE Int Conf on Computer Design (ICCD), Sept 2002 Lin Zhong and Niraj K Jha, "Interconnect-aware high-level synthesis for low power," in Proc IEEE/ACM Int Conf on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2002 Pallav Gupta, Lin Zhong and Niraj K Jha, "A high-level interconnect power model for design space exploration," in Proc IEEE/ACM Int Conf on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2003 Rui Zhang, Pallav Gupta, Lin Zhong, and Niraj K Jha, "Synthesis and optimization of threshold logic networks with application to nanotechnologies," in Proc IEEE/ACM Design Automation & Test in Europe Conf (DATE), Feb 2004 10 Lin Zhong, Srivaths Ravi, Anand Raghunathan, and Niraj K Jha, "Power estimation for cycleaccurate functional descriptions of hardware," in Proc IEEE/ACM Int Conf on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD), Nov 2004 Refereed Journal Articles Rui Zhang, Pallav Gupta, Lin Zhong, and Niraj K Jha, "Threshold network synthesis and optimization and its application to nanotechnologies," IEEE Trans on Computer-Aided Design of ICs & Systems, Jan 2005 Lin Zhong and N K Jha, "Interconnect-aware low power high-level synthesis," IEEE Trans on Computer-Aided Design of ICs & Systems, Mar 2005 K S Vallerio, Lin Zhong and N K Jha, "Energy-efficient graphical user interface design," accepted by IEEE Trans on Mobile Computing PATENTS US Patent filed, Oct 2003 (Power estimation for cycle-accurate functional descriptions) PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Member, Technical committee for First Int Conf Embedded Software & System, 2004 Member, Program committee for Int Conf on Embedded & Ubiquitous Computing, 2004 Reviewer for VLSI Design Conf 2004, DATE 2004/2005, IEEE Trans on CAD of ICs & Systems PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES IEEE; Society for Information Display (SID) 5-23-05 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) 12 ... suited to electronic distribution such as Connexions modules The mobile information system we propose has the following innovative aspects: 5-2 3-0 5 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) • • • • It... deliverables are: 5-2 3-0 5 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) • Design the technologies required to implement an effective mobile information system for Rice students, faculty and staff based on Smart... circuitry 5-2 3-0 5 ERIT Proposal – (Cutler – et al) 10 Lin Zhong, Assistant Professor in ECE, Rice University (Since Sept 2005) CONTACT INFORMATION Phone: (609) 25 8-1 354 (Office) (609) 43 9-1 895 (Home)