2. UMBC and Ebiquity
UMBC is a research extensive University with a a major focus on Information Technology
Ebiquity is a large and active research group with the goal of
“Building intelligent systems in open, heterogeneous, dynamic, distributed environments”
Current research includes mobile and pervasive computing, security/trust/privacy, semantic web, multiagent systems, advanced databases, and high performance computing
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3. What is UMBC The University of Maryland Baltimore County
One of the three research campuses in the University of Maryland System
Ranked in top tier of nation's research universities--Doctoral/Research Universities-Extensive -- by the Carnegie Foundation
Has 500 full time and 335 part time faculty, 10K undergraduate and 2K graduate students
Located in suburban Baltimore County, between Baltimore and Washington DC.
Special focus on science, engineering, information technology and public policy with ~$80M in external research funding in 2003
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5. Ebiquity Research SpaceKR
user modeling
semantic web
data
mining
machine
learning AI DB
Intelligent Information Systems
web services/SOC
knowledge management IR
wearable computing
policies
HPCC
mobility
Networking & Systems
wireless
assurance
Security
context awareness
trust
DRM
pervasive computing
intrusion detection
privacy
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6. Ebiquity Research Space
language technology
robotics
HCI
planning KR
Building intelligent systems in
open, heterogeneous, dynamic, distributed environments
user modeling
semantic web
data
mining
machine
learning AI DB
Intelligent Information Systems
knowledge management
web services IR
service oriented computing
wearable computing
policies
Networking & Systems
wireless
Security
mobility
assurance
context awareness
pervasive computing
intrusion detection
privacy
trust
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7. Pervasive Computing
“The most profound technologies are those that disappear. They weave themselves into the fabric of everyday life until they are indistinguishable from it ” – Mark Weiser
Think: writing, central heating, electric lighting, water services, …
Not: taking your laptop to the beach, or immersing yourself into a virtual reality
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8. Motivation: Moving from this…
Source: UbiComp 2003
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10. On-demand functionality
Television
Handheld
GPS Navigator
Mp3 player
Game console
Cell phone
Camera
Credit Card
CF Storage
SmartCard
RFID Reader
Video
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11. Smart Office
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13. Smart Home
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14. Smart Home
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15. Smart Kitchen
Cooks to watch television, browse the Internet, play DVDs or CDs, check or even order groceries online.
Can monitor stuff within fridge and notify You when you are running out of milk.
Maybe even call you if it detects that a store nearby has a sale of something that you are running out off.
Maybe help you with your diet by monitoring what and when you eat and trying to give you tips and where you may be gaining pounds
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16. Smart Kitchen
Stove that automatically selects the right temperature and cooking mode based on the type of food.
Download recipes into range and follow along with the instructions. Oven automatically controls temperature and cooking times as per recipe
Coffee machine that can detect the owners cup and brew a cup according to that owners preferences
Microwaves that read UPC barcode and figure out cooking times
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17. Smart Cars
The intelligent automobile combines improved features for navigation, communication, maintenance and safety - and with silicon-based driver recognition through smart cards or fingerprints, all this can be efficiently personalized.
Getting traffic updates to feed into GPS
Voice recognition, Keyless entry, On-star
Internet enabled cars for people to check s, browse etc while on the road (hopefully not the driver)
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18. Trauma Pod
A DARPA-sponsored project to enable a future generation of unmanned medical systems to save lives on the battlefield
A Trauma Pod will have no human medical personnel on-site to conduct the surgery and will be small enough to be carried by a medical ground or air vehicle.
A human surgeon will conduct procedures from a remote location using teleoperated surgical manipulators with support from automated robotic systems
Phase 1 will perform an unmanned surgical procedure within a hospital OR space.
2020: Automated Trauma Pod treats wounded soldiers on the battlefield.
2005: da Vinci Surgical Robot
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19. UMBC’s role in Trauma Pod
Our role focuses on using RFID technology to track the location and use of medical tools and supplies in the OR
And to integrate this information with
Legacy supply chain systems
Hospital and patient records
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20. Wearable/Personal Computing
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21. Wearable/Personal Computing
Shoe that monitors impact points
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22. A Bird’s Eye View of CoBrA
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23. MoGATU: TIVO for Mobile Computing
A mobile computing vision and a problem
Devices “broadcast” information and service descriptions via short-range RF (802.11, Bluetooth, UWB, etc.)
As people and their devices move, they can access this data, but only while it’s in range
The data may be out of range when it’s needed
Devices must anticipate their information need so they can cache data when it’s available
Based on user model, preferences, schedule, context, trust, …
Compute a dynamic utility function to create a “semantic” cache replacement algorithm
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24. MoGATU’s distributed belief model
MoGATU is a data management module for MANETs
Devices send queries to peers
Ask its vicinity for reputation of untrusted peers that responded -- trust a device if trusted before or if enough trusted peers trust it
Use answers from (recommended to be) trusted peers to determine answer
Update reputation/trust level for all responding devices
Trust level increases for devices giving what becomes final answer
Trust level decreases for devices giving “wrong” answer
Each devices builds a ring of trust…
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25. Service Discovery and Composition
Develop a peer-to-peer caching based distributed service discovery mechanism
Integrated with routing layer for better performance
Uses semantic service descriptions
Caching of “neighboring services”
Selective forwarding of requests
Broker-based Service Composition
Dynamic Broker selection based mechanism
Distributed Broker-based mechanism
Utilizes the peer-to-peer service discovery layer
Source-monitored fault-tolerance
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26. Friends
Lora
Jen
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27. Network of Parents
Lora’s Mom
Jen’s Mom
Lora
Jen
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28. Lets Go Shopping
Lora
Jen
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29. Columbia Mall
Books
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30. Columbia Mall
Books
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31. Columbia Mall
Books
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32. Columbia Mall
Books
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33. Columbia Mall
Books
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34. Columbia Mall
Books
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