David Culler

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WELCOME

• David Culler
• 2/26/04

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So what is this all about?

• Meeting point for the larger TinyOS community
• Beyond UCB, UCLA, Intel, Crossbow, NEST,
• Open developers forum / Users Group
• Starting Point in forming a more interactive open
  source development effort
• bugs, patches, tools, lessons, subsystems,
  standards, .
• Opportunity to learn, share and exchange what we
  all have done
• or are about to do
• Set Direction
• Open hard problems, missing pieces,
• Development plan
• Research activities
• Working Groups

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Who are we?

• Alico Systems Inc
• BBN Bechtel Nevada
• Canesta Inc. CH2M HILL
• ChevronTexaco Crossbow Technology
• Dust Inc
• France Telecom RD
• GMD Resources
• IDG World Expo Impressima Inc.
• Innovative Mfg. Intel
• JLH Labs
• Kleinnet
• LUXOFT
• MITRE Corp Motorola Labs
• Proqueome
• Remote Sensing Lab
• Robert Bosch Corporation
• Sensis Corporation
• SOC Machines Inc.
• SoftwareMakers Inc.

• Oak Ridge national Lab
• Sandia National Laboratories
• Harvard University
• Imperial College London
• MIT
• National Chiao Tung University
• Rutgers
• SJSU
• Stanford
• Ohio State University
• Tokyo Denki University
• U C Berkeley
• UC DAVIS
• UCLA
• UCR
• UIUC
• University of Maryland
• University of Tokyo

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The Core Challenge

• Maintain a rapid pace of innovation
• supporting a diverse set of research
  investigations
• demonstrate implementation of concepts
• Rough Consensus, Working Code
• while
• Providing a stable platform with predictable
  growth
• allow industry to grow around it
• allow application deployments (study, demo,
  pilot, etc.)
• research continually folds back in
• stand on shoulders, not feet

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Why Now?

• The TinyOS code base and its development path is
  stable and important enough to make organizing
  the larger development community worthwhile.
• Wireless embedded networks are taking off
• Companies popping up everywhere
• Fed. Govt support kicking in
• IEEE 802.15.4 is here, Zigbee is 6-12 months off
• Open community can do what it does best
• Move fast with real competitive ideas and
  implementations
• Building the TinyOS Alliance
• Industrial / academic members, advisory board,
  technical board
• Start BSD-like and spin out into foundation

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Structure of the Day

• Short Important Recent Developments
• Largely UCB / Intel based
• Focused tinyOS updates and plans
• Poster / Demo session
• Largely not UCB / Intel based
• Wider range of topics
• Working Groups (start over Lunch)
• Panels
• Nurturing industry
• Nurturing open source community
• Reports from Working Groups
• Next Steps