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Title: MIT Sloan Technology Testbed


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MIT Sloan Technology Testbed
Draft Proposal v.0.7 26 August 2002Joost
Bonsenjpbonsen_at_alum.mit.edu 617.930.0415
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Proposing MIT Sloan as Premier Technology Testbed
  • An organized MIT Sloan Initiative to attract
    Companies and Labs deploying latest prototypes
    products in a Tech Testbed
  • MIT Sloan students as an Early-Adoptor
    Microcosm
  • Allowing Sloan MIT faculty to do rigorous
    social science, observing usage patterns,
    adoption rates, social networks, and more
  • If not a testbed, at least new product showcase!

3
Example Technology Testbed Ideas
  • Project Mercury Latest wireless technologies
    showcase for MIT Labs
  • App Assessment Fast feedback on new
    applications usage patterns
  • Premier Digital Infospace Next generation
    libraries, info databases visualization
    environments
  • Evocative Architectural Innovations Digital
    Glass, Organic HVAC, Ultra-Reconfigurability,
    Working Elevators

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8/xircom_review.html
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Being a Tech Testbed
  • Deploying latest prototypes, devices, etc AND
    tracking actual usage patterns
  • Sourcing devices systems from both MIT Labs and
    corporate partners
  • Serving as Neutral Ground for cross-comparison
  • Clearly useful for Consumer InfoTech, but not
    limited to it

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Tech Testbed promises
  • We see the Future First
  • Part of Comparative Market Research initiative
  • Possibly part of larger effort to Observe
    Innovation broadly
  • Basis for MIT Cross-Campus Collaborations
  • Huge PR Buzz for MIT Sloan

6
Existing Efforts Include
  • Sloans Virtual Customer Initiative
  • Sloan Product Development Marketing Classes
  • http//web.mit.edu/15.783j/www/
  • MasterCards RFID PaymentCard
  • GSCs SafeRide GPS
  • BCSs Paperless Classroom
  • MITs New Grad Dorm Equipment
  • Newbury Networks Location Enabled Networking
  • http//www.newburynetworks.com/

7
Early-Adopter Microcosm
  • Are MIT Sloan students representative of ultimate
    purchasers?
  • Possibly predictive and therefore a method of
    advanced market research?

8
Project Mercury
  • Case example of Tech Testbed idea
  • A Wireless Project Athena
  • Athena was a 100 Million Experiment in mid-80s
  • Campus-wide broadband wireless networking
  • Latest terminal devices
  • PDAs, padPC, wearable computers, watches
  • Tracking Social Applications Usage
  • Location, Communication, Collaboration, Games
  • Multi-MIT Lab Collaboration
  • Social Systems Experiment

9
Go Dramatically Beyond Our Boilerplate IT
Infrastructure
  • We expect Laptops, Ethernet, WiFi 802.11b
  • How about ReallyWiFi 802.11a, quivers of
    computers, wireless power, etc?
  • Advanced applications
  • Paperless workplace

10
What are some example emerging devices systems?
  • Hand-helds
  • New peripherals
  • Wireless applications

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Palm iPaq Variants
http//www.palm.com/products/palmm515/3Ddemo/palmm
515_3D.html
http//www.compaq.com/products/handhelds/pocketpc/
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Wireless iPAQ Applications
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Sony clie w/ Camera!
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What are MIT Labs companies working on that
could be deployed?
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MIT Project Oxygen
http//oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/
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MIT Media Lab Wearables
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g.jpg
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tml
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Media Lab Smart Nametags
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tsmall.jpg
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http//www.microopticalcorp.com/
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MIT Labs
  • LCS / AI Project Oxygen
  • http//oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/
  • Media Wearable Computing
  • http//www.media.mit.edu/wearables/
  • House n
  • http//architecture.mit.edu/house_n/
  • CMS
  • http//web.mit.edu/cms/
  • eBusiness
  • http//ebusiness.mit.edu/
  • Auto-ID
  • http//www.autoidcenter.org/main.asp

MIT Media Laboratory
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Potential Applications
  • Where are open meeting rooms?
  • Enhanced SloanSpace?
  • Wheres SafeRide?
  • Making most of Spare Moments.
  • Seamless Collaboration
  • No-Delay Resources
  • Advancing Practice of Fast Iteration

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Potentially Interested Social Science
Innovation Faculty (?)
  • John Hauser / Sloan Marketing, Virtual Customer
    Initiative
  • Jonathan Cummings / Sloan Innovation, Social
    Network Analysis
  • Henry Jenkins / HASS Comparative Media Studies,
    Games-for-Learning
  • Judith Donath / Media Lab, Sociable Spaces
  • Steven Eppinger / Sloan Product Design
  • Plus all those developing technologies

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Resources Required
  • Premier Industry Collaborators
  • Linkage to Sloan Technology Services MIT IS
  • Prototype Pre-production equipment donations
  • Institutional Commitment
  • Alumni Industry Oversight Board
  • Operational Funds for administration, support,
    and maintenance

23
Possible Sponsors
  • I-Campus Project
  • http//swissnet.ai.mit.edu/projects/i-campus/
  • Peer Testbeds
  • Cambridge-MIT Institute
  • Singapore-MIT Alliance
  • Industry Consortia
  • Government DARPA, NSF
  • E.g. CIPD
  • Foundations

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Interested MIT Students
  • Rutledge Ellis-Behnke BCS Paperless Classroom
  • Richard Lee MBA Marketing Club
  • Curtis Eubanks MBA ex-Sony
  • Ronak Bhatt NukE Outback Dorm
  • Various MIT Sloan Clubs

25
Likely Alums
  • Pascal Chenais Project Canard, MessageMachines
  • Vanu Bose Vanu Inc software radio
  • Bill Warner Wildfire
  • Tim Rowe Cambridge Innovations
  • Rob Poor Ember
  • Yonald Chery Newbury Networks
  • Matt Reynolds ThingMagic
  • Fred Martin -- SmartTags
  • Mike Parduhn, John Muhlner, Paul Strasma, Matt
    Rhoden

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Shouldnt MIT Sloan be the Premier Tech Testbed?
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Benefits
  • (a)     Boosting MIT campus student experience,
  • (b)     Envisioning the future by experiencing
    it,
  • (c)     Basis for cross campus research
    collaboration,
  • (d)     Prototype testbed for inventive
    developers to fast iterate the next generation
    artifacts,
  • (e)     Experimental anthropology via predictive
    microcosms,
  • (f)      Inspiring entrepreneurial new product
    and venture development,
  • (g)     Capturing intellectual property for truly
    novel Project-related inventions, and
  • (h)     Great PR around this really MIT idea.

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References
  • Project Athena
  • http//wwwtech.mit.edu/V119/N19/history_of_athe.19
    f.html
  • http//web.mit.edu/newsoffice/tt/1991/feb27/24322.
    html
  • Research on Human Subjects
  • http//web.mit.edu/policies/14.3.html
  • Project Notebook
  • http//web.mit.edu/is/np/projects/wireless/
  • Cisco/Radiata's 802.11a Promises
  • http//www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20000728S0021
  • http//www.radiata.com/company/PDF/IEEE-802.11wp.p
    df
  • Project Oxygen
  • http//oxygen.lcs.mit.edu/
  • MIT IS
  • http//web.mit.edu/is/
  • Wearable Computing
  • http//www.media.mit.edu/wearables/
  • Product Innovation
  • http//web.mit.edu/cipd/
  • MIT Sloan Virtual Customer
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