Internet

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Knothole
Speech Interface Group
Stefan Marti
E15-344
Intelligent Paging
Pager
Internet
Desktop Computer
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• What is the combination of
• a small and portable thing (like a PDA),
  with
• communication (computing is about that
  anyway...)

?
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Messaging

• Filtering Which message goes where and
  when?
• Consistent identity Am I always the same
  person?

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PDA functionality

• Access to
• Personal databases (on desktop computer)
  address book, Rolodex
• Information on the Web weather and traffic
  reports, stock
• UNIX command line

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Traf 93
Route 93 NB No probs reported. Traf is moving
near normal posted 55 65-mph speeds from Boston
to Andover a 21 min ride. Route 93 SB No
reports of probs from Route 495 to Route 128.
Expect that to be a 12 min ride at 65-mph. Lower
Deck traf is moving well to Route 1/Tobin Bridge
merge.
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Def quixotic
idealistic to an impractical degree esp marked
by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly
chivalrous action - quix.ot.i.cal aj
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Ety blister
ME, modif. of OF or MD OF blostre boil, fr. MD
bluyster blisterakin to OE bllta-egt-st blast
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Def presence
1 the fact or condition of being present 2a the
part of space within one's immediate vicinity 2b
the neighborhood of one of superior esp. royal
rank archaic 3 COMPANY 4 one that is present
as 4a the actual person or thing that is
present 4b something present of a visible or
concrete nature 5 something held to be present
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Wx bos
1034 AM EDT WED 29 THIS PM SUN MILDER. HI 70
TO 75. W WND 10 TO 20 MPH. TNGT PTLY CLDY. LOW
50 TO 55 BOS 40 TO 45 BURBS. W WND 5 TO 10
MPH. THURS PTLY SUN AM MOST CLDY THE PM. MILD HI
NR 75.
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Cur bos
57 26 NNW at 9 30.16
Clear
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Head Clinton
(0) Clinton says controversy won t cancel China
trip (1) Clinton won t delay China trip, defends
closer ties (2) Experts praise Clinton s
bioterror defense plan (3) Federal budget will
have 39 billion surplus this year, Clinton
says (4) Clinton sees first budget surplus in 30
years (5) Honh Kong election results put Clinton
in a difficult spot (6) Clinton will visit China,
defends closer ties (7) Clinton sees record
budget surplus, first in 30 years (8) Expert
welcomes Clinton s bioterror plan
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(hl2) Experts praise Clinton s bioterror defense
plan...
Date Wed, 27 May 1998 001106 -0400 (EDT) From
Stefan Marti ltstefanm_at_media.mit.edugt To
stefanm_at_media.mit.edu Subject Experts praise
Clinton s bioterror defense plan By Maggie
Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton's plan
to stockpile vaccines and drugs in case of a
bioterrorism attack will be difficult to carry
out, but makes a good start, experts on
biological terrorism said Tuesday. They said
it will also help strengthen public health
services in general. I think this is going to
be a very difficult task ahead of us but one that
I think is doable,'' Michael Osterholm, who is
Minnesota's state epidemiologist and who served
as adviser to the federal government on
biological terrorism, told Reuters in a telephone
interview. On Friday Clinton ordered the
stockpiling of vaccines and antibiotics in case
of a biological attack. We feel like this is a
very good start,'' Osterholm, who has warned
repeatedly of what he sees as the nation's lack
of preparedness, said. A team of specialists
commissioned by the government says the five
germs most likely to be used in a biological
terror attack are anthrax, smallpox, plague,
tularemia -- an animal-transmitted infection that
causes blisters and pneumonia -- and the bacteria
that causes botulism. But Dr. Richard Duma, a
former head of the National Foundation on
Infectious Diseases, said it would be a mistake
to focus on five diseases only. I don't think
it is easy to protect against because you don't
know what particular disease the terrorist might
be using,'' he said.
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WX or WXS or WXE ltcitygt SUN ltcitygt CUR ltcitygt DEF
ltwordgt ETY ltwordgt ROLO or ROLOP or ROLOA
ltnamegt TRAF ltroadgt CITIES ltstategt STOCKS NEWS
ltwordgt HEAD ltwordgt SUM or SUMD or DATE ltxxgt
ltyygt CAL ADD ltdategt ltentrygt CAL DAY or WEEK
ltdategt SEQ RESEND ltxxgt ltyygt SUM ltxxgt ltyygt ltaagt
ltbb cc ...gt command line, as arguments -ltaagt
ltbb cc ...gt command line, on STDIN M ltaliasgt
(ltsubjectlinegt) ltmessagebodygt
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Knothole
Stefan Marti, Speech Interface Group,
stefanm_at_media.mit.edu, http//www.media.mit.edu/s
tefanm/pager
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Knothole
Our paging system uses two-way pagers to provide
a bi-directional link to subscriber's normal
email, with additio-nal access to person-al
information on the subscriber's compu-ter and
external information via the Web and other
sources. It is a com-bination of public domain
programs, PERL scripts, various other "glue"
scripts, some C programs, and a number of lo-cal
Media Lab PIMs. A generic extension mechanism is
inclu-ded. It is targeted for Unix. Some parts
could be easily port-ed to other locales, other
parts would have to be re-written to follow local
con-ventions.
Stefan Marti, Speech Interface Group,
stefanm_at_media.mit.edu, http//www.media.mit.edu/s
tefanm/pager