[ba-ohs-talk] The Endeavour Expedition: Charting the Fluid Information Utility
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< http://endeavour.cs.berkeley.edu:80/proposal/9907index.html> (01)
Below are interesting hightlights of the MVD & CITRIS projects'- Vision
of the Future to discuss that's very common to OHS/DKR: (02)
"What distinguishes modern humankind is our
collective ability to build more complex tools and
communities. In previous eras, these amplified
muscle power. In the last half century, a new kind
of tool has emerged-information technology. Its
impact on society is now only dimly understood. We
will explore the future of information technology by
creating it and living in it, within the EECS
Department, the Berkeley campus, the City of
Berkeley, and beyond. ...
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http://endeavour.cs.berkeley.edu:80/proposal/9907IIB.html#anchor729043> (03)
... Our goal is nothing less than radically
enhancing human understanding through the use of
information technology, by making it dramatically
more convenient for people to interact with
information, devices, and other people. We will
achieve this by developing a revolutionary
Information Utility, able to operate at planetary
scale. To validate the architecture, we will stress
it under demanding applications for rapid decision
making and learning.
<
http://endeavour.cs.berkeley.edu:80/proposal/9907IIA.html#anchor726255
> (04)
... Our view of the future demands a quantum change
in information technology research: dynamic
adaptation, self-organization, and personalization
on a truly massive scale."
<
http://endeavour.cs.berkeley.edu:80/proposal/9907IIB.html
> (05)
* Personal Information Management is the Killer Application:
o Computer usage is shifting from corporate processing to the
management, analysis, aggregation, dissemination, and
filtering of information for the individual in all aspects of
their lives. (06)
* People Create Knowledge, Not Data:
o Information technology has traditionally focused on managing
and retrieving explicitly entered data. We will soon be
digitizing and archiving the bulk of human activity. It will
be an on-going stream culled from everyday human activities
and physical phenomena. The analysis, processing, and
or-ganization of this information must become more automated. (07)
* Information Technology is a Utility:
o Access to information cannot stop because a computer has
crashed, a link is stale, or a subset of information in not
entirely consistent. The challenge is to develop an
architecture that continuously provides service on top of
highly dynamic underlying information. Flexible architectures
are loosely organized and adaptive, allowing great confidence
in its operation, and providing ad-ministrative scalability
(i.e., the administration of a complex system on a
planetary-scale by multiple, unaffiliated people with unique
objectives, while its physical and logical resources are
constantly changing). (08)
* Beyond the Desktop:
o When millions of people are conducting their efforts on-line
with shared information, the confluence of their actions
becomes a powerful means of enhancing our productivity and
extracting knowledge from information. The challenge is to
automatically infer relationships among information, delegate
control, and establish authority from available information,
assisted with new ways to interact with information and people
to enhance human productivity. (09)