Minerva
Minerva has two halves – - the universal desktop & integrated communications.<br /><br /><font size="4"><b>Universal Desktop</b><b><br /></b></font><br /><ul><li>Pieces
Universal "Desktop"
- Pieces (like UFS) may be natively accessible from client platforms, but all must be browser-accessible for
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- portability
- take the best parts of Athena and make them cross-platform, OS-neutral
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- services
- find a customer
- build alliances with others who may develop the apps, while we do the
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- backend
- See YouOS (http://youOs.com) for an interesting example
Universal File System
- Needs to be seamlessly accessible across all client platforms (linux, windows, mac) as a native shared
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- drive
- Needs to be accessible via browser for
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- portability
- browser may offer richer functionality than "native mode" (i.e. versioning, metadata, RDF-based search, etc)</li></ul><li>relevant technologies in this area:
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- Al Fresco
- Amazon storage services (used by YouOS)
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- Open AFS
- possible applications
- ally w/CSAIL, where we do the infrastructure & they do the app, they have an intrerest in RDF/semantic
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- web
Universal Printing
- thru browser:
- Find a printer based on name, location, properties (i.e. color, hi-speed, etc)
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- print a file from the Universal File
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- System
- what about native platforms? it's been hard so far to get shared
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- protocols
- relevant technologies:
- TBD
Universal Computing
- accessible via browser
- grab a computing resource from the "cloud" and run the app of your choice
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- specify a profile/
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- image
- run app from Universal File
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- System
- how do they do UI w/a user
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- vaguely related technologies:
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- amazon's Elastic Cloud Computing
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- service
- HPC
- SIPB
- Possible applications:
- departments using web.mit.edu w/o scripting ability (i.e. Chem E)
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Integrated Communications
- portable, accessible thru browser
- email (like Google Mail)
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- Jabber-based
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- presence
- IM (integrating w/all major clients, like AIM, MSN, Yahoo, Google)
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- chat
- zephyr-style passive
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- chat
- VOIP (receive & initiate calls)
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- pieces detachable from web window (a la Gmail)
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- relevant technologies:
- google mail
- Zimbra
- MIT
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- departments are not big IM/chat users, but students are
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- different
- To do:
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- understand the student
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- users
- find a customer
- make it visible