We need to bring together an Institute wide group to help coordinate our larger activities; bring together resources from diverse areas within the Institute; and produce compelling opportunities for research and collaboration with industry.
Draft of the perspectus and Project Mercury proposal.
Real time collaboration with a partner from industry.
Possible candidates might include the Ford-MIT Alliance http://web.mit.edu.ezproxyberklee.flo.org/ctpid/www/ford.html. Ford's I/T group is very interested in developing real time collaboration tools.
Project Mercury
Would engage students, faculty and researchers in the creation of new opportunities for mobile voice, data and media. It will operate both as an experimental facility and as an operational component in the teaching and research. It would develop new interfaces and protocols for communication, and test them through deployed applications both within MIT and and surrounding community.