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| Seminar: |
Building eBusiness Applications with Web Application Servers |
| Lecturer(s): |
Donald Ferguson |
| Overview: |
The Mercury Project was created to extend the boundaries of pervasive access to information and wireless communication. The results of the project will facilitate the access to all personal data, of any type, from anywhere, any time, securely. The Mercury Project is creating both hardware --- the BackPAQ expansion pack, which is a platform for handheld research --- and software --- consisting of networking technology, middleware, and applications.
The Mercury BackPAQ is a research prototype enabling experimentation not currently possible with off-the-shelf products. The Mercury Project leverages the expandability of Compaq popular iPAQ H3600 design by adding a custom-designed expansion pack called the BackPAQ. The BackPAQ consists of a low power CMOS VGA imager, two PC Card slots, 32MB of flash, an accelerometer, and a cellphone headset jack and audio codec. The combination of these features enables applications such as voice or video conferencing, and roaming across multiple physical networks.
The Mercury software is based on Linux on the iPAQ. Linux was ported to the iPAQ by Compaq as part of the Open Handhelds Project(www.handhelds.org).
In the talk, I will discuss the project, its foundations in Open Handhelds, and demonstrate some of the mobility features investigated by the project. For more information on Project Mercury, go to http://crl.research.compaq.com/projects/mercury. where semID = '31';
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| Lecturer(s) Biography: |
Donald Ferguson received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1989. His Ph.D. applied concepts and algorithms from economics to resource management problems in distributed systems and computer networks. This included work on system load balancing, data replication and file placement and network flow control. Don joined IBM in 1987, and has led research and development efforts in the areas of operating system performance, database tuning, scaleable transaction processing, object transaction monitors and web application servers. Since 1993, Don has been the technical lead for IBM's Component Broker and WebSphere family of products. WebSphere is a family of "web" application servers that provides an infrastructure and programming model for integrating new and pre-existing applications with the Internet, providing business-to-person and business-to-business solutions.
Don holds approximately a dozen granted or pending U.S. Patents and has authored more than 4 technical publications. In 1998 he was name a Distinguished Engineer, IBM's highest technical position. Don is also a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. |
| Location: |
MIT room 34-101, Edgerton Hall |
| Date: |
Saturday, 09/23/2000 |
| Time: |
9:00 am - 4:30 pm |
| Pricing: |
Advanced Registration Price: $80.00 Good until Wednesday, 09/13/2000
Regular Price: $90.00 |
| Session Chair: |
Peter Mager |
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