ABSTRACT
Sentient Computing
Prof. Andy Hopper, University of Cambridge Department of Engineering &
AT&T Laboratories Cambridge
Sentient Computing is the proposition that applications can be made more responsive and
useful by observing and reacting to the physical world. It is particularly attractive in a
world of mobile users and computers.
The solution requires a classification and quantification of sensor information together
with methods of altering the behavior of arbitrary terminal devices. It also requires a
framework for "programming with space" which can associate space-related events with
actions in a computationally bounded way.
The talk will describe an operational system that uses a variety of sensors; allows space
representations to change quickly; provides an appropriate governing event logic; uses
caches and proxies to handle large volumes of data quickly; and executes in real time to
satisfy a human in the loop.
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