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Monday 24th April 2006

Nokia sets up camp with MIT to boost mobile horizons 5:51PM, Monday 24th April 2006

Nokia is teaming together with the famous academic centre of computing development that is Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), for a joint research facility entitled the Nokia Research Center Cambridge (NRCC).

The centre, which is located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is a collaboration between Nokia's Research Center and MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). It is intended to bring together researchers and scientists from both parties, to develop next-gen communications technologies.

More specifically the vision is for mobile devices to become

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better elements of a wider 'ecosystem', of information and services and other devices.

'Our mission is to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five to ten years - not just novelties, but technologies that will see mass market demand from consumers and enterprises,' said Dr. Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center.

Among the six projects earmarked for development, there is Project Simone, addressing ways to interact with a mobile using speech, Project Asbestos, preventing private information from being inadvertently shared or maliciously exposed, Project MyNet/UIA, for connecting various devices across the Internet, and Project SwapMe, developing a platform for Semantic Web applications.

The company has previously collaborated with MIT on work involving the W3C, Project Oxygen, Things That Think, and a Communications Futures Programme.

Alun Williams

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