CSR - PDOS: Simplifying Administration in the Outsourced Home

科技正以无数且不断增加的方式改变着我们的生活。即使是一个简单的现代住宅也包含有线和无线网络、专用设备（如电视机顶盒和游戏机）、多媒体显示器、移动设备和传统计算机。不幸的是，除了最熟练的用户之外，管理这项技术对所有人来说都是一项挑战，因此，用户越来越多地被家庭基础设施的管理、集成和安全管理所压倒。这项工作简化了基于家庭的技术的操作和管理，通过一个新的架构，为用户提供简单、强大和安全的机制来执行程序和存储数据。高级概念是支持将大部分家庭计算和数据管理外包给第三方。该项目研究了允许第三方运营商管理、备份、升级、诊断/修复家庭应用程序和数据的机制。此外，该项目还研究了一种内部架构，其中应用程序和数据托管在功能强大的服务器上，使用户能够使用新的搜索机制和瘦客户机技术的组合，从各种设备访问他们的应用程序和数据。总的来说，这个项目使家庭计算像其他家庭基础设施一样容易使用，比如供暖或安全系统，它们只是以一种无形的自然方式工作。从长远来看，我们所知道的个人电脑的存在将会消失，取而代之的是易于儿童和成人操作的电器。

Technology is changing our lives in numerous and ever increasing ways. Even a simple modern house contains wired and wireless networks, dedicated devices (such as TV set-top boxes and game consoles), multi-media displays, mobile devices, and traditional computers. Unfortunately, managing this technology is a challenge to all but the most sophisticated users, and as a result, users are increasingly overwhelmed with the administration, integration, and security management of their home infrastructure. This work simplifies the operation and management of home-based technology, through a new architecture that provides users with simple, powerful, and safe mechanisms for executing programs and storing data. The high-level concept is to support the outsourcing of a large portion of home computing and data management to third parties. The project examines mechanisms that allow third party operators to manage, back-up, upgrade, and diagnose/repair the applications and data resident within the home. As well, the project examines an in-home architecture in which applications and data are hosted off of a powerful server, enabling users are able to access their applications and data from a variety of devices, using a combination of new search mechanisms and thin-client techniques. Overall, the project makes home computing as easy to use as other home infrastructure, such as heating or security systems that just work in an invisible and natural way. In the long run, the existance of PCs as we know them will disappear and be replaced by appliances that are easily operated by children and adults alike.