Open Programmable Mobile Internet 2020

我们正在迅速进入一个广泛部署、廉价、支持互联网的移动计算和通信设备的新时代。这有可能产生全新一代的服务、应用程序和行为模式，以无处不在的无线和移动计算的开放性为基础，造福社会。但这需要重新思考计算和通信基础设施——从计算云中的服务器，到桌面，到个人手持设备，再到连接它们的网络。这次探险旨在通过打破障碍和搭建桥梁来促进创新和竞争，从而创建一个真正可编程和开放的移动互联网（POMI）。在普适计算模型的基础上，用户可以不受阻碍地访问分布式计算和存储资源，这个及时的实验系统Expedition将创建一个虚拟数据系统，使用户能够拥有他们的数据；一个三层的计算基础设施，以方便进入新的web服务；开放网络，促进网络创新，使无线容量在附近的异构和丰富的无线网络中可用；而开源软件则促进了现有手机等手持设备的开放。一个由基础设施、设备和应用程序组成的大规模原型系统将在斯坦福大学校园内部署——这可能是有史以来由大学进行的最全面的移动技术研究实验部署。外展包括开发和分发POMI工具包给小型和代表性不足的大学、K-12学校的学生和斯坦福大学的本科生，通过基于移动的教育和探索，参与创造性和启发性的发现。

We are rapidly moving into a new age of widely-deployed, inexpensive, Internet-enabled mobile computing and communication devices. This has the potential to give rise to a whole new generation of services, applications, and modes of behavior to benefit society based on openness in ubiquitous wireless and mobile computing. But this requires re-thinking the computing and communication infrastructure--from the servers in the computing cloud, to the desktop, to the individual handheld devices, to the network that interconnects them all. This Expedition aims to promote innovation and competition by breaking down barriers and constructing bridges for enabling the creation of a truly programmable and open mobile internet (POMI). Expanding on the ubiquitous computing model in which users have unencumbered access to distributed computational and storage resources, this timely experimental systems Expedition will create a virtual data system to enable users to take ownership of their data; a three-tiered computational infrastructure to ease the entry of new web services; an open network to promote network innovation and make wireless capacity available across heterogeneous and abundant radio networks within a vicinity; and open-source software to promote existing efforts in opening the cell phone and other such handhelds. An at-scale prototype system of infrastructure, devices and applications will be deployed across the Stanford campus--perhaps the most comprehensive experimental deployment of mobile technology for research ever performed by a university. Outreach includes the development and distribution of POMI kits to students at small and underrepresented universities, K-12 schools, and undergraduates at Stanford to engage in creative and inspired discovery through mobile-based education and exploration.