CSR-DMSS, TM: A Substrate for Personalized Computing In the Real World

计算技术的创新、成本的降低和小型化的进步使得将计算机结合到从小型无线传感器到大型消费电器的各种设备中在物理上和经济上成为可能。计算设备的这种激增已经创造了一个充满可能数百万台这样的计算机的世界，这些计算机无处不在地分散在物理空间中。这些设备组合在一起代表了一种计算结构，它有可能实现一种雄心勃勃的新一类应用，这些应用可以利用物理世界中的资源，并影响周围的环境。然而，目前的设备是孤立存在的，因为它们的软件和硬件架构是不兼容的，而且它们在设计时没有考虑到互操作性。该项目设想设计和实现一个软件系统，该系统（1）将允许大量异构设备通过使用标准接口进行互操作，（2）将能够表示（潜在地改变的）这样的设备的集合作为单个复合设备以简化编程，以及（3）将支持从跨多个设备运行的小模块构建复杂的应用程序。如果成功，该项目将以一种对个人、团体和组织的需求高度敏感的方式实现计算和物理世界的无缝集成。与该项目有关的知识进步将被纳入计算机科学课程，并将作为开放源码软件传播。

Innovations in computing technology, decreasing costs, and advances in miniaturization have made it physically and economically possible to incorporate computers into a wide variety of devices ranging from diminutive wireless sensors to large consumer appliances. This proliferation of computing devices has served to create a world full of possibly millions of such computers, scattered ubiquitously across physical spaces. These devices in combination represent a computational fabric which has the potential to enable an ambitious new class of applications that can exploit the resources in the physical world and also affect the environment around them. At present however, devices exist in isolation because their software and hardware architectures are incompatible and they have not been designed with interoperability in mind. This project envisages the design and implementation of a software system that (1) will allow large collections of heterogeneous devices to interoperate via the use of standard interfaces, (2) will enable the representation of a (potentially changing) set of such devices as a single composite device to simplify programming, and (3) will support the construction of complex applications from small modular pieces that run across multiple devices. If successful, the project will achieve a seamless integration of the computing and physical worlds in a manner that is highly sensitive to the needs of individual, groups, and organizations. Intellectual advances associated with the project will be incorporated into the computer science curriculum and will be disseminated as open source software.