UbiFit in Press

I know Intel Research Seattle has been fairy reluctant in giving open public demos of their work of the UbiFit project, but here's a recent write-up in news. Note that UbiFit is built on top of the MyExperience tool, a project that I started and worked on while at Intel Research. MyExperience is now open sourced under the BSD at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/myexperience.

Intel IRCON 2005 in Portland, OR

Some pictures from Intel's IRCON 2005 in Portland, OR.

Intel's Placelab in the news...

Microsoft's Virtual Earth project has recently debuted. It provides real-time location services by either (1) looking at your ip address and making an estimate on your position based on your dns entry or (2) by using Wi-Fi technology. This second method is said to be more accurate and is based on research by Intel Research Labs, Seattle pioneered through the PlaceLab project. Of course, one of the main tenents of PlaceLab is to try and preserve privacy by conducting the localization algorithms "on-device" rather than "on-server" so that no information is exchanged with an outside source that might compromise privacy. Privacy is certainly a critical issue in many domains of CS right now, from e-mail to peer2peer apps, but it's arguably more important when dealing with location as it opens the possibility of endangering someone's physical health.

Two recent articles about PlaceLab. They both specifically mention my research :)
1. The Future of Mobile Computing
2. Intel experiments with Wi-Fi as GPS substitute.