In a recent message you wrote:
> Retreat
>
> On October 8th the Area leaders and other key people in BTC went offsite for
>a day-long retreat.
>
> A highlight of the day was a presentation by Ken Calvert and Gregory Abowd on
> their plans for our "Home Information Infrastructure Lab" where we plan to st
>udy in-home communications and information fabrics as well as explore a range
>of new applications of networked devices within the home. A lot of interesting
> discussion followed Gregory's presentation that included the idea of a refrig
>erator as an information center within the home.
>
I really believe that we can latch onto this Home idea and go a long way.
Jen Mankoff is going to provide a very good first pass at CyberFridge and
a whole lot more. Hopefully, we will be able to demonstrate this at the
Nov. 15 BTC seminar.
For those of you who are interested, we are conducting a weekly FCE
seminar on the topic of home environments. We host the meeting in the
HII lab each Tuesday from 5-???.
Gregory