CSAIL Spotlights
The leaders of CSAIL’s outreach programs often get asked the question, “Why is a research lab doing outreach?”
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Over the past four decades, CSAIL has partnered with numerous companies. Yet none of them have been quite like the Nokia and CSAIL collaboration known as Mobile Ecosystem 2012. In fact, CSAIL has worked with Nokia a number of times in the past, yet the current effort is still distinct. According to Arvind, Johnson Professor of Computer Science and Engineering and co-director of the partnership with Jamey Hicks of the Nokia Research Center Cambridge (NRCC), the collaboration enables the parties to accomplish things that neither would be able to do if working alone.
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The value of academic research is traditionally measured by its contribution to the world’s inventory of knowledge, through theses, papers, and physical artifacts. At CSAIL, we also view research as a practical matter – placing additional emphasis on designing and building technologies and solutions that have real-world impact. In many cases, this requires establishing partnerships with industry to translate new ideas and discoveries to real products and services in the marketplace.
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While the “C” in CSAIL stands for computer, it’s not solely what goes on <i>inside</i> a computer that CSAIL researchers care about – especially when what’s running on the computer is the World Wide Web. “When you’re on the Web, you’re not connecting to a computer, you’re connecting to humanity,” says Tim Berners-Lee, founder and director of CSAIL’s World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). “Every link on any website was placed by a person and is followed by a person so that two parties can connect to each other.
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Imagine having complete access to your own personalized environment – your notes, presentations, music, TV recordings, photo albums, recipes – from anywhere in the world, anytime. Making this dream a reality is the goal of Project Qmulus, CSAIL’s five-year, $20 million collaboration with Taiwan-based Quanta Computer Inc., the world’s largest original design manufacturer of notebook computers.
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