Nokia and MIT open research Centre in the U.K

"Our mission is to explore and develop technologies that will be available in the marketplace in five to ten years - not just novelties, but technologies that will see mass market demand from consumers and enterprises," said Dr. Bob Iannucci, head of Nokia Research Center. "With MIT's academic and research expertise, Nokia's mobility and technology leadership, and the fusion of some of the world's brightest minds, the Nokia Research Center Cambridge will provide a platform for delivering compelling new innovations."

 

The center is currently focusing its research on several projects, each part of a larger vision where mobile devices become elements of an "ecosystem" of information, services, peripherals, sensors and other devices. These projects revolve around enhancing people's lives and productivity by enabling more intuitive interaction between individuals, machines and environments, and range from developing the underlying computer architecture to leveraging and extending the Semantic Web. Although not commercially available today, projects like those underway could likely become real-world applications within the next decade.

 

Specific projects include:

- Project Simone addresses new ways to interact with your mobile device primarily using speech.

 

- MobileStart provides a framework for task-oriented applications that interact via written language on the mobile device.

 

- MyNet/UIA develops a way for different users to easily and securely connect various devices to each other and across the Internet.

 

- ComposeMe provides mechanisms for verifying interoperability of Web services.

 

- Armo explores new design methodologies and languages to enable the development of high-performance, energy-efficient hardware for mobile devices.