SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY AND COMPUTER SCIENCE
TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH
RUNNING LINUX ON A WRISTWATCH PROTOTYPE
Chandra Narayanaswami Chandra received his B.Tech. in Electrical
Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and
his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer and Systems Engineering
from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He currently manages a
group on Wearable Computing that is investigating challenging
issues in form factors, input devices, navigation, applications,
user interfaces, and power management for wearable computing.
>From Jan 1999 he has led the multi-site, multi-disciplinary IBM
Research effort on developing the high function wrist watch
computer. He has authored several journal publications and
conference papers and book chapters. He has received 13 IBM
Invention Achievement awards and holds 30 US patents in the areas
of computer graphics and pervasive
computing. (www.research.ibm.com/people/c/chandras) Manager,
Wearable Computing, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, Yorktown
Heights, NY 10598, USA.
Venue: Room AG 69, 2-3:30 p.m. Tuesday,
18th Dec., 2001.
Abstract: Advances in circuit design, board layout, and packaging
technologies have made it possible to put together a reasonably
powerful processor and memory subsystem coupled with a high
resolution display, battery, and RF wireless communication into a
wrist watch. The availability of source code for Linux, a
powerful operating system, allows us to build powerful software
platforms that are physically small. These abilities open up a
new a set of tough challenges in the nature of input devices,
applications, power management, interaction models with other
devices, wireless communication, and other areas. This talk will
describe a platform we have built and the decisions we have made
in the course of our investigation.
IBM researchers announced in Aug 2000 that they are successfully
running Linux and X11 on the wrist watch
prototype. (http://www.research.ibm.com/WearableComputing)
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