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Carnegie Mellon Launches New Research Center to Grow Mobile Device Technologies and Services

Carnegie Mellon News (07/11/08) Swaney, Chriss

The CyLab at Carnegie Mellon University recently launched the Mobility Research Center, which is dedicated to studying business, organizational, and technical issues surrounding mobility in managing systems in cell phones, home appliances, and building infrastructures. The new center will develop underlying technologies that will ensure privacy, security, and the reliability of sensitive and valuable information. CMU's Information Networking Institute has launched a new master's degree program in mobility to complement the new research center and to educate and train students. The ubiquity of handheld devices has made demand for new technologies to manage data and streamline connections extremely high, and the Mobility Research Center will focus on improving hardware and software technology for mobile devices, including studies on how people work, play, shop, and collaborate on mobile devices, and how new applications and services can change their lives, according to CyLab founding director Pradeep K. Khosla. Several mobile device manufacturers, including Motorola and Nokia, will work with the center. The Mobility Research Center will also collaborate with CMU's Human-Computer Interaction Institute and the School of Computer Science. "This anywhere-anytime computing capability has prompted a need for increased emphasis on how all this novel mobile technology will benefit consumers," says Mobility Research Center co-director Martin Griss. "We are moving from the plain old mobile phone to the truly mobile companion."

http://www.cmu.edu/news/archive/2008/July/july11_mobilityresearch.shtml

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