1. New Applications Breakout
Members:
Dave Andersen
Tom Anderson
Dave Clark
Carla Ellis
Frans Kaashoek
Jay Lepreau
Guru Parulkar
Matt Welsh

2. Application Domains Networks of sensors & actuators Embedded systems
Disruption (delay, disconnection)-tolerant
Application-specific networks
Large scale data management / data grid
Real-time data acquisition
Pervasive / ubicomp / mobile
Location-aware

3. Example Applications (with Social Relevance)
Health monitoring (beyond the home environment)
Disaster recovery
Understanding and affecting the planet in real-time
Digital life
Managing vast personal data
Controlled sharing, long-term, finding
Managing the auto commute
Medical accidents = 0
Avoided applications that historically have been pitched – e.g. education, becoming a “service org” to science.
Or were considered “somebody else’s problem” – telepresence and visualization belong to graphics folks
E-voting too controversial and “loaded”
Applications that industry is claiming to do.
Also what other breakouts had as their topic.

4. The “Ilities” Security Privacy Usability Permanence Availability
Flexibility
Adaptability
Self-*
Control
Timeliness
Programmability of lots of devices

5. Hard Research Problems “What don’t we know how to do?”
106 plug-and-play devices
Balancing security and usability and flexibility
Policy expression
Integrating evolution into our distributed systems
5 9’s
Exobyte personal storage
Projection of the physical world into the digital world
Finding stuff – to search everything
These are the “Geeky versions of the example applications
The question was “what are the missing things we don’t know how to do now?” that we need for the applications