Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 09:16:53 -0700
Mr. Rod Welch
rowelch@attglobal.net
The Welch Company
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111 2496
| Subject: | CITRIS Optical/RF-MEMS/TinyOS: DARPA's Disruptive Technologies, |
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incl. Doug Engelbart in 1968 |
Rod,
Below is some info about David Tennenhouse (former DARPA manager, now VP of R&D at Intel with a $4Bn budget and strategic "dual-use" goals for Intel/DARPA/UC Berkeley's CITRIS projects), including his bio for discussing with Morris Jones, etc.. [...proposing that SDS be considered for supporting David's responsibilities contributing to CITRIS.]
[Also included is a letter to Doug Engelbart responding to the recent national secuity emergency by proposing consideration for developing new CITRIS projects based on Doug's vision and mission published by the Bootstrap Institute. Additional background is provided about Intel's R&D Team working with CITRIS. A letter to the OHS/DKR team relates recent progress on CITRIS research on sensor technology.]
Sincerely,
Deneen Consulting
John Deneen
jjdeneen@ricochet.net
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 14:04:58 -0700
Mr. Douglas C. Engelbart, Ph.D.
doug@bootstrap.org
Bootstrap Institute
6505 Kaiser Drive
Fremont, CA 94555
| Subject: | CITRIS Optical/RF-MEMS/TinyOS: DARPA's Disruptive Technologies, |
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incl. Doug Engelbart in 1968] |
CITRIS -- Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of
Society
While America is on alert and in consideration for developing new CITRIS projects, below is info about Intel's R&D Team for developing UWB-radar/communications (see pp. 25-26), including Optical/RF-MEMS and JPL's Sensor Web Pods technology.
ftp://download.intel.com/pressroom/kits/events/idffall_2001/tennenhouse_presentation.pdf
(16 Mb)
http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/speeches/tennenhouse20010827.htm
Overall, I'm hoping that Dr. Engelbart, founder and director of the Bootstrap Institute....
....and it's international alliance of stakeholders, including Tom Kalil (former President Clinton's science and technology advisor) now at UC Berkeley, can help me developed a proposal for an off-campus UWB & Optical/RF-MEMS sensor testbed in Bryon, CA, (i.e., near Hwy 580 at the old Bryon Hot Springs property that is under development, including plans for several powerplants and upgrading the uncontrolled airport for executive service and air-cargo as proposed by Congresswoman Ellen Tauscher).
Vision and Reasons for Action while America is on alert
The way Dr. Engelbart, Director of the Bootsrap Institute, perceives it: 3A
The Bootstrap Institute's Mission Statement
In accord with the above reasons for action, Dr. Engelbart developed throughout his lifetime a sense of mission which the Bootstrap Institute seeks to implement. Some terms used in the following mission statement are briefly explained in footnotes appended to this page. 4A
The Institute's mission is to: 4B
Sincerely,
John Deneen
jjdeneen@ricochet.net
(650) 575-6169 mobile
"Tackle the grand-challenge social problems of today. Create the
architectures, the vision, and the fundamental technologies. Build prototype
solutions and prove the value and importance of your work. Then industry will
find a way to fill in the gaps and deliver the commercial versions of the
technology." - James Demmel, professor of computer science at UC Berkeley
and chief scientist and associate director of CITRIS (Center for Information
Technology Research in the Interest of Society)
On Aug. 27, 2001 researchers from the University of California, Berkeley
and the Intel Berkeley Research Lab demonstrated a self-organzing wireless
sensor network consisting of over 800 tiny low-power sensor nodes. The
demonstration was live, involving most of the audience attending the kickoff
keynote of the Intel Developers Forum given by Dr. David Tennenhouse, Intel
VP and Director of Research.
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2001 12:44:22 -0700
Unfinished Revolution
unrev-II@egroups.com
OHS DKR Project
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025
| Subject: | CITRIS RF-MEMS & TinyOS: DARPA's Disruptive Technologies, incl. Doug |
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Engelbart in 1968 |
Four Decades of Success: See histogram: 1968 Doug Engelbart
Technology Review, October 2001 - The Defense Department agency that midwifed the Internet has a uniquely effective strategy to spur innovation-and plenty of hot new technologies in its pipeline.
Nothing quite like it had ever been attempted. Deep in the california desert last march, as a few fatigues-clad U.S. marines stood nearby, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, fiddled with a 1.5-meter airplane with six walnut-sized bundles of electronics attached to the undersides of its wings. Each bundle, swaddled in pink plastic, held a magnetic-field sensor, short-range radio transmitter, antenna and microprocessor run by a custom low-powered operating system dubbed "tiny os."
John Deneen
jjdeneen@ricochet.net
(650) 575-6169 mobile