The Intelligent Wireless Web - Softcover

Alesso, H. Peter; Smith, Craig F.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201730634 ISBN 13: 9780201730630

Publisher: Addison-Wesley, 2001

Synopsis

This work presents a vision of the Web's near future and overviews the technologies that will make it possible. It explores developments in speech recognition, mobile wireless devices, network integration, and software, examining the convergence and synergy among five key technological components: speech as a primary user interface; wireless personal area networks; an integrated wired/wireless network infrastructure; supporting wireless protocols; and intelligent applications. Appendices list standards organizations, protocols, and security issues. Alesso has 20 years of experience as a group leader at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About this title

About the Author

H. Peter Alesso is an engineer with an M.S. and an advanced engineering degree from M.I.T., along with twenty years of research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL). As Engineering Group Leader at LLNL, he led a team of physicists and engineers in a wide range of successful multimillion-dollar software development research projects. Peter has extensive experience with innovative applications across a wide range of supercomputers, workstations and networks. His areas of interest include computer languages, algebras, graphs, and Web application software. He has published several software titles and numerous scientific journal and conference articles. Craig Smith, PhD., is an engineer with thirty years of experience in research and development and application of advanced technologies. He is currently Deputy Associate Director of the Energy and Environment Directorate at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is responsible for a wide range of multimillion-dollar projects and he is a collaborator on several international research initiatives. His areas of interest include sensors, robotics, and automated systems; information technology applications; and future energy systems. He has published numerous scientific journal and conference articles on advanced engineering topics. Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1975. 0201730634AB11262001

From the Back Cover

"If you buy one book on the intelligent Internet, this should be it."—Minerva Tantoco-Hobbs, Director of Advanced Technology & Media Lab, Answerthink

"This book runs guns to the revolutionaries, detailing all the technologies, all the candidate protocols, and all the challenges to be met along the way to build the intelligent wireless Web."—Michael Swaine, Editor-at-Large, Dr. Dobb's Journal

Written by two authors at the forefront of the Internet revolution, The Intelligent Wireless Web presents a fascinating, insightful vision of the Web's near future, with an overview of the technologies that will make it possible. This book explores technology developments in speech recognition, mobile wireless devices, network integration, and software that will be far more responsive to our informational and transactional needs.

The Intelligent Wireless Web examines the convergence and synergy among five key technological components: speech used as a primary user interface; wireless personal area networks (WPANs); an integrated wired/wireless network infrastructure; supporting wireless protocols; and intelligent applications. It investigates available technologies and standards that are currently being developed to bring these goals into the mainstream of Internet use.

Inside you'll find an introduction to a wide variety of topics, as well as an in-depth look at the fundamental relationships between cutting-edge technologies such as:

• Speech recognition and understanding text-to-speech generators, and Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML)
• Personal Area Networks (PANs), Bluetooth(TM), Jini(TM), and Universal Plug & Play
• Spread Spectrum, wireless networks, and the IEEE 802.11 standard
• Wireless handheld devices and third-generation TDMA and CDMA
• Mobile IP, Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), and Wireless Markup Language (WML)
• Web Services, .NET, J2EE(TM), SOAP, UDDI, WSDL, and XML
• Neural networks, adaptive software, data mining, and agents
• Machine learning and Distributed Artificial Intelligence
• Semantic Web Architecture

Ongoing research projects, such as MIT's Project OXYGEN, are used throughout to illustrate elements of the intelligent wireless Web in action. Appendixes present standards organizations, mobile protocols, security issues, and a case study of knowledge management. With an understanding of the trends, goals, and technologies described in The Intelligent Wireless Web, you will be well-positioned to develop your own strategic planning for the coming world of the ubiquitous Internet.

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STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

While progress is being made in many new technologies that are producing today's Information Age, there is one area that may become particularly influential - the Intelligent Wireless Web. This area includes wireless mobile devices, speech interfaces and intelligent software. And as a result, the construction of an Intelligent Wireless Web requires the integration of advances in many disparate fields. Today, there is need for clarifying the "Big Picture" of how these many and varied fields of study fit together - where they touch, where they cooperate and where they conflict. THE PURPOSE OF THIS BOOK

The purpose of this book is to provide insight into the "Big Picture" of how we may "build" an Intelligent Wireless Web. The book evaluates the compatibility, integration and synergy of five merging technology areas that will lead to the Intelligent Wireless Web: User Interface—to transition from the mouse click and keyboard to speech as the primary method of communication between people and devices; Personal Space—to transition from connecting devices by tangled wires to multifunction wireless devices; Networks—to transition from a mostly wired infrastructure to an integrated wired/wireless system of interconnections; Protocols—to transition from the original Internet protocol (IP) to the new Mobile IP; and Web Architecture—to transition from dumb and static applications to new applications that are intelligent, dynamic and constantly improving.

This book provides the background for understanding these merging technology areas. It provides an evaluation of the major advantages and disadvantages of individual technologies and the problems that must be overcome. Finally, the book provides a vision for building the Intelligent Wireless Web.

Yogi Berra once said, "Predictions can be tricky, especially when you're talking about the future." And certainly making projections about competing technologies is more perilous than using hindsight to review history. However, the future of rapidly converging technologies is not so complex and uncertain that a few reasonable "trial solutions" about certain aspects of the Web's further development can't be put forward for examination. Indeed, several large advanced research efforts, such as, MIT's $50 million Project OXYGEN, demonstrates that concepts incorporating key elements of the Intelligent Wireless Web are being actively pursued.

Hopefully, the vision of technology development and convergence presented in this book will offer some insights into the actual unfolding of the future of the Web. However, we fully acknowledge that there are competing visions for the development of various Web technologies and the actual winners are yet to be determined. 0201730634P07312001

Edition details

• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0201730634
• ISBN 13: 9780201730630
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 350