Sanjay Sarma , David L . Brock & Kevin Ashton white paper The Networked Physical World Proposals for Engineering the Next Generation of Computing , Commerce & Automatic - Identification

The Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is a new industry sponsored lab charged with researching and developing automated identification technologies and applications. The Center is creating the infrastructure, recommending the standards, and identifying the automated identification applications for a networked physical world. All technologies and intellectual property developed at the Auto-ID Center are freely distributed. This white paper outlines the Auto-ID Center’s key conclusions and research progress after its first year of research. Sanjay Sarma, David L. Brock & Kevin Ashton white paper The Networked Physical World Proposals for Engineering the Next Generation of Computing, Commerce & Automatic-Identification Published October 1, 2000. Distribution restricted to Sponsors until January 1, 2001. Biography white paper The Networked Physical World Proposals for Engineering the Next Generation of Computing, Commerce & Automatic-Identification MIT-AUTOID-WH-001 ©2000 Copyright 2 by David L. Brock Co-Director Dr. David Brock received Bachelors degrees in theoretical mathematics and mechanical engineering from MIT, and his Masters and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT with an affiliation to the Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is currently a visiting scientist at the Distributed Intelligent Systems center at MIT. Dr. Brock is also Founder and Director of Brock Rogers Surgical, a manufacturer of microrobotic devices. Dr. Brock has worked with a number of organizations including the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, DARPA, Celadon, Loral, BBN and Draper Laboratories. by Sanjay Sarma Research Director Sanjay Sarma received his Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, his Masters from Carnegie Mellon University and his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. In between degrees he worked at Schlumberger Oilfield Services in Aberdeen, UK, and at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories in Berkeley, California. Dr. Sarma’s Masters thesis was in the area of operations research and his PhD was in the area of manufacturing automation. From 1995 to 1999, Dr. Sarma was an assistant professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now an associate professor. by Kevin Ashton Executive Director Kevin Ashton is Executive Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Auto-ID Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the Cambridge University Auto-ID Centre in Cambridge, England. He is on loan to MIT from the Proctor & Gamble Company, where he is an Associate Director. He is graduate of University College London and is a Visiting Engineer in MIT ’s Department of Mechanical Engineering. Published October 1, 2000. Distribution restricted to Sponsors until January 1, 2001.