Hewlett Packard supports Monash IT Research with donation

28 October 2002

Two research projects conducted by the Faculty of Information Technology received endowments totalling $250,000 from Hewlett Packard on October 25th 2002.

Each project will receive support to the value of $125,000 over three years, for a PhD scholarship, a travel allowance and for the use of Hewlett Packard products for research.

With the assistance of Hewlett Packard, Associate Professor Arkady Zaslavsky aims to use software mobile agents in pervasive computing systems to extract, validate and verify context attributes in his project, ContextExplorers. The project will develop ways in which software agents can use computer devices as sensors that humans have, to light, heat, movement and sound.

Hewlett Packard will also provide support towards, Déjà vu, a project by Associate Professor Ingrid Zukerman. Associate Professor Zukerman is also developing the ability to provide contextual information during interactions with computer systems in the form of a continuously updated dialogue memory, which may reside at server sites or PDAs.

Dean of the Faculty of Information Technology, Professor John Rosenberg, believes that the support from Hewlett Packard will help to advance knowledge in the area of pervasive computing, which is one of the faculty’s priority areas of research.