II.G. Schedule of Milestones and Deliverables

To encourage maximum technology transfer, especially to our industrial collaborators, the investigators will make available without restrictions the research, results, and prototypes of the proposed effort. The University of California will retain copyright to developed software. With suitable attribution as to the origination of any code used in derivative software, it is our intention that no-fee, non-exclusive licensing agreements be freely available for educational institutions, government sponsors, and industrial collaborators.

We will provide full documentation of all architectures, algo-rithms, communications protocol and hardware designs.
We will provide a fully documented collection of application program interfaces (APIs) and applications building block libraries.
We will implement selected pilot application components to validate the underlying architecture and Information Utility services.
We will create a "smart space" testbed in Soda Hall, on the U. C. Berkeley campus, using commercially-available technologies and access networks.
We will develop well-documented reference implementations of our Information Utility architecture, algorithms, protocols, services, and pilot applications suitable for use and exten-sion by the research and industrial communities.
Based on our "smart spaces" testbed, pilot applications, and prototype implementations, we will perform extensive measurements, per-formance analyses, usability experiments, and usage and activity traces that we will also make available to the research community and our industrial collaborators.
We are negotiating with leading U.S. information technology firms, and expect the following to collaborate with us on various aspects of the proposed effort: AT&T Labs, Lucent Bell Labs, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (Pervasive Computing and Research Divisions), Intel, Microsoft Research, Motorola, NorTel Networks, Sun Microsystems, and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. We will draw on our history of collaboration with these firms to expand our testbeds with leading edge industrial technology and ensure a transfer path for our own technology developments. We will continue with the very successful twice yearly research retreat model, to review project prog-ress and to provide a forum for industrial feedback to the research expedition team.
We will provide DARPA with all related technical publications, including technical reports and student dissertations.
We will provide DARPA and the contracting agents with quarterly project summaries and status reports. In addition, the DARPA program manager and technical agents will be invited to twice yearly project research retreats with the research team and our industrial collaborators.

Year 1:

Design and initial deployment of "smart space" testbed;
Initial design and prototype implementation of fluid software run-time environment;
Initial design of component advertisement protocols and interface negotiation specifi-cation language;
Initial design of sensor-centric/stream-capture oriented data management system;
Initial design of distributed, persistent storage system;
Initial design of tool flow for infrastructure-embedded software functionality;
Completion of initial system architecture design document;

Year 2:

Initial usability evaluation and refinement of "smart space" testbed;
Initial prototyping implementation and refinement of component advertisement protocols and interface negotiation specification language;
Initial prototyping implementation and refinement of distributed, persistent storage system on top of first generation fluid software run-time system;
Initial prototyping implementation and refinement of sensor-centric data management system on top of first generation fluid software run-time environment;
Initial implementation of cooperative learning and collaboration applications within smart spaces testbed and on top of initial version of fluid software run-time system;
Initial implementation of system design tools for early testing;
Implementation of second generation fluid software run-time environment based on early use and evaluation by other developed components;
Delivery of initial experimental results and usability evaluations, and revised architecture document;

Year 3:

Second generation persistent storage system and sensor-centric data management system implemented on top of final fluid software run-time system;
Extensive experimental usage of applications on second generation components and testbed;
Extensive evaluation and refinement of design methodology applied to second gen-eration fluid software components;
Final refinements and implementation of all software functionality;
Extensive evaluations and measurements of all software functionality;
Delivery of final experimental results and usability evaluations, and final architecture document;

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Randy H. Katz, 17 July 1999, randy@cs.Berkeley.edu