A Mobile Phone Ecosystem: MIT and Nokia's Joint Research Venture

The mobile phone is rapidly becoming the primary personal gateway to access information. In the near future, it will likely become the primary means for accessing services such as personal banking, online purchasing, mobile entertainment, and multiplayer online games. It might also someday replace wallets full of credit cards, cash, and identification cards and become a personal monitoring device, personal trainer, or storage facility for electronic medical records. Enormous challenges exist in realizing this vision, which is why Nokia and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have started a joint research venture to refine the vision and develop the required devices, applications, and services. As part of this venture, Nokia formed the Nokia Research Center, Cambridge, which is within walking distance of CSAIL. Researchers are working on six joint research projects, and we believe that constant intermingling of researchers is necessary for deep research collaboration