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1. Knothole Speech Interface Group Stefan Marti E15-344 Intelligent Paging Pager Desktop Computer Internet

2. What is the combination of: • a small and portable thing (like a PDA), with • communication (computing is about that anyway...) ?

3. Messaging • Filtering: Which message goes where and when? • Consistent identity: Am I always the same person?

4. PDA functionality • Access to • Personal databases (on desktop computer): address book, Rolodex • Information on the Web: weather and traffic reports, stock • UNIX command line

5. Traf 93 Route 93 NB: No probs reported. Traf is moving near normal posted 55 & 65-mph speeds from Boston to Andover; a 21 min ride. Route 93 SB: No reports of probs from Route 495 to Route 128. Expect that to be a 12 min ride at 65-mph. Lower Deck traf is moving well to Route 1/Tobin Bridge merge.

6. Def quixotic idealistic to an impractical degree; esp : marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or extravagantly chivalrous action - quix.ot.i.cal aj

7. Ety blister ME, modif. of OF or MD; OF blostre boil, fr. MD bluyster blister;]akin to OE bl<a-e>-st blast

8. Def presence 1: the fact or condition of being present 2a: the part of space within one's immediate vicinity 2b: the neighborhood of one of superior esp. royal rank archaic 3: COMPANY 4: one that is present : as 4a: the actual person or thing that is present 4b: something present of a visible or concrete nature 5: something held to be present

9. Wx bos 1034 AM EDT WED 29 THIS PM SUN & MILDER. HI 70 TO 75. W WND 10 TO 20 MPH. TNGT PTLY CLDY. LOW 50 TO 55 BOS & 40 TO 45 BURBS. W WND 5 TO 10 MPH. THURS PTLY SUN AM MOST CLDY THE PM. MILD HI NR 75.

10. Cur bos 57 26% NNW at 9 30.16 Clear

11. Head Clinton (0) Clinton says controversy won t cancel China trip (1) Clinton won t delay China trip, defends closer ties (2) Experts praise Clinton s bioterror defense plan (3) Federal budget will have 39 billion surplus this year, Clinton says (4) Clinton sees first budget surplus in 30 years (5) Honh Kong election results put Clinton in a difficult spot (6) Clinton will visit China, defends closer ties (7) Clinton sees record budget surplus, first in 30 years (8) Expert welcomes Clinton s bioterror plan

12. (hl2) Experts praise Clinton s bioterror defense plan... Date: Wed, 27 May 1998 00:11:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Stefan Marti <stefanm@media.mit.edu> To: stefanm@media.mit.edu Subject: Experts praise Clinton s bioterror defense plan By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Clinton's plan to stockpile vaccines and drugs in case of a bioterrorism attack will be difficult to carry out, but makes a good start, experts on biological terrorism said Tuesday. They said it will also help strengthen public health services in general. ``I think this is going to be a very difficult task ahead of us but one that I think is doable,'' Michael Osterholm, who is Minnesota's state epidemiologist and who served as adviser to the federal government on biological terrorism, told Reuters in a telephone interview. On Friday Clinton ordered the stockpiling of vaccines and antibiotics in case of a biological attack. ``We feel like this is a very good start,'' Osterholm, who has warned repeatedly of what he sees as the nation's lack of preparedness, said. A team of specialists commissioned by the government says the five germs most likely to be used in a biological terror attack are anthrax, smallpox, plague, tularemia -- an animal-transmitted infection that causes blisters and pneumonia -- and the bacteria that causes botulism. But Dr. Richard Duma, a former head of the National Foundation on Infectious Diseases, said it would be a mistake to focus on five diseases only. ``I don't think it is easy to protect against because you don't know what particular disease the terrorist might be using,'' he said.

13. WX or WXS or WXE <city> SUN <city> CUR <city> DEF <word> ETY <word> ROLO or ROLOP or ROLOA <name> TRAF <road> CITIES <state> STOCKS NEWS <word> HEAD <word> SUM or SUMD or DATE <xx> <yy> CAL ADD <date> <entry> CAL DAY or WEEK <date> SEQ RESEND <xx> <yy> SUM <xx> <yy> +<aa> <bb cc ...> : command line, as arguments -<aa> <bb cc ...> : command line, on STDIN M <alias> (<subjectline>) <messagebody>

14. Knothole Stefan Marti, Speech Interface Group, stefanm@media.mit.edu, http://www.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/pager

15. Knothole Our paging system uses two-way pagers to provide a bi-directional link to subscriber's normal email, with additio-nal access to person-al information on the subscriber's compu-ter and external information via the Web and other sources. It is a com-bination of public domain programs, PERL scripts, various other "glue" scripts, some C programs, and a number of lo-cal Media Lab PIMs. A generic extension mechanism is inclu-ded. It is targeted for Unix. Some parts could be easily port-ed to other locales, other parts would have to be re-written to follow local con-ventions. Stefan Marti, Speech Interface Group, stefanm@media.mit.edu, http://www.media.mit.edu/~stefanm/pager