| Lei Zhou Post Doctoral Researcher Biomedical Imaging Technology Center |
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Office: 531 Asbury Circle Suite 531 Atlanta, GA 30322-4600 Tel:404.712.2696(shared with others) Fax:404.712.2707(whole office) mailto:lzhou5@emory.edu |
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Maxims:
| Issue: | Description: | Solution: | Request: | Features: | Cost: | Market Value | intergradation: |
| Household electronics | Complex function, too many remote controller, repeated functions. | Separated fuctional mudules pluged on to family bus. House server arranges routing, mixing, and remote controlling. New generation portable device act as universal remote controller. | House server and family bus. | Custom configured family madia system. Personalized remote control and favorate list. | About $5K~10K for each house, function of next issue. | 80 billion per year level - like car market - function of next issue. Reduce the cost of repeated modulus and the cost of controller computer chips. | Start from new luxury houses and possibly military clients, as autoecious system of present comunication network. Then become common due to its unbeatenable features. |
| Wide band communication | The wide band wire network is hard to maintenance, especially for fibre connection to home. Wireless network cannot allow wide band because too many users share a space. | Directional wireless network between houses and in-house wire bus. | House server as part of real estate. | Local communication service turns from provider to maintenance. Lattice routing. | About $5K~10K for each house. | 80 billion per year level - like car market. | Start from new luxury houses and possibly military clients, as autoecious system of present comunication network. Then become common due to its unbeatenable features. |
| Computer Architecture | CPU speed is to up limit while competing of resource sharing still make users feel slow. Tiny bug crushs whole system. | Associate Processing Unit array, which can be integrated into one chip. | Main board that supports unsymmetric multi-processor and OS that supports dummy progress delivery. | Console never stop answering user. One halt APU won't halt the whole system because each CPU answers interrupt independently. Dead subsystem can be initialized by console processor. | Will be as cheap as current computers in market. | Will take over the current personal computer/notebook computer market at all. | Start from one-box multi-computer. One of them is the console controller and others are dummy servers. They are networked with very wide band and share storages. Applications are started in a dummy server and the I/O through x-connection. The price can even be lower than single CPU computer with same performance because it can use much slower CPUs and other chips. Especially good for developing country to take the lead. One dead dummy server will be rebooted by the console controller. The console controller does nothing other than answering user request and processing I/O, and has very low risk of halt. Then new operating system as well as more integraded hardware will appear and becomes mainstream. |
| Client side Software | Applications become huger and huger while useless functions are overpacked and expected functions still missing. | Desktop object oriented operating system with mistiness procedure calling up to natural language level. | New operating system idea. Desktop is the universal working environment but not each application creates its particular working environment. | User can build application by assembling functional procedures with basic modules, which are neither so basic as a C command nor so complicate as an application. For example, to make a slide show application, one just need to define a slides cache, like "all files in a folder", make it the input of a circular module, then connent the output onto a display panel. One will never need to learn particular usage of a particular application. | OS and Modules are free, or very cheap. Custom-requested complex application becomes a new market. | This will be open source based in the beginning, and replace all today's OS in the future. | Open source and free is the key of advertising. Fans and new generation will love it and make it mainstream. |
| Server side Software | Many redundant service options open many security vulnerabilities to system and increase the cost of maintenance. Database option over tree-oriented file system is inefficient. System upgrading causes old data incompatible or lost. | Database oriented file system. Custom-build modules based service. | Same operating system idea with client side OS. Disk array is smart enough to manage search-able multiple sorting database independently. And self-back-up. | Users know exactly what service he provides. No hidden service that may endanger the system. Modules upgrading or service upgrading do not break data integration. | OS and Modules are free, or very cheap. Custom-requested complex service becomes a new market. | This will be open source based in the beginning, and replace all today's server systems in the future. | Open source and free is the key of advertising. Fans and poor organizations will love it and make it mainstream. |
| Digital Security | Virus, risk of being hacked, illegal use of information. | Viruses are codes requiring operation other than user-interface presentation. By requiring an issuer identification number of any operation other than on-display-device presentation (limited size of dynamic display objects and sound tracks, static display objects), any illegal request will be able to be tracked back to its producer and being blocked as user's request. This will also work against other illegal operations. | IPV6 and its extended form - Universal Identification Number (UID). | Each digital request will have to be attached on a series of UID - the issuer's UID (who requests it), the sender's UID (which computer sends it), and the primary fixed router's UID or virtual UID which is set for the computer if it is roaming (where the request is sent). In this way, supposing you view a web page. A triple UID will be sent to the server, to tell it who is requesting the service from where using which computer. And, all feed back will also accompany a triple UID for each individual object, to tell you where each request of presentation and operation to your computer is sent by which computer and who is the owner of this request. If you feel bothered or hurt, you can set up blocking what kind of information from particular server, particular location, and/or particular owner to protect you, or even use it as proof of illegal operation on the court. Certainly one have the right not to tell the other party part or all of his triple UID, and use anonymous. In this way, most of requests will be denied or have to ask for console's approval. And the approving personnel takes all risks. | A step requires modification of many layers. Long term thing. Wait for IPV6 becomes true. | Every computer owner will need this. | Security is the basic request of everybody. Intel's CPU serial number was a sort of try to this direction. However, it needs more respect to users to make them confident. Anyway, only a person you contact who enables you to know who he is is a trustful person. This can start from new generation of communication mudules attached to existing OS, and earn respect. |
| Portable Device | Not balanced weight, function, and comfortable level. | Three parts portable device: Part a: book-like thin x-terminal with powerful presentation and input function. Part b: waist-bag-like dummy processing x-server with huge storage and optical disk and extras. Part c: pocket keyboard, digital camera etc. | Simple function x-terminal, support hand-writing-input, voice recording, digital camera connectivity, and limited media/stream play-back, limited storage. Powerful dummy x-server, support application running, network connectivity, large storage, etc. | Book-like terminal can act as electronic book and PDA. When it is connected with the server, it is a terminal of a fully fuctional computer. The x-server can stay in a bag or being hung on waist so that its weight can be greater than a now-a-day notebook computer. The Book-like terminal can also be set on a table with an attached holder and act like a 13" screen. With the attached pocket keyboard, it is like a desktop computer. | The total costs of three pieces will be like a now-a-day notebook computer. And the part a can have individual market. | Expect to take over both notebook computer market and PDA market. | The advantage will sell itself. Do not need too much advertising. |
| Portable Communication | Low band width, limited service area, bad security. | Expect a shrinking need of band width if the above mentioned things go right. Global wireless ringing service will take the place. For reply, use the help of a fixed station. | Iridium system can do the job with much smaller and cheaper receiver. | Ringing, short-message, simple information feeding are still valuable. For high speed caling back, plug into the network from a nearby house, station, or a vehicle. | Small change of existing market. | Cheaper and larger market. | Do not need too much advertising. |
| Complex city utilities | Too much cables (power, communication, cable TV), tubes (water, gas, drain), need very complex underground service and work. | Power self sufficient - solar power, building emergency generator, fuel battery and its fuel package. Communication and cable TV - inter house directional wide band wireless. Water and drain - moiseture collecting system and water recovery system chemical re-treat and physical filter. Only half solid garbage is packed and disposed. Gas - do not use gas. | Large scale production of solar battery and small water recovery system. | Independent house. No need to connect everything to a house. Much more selection of inhabiting. Especially in presently inconvenient location, for example, mountain area. Green. Do not damage environment. Easier residential construction - Road will be the only thing that have to be physically linked between houses. | Reduces the cost of underground service. Increases the cost of building itself. More flexibility of room mudules. | One for each family. | Start from luxury houses. When the market is developing, the price will drop and become popular. |
| Lack of Fresh Water | Human activity needs fresh water. However, rivers and underground water have reached their maximum of capability. Sea water desalt is too costly. | Rain is the source of fresh water. Rain on seas is salted again. Rain on seas is more than 10 times of rain on lands. We can build large rain collecting facilities in seas and pump them to lands. | Structure strong enough to resist the environment. | Provide fresh water for cities around seas. | Unknows. | Big government projects probably. | Need a thousand cubic meters per second. Not easy. |