The lab plans to build on the Oxygen project by providing four user services:
Speech recognition _ the ability for machines to understand spoken instructions _ is a vital part of the Oxygen project.
Mr . Dertouzos oversaw the $ 50 million Oxygen project, a research program to design better ways for man and machine to communicate.
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It forms part of the Oxygen Project, which includes the office tower and a shopping center, the " Cours Oxyg鑞e ".
This human-centric vision of computing led him to launch the Oxygen project in 1999, with seed funding from the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
As part of the Oxygen Project, he is studying speech interfaces that could bring a flood of computerized information to the vast majority of the world that has yet to see PCs and modems.
Visitors to Mr . Dertouzos's office were treated to the prototypes from the Oxygen project _ shades that open and close with a voice command, and automated phone lines that answer weather questions or make travel arrangements.
In reality, the Oxygen project, Clark said, must walk the exceedingly thin line between an unrealistically futuristic " Star Trek " notion of computing and an overly timid short-armed reach for the easily attainable.
In 1999, for example, the labs announced the " Oxygen Project, " a $ 50 million effort undertaken with the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory to make computers easier to use, the institute said, and " as natural a part of our environment as the air we breathe ."