Name:		Bit Furnace

Description:	As things that think become more ubiquitous, the storage,
		organization, sharing and acting on this data demands a
		common, flexible, robust architecture.  Such an
		architecture defines mechanisms for:

			o	Resource discovery and naming
			o	Sharing/communications interfaces
			o	Semantic content labeling
			o	Data Repository
			o	Standard data processing components
			o	A user interface for interacting with the data

		Such a system will allow for simplified presentation and
		combination of heterogeneous groups of things that think into
		functional systems (and demos).

Milestones:	8/07	Complete literature work examining CORBA, Jini and
			other architectures to work from.

		8/14	Complete specification for resource discovery and
			naming, sharing/communications interfaces, data
			repository and standard component interfaces.

		8/28	Implement prototype resource discovery and naming and
			sharing/communications interfaces and test with
			existing "things"

		9/02	Implement prototype data repository

		9/08	Implement subset of the standard components,
			specifically presentation components (at least
			graphing) and at least one analysis component, such
			as clustering.

		9/10	Initial test system integration.  Put some data sources
			together, dump into the prototype repository and
			feed them to the standard components.

Partners:	Brad	(using the scale as a data source for the Furnace)
		Oliver	(datacam as a source and brainstorming help)
		Charlotte Lau (building bit dribblers for data sources)