Hello, my name is Frank Stajano, I’m affiliated with AT&T Laboratories Cambridge, and I’m doing a Ph.D. at the Computer Lab.
Today I am going to talk about the radio thermometer as an example of a wireless gadget that one might want to have talking
with other wireless gadgets. I’m a bit of a gadget freak myself and I also have plenty of wire coming out of my pockets. It
would be advantageous for some of these things to be able to talk to each other. You have a swarm of devices like this and
you might imagine, for example, that I take a picture with this camera – this is not one of these models that have voice annotation
but you may have seen there are some that do – and I say, “This was the security protocols workshop in Cambridge”. It is stupid
for the camera to have to incorporate the microphone and digital audio hardware when this is already in my audio recorder
(which has to have it because of its function), so it would be so much better if I could just speak into my audio recorder
and have this be transferred into the photograph and not encumber the camera with other things.