Cerebro

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What is Cerebro?

Cerebro is a scalable, light-weight platform that provides presence information, efficient file sharing and an easy collaboration mechanism for activities.


Features

The following is a list of features that Cerebro offers. Some (marked with a *) are not offered through the programming API yet.

  • presence information (including distance and route) for all other users in the network
  • mesh network extended to regular 802.11b/g devices
  • extensible user profile including nickname, colors, keys, IP addreses, picture of arbitrary size, status message etc
  • file sharing using an efficient multicast mechanism
  • simple collaboration mechanism
  • connect to remote mesh networks over the internet
  • interoperability with regular x86 machines
  • internet connection even without a valid IP address (*)
  • programming API based on dbus (see examples)

Presence Information

File sharing

Collaboration

Programming API

(more info can be found here: http://cerebro.mit.edu)


Cerebro test plan