IBM Helps Simplify Campus Life With Speech-Enabled Web Applications for Mobile Phones

IBM Helps Simplify Campus Life With Speech-Enabled Web Applications for Mobile Phones

IBM announced today that it has developed a portfolio of speech-enabled Web applications for mobile phones to help simplify campus life by automating mundane tasks. Two of the applications are being tested by students, faculty and staff in MobileUâ„¢, a program deployed at Wake Forest University using advanced mobile technologies. IBM is partnering with universities as a test-bed for technologies that can be extended to numerous industries, including sales forces, physicians and emergency response teams.

Wake Forest University is recognized as a technology leader in higher education and was among the first universities in the country to provide laptop computers to its undergraduate students in 1996. Wake Forest University is currently looking toward the next generation of converged computing, in collaboration with IBM, to improve education and campus life through the use of open standards, mobile and voice technologies.

As a first example of that, MobileUâ„¢ uses IBM WebSphere Everyplace Multimodal Environmentâ„¢ software on mobile phones to help make it easier to take transportation around campus and use laundry machines. Students participating in the Wake Forest MobileUâ„¢ program can now find out exactly what time the next bus is going to arrive or if there are any laundry machines available before they leave their dorm room, the library or other locations.

Read the complete Press Release