hmm, perhaps their message is more subtle
than one may expect. they are a privately
held group, which i point out for its braintrust.
it would appear agent technology is
inevitably related...
this may explain a bit more, from their site:
Mission
Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. is an applications technology company that focuses on developing interfaces, software architectures and tools for the emerging network, information and distributed computing markets.
History
Mirror Worlds is a privately held company that was founded in 1997 by Eric Freeman, David Gelernter, and Scott Fertig, the members of the original Lifestreams team at Yale University to apply a decade's worth of research experience --- in distributed computing, network architectures, and information systems --- to commercial tools. The company's vision and name derive from Gelernter's 1991 book Mirror Worlds: Or the Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox: How It Will Happen and What It Will Mean, which describes many software technologies that have already become influential in today's increasingly network-centric computing environments. Lifestreams, a patent-pending technology exclusively licensed from Yale University, forms the basis for the company's first products. The company is now expanding its management team, aggressively building products incorporating the Lifestreams technology, and pursuing partnerships for rapid expansion. The company will announce its first products in spring 1998. The company plans to follow the Lifestreams products with advanced tools for distributed computing.
Products
Mirror Worlds Technologies, Inc. licenses the Lifestreams software technology, which replaces the desktop metaphor, the web browser, and the corporate network with a universally accessible, chronologically ordered stream of information that fits naturally into today's network-centric environment. The Lifestreams system includes a ubiquitous and universal storage system, integrated web-browser-like searching and filtering, and an all-encompassing data model that integrates all the information a user or corporation handles --- email, bookmarks, reminders, contact information, financial data, and so on. Lifestreams also features a customizable plug-in architecture for summarizing information, and a "ROMable" thin-client and server architecture that will run over a wide range of electronic devices.
Markets
Lifestreams provides a simple but powerful software solution for managing information and electronic events in both consumer and corporate environments. Some examples of products and services to which Lifestreams is relevant:
The Internet and online systems: Web browsers, ISPs. Consumer products: Game machines, TVs, set-top systems, network computers, appliances. Communication products: telephones, PDAs, answering machines, paging systems. Computer Industry: third party licenses and development programs. Corporate: labeling and branding, vertical markets (e.g., medical, legal). |
