April 06, 2006 (vol. 116, iss. 107) • Page Image 13
…0 "I did research with Professor Martha Pollack for a year on the Autominder project," Vikas said, referring to a University research project designed to help elderly people remember common tasks. Rather than stay in Ann Arbor for the summer, Reddy headed to IBM's San Francisco office. When Vikas returned from IBM's San Francisco offices for the fall 2005 semester, he worked over the Internet, via a process known as "telecommuting" on the We...…