One independent university researcher has already expressed interest in further development of the prototype. Clement Allen, associate professor of computer and information systems at Florida Agricultural & Mechanical University in Tallahassee, said he wants to work with IBM to build Infinity applications that new students to his college might use to find other students with common interests. For example, new students could use a device to share a personal profile when walking into a classroom for the first time. Or, a student could stand in a dormitory lobby and query whether other students in the building are studying for the same test.

"I want to develop the idea further and have students test it" over the next year, Allen said.