Max Mathews and Bill Verplank is teaching a nice class over Stanford for the last couple of years and I am aware of it now. The class is about building/experimenting new musical controllers, videos seem interesting, syllabus might be checked out periodically.
Joseph Paradiso (he is the director of the Responsive Environments Group)has paper dated 1998 [...]

This looks kind of interesting, could be a way to pursue for phd,actually it looks like it IS the way for me to go. I have checked out the lady behind it, Pattie Maes, the class she is giving ambient intelligence and the syllabus looks really promising. Lot of doors ready to be opened from [...]

jit.op object lets you perform mathematical operations on all the data in the jitter matrix at once.
math operation will be determined by the attribute @op and provided by an operator.
ex jit.op @op pass + * – * meaning pass the alpha plane, add to the first plane, subtract from the second and multiply the scalar [...]