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Computing | Ubiquitous computing Computers everywhere. Making many computers available throughout the physical environment, while making them effectively invisible to the user. Ubiquitous computing is held by some to be the Third Wave of computing. The First Wave was many people per computer, the Second Wave was one person per computer. The Third Wave will be many computers per person. Three key technical issues are: power consumption, user interface, and wireless connectivity. The idea of ubiquitous computing as invisible computation was first articulated by Mark Weiser in 1988 at the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC. (http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/weiser.html) (1994-12-23). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Ubiquitous computing is a term describing the concept of integrating computation into the environment, rather than having computers which are distinct objects. Promoters of this idea hope that embedding computation into the environment would enable people to move around and interact with computers more naturally than they currently do.
The late Mark Weiser wrote what are considered some of the seminal papers in Ubiquitous Computing. Currently, the art is not as mature as Weiser hoped, but a considerable amount of development is taking place. Several graduate departments are taking interest in developing this field:
Some news sites are recording commercial and academic developments:
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ubiquitous computing."
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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ubiquitous computing | 13 |
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| Language | Translations for "UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Finnish | kaikkialla huomaamattomasti tapahtuva tietojen käsittely (embodied computing). (various references) | ||||||||||
French | virtualité incarnée, informatique omniprésente. (various references) | ||||||||||
German | verkörperte Virtualität (embodied computing), allgegenwärtige Datenverarbeitung (embodied computing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Italian | virtualità materiata (embodied computing), informatica omnipresente (embodied computing). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | iquitousubay omputingcay virtualidad incorporada (embodied computing), computación ubicua (embodied computing). (various references) | ||||||||||
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