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	pervasive computing - a Whatis.com definition - see also: ubiquitous computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pervasive computing is the trend towards increasingly ubiquitous (another name for the movement is ubiquitous computing), connected computing devices in the environment, a trend being brought about by a convergence of advanced electronic - and particularly, wireless - technologies and the Internet.
		Pervasive computing devices are not personal computers as we tend to think of them, but very tiny - even invisible - devices, either mobile or embedded in almost any type of object imaginable, including cars, tools, appliances, clothing and various consumer goods - all communicating through increasingly interconnected networks.
		Among the emerging technologies expected to prevail in the pervasive computing environment of the future are wearable computers, smart homes and smart buildings.
	searchnetworking.techtarget.com /sDefinition/0,,sid7_gci759337,00.html (473 words)

	CNN.com - The rise of the machines - Nov 5, 2004
		That, at least, is the vision behind "pervasive computing," whose proponents imagine a world in which information processing and communication capabilities are built into the clothes we wear and the buildings and rooms we inhabit.
		While objects such as cars, television and freezers have remained essentially unchanged by the incorporation of computer chips, Kyng believes a new generation of devices such as mobile phones and wireless communications technology such as Bluetooth are already pushing the boundaries of pervasive computing.
		A further teething problem for nascent pervasive computing is "data pollution" -- with computers everywhere sending a constant stream of information into the air, devices could be overwhelmed by signals and struggle to identify which one to connect to.
	www.cnn.com /2004/TECH/11/04/pervasive.computing (887 words)

	Mobile Computing - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Mobile Computing is a generic term describing the application of small, portable, and wireless computing and communication devices.
		Today there are a wide variety of mobile computing platforms, including dash-mount VGA displays, and computers that can provide GPS and other navigation functions for automobile users.
		Since we are almost never away from someone's car somewhere, we could also use such a network to link to portable handheld or wearable computers, and thus have a near complete coverage of most urban or suburban areas.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /mobile_computing.htm (566 words)

	Pervasive Computing: The Next Chapter on the Internet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pervasive computing, sometimes called ubiquitous or nomadic computing, describes not only a class of computing device that doesn't fit the form factor of the traditional personal computer, but also a set of new business models supporting these devices.
		A pervasive computing device is meant to integrate into your lifestyle and to extend your reach into a global network of computing, freeing you from desk-bound application interaction.
		Pervasive computing will get at least 10 times more people onto the Internet than there are now, so it is tempting to offer the same services and products to these users through this new and alternative channel.
	www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=165227 (3282 words)

	615-672 Pervasive Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pervasive computing helps to bring about changes in lifestyle as new applications and services become available to business and consumers.
		Pervasive computing also places particular demands on information systems designs in dealing with complex security and privacy considerations.
		To succeed without distracting the user, pervasive computing applications must be aware of the context in which they execute, and adapt in ways appropriate to user needs, as that context changes.
	webraft.its.unimelb.edu.au /615672/pub (217 words)

	International Conference on Pervasive Computing (Pervasive 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The objective of the International Conference on Pervasive Computing is to present, discuss, and explore latest technical developments in the emerging field of pervasive computing as well as potential future directions and issues.
		Pervasive 2002 took place in Zurich, Switzerland from August 26 to 28, 2002.
		Pervasive 2004 took place from April 21-23, 2004 in Vienna, Austria, while Pervasive 2005 is scheduled to take place from May 8-12, 2005, in Munich, Germany.
	www.pervasive2002.org (195 words)

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		Much as the advancement of earlier technologies enabled pervasive access to water, gas, and electricity, it is now becoming increasingly practical to define similar environments for ubiquitous computation and communication.
		Pervasive computing envisions environments richly lathered with computation, communication and networked devices, mobile users interacting with their environment using speech and vision, with secure access to personal or public data.
		Pervasive computing environments will not simply be stand-alone vehicles for number crunching, rather they will immerse their users in a triad of invisible computation, communication and devices, working in concert to satisfy user requirements according to the facilities available in the environment.
	www.cag.lcs.mit.edu /classes/6.898 (244 words)

	Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
		A Mesh of pervasive small technology is the next logical stage in a century of disruptive, global changes — from commercialization of electricity to television and telecommunications, to today’s explosion of computing devices and digital networks.
		Today, pervasive small tech is particularly evident in the kind of wireless identity tags or smart labels known as RFID (radio frequency identity) that big companies such as Texas Instruments Inc. are making by the millions.
		Billions of handheld computers, mobile phones, cable set-top boxes, electronic game machines, wireless e-mail gadgets, satellite dishes, medical equipment and automated factory systems are building a new layer of connections atop the cortex of conventional computers and laptops plugged into fiber nets and radio waves.
	www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=4136 (3002 words)

	Intelligent Mobile and Pervasive Computing
		Invisible computing is a term invented by Donald Norman to describe the coming age of ubiquitous task-specific computing devices.
		The contribution of this thesis is an architecture to support context-aware computing; that is, application adaptation triggered by such things as the location of use, the collection of nearby people, the presence of accessible devices and other kinds of objects, as well as changes to all these things over time.
		A survey of context-aware mobile computing research: In this survey of research on context-aware systems and applications, we looked in depth at the types of context used and models of context information, at systems that support collecting and disseminating context, and at applications that adapt to the changing context.
	mobileandpervasive.blogspot.com (3555 words)

	Pervasive 2004, April 18-23, Linz / Vienna, Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pervasive Computing Second International Conference, PERVASIVE 2004, Vienna Austria, April 21-23, 2004, Proceedings Reihe: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Band 3001 Ferscha, Alois; Mattern, Friedemann (Hrsg.) 2004, XVII, 358 p.
		Based on multiple requests we are providing the slides and the textof the opening speech.
		For further impressions of PERVASIVE 2004 please visit the gallery.
	www.pervasive2004.org (147 words)

	Pervasive Computing in a Networked World
		Pervasive computing provides convenient access to relevant information and applications through a new class of ubiquitous, intelligent appliances that have the ability to easily function when and where needed.
		Pervasive computing is valuable to business users because of today's environment -- global (anywhere), 7x24 (anytime) -- and requirements to increase revenues (new channels, markets, and transactions), improve customer service (loyalty, competition, and differentiation), and decrease costs (efficiency, competition, and cycle time).
		The value of pervasive computing in a society such as Japan, where people closely communicate and share common means of engaging in social activities, may be in enhancing interpersonal communication.
	www.isoc.org /inet2000/cdproceedings/3a/3a_1.htm (4343 words)

	Pervasive Computing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pervasive Computing is a term that signifies several new elements of computing.
		One element involves pervasive computation - computers and sensors "everywhere" in devices, appliances, equipment, in homes, workplaces and factories, and in clothing.
		Another element involves pervasive communication - a high degree of communication among devices and sensors through a ubiquitous and secure network infrastructure with a wired core and wireless adjuncts that communicate with the core.
	www.itl.nist.gov /pervasivecomputing.html (175 words)

	Pervasive 2005 - Workshops (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Pervasive Gaming applications combine traditional computer entertainment with real-world context, enabled by the emergence of ubiquitous and pervasive computing technology.
		Thus, pervasive computing and context sensitive systems allow for the design of new stimuli from which people could create their own meaningful experiences, individual or shareable.
		Interconnected collections of computational artifacts have to exhibit smart and coherent behavior in support of the users' activities and tasks across artifacts/devices, in order to be perceived as smart environments on the users' side.
	www.pervasive.ifi.lmu.de /workshop.html (2318 words)

	Pervasive Computing
		Overview: Pervasive computing is the next great computing paradigm shift and will have no less of an impact to industry, government, and daily life than the personal computing revolution.
		Provide a rapid, cost-effective means of modeling pervasive computing requirements that would facilitate the creation and maintenance of pervasive computing systems and related measurements and tests (e.g., a 3D graphical simulation tool, called EXiST).
		The EXiST simulation tool provides a means to experiment with pervasive computing architectures, measurements, and tests without having to build the entire system and will help developers to cost effectively design systems as well as fine tune and find bottlenecks in deployed systems.
	www.itl.nist.gov /div897/docs/aroma_pervasive_computing.html (513 words)

	Meatball Wiki: PervasiveComputing
		PervasiveComputing [1] is having a computer in your wall, in your watch, in your light bulb, in your shirt, in your sandwich,..., in you.
		PervasiveComputing is likely to be the downfall of desktop computer systems (and their massive operating systems), at least in the broad application base they are used now.
		PervasiveComputing became real in one sense during the 1970s and 1980s when pocket calculators (and watch calculators) permitted anyone to add, subtract, multiply and divide 8 digit numbers anywhere that they were.
	www.usemod.com /cgi-bin/mb.pl?PervasiveComputing (1230 words)

	Pervasive Computing@CMI
		As computers continue to become smaller, cheaper and faster, we anticipate a world in which an individual will typically utilize hundreds of computing devices -- some mobile, others embeddedd in our environment, and all networked -- throughout the day.
		Richly peppered with computing and communication facilities, networked environments of the future will provide untethered, personalized, ubiquitous access to services in the environment of the user.
		Participants in the pervasive computing KIC conduct research in making this vision of untethered, ubiquitous computing a reality.
	www.pervasive-cmi.csail.mit.edu (83 words)

	What is pervasive computing? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Also called ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing is the result of computer technology advancing at exponential speeds -- a trend toward all man-made and some natural products having hardware and software.
		Pervasive computing goes beyond the realm of personal computers: it is the idea that almost any device, from clothing to tools to appliances to cars to homes to the human body to your coffee mug, can be imbedded with chips to connect the device to an infinite network of other devices.
		The goal of pervasive computing, which combines current network technologies with wireless computing, voice recognition, Internet capability and artificial intelligence, is to create an environment where the connectivity of devices is embedded in such a way that the connectivity is unobtrusive and always available.
	www.webopedia.com /TERM/P/pervasive_computing.html (290 words)

	Troubador Publishing
		Pervasive computing and communications is emerging rapidly as an exciting new paradigm and discipline to provide computing and communication services all the time, everywhere.
		The JPCC is a refereed international journal, initially publishes 4 issues per year, providing an international premier channel to report, discuss and exchange experimental or theoretical results, novel algorithms, design methodology, work-in-progress, experience, case studies, and trend-setting ideas in the emerging field of pervasive computing and communications as well as potential future directions and issues.
		Papers should be of a quality that represents the latest technical developments of pervasive computing and communications in hardware technology, software infrastructure, novel algorithms, system considerations, physical and human interaction and ubiquitous applications.
	www.troubador.co.uk /jpcc (365 words)

	Pervasive Computing links
		Pervasive computing is the increasingly powerful integrated combination of high-speed computers and intelligent devices, ranging from scientific instruments of all kinds and sizes, to home appliances, low-cost ubiquitous sensors, personal communi- cators and information stores, and online digital libraries --all completely interconnected by wired and wireless net- works accessible anywhere in the world.
		Michel Burger, CTO of Embrace Networks, presented the “The Path toward Pervasive Computing: A Network Approach.”People are appropriately beginning to think that the availability of the network is the norm rather than the exception.
		Many on the forefront of wearable computer technology are quick to point out that pervasive computing is much closer than most realize and that the popularization of PDAs, cell phones, and computerized health aids is taken for granted as progress toward real cybernetics.
	www.union.edu /PUBLIC/ECODEPT/kleind/ct/pervasive.htm (3725 words)

	Ubiquitous Computing
		The initial incarnation of ubiquitous computing was in the form of "tabs", "pads", and "boards" built at Xerox PARC, 1988-1994.
		Ubicomp helped kick off the recent boom in mobile computing research, although it is not the same thing as mobile computing, nor a superset nor a subset.
		It is invisible, everywhere computing that does not live on a personal device of any sort, but is in the woodwork everywhere.
	www.ubiq.com /hypertext/weiser/UbiHome.html (794 words)

	Pervasive Peek-a-Boo
		Basically, pervasive, or ubiquitous, computing is based on the idea that chips can be embedded in just about anything – including human beings.
		At the heart of pervasive computing is the notion of a network so all-encompassing that everything can and will be interconnected, which is a good thing, or bad idea, depending on your point of view.
		Former head of the Computer Science Laboratory at Xerox PARC, the late Mark Weiser was called "the father of ubiquitous computing." This page is part of his Web site.
	www.10meters.com /per_links.html (420 words)

	Pervasive 2004, April 18-23, Linz / Vienna, Austria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		A ubiquitous computing environment is intended to support users in their search for necessary information and services in a situationdependent form.
		Preliminary results on a small dataset show that it is possible to recognize activities of interest to medical professionals such as toileting, bathing, and grooming with detection accuracies ranging from 25% to 89% depending on the evaluation criteria used.
		Location-awareness is useful for mobile and pervasive computing.
	www.pervasive2004.org /program_fullpapers.php (3892 words)

	Building Software for Pervasive Computing
		Physical objects abound in Pervasive Computing, and object technology is playing a major part in pervasive computing, with objects living on even the smallest device.
		While software development is challenging, Pervasive Computing presents an additional set of problems, including dealing with the scale of sensing and actuating, the number of autonomous collaborating entities, mobility, and the physical limitations (energy, memory, etc.) of constrained devices.
		He has also been involved in a number of initiatives to develop and deploy Pervasive Computing solutions, including: Innovation laboratories with a number of customers to demonstrate Pervasive functionality, a mobile project for a leading beverage manufacturer, and providing T-systems executives with Pervasive access to their e-mail and diaries.
	www.ics.uci.edu /~lopes/bspc04.html (1835 words)

	p2pnet.net - the original daily p2p and digital media news site
		When computers first became available some forty years ago, they were rare and expensive resources that took up a whole room, and had to be shared by many users.
		Security: when computing devices are readily available in the environment (for example, bank cash machines, palm-held devices etc), we need to find ways to make their user interfaces more robust against unauthorised use and intrusion.
		Power-efficient computer architectures: If we are genuinely going to be able to do our computing on the move, we need to address the shortage of battery power on wireless computing devices, and find new processor architectures designed to conserve power.
	p2pnet.net /story/1124 (1160 words)

	IBM Think Research \| Pervasive Computing
		The spotlight is now on what we call "pervasive computing" devices — which range from personal digital assistants to the unseen chips in our cars, appliances and telephones.
		The emerging world of pervasive computing will seamlessly knit together a multitude of different devices.
		How Pervasive Computing Will Personalize E-Business Mark Bregman, manager of IBM's pervasive-computing unit, presents his vision of a future built around specialized appliances.
	www.research.ibm.com /thinkresearch/pervasive.shtml (375 words)

	GPC: Grid and Pervasive Computing Group
		Grid computing is about large scale distributed computation, large scale data and large scale collaborations - applied to solving large scale problems.
		Grid computing enables us to tackle problems by bringing together distributed resources, to be used cooperatively to solve problems which may require an enormous amount of computing power.
		Pervasive computing (also known as "ubiquitous" or "ambient") is about distributed computing devices in the physical world, such as personal devices, wearable computers, devices embedded in everyday objects and sensors in the environment - it is about both the devices and the infrastructures needed to support pervasive computing applications.
	www.gpc.ecs.soton.ac.uk (254 words)

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