WWW: Beyond the Basics

24. Ubiquitous Internet Computing

Glossary

AUGMENTED REALITY - Enhancing a user's perceptions with computation or enhancing a physical object using computation.

CALM TECHNOLOGY - Technology that leads to calm and comfort. Calm technology uses both the center and the periphery of a user's attention.

MOBILE-IP - Extension to Internet Protocol (IP) which allows a computer to disconnect from the base network and move to another network.

TELEPORT - Extension to X-Windows system that allows an application to move from one X-terminal to another.

TELEPRESENCE - Using technology to collaborate remotely.

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING - The research area in computers which seeks to put small, inexpensive computers throughout the user's environment, so that the computing tool becomes invisible and easy to use.

WEISER, MARK - The originator of ubiquitous computing, Mark Weiser is now Chief Technologist at XEROX Palo Alto Research Center.

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