Collaboration Support of Mobile Units

• Wearable computers (with components such as battery, disks, CPU) wore on a belt with a handheld monitor (640 by 480 today) allow us to bring a computational grid to the warfighter

• There would be a wireless link using low speed digital cellular connection

• There is enough memory and disk to run a browser and Tango client on the remote unit

• This links implementers in field together and to central decision support

• Note the JavaRing with around 1 million transistors running JavaVM and

• Kahn (founded Borland)'s new company Starfire is designing "wearable computers" -- run yourWeb Server in heel of your shoe

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