What Is Ubiquitous Computing?

What is Ubiquitous Computing ?

What is ubiquitous computing? An exciting new approach to serving us with technology? Or the environment where the virtuality will became the reality? Let's try to give the definition of ubiquitous computing, its development, including the key people and places influencing its development, and finally some concerns raised by this new approach for putting technology and people together.

Already, one name has been reoccurring when talking about ubiquitous computing: Mark Weiser. In 1991 Mark Weiser thought of as the founder of what we now term ubiquitous computing, wrote an article for Scientific American entitled "The Computer for the 21st Century". In it, Weiser describes the multiple computers in a room as tabs, pads and boards, which roughly correspond to active Post-It notes, sheets of paper, and white boards and bulletin boards. In this article he reasoned that a better approach would be to make the machine disappear, or become hidden from the user, so that its use would be non-intrusive, becoming a graceful part of our everyday life.

Ubiquitous computing, is a world where technology becomes virtually invisible in our lives. Instead of having a desk-top or lap-top machine, the technology we use will be embedded in our environment. Let's imagine a world with hundreds of wireless computing devices of different sizes in the same room.

Let's try to describe our one day in the new world of Pervasive Computing. It's morning and I need to get up .My alarm's gentle voice tells me "It's time ,you should get up" .Following it, I'm standing up. From the first step to the kitchen ,furniture asks "Would you want to eat or to drink ? Computers are everywhere in my room but i don't see none of them. Then I wear my digital jacket and computer watch . Now I am ready to go to the work. Just one "I'm ready" and my car is automatically comes to my house doors. I get in to my car and feel myself in a new computer world of cars. I just need to say a destination, even "to my office", is enough. Now I'm in the office ,everything is ready for my appearance : 5 minutes after my command ,all these new friendly group of computers - embedded into fridges,washing maching, cooling system, door locks, furniture works together are ready to make your appearance in your office in the best way.

In order achieve to our dream we must concentrate about ideas mobile computing and intelligent environment. This rethinking demands a radical departure from the tradition of putting machines out for our use, and having us adapt to them. One can see from just a few of these computer science issues that making ubiquitous computing a reality is an interesting technical challenge.

Ubiquitous computing seeks to embed computers into our everyday lives in such ways as to render them invisible and allow them to be taken for granted, and social and cultural theories of everyday life have always been interested in rendering the invisible visible .Despite these related concerns, social and cultural studies remain in the background of discussions of ubiquitous technology design. Ubiquitous computing is roughly the opposite of virtual reality. Where virtual reality puts people inside a computer-generated world, ubiquitous computing forces the computer to live out here in the world

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