Issues and Challenges in Ubiquitous Computing

Abstract

A fundamental measure of progress in computing involves rendering it as an inseparable part of our everyday experience while simultaneously making it disappear [2]. Radical improvements in microprocessor cost-performance ratios have pushed this process forward while drastically reducing computing-device form factors, enabling us to embed computers in many parts of our environments. In 40 years this change has transformed the early large “computing machines” into compact devices that enable, mediate, support, and organize our daily activities.