Michael Capellas, the chairman and CEO of Compaq Computer, said Monday that the recent slowdown in the economy has made it even more apparent to developers that computing applications must be made to ...

Pervasive computing, also commonly referred to as ubiquitous computing or ambient intelligence, embodies the vision of integrating computational capacity into everyday objects and environments so ...

The IEEE Computer Society’s IEEE Pervasive Computing magazine has named Northwestern Engineering’s Nivedita Arora an "Emerging Rockstar." Launched by editorial board member Lakmal Meegahapola, the ...

Ubiquitous computing and context-aware technologies have fundamentally reshaped human–machine interactions by seamlessly integrating computational functionality into everyday environments. This ...

How many times have you missed an important phone call because you were in a meeting? Or wasted 15 minutes searching the building for one of your co-workers? Or sent an important job to the printer, ...

But after a time, the engineering knowledge and efficient processes honed from making leisure electronics leaked into business systems. We’ve come a long way in 20 years, but we’re only part of the ...

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