Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing

Assem Abdel Hamed Mousa¹

¹Ecommerce Technical Support Systems Manager, Cairo, Egypt

Abstract

2013: The year of the Internet of Things; The Internet of Things probably already influences your life. And if it doesn't, it soon will, say computer scientists; Ubiquitous computing names the third wave in computing, just now beginning. First were mainframes, each shared by lots of people. Now we are in the personal computing era, person and machine staring uneasily at each other across the desktop. Next comes ubiquitous computing, or the age of calm technology, when technology recedes into the background of our lives. Alan Kay of Apple calls this "Third Paradigm" computing. Ubiquitous computing is essentially the term for human interaction with computers in virtually everything. 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 with people. Virtual reality is primarily a horse power problem; ubiquitous computing is a very difficult integration of human factors, computer science, engineering, and social sciences.

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Assem Abdel Hamed Mousa. Ubiquitous/Pervasive Computing. International Conference on Cloud Computing and eGovernance 2014. Vol. 1. Chennai: Association of Scientists, Developers and Faculties, 2014. 57. Print.