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....of computers in our everyday life is steadily increasing. Driven by many research and industrial efforts in ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and the general tendency of exponential growth in computing, lots of features and benefits for humankind and society are promised for the near future [1]. Yet, compared to science fiction literature and films, the interface between the human user and the machine is still lagging behind. While SF imagines a natural interaction with the computer comparable to everyday human to human conversation as e.g. in Arthur C. Clarkes 2001: A Space Odyssey ....

J. Birnbaum, "Pervasive Information Systems", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 40-41 (February 1997).

....System, Resource Discovery, Service Location, Protocol, Distributed component, Distributed object. I. Introduction The concept of Pervasive Information System is de ned by Birnbaum as computers hidden in so called information appliances such as washing machines, furnaces, and refrigerators [1]. The pervasive information system exploits small, specialized, and embedded processors with standardized interfaces of a client server model. In this vision, the qualifying pervasive is used to stress the fact that computers are so commonplace and embedded in the environment that they are more ....

J Birnbaum, \Pervasive information systems," Communications of the ACM, vol. 40, no. 2, pp. 40-41, February 1997.

....and reliable access to information; specifically, they are primarily interested in the information services and the information presentation itself. In order to become intuitively accessible to the average person, information technology must transcend being merely manufacturable and commonplace [2]. Most important, information technology should adopt a new type of interaction between the user and the computer, where the user should delegate complex tasks to cooperating machinery, rather than manipulate the machine as a mere receptor of instructions [3] The term ubiquitous computing is ....

J. Birnbaum, "Pervasive Information Systems", Comm. ACM, vol. 40(2), 40-41, 1997.

....through a rapid sequence of technological phases: central computing mainframe (1950s 1980s) personal computer PC (1980s . computer networks (1990s . A fourth era is emerging now, when computers become pervasive, i.e. a technology more noticeable by its absence than its presence [1] [6], 11] 14] 17] 22] 25] The first mass produced pervasive computing devices are starting to appear. The Clarion AutoPC [8] provides an efficient, reliable and secure integrated communications, computing, navigation, car control and entertainment system. The NCR Microwave Oven Home Banking ....

....to Internet through a Residential Gateway. Cisco Systems Inc. wants to prove that . the Internet is the next utility in the home, and, within three to five years, will be as pervasive as gas, water or electricity. Electric servo appliances are a good example of pervasive technology [4] [6]. The average North American home contains two dozen or more electric motors. A multitude of sensors is gathering the information needed to control them. As all these are buried inside many appliances (vacuum cleaners, microwave ovens, refrigerators, VCRs, etc. we have difficulty identifying them ....

J. Birnbaum, "Pervasive Information Systems", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No.2, pp. 40-41, Feb. 1997

.... such an application could execute on a million or more of the computers on the Internet [Internet Computing] SETI home] The market forces of demand and supply will determine the cost of such an execution [Spawn] Additional arguments motivating the above computing model are described elsewhere [Client Utility] 2.11.9 Parallel Computing As already described in subsection 2.11.2, at any given moment during its execution an application may have independent tasks in the pool. Independent tasks may execute in parallel. Since a TE manages the execution of an individual task, it is simplest, in concept ....

Joel Birnbaum. "Pervasive Information Systems", Communications, Vol. 40, No. 2, Feb. 1997, pp. 40-41. (Similar articles are available, e.g. http://www.hpl.hp.com/speeches/pervasive.html).

....internet services, based on the notion of the streaming of downloadable content (for example, see Fig. 1. 4) state capture, process mobility, and service platform transparency represent fundamental building blocks of next generation architectures as found on visions of the future of the internet [11, 54, 56]. One such example is found in Birnbaum s pervasive computing, client utility services [10, 11] a vision of the next generation of internet on which the state of the services resides at the service providers far on the internet cloud. In this model state capture, platform independence, and ....

....Fig. 1. 4) state capture, process mobility, and service platform transparency represent fundamental building blocks of next generation architectures as found on visions of the future of the internet [11, 54, 56] One such example is found in Birnbaum s pervasive computing, client utility services [10, 11], a vision of the next generation of internet on which the state of the services resides at the service providers far on the internet cloud. In this model state capture, platform independence, and process context migration, go hand in hand, as client terminals are re execution devices for network ....

J. Birnbaum. Pervasive information systems. Communications of the ACM, 40(2):40--41, February 1997.

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Joel Birnbaum, Pervasive information systems, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 40, No. 2, pp. 40-41, February 1997.

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