Wearable Computing Editor: Paul Lukowicz n University of Passau n paul.lukowicz@uni-passau.de From Backpacks to Smartphones: Past‚ Present‚ and Future of Wearable Computers Oliver Amft and Paul Lukowicz T he 5th International Symposium on Wearable Computing in 2001 (ISWC 01) devoted an entire session to system design. More important‚ people wearing a broad range of wearable systems filled the conference halls. The exhibition and gadget show‚ both with a strong focus on wearable hardware
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Optical Computing Jainam Shah Kalol Institute Of Technology‚ Kalol‚ Gujarat‚ India. jainam_8888@yahoo.co.in Abstract—Optics has been used in computing for a number of years but the main emphasis has been and continues to be to link portions of computers‚ for communications‚ or more intrinsically in devices that have some optical application or component (optical pattern recognition‚ etc). Optical digital computers are still some years away‚ however a number of devices that can ultimately lead to
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ago what Mobile Computing was they would not of had an answer. Today Mobile computing is one of the most popular ways to use a computing device. Mobile computing is simply a term to describe accessing the internet on the go anytime‚ anyplace and anywhere. With devices becoming easier to use and more accessible mobile computing is becoming more and more popular every day. Take a look around you and you’re almost guaranteed to see someone on a mobile device checking a social network site and sending
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References: Armbrust M.‚ Fox A. et al; Above the Clouds: A Berkeley View of Cloud Computing; http://radlab.cs.berkeley.edu/; Feb 10‚ 2009 R 2010 Geelan J.; A World of Many Clouds; http://cloudcomputing.syscon.com/node/902342; Cloud Computing Journal; Apr 1‚ 2009
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Part A: Cloud Computing What is cloud computing? Cloud computing allows people to log into a web based service which hosts applications‚ programs or document. Imagine your job at a big corporation is to make sure every single computer in the company has the right software to work. Buying applications and programs for every single computer can be costly. Cloud computing solves that problem. You’d only have to install one application to ensure the employees can access to the “cloud”. The “cloud”
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My Points So basically‚ Ubiquitous Computing is a practice of enhancing the use of computers by making a lot of computers accessible throughout the physical environment but they’re basically invisible. In other words‚ it means getting computing off the desktop. Ubiquitous computing refers to a new genre of computing in which the computer completely permeates the life of the user. First were mainframe computers‚ which where shared by a lot of people. Right now we’re in the personal computing era
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Mobile Computing Alex Hosch INF 103 Computer Literacy Maria J. Sinche-Quizhpi February 25‚ 2013 MOBILE DEVICE: -THE TYPES OF CONNECTION -FACTORS AFFECTING CONNECTIONS -MOBILE APPLICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS Mobile Computing: is a generic term used to refer to a variety of devices that allow people to access data and information from where ever they are. Mobile devices has improved throughout the past years. Laptops‚ tablets‚ IPods‚ cell phones‚ netbooks are some of the computer
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Main technology characteristics The following five characteristics of cloud computing are created by the Gartner Group‚ according to Plummer‚ et al. (2009) and Mell and Grance (2009)‚ and have a summariz-ing purpose for applying cloud computing in general (cited in Mora‚ 2009). Service based – The technology is service-oriented‚ thus abstracting the con-cerns of the consumer with the concerns of the providers (Mora‚ 2009). The ser-vices are provisioned automatically without human interaction
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Closing Case - Planning for Rise of Cloud Computing at Microsoft 1.) Cloud computing has become a new trend in the technology world. It is the upcoming stage for the Internet where every computing need can be accessed through a web browser at anytime‚ anywhere. It is also very economically appealing because the cost is so cheap. Cloud services have the potential to reduce information technology (IT) costs‚ increase operating efficiencies and create new types of business opportunities. So‚ what
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Will the cloud have as big an impact as many predict? A complex question. Cloud computing is available now; it’s already changing the manner in which IT and business services are delivered and managed. But as is often the case with new technologies‚ organizations may overestimate the short-term effects while simultaneously underestimating the long-term benefits. Without understanding the larger wave of IT developments of which the cloud is just a part‚ companies may invest in capabilities that will
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