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SUMMARY:Beyond Weiser’s Vision of Ubiquitous Computing - Stefan Poslad (
 Queen Mary Univ.London)
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CONTACT:Pedro Brandao
DESCRIPTION:*Slides "available":http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/opera
 /meetings/attachments/2009-02-10_Beyond-Weiser_Poslad.pdf .*\n\n*Abstract:
 *\n\nA world in which computers disappear into the background of an enviro
 nment consisting of smart rooms and buildings was first articulated over f
 ifteen years ago in a vision called ubiquitous computing by Mark Weiser (1
 991). The term ‘ubiquitous’\, meaning appearing or existing everywhere
 \, combined with computing to form the term Ubiquitous Computing (UbiCom) 
 is used to describe ICT systems that enable information and tasks to be ma
 de available everywhere\, and to support intuitive human usage\, appearing
  invisible to the user.\n\nThis talk will first review the achievements th
 at have been made since the early 1990s and the challenges that remain. Th
 ere is a spectrum of views of the current status of Ubiquitous computing w
 ith some researchers believing that this vision has still not largely succ
 eeded.  For example\, there are sociological concerns that taking humans t
 oo much out of the control loop in many daily tasks will lessen their phys
 ical world and human experiences too much.\n\nSecond\, there is a openness
  and vagueness at the epistemological level in terms of what UbiCom System
  models represent and know and concerns about their epistemologically adeq
 uacy. At the heuristic level\, there is in addition the issue of how well 
 UbiCom can be used to solve problems and concerns about its heuristic adeq
 uacy. In order to address these concerns\, a framework is presented called
  the Smart DEI (pronounced ‘Day’) which comprises a holistic model for
  smart devices\, smart environments and smart interaction.\n\nThirdly\, so
 me of the author’s own research into Ubiquitous Computing will be presen
 ted.\n\n*Bio:*\n\n"Stefan Poslad":http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/staffinfo/ste
 fan/ is a lecturer in the school of electronic engineering and computer sc
 ience at "Queen Mary University of London":http://www.qmul.ac.uk/ and a me
 mber of  the "Networks Research Group":http://www.elec.qmul.ac.uk/networks
 /index.html. His research interest cover ubiquitous computing\, intelligen
 t interaction involving the Semantic Web and software agents\, and system 
 management including security\, safety\, trust and privacy in open distrib
 uted services. He has played a leading role in several international colla
 borative projects in these areas (e.g.\, CRUMPET\, AgentCities\, EDEN-IW\,
  iTrust\, Context-based Information Management for Mobile Workers\, My-E-D
 irector 2012) and has over 60 related research publications. He also has a
 ctively contributed to FIPA\, the agent standards organisation and helped 
 lead its incorporation as a new IEEE Agent Standards activity. He worked o
 n one of the first reference implementations of this model\, the FIPA-OS a
 gent platform and led the project that developed a micro version of this a
 gent platform\, microFIPA-OS for use by mobile users in resource constrain
 ed devices.   He is the author of a new book called Ubiquitous Computing: 
 Smart Devices\, Environments and Interactions\, Wiley\, ISBN: 978-0-470-03
 560-3\, 2009.\n\n
LOCATION:Room FW11\, Computer Laboratory\, William Gates Building
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