Ubiquitous Computing - Xerox PARC circa 1991

"Coined by the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center's (PARC) Computer Science Laboratory (CSL), [Ubiquitous Computing] describes a vision of the future. Just as electric motors have disappeared into the background of everyday life, PARC scientists envision a future where mobile computational devices will be similarly transparent. Potentially numbering the 100s per person these devices are nothing like those you use today. They are mobile. They know their location, and they communicate with their environment."

I have no idea if I'm allowed to put this up but it seems a desperate shame that this video isn't held in one complete file, easily accessible to the public and to researchers, given the historical significance of the work conducted on ubicomp at PARC by Mark Weiser et al. during hte late 80s early 90s. Please see the original files here: http://www.ubiq.com/hypertext/weiser/UbiMovies.html and read more about Mark Weiser by sticking his name in Google. Please also note that I had to edit out 2 minutes of the more technical stuff to get the video down to under 10mins.

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• ubicomp
• Ubiquitous
• Computing
• Weiser
• PARC

[imanerd36]

Apple once again steals from PARC.

[marlls1989]

802.11 networking?

I am completelly Stunned!

How did they got it so right, how can those guys creating those amazing techlogies we use now everyday in our lives not be recognized by their works?

Xerox must be brain damaged not using those great things they invented. Hasn't them learned their leason with the GUI fiasco?

How can companies like Cisco or DLink earn from Xerox ideas?

[90cdowns]

@NLS87 What? chrome is a browser not a OS

[nonchessguy]

@marlls1989 I'm not going to look up the info...but it seems like Xerox management was either too set in its ways or too inexperienced to capitalize PARC's inventions and innovations. Either way...looks like technology is about 15 years behind itself.

[NLS87]

Google Chrome OS!

[marlls1989]

How is it posible that they got everything right 10/20 years before it happens?

Cause this is just what we are seeing today, everything is becoming computers and computers everyday becoming anything, from remote controls to space crafts...