The Personal Server: Changing the Way We Think about Ubiquitous Computing

By Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar, John Light. Ubiquitous Computing, 2002

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CoolSpots: reducing the power consumption of wireless mobile devices with multiple radio interfaces (2006, background): “These devices are now able to wirelessly download games, music and video, and play this multimedia content either locally, or remotely by wirelessly connecting to proximate environments such as the Digital Home [21][20].”
Calling the Cloud: Enabling Mobile Phones as Interfaces to Cloud Applications (2009, background): “The solutions proposed in that context allow devices to interact with the surrounding environment by either statically preconfiguring the devices and the environment with the necessary software [18], or by moving”
Place Lab: Device Positioning Using Radio Beacons in the Wild (2005, methodology): “The devices included a Belkin wireless GPS, a Nokia 6600 and an Intel Stargate [ 14 ].”
The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good (2016, background): “…are developing repositories which implement medium-grained access control to diﬀerent kinds of personally identiﬁable information (PII), such as passwords, social security numbers and health data [92], location [24] and personal data collected by means of smartphones or connected devices [24].”