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GRANULARITIES OF UBIQUITY: TOWARDS THE NEXT DOMINANT COMPUTING
PLATFORM
A Themed issue of Personal technologies (ISSN 0949-2054, Springer Verlag)
http://www.csm.uwe.ac.uk/faculty/cpim/PeTe.html
EDITORS
Sandeep Chatterjee and Srinivas Devadas
Laboratory for Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AIMS
The computing vision of the 1980's targeted 'a computer in every home
and on every desktop', and, en route to that objective, the personal
computer (PC) became the dominant hardware and software platform.
However, as the domestic PC market matures, there is increased
interest in developing the successor to the PC, or, the next dominant
platform. There are presently numerous efforts underway representing
the different schools of thought as to the 'granularity of ubiquity'
of computing. These approaches range from Internet terminals which
continue to pursue 'a computer in every home and on every desktop' to
platforms which aim to be embedded within everything from clothing
and shoes to walls and desks. Clearly, these different approaches
will not only have very different price-volume characteristics but
will also have different rates of deployability and acceptability
into mainstream society.
Although these different platforms and approaches are useful, the
next dominant computing platform should be chosen so that it has the
following characteristics:
1. The platform should be rapidly deployable into (and acceptable
within) mainstream society.
2. The platform's price-volume characteristics should lend itself to
sustaining high levels of revenue growth for the industry.
3. The platform should be sufficiently flexible and scalable (i.e.,
so that it can be a long-lived dominant platform).
CONTRIBUTIONS
Creating such a platform requires an unique breadth of knowledge that
extends any one research field. The goal of this special issue is to
bring together papers from economists, business and technology
strategists, computer scientists, and social scientists to understand
the dynamics of creating the next dominant computing platform. We
encourage submission of position papers and independent analyses.
DEADLINE
The deadline for contributions is 30 SEPTEMBER, 1999. Contributions
will be rapidly peer-reviewed by an international panel and will be
published in volume 3 (1999) of Personal Technologies.
FORMAT
Contributions should follow the submission guidelines on the Personal
technologies web site. Potential contributors should send an abstract
for review and discussion as soon as possible to Sandeep Chatterjee
or Srinivas Devadas, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. Electronic
submissions may be mailed to <[log in to unmask]>. Hardcopy
submissions can be mailed to:
Granularities of Ubiquity
MIT Laboratory for Computer Science
545 Technology Square, NE43-212
Cambridge, MA 02139, USA
CONTACT
For advice on a submission, please contact
Sandeep Chatterjee and Srinivas Devadas <[log in to unmask]>
Peter Thomas, editor-in-chief <[log in to unmask]>
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Faculty of Computer Studies and Mathematics
University of The West of England, Bristol
Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS16 1QY, UK
Fax: +44 117 976 2613
Direct: +44 117 976 2529
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