History

Mark Weiser coined the byword "ubiquitous computing" about 1988, during his administration as Chief Technologist of the Xerox Palo Alto Analysis Center (PARC). Both abandoned and with PARC Director and Chief Scientist John Seely Brown, Weiser wrote some of the ancient affidavit on the subject, abundantly defining it and abstraction out its above concerns.678

Recognizing that the addendum of processing ability into accustomed scenarios would necessitate understandings of social, cultural and cerebral phenomena above its able ambit, Weiser was afflicted by abounding fields alfresco computer science, including "philosophy, phenomenology, anthropology, psychology, post-Modernism, folklore of science and feminist criticism." He was absolute about "the humanistic origins of the ‘invisible ideal in post-modernist thought'",8 referencing as able-bodied the ironically dystopian Philip K. Dick atypical Ubik.

Dr. Ken Sakamura of University of Tokyo, Japan leads the Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory (UNL), Tokyo as able-bodied as the T-Engine Forum. The collective ambition of Sakamura's Ubiquitous Networking blueprint and the T-Engine forum, is to accredit any accustomed accessory to advertisement and accept information.910

MIT has aswell contributed cogent analysis in this field, conspicuously Things That Think bunch (directed by Hiroshi Ishii, Joseph A. Paradiso and Rosalind Picard) at the Media Lab11 and the CSAIL accomplishment accepted as Project Oxygen.12 Other above contributors cover Georgia Tech's College of Computing, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, UC Irvine's Department of Informatics, Microsoft Research, Intel Analysis and Equator,13 Ajou University UCRi & CUS