Abstract

Gaetano Borriello of the University of Washington and Roy Want of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center point out these applications are closer to realization than even an educated observer might imagine. Industry consortia, such as Bluetooth and HomeRF, are already designing standards for wireless networks of embedded devices. Durable and accurate microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based sensors have been added to automobiles in recent years. Software vendors are advancing naming and directory service standards for networks of embedded computers. The Web already provides a standard interface that can be leveraged to integrate data harvested from these embedded systems.
Such applications, writes David Tennenhouse, chief scientist of Intel Corp. and former director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s Information Technology Office, will get us to the human/machine …

Date

2000

Authors

Deborah Estrin, Ramesh Govindan, John Heidemann

Journal

Communications of the ACM

Volume

43

Issue

5

Pages

38-41

Publisher

ACM