Editing Ubiquitous computing (section)

== Recognizing the effects of extending processing power ==
Recognizing that the extension of processing power into everyday scenarios would necessitate understandings of social, cultural and psychological phenomena beyond its proper ambit, Weiser was influenced by many fields outside computer science, including "[[philosophy]], [[Phenomenology (philosophy)|phenomenology]], [[anthropology]], [[psychology]], [[post-Modernism]], [[sociology of science]] and [[feminist criticism]]". He was explicit about "the humanistic origins of the 'invisible ideal in post-modernist thought'",<ref name="Weiser96" /> referencing as well the ironically [[dystopia]]n [[Philip K. Dick]] novel ''[[Ubik]]''.

[[Andy Hopper]] from Cambridge University UK proposed and demonstrated the concept of "Teleporting" – where applications follow the user wherever he/she moves.

Roy Want, while a researcher and student working under Andy Hopper at Cambridge University, worked on the "Active Badge System", which is an advanced location computing system where personal mobility that is merged with computing.

Bill Schilit (now at Google) also did some earlier work in this topic, and participated in the early Mobile Computing workshop held in Santa Cruz in 1996.

[[Ken Sakamura]] of the [[University of Tokyo]], [[Japan]] leads the Ubiquitous Networking Laboratory (UNL), [[Tokyo]] as well as the [[T-Engine Forum]]. The joint goal of Sakamura's Ubiquitous Networking specification and the T-Engine forum, is to enable any everyday device to broadcast and receive information.<ref>{{Cite journal|journal=IEEE Pervasive Computing |volume=4 |issue=2 |pages=4–9 |doi=10.1109/MPRV.2005.40 |year=2005 |last1=Krikke |first1=J|title=T-Engine: Japan's ubiquitous computing architecture is ready for prime time |s2cid=11365911 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.t-engine.org/forum-guide/t-engine-summary |title=T-Engine Forum Summary |publisher=T-engine.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181021030140/http://www.t-engine.org/forum-guide/t-engine-summary |archive-date=21 October 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=25 August 2011 }}</ref>

[[MIT]] has also contributed significant research in this field, notably ''Things That Think'' consortium (directed by [[Hiroshi Ishii (computer scientist)|Hiroshi Ishii]], [[Joseph A. Paradiso]] and [[Rosalind Picard]]) at the [[MIT Media Lab|Media Lab]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ttt.media.mit.edu/|title=MIT Media Lab – Things That Think Consortium|publisher=[[MIT]]|access-date=2007-11-03|archive-date=2021-04-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210424101530/http://ttt.media.mit.edu/|url-status=live}}</ref> and the CSAIL effort known as [[Project Oxygen]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://oxygen.csail.mit.edu/Overview.html|title=MIT Project Oxygen: Overview|publisher=[[MIT]]|access-date=2007-11-03|archive-date=2007-07-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070706065202/http://oxygen.csail.mit.edu/Overview.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Other major contributors include [[University of Washington]]'s Ubicomp Lab (directed by [[Shwetak Patel]]), [[Dartmouth College]]'s DartNets Lab, [[Georgia Institute of Technology|Georgia Tech]]'s [[Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing|College of Computing]], [[Cornell University]]'s People Aware Computing Lab, [[New York University|NYU]]'s [[NYU Interactive Telecommunications Program|Interactive Telecommunications Program]], [[UC Irvine]]'s Department of Informatics, [[Microsoft Research]], [[Intel Research]] and Equator,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/equator/ |title=Equator |publisher=[[University College London|UCL]] |access-date=2009-11-19 |archive-date=2010-04-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100410204542/http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/research/equator/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Ajou University UCRi & CUS.<ref>{{cite web|title=Center of excellence for Ubiquitous System |url=http://www.cuslab.com |publisher=CUS |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002014124/http://www.cuslab.com/ |archive-date=2 October 2011 |language=ko}}</ref>