Many of you have asked about attending my defense this Friday, so I'm
sending out this email to try to get a feeling about how many people want
to attend (so I know how large of a room to schedule). It is currently
scheduled for:
Date: May 23 (Friday)
Time: 1:30pm
Location: GVU Conference Room.
If enough people want to show up, we may have to rethink the room...
If you want to come, and haven't already spoke to me about it, let me
know ASAP. Here is a description of what I'll be talking about....
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Ubiquitous Computing: Extending access to mobile data
We live in a world where fully featured mobile devices (PDA's, etc) are
gaining wider acceptance and usage. As mroe and more information is
collected and stored on these devices, there becomes a greater need for
both users and developers to be able to easily access and work with this
information, either from desktop machines or from mobile devices. Current
solutions to this problem are either cumbersome for users or restrictive
to developers.
There are two goals of this work:
1) Provide an infrastructure and real-world applications for integrating
mobile information into a desktop environment. This integration should be
seamless, requiring minimal deviation from how users currently interact
with their desktop machines
2) Allow the mobile devices themselves to collaborate and share
information with others. Each device will be a first-class client in the
system, not just a passive information repository.
-- Mike Pinkerton mpinkert@cc.gatech.edu http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~mpinkertCyberdog: On the Internet, no one knows you're an OpenDoc part