Pervasive Computing Initiative

The Cambridge-MIT Institute (CMI) has launched its Pervasive Computing Community. "For too long, computers have purported to serve us while in fact, requiring us to serve them. We have pampered them with air-conditioned rooms; learnt their language, in order to talk to them; and been required to manipulate them with awkward tools like keyboard or mouse.....This Community is aiming to bring together an unusually wide range of participants, including academic researchers, students, industrial partners and other organisations to explore some of the major challenges that stand between us, and a networked wireless world where hundreds of miniaturised computers are at our beck and call all around us."