Here, There, Everywhere.

AV Video Multimedia Producer, May, 2001 by MAGEL, MARK

Smart video, the paranoid's nightmare, is a producer's dream

The notion of smart or ubiquitous computing, which refers to the concept of distributing task-specific computing devices, was first introduced 10 years ago by Mark Weiser at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center. Unlike the mainframe computer model, which connects many people to one computer-or the desktop model, which connects one person to one computer-UbiComp, as Weiser called it, connects one person to many networked computers. Weiser's colleague at PARC, Bill Buxton (now the chief scientist at Alias/Wavefront), later ...