Portolano: An Expedition into Invisible Computing

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The Portolano project seeks to create a testbed for investigation into the emerging field of invisible computing. Invisible computing is a term invented by Donald Norman to describe the coming age of ubiquitous task-specific computing devices. The devices are so highly optimized to particular tasks that they blend into the world and require little technical knowledge on the part of their users. Portolano project team at UW-CSE: Tom Anderson, faculty Larry Arnstein, research faculty Gaetano Borriello, faculty Robert Grimm, graduate research assistant Jeffrey Hightower, graduate research assistant Sushant Jain, graduate research assistant Jong Hee Kang, graduate research assistant Si Katara, undergraduate research assistant Mari Ostendorf, faculty (UW-EE) Kurt Partridge, graduate research assistant Matthew Rosencrantz, undergraduate research assistant Vibha Sazawal, graduate research assistant Stefan Sigurdsson, graduate research assistant Jing Su, undergraduate research assistant Liang Sun, graduate research assistant Marc Templin, undergraduate research assistant Roy Want, Intel Corporation David Wetherall, faculty Past members of the team: Mike Esler, graduate research assistant Karlen Lie, undergraduate research assistant Dan Lloyd, graduate research assistant Adam Macbeth, graduate research assistant Aafreen Siddiqui, undergraduate research assistant Olga Veselova, undergraduate research assistant Chris Vakili, undergraduate research assistant Dave Barry on why we need invisible computing and fast! Portolano charts are the seacoast charts created by Portuguese sailors of the 14th and 15th centuries. They were fundamental to the Age of Discovery initiated by Portugal's Prince Henry the Navigator that led to the European discovery of the African coast and the New World. Copyright © 2002, University of Washington.

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