Thomas Kunz
Systems and Computer Engineering
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Why Worry about Mobility?
nwireless communication and powerful portable devices lead to new computing paradigms:
–mobile
computing
–ubiquitous
computing
–nomadic
computing
nat the same time, the Internet and in particular the
Web, are growing
exponentially
–timely news
(and lots of it), user-friendly(?), lots of pretty pictures (70%-80% of Internet traffic is WWW traffic)
–the
“Information Superhighway” is where people want to be
–certainly
strong support by national governments to build and maintain this infrastructure
–mobile
computing seen as “on-ramp” to this infrastructure