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5 COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS UNCHAINED: THE VIRTUAL WORLD
5 COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATIONS UNCHAINED: THE VIRTUAL WORLD
Pages 36-46
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When I go on the road, I usually travel with a laptop computer, pager, cellular telephone, and personal digital assistant (PDA)
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Most vendors are putting out products that work in little niche markets and do not intemperate. I think that former Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB)
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Do not take your laptop to airports unless you watch where it goes. Nomadicity exacerbates several concerns: disconnectedness; variable connectivity, either because the world does it for you or because you choose to move and use some other communications medium; latency, which varies significantly; variable routes in virtual circuits as you move around; variable requirements that you put on the system what you expect and need; replication of resources such as files machines.
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Reprinted from Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, National Research Council.
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Consider adaptive agents (Figure 5.3J. The classic assumption is that there is a big fat network between client and server.
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This was the first I had heard of two 1.2-gigabyte hard drives in a laptop, which is serious mobile computing. So I started to think that the vision I have of the virtual world will be well received.
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The last time I looked, the federal government was spending about $40 billion a year to maintain the highway system. Office buildings cost money and isolate workers from their customers.
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First, the technology is making it possible. I had the pleasure of being at the Geneva Telecom Conference when Intel's president and chief executive officer, Andrew Grove, presented the process of global telecommuting and global networking children tat ng to children around the world (today's version of pen pals in a global village)
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We have some early data related to the work of our software teams. In Fagen method software reviews, we analyze the software for potential errors before we actually write it.
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ROBERT BONOMETTI: A few weeks ago, the Federal Communications Commission had what I think is going to become a historical notice of proposed rulemaking whereby it proposes to take 350 megahertz of spectrum and allocate it for a so-called national information infrastructure band or a supernet band or a hyperband, depending on whose buzzword you like. What are your thoughts as far as how this may be a critically important enabler for nomadic types of computing?
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I mentioned foreign language, the one you selected as a problem. Sure, translators will help, but they are a long way off.
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