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Third IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'00)
People, places, things: Web presence for the real world
Monterey, California
December 07-December 08
ISBN: 0-7695-0816-2
T. Kindberg, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
J. Barton, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
J. Morgan, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
G. Becker, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
D. Caswell, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
P. Debaty, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
G. Gopal, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
M. Frid, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
V. Krishnan, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
H. Morris, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
J. Schettino, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
B. Serra, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
M. Spasojevic, Lab. of Internet & Mobile Syst., Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
The convergence of Web technology, wireless networks, and portable client devices provides new design opportunities for computer/communications systems. In the HP Labs' Cooltown project we have been exploring these opportunities through an infrastructure to support Web presence for people, places and things. We put Web servers into things like printers and put information into Web servers about things like artwork; we group physically related things into places embodied in Web servers. Using URLs for addressing, physical URL beaconing and sensing of URLs for discovery, and localized Web servers for directories, we can create a location-aware but ubiquitous system to support nomadic users. On top of this infrastructure we can leverage Internet connectivity to support communications services. Web presence bridges the World Wide Web and the physical world we inhabit, providing a model for supporting nomadic users without a central control point.
Index Terms:
Internet; information resources; wireless LAN; file servers; mobile computing; Web presence; wireless networks; portable client devices; HP Labs; Cooltown project; Web servers; URL; location-aware system; ubiquitous system; nomadic users; Internet; World Wide Web
Citation:
T. Kindberg, J. Barton, J. Morgan, G. Becker, D. Caswell, P. Debaty, G. Gopal, M. Frid, V. Krishnan, H. Morris, J. Schettino, B. Serra, M. Spasojevic, "People, places, things: Web presence for the real world," wmcsa, pp.19, Third IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'00), 2000
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