Ubiquitous Computing for Business Innovation

by Bo Begole

Overview

This Element is an excerpt from Ubiquitous Computing for Business: Find New Markets, Create Better Businesses, and Reach Customers Around The World 24-7-365 (9780137064434) by Bo Begole. Available in print and digital formats.

 

Finding breakthrough opportunities to add value in a world where computing is already ubiquitous.

 

Computing has always been about creating results for human use, but in the past, the primary bottlenecks were technical. Today, the bottlenecks are primarily human: cognitive limitations of users, legal and policy constraints on data access, and the economic objectives of businesses. Today’s ground-breaking inventions require deeper knowledge of human, social, business, and political problems....

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780132724661
Publisher:	Pearson Education
Publication date:	02/28/2011
Series:	FT Press Delivers Elements
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	20
File size:	466 KB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Bo Begole is Principal Scientist at the Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), the famed innovation center credited with inventing laser printing, Ethernet, graphical user interfaces, and the laptop. He currently manages PARC’s Ubiquitous Computing Area, a computer science team that invents and commercializes novel Ubicomp technologies. Previously, he worked at Sun Microsystems Laboratories creating systems to facilitate global collaboration and sensor networks. Begole has chaired committees crossing the fields of Human-Computer Interaction and Computer Supported Cooperative Work; and served on committees in Ubiquitous Computing, Intelligent User Interfaces, User Interface Software and Technology, and Pervasive Computing.