1. “Pervasive computing: a paradigm for the 21st century” — Debashis Saha
The project aims to design, implement, deploy, and evaluate a large-scale computing system demonstrating a “personal information aura” that spans wearable, handheld, destop, and infrastructure computers.
Aura is a large umbrella project with many individual research thrusts. Darwin is a intelligent network at Aura’s core. Coda is a distributed file management system that supports nomadic file access, and Odyssey provides OS support for resource adaptation.
Theses products and others are evolving within the Aura project, which empahsizes pervasive middleware and application design.
