1. “Pervasive computing: a paradigm for the 21st century” — Debashis Saha
The project seeks to create a testbed for investigating pervasive computing. The project emphasizes invisible, intent-based computing, which infers users’ intentions via thier actions in the environment and their interactions with everyday objects.
Project devices are highly optimized to particular tasks so that they blend into the world and require little technical knowledge on the users’ part. Portolano proposes an infrastructure based on mobile agents that interact with applications and users. Data-centric routing automatically migrates data among applications on the user’s behalf. Data thus becomes “smart”, and serves as an interaction mechanism within the environment.
