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History and Overviews

Jan. 9

• Vannevar Bush. As We May Think. Atlantic Monthly, July 1945. (HTML)
  • Scribe: Ben Wong
  • Bush 45 Notes
• Mark Weiser. The Computer for the Twenty-First Century, Scientific American, pp. 94-10, September 1991. Reprinted in IEEE Pervasive Computing Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 19-25, 2002. Handed out in class.
  • Scribe: Manas Tungare
  • Weiser 91 Notes
• Mark Weiser. "Some Computer Science Problems in Ubiquitous Computing." Communications of the ACM, July 1993.
  • Scribe: Osman Ullah
  • Summary of Weiser 93
• Mark Weiser, John S. Brown. "The Coming Age of Calm Technology." 1996.
  • Scribe: Heather Mahaney
  • Summary of Weiser & Brown 96
• Scribe Summary Report for Jan 9

Jan. 14

• G. Forman, J. Zahorjan The Challenges of Mobile Computing," IEEE Computer, vol. 27, no. 4, April 1994, pp. 38-47.
  • Scribe: Lamar Gardere
  • Summary of Forman, April 1994
• M. Satyanarayanan. "Fundamental Challenges in Mobile Computing", Fifteenth ACM Symposium on Principles of Distributed Computing, May 1996.
  • Scribe: Zachary Ross
  • Summary of Satyanarayanan, May 1996
• M. Satyanarayanan, "Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges.", IEEE Personal Communications, August 2001.
  • Scribe: Matthias Gauger
  • Summary of Satyanarayanan, August 2001
• Class Discussion Summary for January 14, 2003

Jan. 16

• Roy Want, Gaetano Borriello, Trevor Pering and Keith I. Farkas. Disappearing hardware. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 36-47, January-March 2002. Handed out in class.
  • Scribe: Rahul Nair
  • Summary of Want
• Deborah Estrin, David Culler, Kris Pister and Gaurav Sukhatme. Connecting the physical world with pervasive networks. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 59-69, January-March 2002. Handed out in class.
  • Scribe: Nikitas Liogkas
  • Summary of Estrin et.al.
• Tim Kindberg and Armando Fox. System software for ubiquitous computing. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 70-81, January-March 2002. Handed out in class.
  • Scribe: Andreas Lachenmann
  • Summary of Kindberg and Fox, 2002
• Scribe Summary for Jan 16

Jan. 21

• Nigel Davies and Hans-Werner Gellersen. Beyond prototypes: Challenges in deploying ubiquitous systems. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 26-35, January-March 2002. Handed out in class.
  • Scribe:Brian Landry
  • Summary of Davies and Gellersen
• Gregory D. Abowd, Elizabeth D. Mynatt and Tom Rodden. The human experience. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Number 1, pp. 48-58, January-March 2002. Handed out in class.
  • Scribe: Meghna Krishnan
  • Summary of the Human Experience
• Anthony LaMarca, Waylon Brunette, David Koizumi, Matthew Lease, Stefan B Sigurdsson, Kevin Sikorski, Dieter Fox and Gaetano Borriello. PlantCare: An investigation in practical ubiquitous computing systems, Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, pp. 316-332, Goteborg, Sweden, Sep. 2002.
  • Scribe: Jose Zagal
  • Summary of LaMarca et. al (PlantCare)
• Summary of Class Discussion Jan 21

Sensors and Sensor Networks

Jan. 23

• relevant but non-required surfing on sensor networks
• Jason Hill, Robert Szewczyk, Alec Woo, Seth Hollar, David E. Culler, Kristofer S. J. Pister. System Architecture Directions for Networked Sensors. ASPLOS 2000., Proceedings of ASPLOS 2000
  • Scribe: Giovanni Iachello
  • Summary of Hill, et al. 2000
• Hans-W. Gellersen, Albrecht Schmidt, and Michael Beigl. Multi-Sensor Context-Awareness in Mobile Devices and Smart Artefacts.
  • Scribe: Alok Kamat
  • Summary of Gellerson, et al.
• Peter Jensen's short talk on sensors and sensing (no scribe).
• Scribe Summary for Jan 23

Jan. 28

• John Heidemann, Fabio Silva, Chalermek Intanagonwiwat,Ramesh Govindan (USC/ISI), Deborah Estrin, Deepak Ganesan (UCLA). Building Efficient Wireless Sensor Networks with Low-Level Naming. Proceedings of SOSP 2001
  • Scribe: Steven Dow
  • Summary of Heidemann, et al. 2001
• Philip Levis and David Culler. Maté: A Tiny Virtual Machine for Sensor Networks. Proceedings of ASPLOS 2002. (some tips on printing postscript files if you want to use the original mate.ps)
  • Scribe: Bugra Gedik
  • Summary of Mate
• Scribe Summary for Jan 28

Programming Idioms for Ubiquitous Computing

Jan. 30 (Project Proposals)

• short group project presentations with feedback. Some information about a subset of the available sensors and equipment available is on the Supplementary project ideas and equipment Swiki page, but you are encouraged to look beyond that too. Peter and the professors are open to email questions before class.

Feb. 4 (Application Level)

• Franco Zambonelli and Marco Mamei. The cloak of invisibility: Challenges and Applications. IEEE Pervasive Computing, Volume 1, Number 4, pp. 62-70, October-December 2002.
  • Scribe: Max Speyer
  • Summary of Zambonelli and Mamei
• Cloak Paper Summary for Feb 4

• Daniel Salber, Anind Dey and Gregory D. Abowd (1999) The Context Toolkit: Aiding the development of context-enabled applications. In the Proceedings of the 1999 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '99), Pittsburgh, PA, May 15-20, 1999. pp. 434-441. (For more information on the Context Toolkit, see this link.
  • Scribe:Xuehai Bian
  • Summary for Context Toolkit
• Hani Naguib and George Coulouris (2001) Location information management. In the Proceedings of Ubicomp 2001, Atlanta, GA.
  • Scribe:Tazama St.Julien
  • Summary of Naguib and Coulouris
• Saul Greenberg and Chester Fitchett (2001) Phidgets: Easy development of physical interfaces through physical widgets. In the Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Orlando, FL. pp. 209-218.
  • Scribe:Bessie Yang
  • Summary of Greenberg and Fitchett
• Scribe Summary for Feb4

Feb. 6 (Middleware Level - evolution from distributed programming systems)

• Sameer Adhikari, Arnab Paul, Umakishore Ramachandran. D-Stampede: Distributed Programming System for Ubiquitous Computing. In the proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2002. (For eclass presentations on the Stampede programming model and description of internals click here)
  • Scribe: Xiang Song
  • Summary of Adhikari, Paul and Ramachandran
• Christian Borcea, Deepa Iyer, Porlin Kang, Akhilesh Saxena, Liviu Iftode. Cooperative Computing for Distributed Embedded Systems . In the proc. International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), July 2002. (postscript version still available)
  • Scribe: Rajat Sharma
  • Summary of Borcea, et al. 2002
• Andrew P. Black, Jie Huang, Rainer Koster, Jonathan Walpole, Calton Pu. Infopipes: An abstraction for multimedia streaming. In Multimedia Systems, special issue on multimedia middleware, 2002 Vol. 8, No. 5, pp:406-419.
  • Scribe:Tarik Arici
  • Summary of Infopipes
• Scribe Summary for Feb. 6

Feb. 11 (How to use Georgia Tech tools)

• Gregory will coordinate presentation on context-aware programming and automated capture using toolkits developed in his group. More information can be found at the Context Toolkit GT site and at the INCA Toolkit site.
• Kishore will coordinate the presentation of how to build applications using D-Stampede. General information about using D-Stampede as well as other useful pointers can be found at ubiquitous presence web site.

Feb. 13 (Commercial tools)

• The Microsoft .NET infrastructure. We will cover basic .NET services as well as the .NET compact framework for use on a wide variety of handheld platforms. Presentations will be coordinated by Rajat Sharma and Heather Mahaney from this class.

• Place scribe summary link here.

Feb. 18 (Commercial tools - contd.)

• Sun's Jini system
• Waldo, Jim (1999) The Jini Architecture for Network-Centric Computing. Communications of the ACM Vol. 42 num. 7, July, 1999. An academic article on the Jini design and its benefits.
• Waldo, Jim. The End of Protocols. . This is a good "nutshell" article, although it's written from a development/engineering point of view.
  • Scribe: Nikitas Liogkas
  • Critical view of Jini
• Universal Plug and Play (UPnP). All folks should read this overview on UPnP. Interested students (and scribe) can look at the UPnP consortium site for more information, particularly this Powerpoint overview and this technical specification overview.
  • Scribe: Josh Cothran
  • Summary of UPnP
• Here is an interesting short article comparing Jini versus UPnP that Gregory found and wanted to share.
• Scribe Summary for Feb. 18

Feb. 20 (Middleware level - evolution from distributed database systems)

• Tobin J. Lehman, Alex Cozzi, Yuhong Xiong, Jonathan Gottschalk,Venu Vasudevan, Sean Landis, Pace Davis, Bruce Khavar, Paul Bowman. Hitting the distributed computing sweet spot with TSpaces,Computer Networks 35 (2001) 457-472.
  • Scribe: Giovanni Iachello
  • TSpaces Summary
• Eric Freeman and Susanne Hupfer. Make Room for JavaSpaces, Part 1. Online article that summarizes the distributed computing model underlying this Java/Jini technology, 1999. (If the link is broken, paste the entire URL into Google and use their cache of it.)
  • Scribe: Manas Tungare
  • Summary of JavaSpaces
• Samuel Madden, Michael J. Franklin, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Wei Hong. TAG: a Tiny AGgregation Service for Ad-Hoc Sensor Networks, 5th Annual Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI), December, 2002.
  • Scribe: Matthias Gauger
  • Summary of TAG
• Scribe summary for Feb 20

Evaluation of Technology and Interaction Experience

Feb. 25

• W. Keith Edwards, Victoria Bellotti, Anind K. Dey and Mark W. Newman. Stuck in the Middle: The Challenges of User-Centered Design and Evaluation for Infrastructure. In Proceedings of CHI 2003, April 2003. To appear.
  • Scribe: Steven Dow
  • Summary of Edwards, et al. 2002
• Scribe summary for Feb 25

• Background research page on the Swiki is due for the project (see project details)

Feb. 27

• Sunny Consolvo, Larry Arnstein, B. Robert Franza. User Study Techniques in the Design and Evaluation of a Ubicomp Environment. In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, Goteborg, Sweden, September-October 2002.
  • Scribe:Alok Kamat
  • Summary of User Study Techniques
• Jason A. Brotherton and Gregory D. Abowd. Lessons learned from eClass: Assessing automated capture and access in the classroom. Provisionally accepted for publication in ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction. January 2003.
  • Scribe:
• Scribe Summary for Feb 27

Peer-to-Peer Computing

Mar. 11

• Dejan S. Milojicic, Vana Kalogeraki, Rajan Lukose, Kiran Nagaraja, Jim Pruyne, Bruno Richard, Sami Rollins, Zhichen Xu. Peer-to-Peer Computing. HP Laboratories Palo Alto; HPL-2002-57.
  • This paper is 46 pages (52 with references). Thus, scribing will be split between three people who will each cover specific sections of the paper.
  • Scribe:Andreas Lachenmann (Sections 1-3)
  • Scribe:Bugra Gedik (Sections 4-5)
  • Scribe:Rajat Sharma (Sections 6-8)
  • Summary of Peer to Peer Computing
• Class Discussion Summary for March 11, 2003

Mar. 13

• Yan Chen, Randy H. Katz, and John D. Kubatowicz. SCAN: A Dynamic, Scalable,and Efficient Content Distribution Network, Appears in Proceedings of theInternational Conference on Pervasive Computing, August 2002.
  • Scribe: Zachary Ross
  • Summary of SCAN
• Ian Clarke, Theodore W. Hong, Scott G. Miller, Oskar Sandberg, and Brandon Wiley, "Protecting Free Expression Online with Freenet", IEEE Internet Computing 6(1), 40-49 (2002).
  • Scribe: Manas Tungare
  • Summary of Freenet
• Lakshmish Ramaswamy and Ling Liu. "FreeRiding: A New Challenge for Peer-to-Peer File Sharing Systems". Technical Report GIT-CC-02-09, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2002.
  • Scribe: Lamar Gardere
  • Summary of Free Riding
• Class Discussion Summary for March 13, 2003
• Mid-term exam available online
• Place scribe summary link here.

Wireless Technologies

Mar. 18 (RF ID)

• R. Want, K. Fishkin, A. Gujar and B. Harrison. Bridging physical and virtual worlds with electronic tags. In Proceedings of CHI'99, Pittsburgh, PA, pp. 370-377.
• A. Schmidt, H. Gellersen and C. Merz. Enabling implicit human computer interaction:A wearable RFID-tag reader. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC 2000), pp. 193-194.
  • Scribe Rahul Nair
  • Summary of Want et al. and Schmidt et al.
  • Class discussion
• A tutorial presentation on RF ID technology, presented by Gregory Abowd in class
• Note: Midterm exams are due at the beginning of class time.

Mar. 20

• Project status report presentations + mini-demos (see project info)

Mar. 25 (Cellular telephony or Wireless Wide Area Networks)

• Bill N. Schilit, David M. Hilbert and Jonathan Trevor. Context-aware communication. IEEE Wireless, special issue on context-aware computing. October 2002, pp. 46-54.
  • Scribe Heather Mahaney

• A tutorial presentation on cellular telephony technology, presented by Gregory Abowd in class

• Place scribe summary link here.

Mar. 27 (Wireless Personal Area Networks)

• Stuart Williams. IrDA: Past, Present and Future. IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 11-19, February 2000.
  • Scribe: Brian Landry
  • IrDA Summary
• Jaap C. Haartsen. The Bluetooth radio system, Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 28-36, February 2000.
  • Scribe: Bessie Yang
  • Scribe summary
• Olin Shivers. BodyTalk and the BodyNet: A personal information infrastructure. MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, December 1993.
  • Scribe

• Scribe Summary for March 27

Apr. 1 (Applications of WPANs)

• Roy Want, Trevor Pering, Gunner Danneels, Muthu Kumar, Murali Sundar, and John Light. The Personal Server: Changing the way we think about ubiquitous computing. In Proceedings of Ubicomp 2002, Springer LNCS 2498, pp. 194-209, Goteborg, Sweden, October 2002.
  • Scribe Xuehai Bian
  • Summary of Personal server
• Kenneth Fishkin, Kurt Partridge and Saurav Chatterjee. Wireless user interface components for personal area networks. IEEE Pervasive Computing, special issue on wearable computing, Vol. 1, Issue 4. pp 49-55, October-December 2002.
  • Scribe: Osman Ullah
  • Summary of Fishkin

• Scribe Summary for April 1

Apr. 3

• Dr. Krishan Sabnani, Networking Research Vice President, Bell Labs, NJ,USA.The Future Mobile Internet - A Network for all Generations, (PPT),(Postscript). Georgia Tech School of ECE Distinguished Lecture Series, January 11, 2002. (This is for your information only, not for class discussion.)

• J. M. Kahn, R. H. Katz, K. S. J. Pister. Next century challenges: mobile networking for "Smart Dust". MobiCom 1999, pp. 271-278.
  • Scribe: Andreas Lachenmann
  • Summary of Smart Dust
• Josh Broch, David A. Maltz, David B. Johnson, Yih-Chun Hu, Jorjeta Jetcheva. A Performance Comparison of Multi-Hop Wireless Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols. Mobile Computing and Networking, 1998.
  • Scribe: Matthias Gauger
  • Summary of Ad Hoc Network Routing Protocols

• Scribe Summary for April 3

Apr. 8 (no class meeting; work on projects)

Apr. 10 (project status discussion in class)

• information on project presentations and final reports

Apr. 15 (Privacy and ubicomp)

• Marc Langheinrich: Privacy by Design - Principles of Privacy-Aware Ubiquitous Systems (read this paper), In: Proceedings of Ubicomp 2001, September 30 - October 2, 2001, Atlanta, GA.
  • Scribe Tazama St.Julien
  • Summary of Privacy by Design

• Place scribe summary link here.

Apr. 17

• Supreme court decision on Kyllo vs. US on sensing and the 4th ammendment.
  • Scribe Xiang Song
  • Summary of Kyllo vs. United States
• For reference, see also the Abowd/Jacobs 600 word article, "A search is a search is a ... The impact of awareness technologies on privacy litigation".
• Xiaodong Jiang, Jason I. Hong, and James A. Landay: Approximate Information Flows: Socially-Based Modeling of Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing (16 pages of text), In: Proceedings of UbiComp 2002, LNCS 2498, pp. 176-193, Göteborg, Sweden.
  • ScribeTarik Arici
  • Summary of AIF
• Simson Garfinkel: Adopting Fair Information Practices to Low Cost RFID Systems (6 pages), In: Ubiquitous Computing 2002 Privacy Workshop.
  • ScribeMeghna Krishnan
  • Summary of Simson Garfinkel paper
• More information on stuff discussed on April 17

• Scribe Summary of Apr. 17

Apr. 22

Apr. 24