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ACM SIGMOBILE Mobile Computing and Communications Review archive
Volume 3 , Issue 3 (July 1999) table of contents
Special issue dedicated to Mark Weiser

Pages: 3 - 11

Year of Publication: 1999

ISSN:1559-1662

Author

Mark Weiser

Palo Alto Research Center, Xerox, CA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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Specialized elements of hardware and software, connected by wires, radio waves and infrared, will be so ubiquitous that no one will notice their presence.

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