Microsoft Research architect Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and visual computing, is starting a new lab in San Francisco dedicated to developing new kinds of computation, based on tactile and motor experiences.
Although no single device will always satisfy everybody, these new products go a long way toward making the promise of wireless computing a reality.
Researchers have begun prototyping a pair of tighty-whiteys coated with the requisite carbon electrodes to make electrochemical computing a reality, as it turns out the nether regions are a prime place to measure chemicals excreted in one's sweat.
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Yet despite its immense capabilities, practical quantum computing is still a long way from reality, says Steven Koonin, provost at Caltech and a quantum-computing researcher.
From augmented reality to constant texting to ubiquitous computing and smart-devices we live in a culture already re-made.
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One area where mobile and cloud computing converge is augmented reality, which allows computer-generated content to be superimposed over a live camera view of the real world.
Gates over the years has won at least 30 patents, including recent ones in areas as diverse as cloud-computing architecture and virtual-reality entertainment.
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Besides studying the fundamental nature of reality, the laboratory is also a huge computing centre.
The difference now, according to Eden, is that there is now enough computing power to make it a reality.
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But with Mac OS X now a full-blown reality, two chips can accomplish a lot of computing work.
While it is tempting to project that IT evolutions, like the move to cloud computing, are massive and singular, the reality is much more nuanced.
They will ensure their place on mobile computing wich until now was very distant from reality for MS. That means a whole highway for MS to go by after almost getting stuck on pc systems and having not much succes on other atempts like Zune, Live, Bing, MySpace except for Xbox.
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Social computing is about taking the metaphor, modelling the reality, and moving faster.
The tablet PC, which Brass calls the "continuous Holy Grail of computing, " will also become more of a reality once immersive reading technologies such as ClearType take off.
Fast-forward to 2012 and that dream is closer to reality thanks to ongoing advances at the nexus of high-performance computing and genomics research.
Various technologies such as augmented reality, multi-modal interactions, gesture based interfaces, surface computing etc. are means to achieve immersive interaction experiences for end customers.
Lord Sugar, who founded the Amstrad computing business and is now best known for his Apprentice reality TV programme, is guest editing the Radio Times.
Yet for the vision to become reality, something is still missing: a set of tools to manage all these computing resources an operating system for the data centre, if you will.
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