What will information terminals look like in the 21st century? We believe they will require three important features: mobility, intelligence, and diversity. With the Internet, a large number of our daily activities will take place on information terminals. Mobility increases their convenience; for instance, wherever we are, we bring global currency with electronic commerce, and whenever we want...

What will information terminals look like in the 21st century? We believe they will require three important features: mobility, intelligence, and diversity. With the Internet, a large number of our daily activities will take place on information terminals. Mobility increases their convenience; for instance, wherever we are, we bring global currency with electronic commerce, and whenever we want...

The PARCTAB infrared network provides a flexible infrastructure for research into wireless mobile computing. The network consists of a collection of room-sized cells each wired with a base station transceiver. Mobile computers communicate with transceivers through a carrier sense multiple access (CSMA) protocol and act as terminals for applications executing on remote hosts. Each mobile compute...

In the mid-1960s, a group of scientists at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, led by Cyrus Levinthal, took hold of one of the early interactive graphics terminals and used it to visualize, study and model the structure of proteins and nucleic acids. From this encounter between cutting-edge computer technology and molecular biology emerged the crucial elements for the development of a resear...

Keep an eye out for eye fatigue symptoms Computer-related vision symptoms such as eye fatigue have some common causes that should not be ignored. Visual display Terminals (VDTs) cause symptoms such as eyestrain, visual discomfort, and visual fatigue (Murata et al., 1996). Detecting the likely diagnosis and treating the cause can result in improving performance of the user and lowering the risk ...

experimental economics, continuous double auction, equilibration, market dynamics, price stability We present results from four experiments in which a simple continuous double auction market is operated on a network of computer terminals. Our experiments are based on those reported by Smith & Williams in a 1983 paper, but with one significant procedural difference: unlike in other experimental ...