From Government Computer News:
It’s a sign of having arrived when a new technology gets its own academic discipline. It happened more than 25 years ago for computer science. And some schools launched certificate programs in geospatial studies a couple of years ago.
Now Carnegie Mellon University is launching a new Mobility Research Center at its Silicon Valley site that will be a locus of research and teaching focused on mobile computing.
“There are billions of cell phone users all around the world, and their introduction to the use of computation and the Internet is going to be through use of this handheld platform, not through their desktop or laptop computers,” James Morris, professor of computer science and dean of Carnegie Mellon West, told GCN.
“The United States needs to have that perspective as we look at a global market for computing devices on the Internet.”
The multidisciplinary program will focus on context-aware applications and services, serendipitous collaboration and rich semantic information to enable novel data and media management, visualization and access.
“We have probably 30 faculty members who work in various areas — anything from antenna design [to] anthropology and psychology — and we’re getting a lot of these people together into teams to perform research to look at the way people are going to use mobile devices in the future,” Morris said.
Link: Mobile computing gets academic,via ACM TechNews.
CMU page: CyLab Mobility Research Center.
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