Computer science differs from physics - it does not study natural objects. Neither is it mathematics - it does use mathematical reasoning. Rather, computer science is like engineering - getting something to do something (paraphrased)
Early this week, during a lecture at Guelph by Dr. Denko, I was introduced to the idea of ubiquitous computing. The idea was coined in the 1980's by Mark Weiser at the Xerox Parc Lab. An extremely simplified definition of ubiquitous computing on...