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Saturday, June 16, 2001
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/06/13/technology/13MARKBX.html June 13, 2001 Computers Here, There, Everywhere By JOHN MARKOFF WHILE I.B.M., Microsoft and Sun Microsystems are seeking to transform the Internet, academic researchers are undertaking more fundamental design projects that are closer to the view of transparent software and Xerox's pervasive computing. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Laboratory for Computer Sciences, researchers have dubbed their project Oxygen in reference to the idea that the network resource should be as ubiquitous as the air people breathe. The shortcoming of commercial industry efforts is that they are focusing on the thechnology instead of the user, said Michael L. Dertouzos, the director of the M.I.T. laboratory....
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