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Ambient Intelligence: literature

The New Everyday

Ambient intelligence…what is it exactly? What benefits will it bring us? Does it matter what we want? What is the status of the technology in 2003? What can Ambient Intelligence offer industry? How will it impact the work of researchers, development engineers, designers & marketeers?

Embedding it invisibly in clothes, furniture, cars, walls, window panes, mirrors and much more… Linking current and new functions in smart networks yielding a new synergy… Recognizing the individual user and reacting to their preferences, tastes and gestures…

’The New Everyday’, a co-production from Philips Research and Philips Design, backs up these claims in words and images and details 24 specific Ambient Intelligence projects at Philips.

To order 'The New Everyday' (ISBN 90-6450-502-0), 352 lavishly illustrated pages packed with information, see:

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On the seamless integration of technology into everyday life

Edited by Peter J. Denning comes a book called 'The Invisible Future'. 18 Contributions provide an answer to the question 'How will technology shape the way human and machines interact?'. Rodney Brooks (Director, MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory), the late Michael Dertouzos (Director, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science)provide their answers. The Philips contribution to this book is on the topic of 'ambient intelligence'.

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The first multimedia experience. By Philips.

At the Brussels World Fair of 1958, the first one after World War II, nearly two million people experienced a dazzling demonstration of then cutting-edge technologies. In a Pavilion designed by Le Corbusier, listening to a musical experience composed by Edgard Varese, they were invited to interpret a statement on the harmony between human values and technology. According to Mark Treib (professor at the department of architecture, University of California) "...the Philips project (...) can be viewed as a pioneering quest into the production of modern art, or even as a prototype of virtual reality". After the World Expo the Pavilion was deconstructed, only to be brought back in the study Treib made of it.

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