Connected Computing

While many computers have become small enough to disappear, computing has continued to be a very visible or explicit task for a large number of computer users. Computing platforms and the World Wide Web are undergoing significant architectural transitions driven by the unprecedented convergence of the need to process massive amounts of data with the availability of massive amounts of compute resources. This has the potential to enable a new class of connected computing applications. The service-oriented focus and real-time nature of these emerging applications make computing more implicit and capable of delivering a significantly more immersive experience to a broader class of end-users. This talk explores the platform implications of this trend.