- Paperback: 384 pages
- Publisher: Addison Wesley; 1 edition (4 Dec 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0201730634
- ISBN-13: 978-0201730630
- Product Dimensions: 23.5 x 18.7 x 1.9 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,159,033 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"If you buy one book on the intelligent Internet, this should be it." - Minerva Tantoco-Hobbs, Director of Advanced Technology & Media Lab, Answerthink"This book runs guns to the revolutionaries, detailing all the technologies, all the candidate protocols, and all the challenges to be met along the way to build the intelligent wireless Web." - Michael Swaine, Editor-at-Large, Dr. Dobb's Journal."The authors ... achieve a breakthrough in the difficult process of turning high level science into cutting edge ideas. Add in the value of their insights ... and it's clear ... this is the compass of the destiny of the technology. If you are in wireless computing, you need this book." - Andrew Allentuck, www.Globetechnology.com.
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The Web is becoming smarter. Tomorrow's Intelligent Web won't just pass raw information between people through search engines and browsers: it will become a packager of knowledge. It will recognize our speech. And it will lose its dependence on wires, becoming ever more useful as it delivers knowledge to anyone, anytime, anywhere. While progress is being made in wireless mobile devices, speech recognition, and intelligent software, the Intelligent Wireless Web will require the integration of all these advances, and more. This book reveals the "big picture," showing how all these disparate technologies will cooperate, where they conflict, and what it will take for professionals to design and build the next-generation Intelligent Web. The authors show how user interfaces will evolve from click to speech; preview next-generation wireless personal area networks; explain how networks will evolve to an integrated wired/wireless infrastructure; cover next-generation mobile IP protocols; review AI improvements that are making the Web far smarter; and show how the Web's architecture is moving from "dumb and static" to "intelligent and dynamic." For all product designers, engineers, software developers, and other technical innovators.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book integrates a wide variety of overlapping technologies and makes for an exciting glimpse into the potential future. It provides a strong argument for a combination of ubiquitous broadband delivery, innocuous interfaces and intelligent services. It offers some new avenues of thought and time projections for different aspects of competing technologies. The partitioning of the book into three parts; people-to-devices, devices-to-devices, and devices-to-people was very helpful. It offered a list of provocative questions early and set out to answer them in a convincing manner.
The book discussed each technology area (user interfaces, wireless devices and intelligent applications) by assuming the reader had a general technology background. Then the book gradually presented more advanced technical details. The construction allowed me to sidestep areas of lesser interest and quickly move to other topics. The integration and synergy issues were well discussed and presented.
This book is useful for business and technology strategists because it details the relevant and hard to get information about the emerging wireless technology. With intelligent applications, the book goes further to sensibly describe my favorite parts - the challenges and opportunities of each technology.
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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The scope of this book is exciting to anyone who has been struggling to tie the emerging worlds of Semantic Web, Web services and WiFi etc together.
I was therefore unusually keen to get hold of it.
I was therefore unusually keen to get hold of it.
Unfortunately I found it a bit dissapointing. It's well written with an easy going style but is like one of those briefing papers that journalists write in IT magazines. All the hype, all the questions, all the buzzwords but very little attempt to really tackle the underlying issues or come up with any answers.
Furthermore some of the juxtapositions seemed odd such as the comparison of Jini v Bluetooth which seems a bit like apples v oranges.
The book may appeal to management types who wish to know what the acronyms all mean but if you are looking for any deeper level of enlightenment then perhaps you should look elsewhere. I guess next time an author says it's a 'high level overview' I should believe them!
2 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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A very well written and easy to understand book.
The author sets the scene in the year 8000 BC with the agricultural revolution and places the wireless phenomenon firmly in the middle of the information revolution some 10,000 years later !
The book gives a "Gestalt" or bigger picture, of all the technologies that make up the components of the mobile internet, placing them neatly in context and creating a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts.
This work is a MUST read for anyone involved in the 3G Wireless / Mobile Internet business and as the internet moves towards a converged, pervasive, and anywhere medium, would greatly enlighten anyone who wants a glimpse of the future of technology in general
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