Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratorySRC / 87-DP-109NASA / NAG 1-61

Mel, Bartlett W.

Omohundro, Stephen M.

Robison, Arch D.

Skiena, Steven S.

Thearling, Kurt H.

Wolfram, Stephen

Young, Luke T.

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TABLET: The Personal Computer of the Year 2000

The University of Illinois design of the TABLET portable computer extends the freedom of pen and notepad with a machine that draws on the projected power of 21st century technology. Without assuming any new, major technological breakthroughs, it seeks to balance the promises of today's growing technologies with the changing role of computers in tomorrow's education, research, security, and commerce. It seeks to gather together in one basket the matured fruits of such buzzword technologies as LCD, GPS, CCD, WSI, and DSP. The design is simple, yet sleek. Roughly the size and weight of a notebook, the machine is a dark, featureless monolith with no moving parts. Through magneto-optics, a simple LaserCard provides exchangeable, mass data storage. Its I/O surface, in concert with built-in infrared and cellular transceivers, puts the user in touch with anyone and anything. The ensemble of these components, directed by software that can transform it into anything from a keyboard or notepad to an office or video studio, suggests an instrument of tremendous power and freedom

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