'Invisible' Computing

Computer scientists and electrical engineers from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), have joined a consortium of mostly European scientists setting out to network together the billions of electronic devices in everyday use.
The Reconfigurable Ubiquitous Networked Embedded Systems (RUNES) project aims to expand and simplify existing and future networks of devices and embedded systems. Between now and April 2007 when the project is slated to end, it will create a standardized computing infrastructure that can adjust itself to different environments and different demands placed on it.