Mark D. Weiser (July 23, 1952 – April 27, 1999) was a chief scientist at Xerox PARC. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988.
Weiser was born in Harvey to David W. Weiser and Audra H. Weiser. He was a descendant of Conrad Weiser. Weiser entered New College of Florida in 1970, but did not remain at that institution to graduate. He studied Computer and Communication Science at the University of...
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Mark D. Weiser (July 23, 1952 – April 27, 1999) was a chief scientist at Xerox PARC. Weiser is widely considered to be the father of ubiquitous computing, a term he coined in 1988.
Weiser was born in Harvey to David W. Weiser and Audra H. Weiser. He was a descendant of Conrad Weiser. Weiser entered New College of Florida in 1970, but did not remain at that institution to graduate. He studied Computer and Communication Science at the University of Michigan, receiving an M.A. in 1977 and a Ph.D. in 1979. He was known to comment that he bypassed the Bachelor's degree on the way to his Ph.D. He then spent eight years teaching computer science at the University of Maryland, College Park.
While Weiser worked for a variety of computer related startups, his seminal work was in the field of ubiquitous computing while leading the computer science laboratory at PARC, which he joined in 1987. His ideas were significantly influenced by his father's reading of Michael Polanyi's "The Tacit Dimension...
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