Many of you saw the video on our website featuring executives from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Texas Instruments talking about the importance of Sentilla's software. We featured Rod Smith, IBM's VP of Emerging Technologies and an IBM Fellow. IBM has been involved in pervasive computing for a number of years, and even had a pervasive computing division for some time. There are a number of documents that were collected that describe pervasive computing, the vision and applications involved in putting computers in all of the items around us.

The link below includes a number of great articles from IBM. Although many are based on using mobile phones as the interface, a few also talk about the need to integrate intelligence directly into the real world. Check it out.

From the description:
Projecting this trend into the future, we envision an explosion of interconnected "smart devices" — from watches to cars — that can make our lives easier and more productive. Our work investigates what forms these devices might take, what new functions they might perform, and ways to pack more computing ability into smaller spaces.

http://domino.watson.ibm.com/comm/wwwr_thinkresearch.nsf/pages/pervasive.html