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Universal Remote Console Article Published in ISO Focus+

March 15th, 2010

The ISO Focus+ February 2010 issue features an article by Gottfried Zimmermann and Gregg Vanderheiden about the universal remote console work pioneered at the Trace Center. The dream of taking your personal user interface wherever you go is slowly becoming a reality, starting with the ISO standards adopted in 2008, continuing R&D at Trace to enable personalized and pluggable user interfaces, and now a growing community of technology developers – the OpenURC Consortium led by Zimmermann.