Ubiquitous computing the Media Lab and the CSAIL effort known as Project Oxygen. Other major contributors include University of Washington's Ubicomp Lab (directed by Shwetak Patel), Georgia Tech's College of Computing, Cornell University's People Aware Computing Lab, NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, UC Irvine's Department of Informatics, Microsoft Research, Intel Research and Equator, Ajou University UCRi & CUS. One of the earliest ubiquitous systems was artist Natalie Jeremijenko's "Live Wire", also known as "Dangling String", installed at Xerox PARC during Mark Weiser's time there. This was a piece of string attached to a stepper motor and controlled by a LAN connection; network activity
The Centre for Computing History from programming workshops using 1980s BBC Micros to gaming tours to coding using software like Scratch for the Raspberry Pi. The centre also loans artefacts for film and TV productions and has helped with props and sets for "The IT Crowd", "Brits Who Made the Modern World" on Channel Five with Peter Snow and in April 2009 produced the "Gadget Hall of Fame" stand at "The Gadget Show Live" exhibition at the NEC in Birmingham. The centre collects and preserves historical computing related artefacts and has undertaken a project to preserve the data from the BBC Domesday Project and make