Designing Calm Technology, Weiser and John Seely Brown describe calm technology as "that which informs but doesn't demand our focus or attention." Low-powered portable computing Weiser advocated to look at performance in non traditional ways. Instead of measuring computational performance in MIPS, he focused on increasing the instructions per joule of energy, pushing the computer industry toward low-powered portable computing. Works "The Computer for the 21st Century" - Scientific American Special Issue on Communications, Computers, and Networks, September, 1991 References External links Tribute Site established at Stanford University "Designing Calm Technology" American computer scientists 1952 births 1999 deaths American chief technology officers Ubiquitous computing researchers Place of death missing University of Michigan alumni University of Maryland, College Park faculty People from Harvey, Illinois Scientists at PARC (company)