In this whitepaper, Hewlett-Packard Labs researcher Wesley Chan introduces the embedded Linux community to the innovative R&D activities taking place within HP's “Cooltown” program. Chan defines the initiative's philosophy and goals, describes several key open source software and hardware components that have been developed, and explains how developers and companies can join in creating the Cooltown… vision of a world in which “humans are mobile, devices and services are federated and context-aware, and everything has a web presence.”

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