At Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Mahadev Satyanarayanan is working on a mobile-computing approach he calls "Internet suspend/resume." The idea, says Satyanarayanan, is to be free to stop your work, have your files saved automatically over the Internet, and-when you're ready to resume-find "your world restored" on any computer in any location, as if you were using your personal laptop.

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