Kevin Ashton | |
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 Ashton at the 2015 Texas Book Festival. | |
| Born | 1968 Birmingham, England |
| Nationality | British |
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Kevin Ashton (born 1968) is a British technology pioneer who cofounded the Auto-ID Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which created a global standard system for RFID and other sensors.[1] He is known for coining the term "the Internet of Things"[2] to describe a system where the Internet is connected to the physical world via ubiquitous sensors.[3][4]
- ^ Wired Magazine, July 2004
- ^ W. E. Zhang (2020). "The 10 Research Topics in the Internet of Things". 2020 IEEE 6th International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing (CIC). pp. 34–43. arXiv:2012.01594. doi:10.1109/CIC50333.2020.00015. ISBN 978-1-7281-4146-6. S2CID 227253677.
- ^ Goetz, Thomas (19 June 2011). "Harnessing the Power of Feedback Loops". Wired.
- ^ Kevin Ashton, "That 'Internet of Things' Thing", RFID Journal, 22 June 2009.