July Meeting: July 9, 2008

Date and Time

Wednesday, July 9, 7:00PM Pacific
at 7:00, 5-minute business meeting
at 7:05, speaker presentation

Location

Carnegie Mellon University West Coast (directions https://west.cmu.edu/who_we_are/visitor)

Title

Sun SPOT and its Applications

Speaker

Roger Meike, Sun Microsystems
Arshan Poursohi, Sun Microsystems
and team

Abstract

The Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT) is a small, wireless, battery powered experimental platform. It is programmed almost entirely in Java to allow regular programmers to create projects that used to require specialized embedded system development skills. The hardware platform includes a range of built-in sensors as well as the ability to easily interface to external devices. Both the hardware and software are open sourced.

This talk describes the Sun SPOT and its applications.

Biographies

Roger Meike:

Roger Meike is Senior Director, Area 51 and Director of Operations, Sun Microsystems Laboratories. His background is in cognitive science and his career has lead him back and forth between new start companies and large research organizations. While his background is mostly in software, he also enjoys consorting with hardware folks. He has been accused of being many things including photo enthusiast, sailor, ham radio operator, musician and techno-geek/nerd.

Arshan Poursohi:

Arshan Poursohi is a Researcher for Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) project.

His research interests include Advanced Network Applications, biologically-inspired computing, Distributed Systems, Intermittently-connected devices, Linux, Mobile Computing, Multi-user cooperative environments, Networking, Peer to peer, practical automated reasoning and Multi-Agent Systems.

He grew up near a farm outside of New Zealand, at an early age he learned to use tools and speak using words. Following that he went on to develop systems for locomotion and chemical digestion of organic matter. Then he worked on various models social interaction in small and large groups, which he continues to use today. sometimes.

URLS:
https://www.sunspotworld.com/