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Plenary Speakers:
The Organizing Committee of DCAS 2014 is pleased to announce 2014
Plenary Speakers:
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Greg
Astfalk, Chief Scientist at HP
Greg's focus is on future
and emerging technologies beyond product
roadmaps, and championing their development for use in future HP
products. Before HP he was at Convex Computer Corporation and
before that at Bell Laboratories.
Title: The
coming, large, changes in IT
The
IT industry has been in constant change since its beginning in 1946
(with the birth of the Eniac computer), and it will be
forever.
At this moment we anticipate, with high probability, a number of
"revolutionary" changes over the next ~5 years. What is unique about
the above list is that so many, so large, changes are hitting a
harmonic. This is unprecedented in the entire history of
computing. For clarity, some of these changes will be very
long-tailed, with the transition lasting for perhaps a
decade.
Greg will give a quick tour through these changes and how these
underlying technologies enable "Internet of Things".
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Dr.
Ragunathan "Raj" Rajkumar, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University
Raj's research interests lie in all aspects of embedded real-time
systems and wireless/sensor networks. In the context of wireless/sensor
networks, his research interests span hardware, devices,
power-efficient networking protocols, run-time environments,
large-scale system architectures, visualization and administrative
tools.
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Dr. Joe
Paradiso, MIT Media Laboratory
Joe
Paradiso is an Associate Professor at the MIT Media Laboratory, where
he directs the Responsive Environments group, which explores how sensor
networks augment and mediate human experience, interaction and
perception. After two years developing precision drift
chambers at
the Lab for High Energy Physics at ETH in Zurich, he joined the Draper
Laboratory in 1984, where his research encompassed spacecraft control
systems, image processing algorithms, underwater sonar, and precision
alignment sensors for large high-energy physics detectors. He
joined the Media Lab in 1994, where his current research interests
include embedded sensing systems and sensor networks, wearable and body
sensor networks, energy harvesting and power management for embedded
sensors, ubiquitous and pervasive computing, localization systems,
passive sensor architectures, human-computer interfaces, &
interactive media.
Title:
At the Edges of ‘Big Data’ - Connecting with the Emerging Nervous
System of Ubiquitous Sensing
Embedded
sensors are touching every phase of our lives as they diffuse into the
objects and environments around us. We'll encounter a "phase
change" within a few years, however, once this sensor information
becomes networked and available to applications running outside of each
device's domain that will be at least as profound as the onset of the
web. Accordingly, this talk will overview the broad theme of
interfacing humans to the ubiquitous electronic "nervous system" that
sensor networks will soon extend across things, places, and people. Joe
will illustrate this through two avenues of research - one looking at a
new kind of digital "omniscience" (e.g., different kinds of browsers
for sensor network data & agile frameworks for sensor
representation) and the other looking at buildings & tools as
"prosthetic" extensions of humans (e.g., making HVAC systems an
extension of your sense of comfort, smart tools as human-robot
cooperation in the hand), drawing from many projects that are running
in my group at the MIT Media Lab.
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Guest Speaker (during Banquet on 10/12 Sunday):
Dr. Branislav Kisacanin, CTO, Embedded Vision, Interphase
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