Speckled Computing

• February 8, 2007: 12:00pm - 1:00pm
• Location: 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building, the Dado & Maria Banatao Conference Room

Thursday, February 8, at noon in 290 Hearst Memorial Mining Building

Professor D. K. Arvind of the Research Consortium in Speckled Computing at the University of Edinburgh will speak.

Sponsored by Infineon Technologies.

View talk online | Powerpoint presentation

Abstract:

 

A specknet is a collection of autonomous specks which provides distributed services: each speck is capable of sensing and processing the data under program control; the specks themselves are connected as an ad-hoc mobile wireless network which collaborate to process information in a distributed manner.

Specknets link the digital world of computers to the physical world of sensory data. A specknet on the person, for example, is capable of tracking movements of the limbs, or the position of the person in the environment, and this information can be stored, manipulated and accessed remotely over the internet, Computing with specknets, or Speckled Computing, affords new models of unencumbered interaction with the digital world, in which the physical environment is the primary site of interaction.

The talk will give a broad overview of the research undertaken in the Consortium - a multidisciplinary collaboration of computer scientists, electronic engineers, physicists and electrochemists drawn from five universities to realise miniature specks.