Prof. David E. Culler
University of California at Berkeley/Arch Rock Corporation
Title: The Next Tier of the Internet
Abstract:
Broadband communications today allow us to connect almost everybody,
and soon we will have the ability to connect almost every thing of
value. By networking the physical world, the next tier of the Internet
can advance science, enhance productivity and security, and reduce our
consumption of natural resources. The past several years of wireless
sensor network research have made great strides toward this vision,
with thousands of experimentalists around the world implementing novel
designs in TinyOS on Berkeley motes. This talk will snapshot the
progress to date and frame the challenges ahead as we advance this
technology from academic prototypes and industrial stovepipes to broad
commercial usage interwoven with established networking technologies.
Bio:
Dr. Culler is CTO of Arch Rock Corporation and Professor of Computer
Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and
was selected in Scientific American's 'Top 50 Researchers' and in
Technology Review's '10 Technologies that Will Change the World'. He
was the Principal Investigator of the DARPA Network Embedded Systems
Technology project that created the open platform for wireless sensor
networks based on TinyOS, and was the founding Director of Intel
Research, Berkeley. He has done seminal work on networks of small,
embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel
computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high
performance communication, and including TinyOS, PlanetLab, Networks
of Workstations (NOW), and Active Messages. He has served on Technical
Advisory Boards for several companies, including Inktomi and
ExpertCity (now CITRIX on-line). David received his B.A. from
U.C. Berkeley in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1989.
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