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<font size=6 color="#000080"><b><u>Earth System Initiative
Seminar<br><br>
</u></font><font size=4 color="#FF0000">Thursday March 18, 10:30am,
56-114 <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=5 color="#009999">Professor
Deborah Estrin<br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" color="#009999">Director, Center for
Embedded Networked Sensing<br>
Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=5 color="#333399">"Sensing
the Environment: The Challenges of Extensive Sensor Networks"
<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica">Embedded Networked Sensing Systems
combine the wireless technologies that have revolutionized communications
with sensor technologies that have revolutionized medical and industrial
technology. Like the Internet, these large-scale, distributed, systems,
composed of smart sensors embedded in the physical world, will eventually
infuse the planet, monitoring and collecting information on such diverse
subjects as endangered species, soil & air contaminants, medical
patients, and buildings, bridges and other man-made structures. This talk
will describe several motivating science applications and outline the
technical challenges posed by these long-lived, autonomous, massively
distributed and physically coupled
systems.</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=5> <br><br>
</font>The seminar will be followed by a lunch reception in 16-168.<br>
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Matthew Gardner, Ph.D.<br>
Program Administrator<br>
Earth System Initiative, 16-177<br>
Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>
Cambridge, MA, 02139<br>
617.253.6895<br>
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