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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 size=5 color="#009999">Professor Deborah Estrin<br>
</font><font color="#009999">Director, Center for Embedded Networked
Sensing<br>
Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department<br><br>
</font><font size=5 color="#333399">"Sensing the Environment: The
Challenges of Extensive Sensor Networks" <br><br>
</font>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. <br><br>
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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