[Save] ESI Seminar - Thursday March 18

[Matthew Gardner]

Earth System Initiative Seminar

Thursday March 18, 10:30am, 56-114

Professor Deborah Estrin
Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing
Professor, UCLA Computer Science Department

"Sensing the Environment: The Challenges of Extensive Sensor Networks"

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.

The seminar will be followed by a lunch reception in 16-168.

Matthew Gardner, Ph.D.
Program Administrator
Earth System Initiative, 16-177
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA, 02139
617.253.6895
http://web.mit.edu/esi
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