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The Evolution of Mobility and Wireless Technologies in the Age of the Internet of Things
Flavio Bonomi
Cisco Fellow, Vice President
Advanced Architecture and Research Organization
Cisco
Systems
Abstract:
This keynote
presentation will focus on the challenges and opportunities
imposed on wireless communications technologies by the
emerging and explosive needs of the future Internet of
Things. We will describe the ICT Infrastructure developments
needed to support these new requirements, and identify broad
open wireless research topics which help catalyze innovation
affecting our industry. In particular, among other topics,
we will deal with the new requirements imposed on IP
mobility, and on technologies responding to these
requirements, we will consider the need to support and manage
non-homogeneous, multi-homed, highly lossy wireless
connectivity, and will highlight the potential roles of
Distributed Computing and of Network Coding in this domain.
About the Speaker:
 Flavio Bonomi is a Cisco Fellow,
Vice President, and is the Head of the Advanced Architecture
and Research Organization at Cisco Systems, in San
Jose’, California. He is co-leading (with JP Vasseur)
the vision and technology direction for Cisco’s Internet
of Things initiative. This broad, Cisco-wide initiative
encompasses major verticals, including Energy, Connected
Vehicle and Transportation, Connected Cities. In this role,
with the support of his team, he is shaping a number of
research and innovation efforts relating to mobility,
security, communications acceleration, distributed computing
and data management. Before joinig Cisco in 1999, Flavio
Bonomi was at AT&T Bell Labs, between 1985 and 1995, with
architecure and research responsibilities, mosty relating to
the evolution of the ATM technology, and then was Principal
Architect at two Silicon Valley startups, ZeitNet and Stratum
One. Flavio Bonomi received a PhD Electrical Engineering in
1985, and a Master or Electrical Engineering in 1981 from
Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. He received is
Electrical Engineering Degree from Pavia University, in Italy.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013 |
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SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions Award Talk
Victor Bahl
Research Manager, Principal Researcher
Mobility and Networking Research Group
Microsoft Research
Abstract:
Victor Bahl, the 2013
SIGMOBILE OCA winner will share his perspective on the past,
present, and future of mobility research; the different roles
of industry and academia research; and what he has learnt
from it.
Presentation: download( pdf)
About the Speaker:
 Victor Bahla principal researcher
and the director of Microsoft’s Mobility & Networking
Research. He believes that he has one of the best jobs in the
industry - pursuing untethered research, managing amazingly
brilliant researchers, and helping shape Microsoft's long-term
vision related to networking technologies through research,
industry partnerships, and associated policy engagement with
governments and research institutions around the world. His
personal research spans a variety of topics in mobile
computing, wireless systems, cloud services and datacenter
networking & management. Over his career he has built many
seminal systems, published prolifically, authored over a 100
patents, won many honors and awards, and engaged in
significant professional and company-wide activities that have
created lots of research leaders. Of all these, the one that
he is most proud of, that make him most happy, is the role he
played in founding SIGMOBILE. When not working, Victor loves
to read, travel, eat in fine restaurants, watch competitive
sports and action movies and spend time drinking with friends
and family.
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013 |
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SIGMOBILE Rock Star Award Talk
Bridging the Chasm: Whose Job is it Anyway?
Suman Banerjee
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract:
There is a gentle
progression from theorization, to design, to implementation,
integration, and eventually to deployment in any research
project. The "chasm" between the theoretical end and the
deployment end can sometimes be very large. Often it is easy
for us, as researchers, to approach this chasm but not cross
it. In this talk, I will draw on some of my recent and
ongoing research projects to explain why I have found it
rewarding to cross this chasm (even in small ways) when
possible.
About the Speaker:
 Suman Banerjee is an Associate
Professor in Computer Sciences at UW-Madison where he is the
founding director of the WiNGS laboratory which broadly
focuses on research in wireless and mobile networking systems.
He received his undergraduate degree from IIT Kanpur and was a
Gold Medalist awardee in his graduating class. He received his
MS and PhD degrees from the University of Maryland. He is a
recipient of the NSF Career Award. Prof. Banerjee has won
multiple best paper awards including at MobiCom 2009 and at
MobiGames 2012. Research led by Prof. Banerjee has won other
accolades including the grand prize at the Wisconsin
Governor’s Business Plan Competition in 2011 and the second
prize in the Interdigital Innovation Challenge in 2012.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013 |
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Indexing the Real World: Sensing, Big Data and Mobility
Henry Tirri
Chief Technology Officer, Executive Vice President
Nokia
Abstract:
In this presentation,
Dr. Henry Tirri, EVP & CTO of Nokia and UC Berkeley will
discuss insights into the social and scientific implications
of the technology trends being driven by the rise of large
scale multi-device cloud-based computing. The cloud has
already fundamentally transformed everyday experiences
visible to consumers through their access to streaming media,
social networking and location services via multiple
different computing devices, from phones and tablets to
connected accessories. As bits continue to eat atoms, more
elements of the physical world will turn first into code and
then into code that lives in the cloud. This is driven by the
enormous advantages in sharing, indexing and elasticity of
computing code has with respect to physical objects. We have
seen this happening to photos and videos, music and books,
but this is only the beginning. Consumers will increasingly
turn to connected experiences that will in turn produce a
wealth of data at a at rate unprecedented in the history of
mankind. Due to the pervasiveness of this change, the next
phase of the cloud era will see increased partnerships
between public and private sectors around long-term
technology trends in areas ranging from urban planning to
health care. It can be anticipated that connected hardware
will continue to diversify, with an increased emphasis on
"multi-sensing". Wearables, sensor clusters in vehicles and
smart devices, and independent sensors will all become first
class citizens of the cloud: both feeding data into it and
drawing it back out again. We will look at one exciting
example of this trend -- indexing of the real world made
possible by global scale location services. We argue that
ultimately computing will totally de-centralize and live
throughout a heterogeneous cloud-based architecture, but
energy will continue to be the "One Ring to Rule Them All,"
that will define where in the cloud the execution happens.
About the Speaker:
 Dr. Henry Tirri is Nokia’s
chief technology officer and executive vice president,
responsible for setting Nokia’s technology agenda, now
and in the future, driving core innovation to enable business
development opportunities. He joined Nokia in 2004 and was
named to the Nokia Leadership Team in September 2011. He
reports to the CEO. Henry began his Nokia career as a Research
Fellow and led NRC Systems Research before being appointed as
the Head of NRC. He has extensive experience in running
research activities in the fields of intelligent systems. His
personal research interests span AI, information theory,
search technologies and wireless sensor networks. Before
joining Nokia, Henry was a Professor of Computer Science and
Head of the Graduate School and the Intelligent Systems
Laboratory at the University of Helsinki, leading a
world-class research group in probabilistic modeling. Prior to
that, Henry was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Texas
at Austin; Research Scientist at Microelectronics and Computer
Technology Corporation (MCC); Member of Technical Staff at
AT&T Bell Laboratories; and Visiting Scientist at NASA AMES,
where he contributed to the Mars Rover technology for the 2003
mission. Henry has been a Visiting Professor at Stanford
University and the University of California at Berkeley. Most
recently appointed as an adjunct professor at the University
of California at Berkeley. He is the author and co-author of
more than 175 academic papers in various fields of computer
science, social sciences and statistics and holds five
patents. Henry holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the
University of Helsinki, Finland.
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