Editorial Board Editor in Chief Roy Want is a principal engineer at Intel Research in Santa Clara, California, and leader of the Ubiquity Strategic Research Project. His research interests include proactive computing, ubiquitous computing, wireless protocols, hardware design, embedded systems, distributed systems, automatic identification, and micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS). He received his PhD for his work on "reliable management of voice in a distributed system" from Cambridge University. While at Olivetti Research (1988-91) he developed the Active Badge, a system for automatically locating people in a building. He joined Xerox PARC’s Ubiquitous Computing program in 1991 and lead a project called PARCTab, one of the first context-aware computer systems. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and ACM. Associate Editors in Chief Tim Kindberg is Principal at Matter 2 Media Ltd. Previously he was senior researcher at HP Labs, Bristol and Palo Alto, where he worked on the CoolTown project. He was formerly a senior lecturer in Computer Science at the University of London. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Westminster and a BA in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge. His research interests include pervasive, mobile and urban computing. He is co-author of the widely used textbook Distributed Systems—Concepts & Design.
Nigel Davies is a professor of computer science at Lancaster University and an adjunct associate professor of computer science at the University of Arizona. His research interests include systems support for mobile and pervasive computing. He focuses in particular on the challenges of creating deployable mobile and ubiquitous computing systems that can be used and evaluated “in the wild.”
Chandra Narayanaswami manages a group on technologies for client computing at IBM Research. He led the IBM Research effort on developing the WatchPad, a high function wristwatch computer. He also helped develop novel concepts such as the SoulPad and the Personal Mobile Hub and worked on high-performance graphics systems. He received his PhD in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He's a senior member of the IEEE. Joseph A. Paradiso is an associate professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Arts and Sciences Department, where he directs the Responsive Environments Group and codirects the Things That Think Consortium. His research interests include sensor networks, energy harvesting, ubiquitous computing, and human-computer interaction. He received his PhD in physics from MIT. Editor in Chief Emeritus M. Satyanarayanan is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He's an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing, including his work on the open-source Coda File System and Odyssey, a set of open-source operating system extensions (both part of CMU's Project Aura). He has also worked on Internet Suspend/Resume and is a coinventor of many supporting technologies, such as data staging, lookaside caching, translucent caching, and application-aware adaptation. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and the founding Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing. Department Editors Applications Beverly Harrison is a senior scientist and manager at Intel Labs Seattle and affiliate faculty in the University of Washington’s Computer Science and Engineering Department and Information School. Her research interests include designing and evaluating novel interaction technologies and designing context-aware systems. Harrison has a PhD in human factors engineering from the University of Toronto. Anind Dey is an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Human-Computer Interaction Institute. His research interests lie in the intersection of human-computer interaction and ubiquitous computing, including context-aware systems and more usable ubicomp systems. Dey has a PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Conferences Jason Hong is an assistant professor in Carnegie Mellon University’s Human Computer Interaction Institute. His research interests include location-based services and usable security and privacy. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. Education & Training Scott F. Midkiff is a professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Virginia Tech. New Products Maria R. Ebling is a research staff member at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, where she manages a group building middleware to support context-sensitive computing with a focus on user privacy concerns. Her research interests include pervasive computing, context-aware computing, mobile computing, distributed systems, privacy, and human-computer interaction. She received her PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Ramón Cáceres is is a Lead Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Labs. He's an experimental computer systems and networks researcher whose interests include mobile/pervasive/ubiquitous computing, wireless networking, network measurement, virtualization, and security. He received his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. Smart Phones Franklin Reynolds is an engineering fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he leads a group that studies and develops technologies for ubiquitous computing and self-organizing networks. His research interests include distributed operating systems, network protocols, embedded computing, and user-oriented distributed systems. He’s a member of the IEEE. Standards & Emerging Technologies Sumi Helal is a professor at the University of Florida and is the director of its Mobile and Pervasive Computing Laboratory. He is also president and CEO of Phoneomena. Wearable Computing Thad Starner is an associate professor in the College of Computing and the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research focuses on mobile human-computer interaction, intelligent agents, computer vision, and pattern recognition, and his work focuses on computational assistants for everyday-use wearable computers. He received his PhD from the MIT Media Laboratory. He's a member of the IEEE. Works in Progress Anthony Joseph is an associate professor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests include systems and networking: cybersecurity, mobile systems, overlay networks, wireless packet radio networks, and telephony systems. He holds a PhD in computer science from MIT. Editorial Board Gregory D. Abowd is an associate professor in the College of Computing and the GVU Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology and director of the Aware Home Research Initiative. His research focuses on an application-driven approach to ubiquitous computing concerning both human-computer interaction and software engineering. He received his DPhil in computation from the University of Oxford. He's a member of the IEEE Computer Society and the ACM.
Mary Baker is a senior research scientist at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Her research interests include distributed systems, networks, mobile systems, and digital preservation. She received her PhD in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley. She is a member of USENIX, the ACM, and the IEEE.
Tucker Balch is an associate professor in the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. His research interests include collaboration and communication in multirobot teams, and activity recognition and modeling in live social agent systems. He received his PhD in computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, his MS in computer science from the University of California, Davis, and his BS in information and computer science from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
John Canny is the Paul and Stacy Jacobs Distinguished Professor of Engineering and a Professor in the Computer Science Division at the University of California, Berkeley. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for his thesis, “The Complexity of Robot Motion Planning.” Mark D. Corner is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He also coleads the UMass Privacy, Internetworking, Security and Mobile Systems (Prisms) Laboratory. His primary interests lie in the areas of mobile and pervasive computing and networking, energy-aware systems, file systems, and security. He received his PhD in electrical engineering systems from the University of Michigan and his MS and BS in electrical engineering from the University of Virginia. He received a five-year National Science Foundation Career (Faculty Early Career Development) award in 2005 and is the recipient of three best paper awards. James Landay is an associate professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington, specializing in human-computer interaction. He is also the laboratory director of Intel Research Seattle. His research interests include automated usability evaluation, demonstrational interfaces, ubiquitous computing, user interface design tools, and Web design. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.
Eyal de Lara is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interests include distributed, mobile, and ubiquitous computing. His long-term research goal is to provide ubiquitous access to information and services independent of location or the capabilities of specific devices. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University.
Keith I. Farkas is a staff engineer at VMware. His research interests span personal and enterprise computing and include power and energy management, mobile systems and location-aware pervasive applications, automated control and management of computing infrastructure, and highly available computational infrastructure. He received his PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Toronto. He’s a member of the IEEE and ACM.
Armando Fox is a research scientist at the University of California, Berkeley, and a co-founder of the newly-formed Berkeley RAD Lab (Laboratory for Reliable Adaptive Distributed Systems). His research interests include the design of robust Internet-scale software infrastructure, particularly as it relates to the support of mobile and ubiquitous computing, as well as user-interface issues related to mobile and ubiquitous computing. He received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. He's a member of the ACM and IEEE Computer Society.
Hans Gellersen is a professor for interactive systems in Lancaster University's Department of Computing. His research interests are ubiquitous computing and human-computer systems that "take the real world into the loop": context-aware computing, situated user interfaces, and augmented everyday artifacts. Specific interests include integration of sensors and perception in interactive systems, interaction with large numbers of networked artifacts, new interaction techniques, and mobile/wearable collaborative applications. He received his PhD and MSc degrees from the University of Karlsruhe.
Beverly L. Harrison is a senior scientist at Intel Research, Seattle. Her research interests include consumer research, the design and evaluation of novel user interface technologies, UI design, ubiquitous computing, and mobile technologies and applications. She received her PhD in industrial engineering from the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
John Heidemann is a senior project leader at the University of Southern California's Information Sciences Institute and a research associate professor in USC's Computer Science Department. At ISI, he leads the ISI Laboratory for Embedded Networked Sensor Experimentation and investigates network protocols and traffic analysis as part of the Analysis of Network Traffic group. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of California, Los Angeles. He's a member of the ACM and Usenix and a senior member of the IEEE.
Liviu Iftode is an associate professor in Rutgers University's Department of Computer Science. His research interests include distributed systems, operating systems, mobile networking, and pervasive computing. Most of his research has been conducted with his students in the Distributed Computing Laboratory. He received his PhD in computer science from Princeton University. He's a member of the ACM and a senior member of the IEEE Computer Society.
John Krumm is a researcher at Microsoft Research in Redmond, WA. He has worked on techniques for measuring a person's location and context using video cameras, active badges, Wi-Fi, FM radio, GPS, and Global Systems for Mobile Communications. More recently, he's been working on ways to use location data to benefit users, such as for local search, automatic travelogues, location-based alerting, driving directions, and location prediction. He received his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, with a thesis on texture analysis in images.
Paul Lukowicz is a full professor of computer science and chair of the Embedded Systems Lab at the University of Passau Germany. He’s also head of the research division for Pervasive Healthcare Systems, UMIT. His research interests include pervasive and ubiquitous computing. In particular, he’s interested in activity and context recognition and wearable systems. He received his PhD in computer science from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
Natalia Marmasse is a software engineer for Google at the Haifa R&D Lab. Her research interests include mobile, ubiquitous, context-aware, and collaborative computing, with a focus on social-mobile applications, location-based services, and generally how computers can enhance human communication. She received her PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Kenton O’Hara is a Director of Research at CSIRO in Australia. His research interests are with everyday practices and behaviors relating to mobile and ubiquitous computing and situated displays in shared environments. Previously, he worked at HP Labs and Rank Xerox EuroPARC. He received his PhD in Human-Computer Interaction from University of Wales, Cardiff.
Bernt Schiele is a full professor in the computer science department at Darmstadt University of Technology. His main research interests are computer vision, perceptual computing, robotics, statistical learning methods, wearable computers, and integration of multimodal sensor data. He is particularly interested in developing methods that work under real-world conditions. He received his PhD in computer vision from INP Grenoble, France.
Gaurav Sukhatme is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern California, where he codirects the USC Robotics Research Laboratory, which performs research in the control and coordination of large numbers of distributed embedded systems and in the control of systems with complex dynamics. His research interests include mobile robotics, embedded systems, and sensor networks. He received his PhD in computer science from USC. He is a member of the AAAI, IEEE, and ACM and a 2002 NSF Career Awardee.
Rahul Sukthankar is a principal research scientist at Intel Research Pittsburgh and an adjunct research faculty member at the Robotics Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include computer vision, machine learning, information retrieval, and robotics. He received his BSE in computer science and engineering from Princeton University and his PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University. He's a member of the IEEE, the ACM, and AAAI.
Anand Tripathi is a professor in the Department of Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Minnesota. His research interests are in distributed systems, object-oriented systems, and fault-tolerant computing. The focus of his current activities is on middleware facilities for supporting robust and secure distributed applications using the mobile agent paradigm. He received his PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.
Advisory Board M. Satyanarayanan (chair) is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He's an experimental computer scientist who has pioneered research in mobile and pervasive computing, including his work on the open-source Coda File System and Odyssey, a set of open-source operating system extensions (both part of CMU's Project Aura). He has also worked on Internet Suspend/Resume and is a coinventor of many supporting technologies, such as data staging, lookaside caching, translucent caching, and application-aware adaptation. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and the founding Editor in Chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing. Gaetano Borriello is a professor of computer science and engineering at the University of Washington. He also founded Intel Research Seattle, where he launched the lab on applications of ubiquitous computing technology to healthcare and elder care, in particular. His research interests include location-based systems, sensor-based inferencing, and tagging objects with passive and active tags. He received his PhD in computer science from UC Berkeley. Daniel Siewiorek is the director of the Human-Computer Interaction Institute and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests include wearable computing, fault-tolerant computing, and reliability. |
