Category Archives: Technology

Two Demos To Be Showcased at ACM SenSys’19

Posted on August 26, 2019 by admin

Two demos were accepted for presentation at ACM SenSys’19 in New York City, NY, in November 2019. A demo led by Joseph DeChicchis, titled Adaptive AR Visual Output Security Using Reinforcement Learning Trained Policies, demonstrates how reinforcement learning-based policies for … Continue reading →

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Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates Students Presenting Their Work on Edge Computing and Augmented Reality

Posted on July 26, 2019 by admin

Two summer Research Experiences for Undergraduates students have presented their summer projects at the Duke University REU showcase. Courtney Johnson presenting his summer research on precision eye tracking for Magic Leap performance and user experience optimization. Jovan Stojkovic, Duke ECE … Continue reading →

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2019 NCWIT Seed Fund Award

Posted on May 15, 2019 by admin

Prof. Gorlatova is part of a Duke University team that received a 2019 National Center for Women and Information Technology (NCWIT) Seed Fund award to support further engagement of undergraduate women in systems and networking research. The award was presented … Continue reading →

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Undergraduate Students Presenting Their Work on Next-generation Augmented Reality at Duke University Undergraduate Research Showcases

Posted on April 24, 2019 by admin

Three undergraduate students have presented the results of their independent studies in CS and ECE poster sessions and demonstrations here at Duke University. Michael Glushakov presented a poster and a demo of his work on edge computing-supported augmented reality with … Continue reading →

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NSF Computer Systems Research Grant: Multi-tier Service Architecture in IoT-Edge-Cloud-Paradigms

Posted on November 1, 2018 by admin

Yale University Prof. Wenjun Hu and Duke University Prof. Maria Gorlatova received an NSF Computer Systems Research (CSR) Small Collaborative grant to examine joint concurrent optimization of multiple applications in multi-tier edge/fog computing architectures. [Award Information]

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2017 IEEE Fog World Congress

Posted on November 2, 2017 by admin

IEEE Fog World Congress was a blast. It takes a lot to put together an inaugural conference on a new topic — the organizing committee did a great job putting the event together. Moderating the Fog and Edge from the Practitioners’ … Continue reading →

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NYC Media Lab Summit’17 Demonstration

Posted on September 28, 2017 by admin

We presented a demonstration of a fog computing testbed we designed and developed at the NYC Media Lab Summit in the New York City. The testbed use case we presented in this demonstration focused on computing a specific type of … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Azure Research Award

Posted on July 21, 2017 by admin

We are grateful to Microsoft for supporting our work with a Microsoft Azure Research Award, which provides us the equivalent of $20,000 in Azure computing services. The award will help us study new fog-specific computing program decompositions and performance-costs tradeoffs … Continue reading →

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Improv Training Helps to Enjoy The Randomness of Public Speaking

Posted on May 24, 2017 by admin

Now living in a lush quiet suburban New Jersey Princeton area, I miss exactly two things about New York City: the food scene and my improv classes. If I move to a big city yet again, improv training will be … Continue reading →

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Lesser-known Differences between Academia and Industry

Posted on May 6, 2017 by admin

The Chronicle recently published an interesting opinion piece that mentions several aspects of working in academia that may not be as evident as commonly discussed ones. Having worked in industry and academia, I appreciated the commentary. There are indeed relatively … Continue reading →

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