Category Archives: Technology

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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2016 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award

Posted on December 11, 2016 by admin

Aya Wallwater, Gil Zussman, and myself received the 2016 IEEE Communications Society Young Author Best Paper Award at the 2016 IEEE GLOBECOM earlier this week, for our paper on measurements and algorithms for networks of energy harvesting nodes that appeared … Continue reading →

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How Slow is a Pebble Watch?

Posted on December 10, 2016 by admin

Just as a I started considering using Pebble Watches as a low-power IoT platform for my experiments with fog computing, Pebble announced that the watches will not be manufactured anymore. Pebble is sold to Fitbit; independent operation of Pebble stops. … Continue reading →

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Shelved Project Ara: Would Have Made a Great Research Project

Posted on September 6, 2016 by admin

Google’s project Ara, aimed at creating a smart phone consisting of easily interchanged modules, is officially shelved. Ara should have been a research project, and not a productization attempt. As a product, it was always questionable: it’s hard to figure out what … Continue reading →

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Work-Wearables: Next Step in Major Wearable Technology Deployments?

Posted on July 6, 2016 by admin

New Zealand Herald has an interesting opinion piece on the promise of wearable tech in work-wearables. The author makes several good points about why work wearables look like a promising area: work wearables have more reasons to be wearable, their … Continue reading →

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IoT Spectrum Devices: Unusual Design Choices in Amazon Dash Button

Posted on June 30, 2016 by admin

Amazon recently announced that it will be partnering with over 50 additional brands in deploying its Dash buttons, small electronic buttons that can be sprinkled around the house and clicked to order the product a button represents. There are now … Continue reading →

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