Category Archives: Mobile computing

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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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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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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Visualizations: my CV and my Research Statement as Word Clouds

Posted on July 30, 2013 by admin

As far back as I remember, I was a fan of clear, catchy, and entertaining visual data representations. Like those that often appear in the National Geographic or the Economist – the engaging ways of presenting scientific facts and data. … Continue reading →

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Beautiful Pervasive World: Wearable Devices

Posted on June 7, 2013 by admin

Having seen nothing but my dissertation in the last 6 months, I have been tremendously enjoying an opportunity to scale back on writing and to catch up with the state of the world of innovative pervasive and mobile technology. Oh, … Continue reading →

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From Mobile Ads to Revenue

Posted on March 21, 2013 by admin

MIT Technology Review has recently published an interesting article on why mobile ads do not (yet) lead to high revenues. As a reason, they are citing advertisers’ troubles with identifying whether the ads are working. Specifically, they trace these troubles … Continue reading →

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