Category Archives: Technology

Ph.D. Dissertation Defended

Posted on April 25, 2013 by admin

Yes, I did it! Wednesday April 24th, 4pm EST, following a presentation attended by many of my fellow WimNet group members and coauthors from other groups, and following an intense and engaged period of questioning by the committee, I was … Continue reading →

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Microsoft Research Presentation Video

Posted on April 5, 2013 by admin

A video of a talk I recently gave at Microsoft Research Seattle is now available online. In this talk I introduced the Energy Harvesting Active Networked Tags Project and talked about my contributions to the project and to the overall … 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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EnHANTs Project Demo Video

Posted on December 6, 2011 by admin

We have put together a video of the EnHANTs testbed demonstration, based on the demonstration we presented — and got the Best Student Demo Award for — at ACM SenSys 2011 back in November. The video is available here.

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Bright Future for Wearable Smart Devices?

Posted on September 5, 2011 by admin

This week’s Economist has a piece on Marc Andreessen, a founder of Mosaic and Netscape turned venture capitalist. One of the things he apparently believes is that there soon be drastic changes in realm of personal technology and “body area … Continue reading →

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IoT infographic

Posted on August 5, 2011 by admin

Neat Internet of Things infographic.

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Fascinating Papers: “Is the PHY Layer Dead?”

Posted on June 25, 2011 by admin

For the last few months the IEEE Communications Society top-10 downloaded papers list has included a broad paper based on a conference panel discussion: “Is the PHY Layer Dead?” by Mischa Dohler et al. This paper makes for a fascinating … Continue reading →

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