Category Archives: Uncategorized

Spring 2023 Student Successes

We have had an exciting end of the Spring 2023 semester, with many recognitions of outstanding and cross-disciplinary achievements of group’s students. Neha Vutakuri‘s year-long engagement with the lab culminated with a successful undergraduate dissertation defense and graduation with distinction … Continue reading

Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a comment

How Slow is a Pebble Watch?

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

Posted in Consumer technology, Internet of Things, Research, Technology, Uncategorized, Wearable computing | Comments Off on How Slow is a Pebble Watch?

Why I Volunteer On The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee

I am finding it exceptionally rewarding to be serving on the Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee, that is, reviewing Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference travel grant applications. I’ve served on this committee in 2015 and 2016, and … Continue reading

Posted in Academia, Career, Communication skills, Conferences, Exciting! News and updates, Ph.D., Tips and tricks, Uncategorized, Women in technology | Comments Off on Why I Volunteer On The Grace Hopper Conference Scholarship Committee

Offbeat Tidbits In Scientific Publications

My treasure of a dentist, the most caring of all dentists I ever had, said the darnest thing to me the other day: “You do research, really? Good for you. I could never do it myself, it’s so boring.” She … Continue reading

Posted in Creativity, Uncategorized | Comments Off on Offbeat Tidbits In Scientific Publications

Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: First Timer’s Impressions

The legendary and glorious Consumer Electronics Show. A congregation of more than 170,000 people (for comparison, I grew up in a city of only 30,000), in the shiny artificial Las Vegas. A happening that takes over tech pages in all … Continue reading

Posted in Conferences, Consumer technology, Exciting! News and updates, Hardware, How the world is changing, Industry trends, Internet of Things, Technology, Travel, Uncategorized, Wearable computing | Comments Off on Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2016: First Timer’s Impressions

New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?

There has been a lot of talk lately about new management models, that is, the alternatives to centralized top-heavy decision-making that has been the staple of the corporate world for so long. Coursera has had a fun class on this, … Continue reading

Posted in Communication skills, How the world is changing, In the news, Industry trends, Management, New business models, Uncategorized | Comments Off on New Management Models: Do They Make Control-Theory And Information-Theory Sense?