[Colloq] REMINDER: Talk, TOMORROW, Wednesday, October 27, Hari Balakrishnan, 12pm

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium

presents
Hari Balakrishnan
EECS, MIT

who will speak on:
The Cricket Indoor Location System


Wednesday, Oct 27, 2004
12:00pm
366 West Village H
Northeastern University

ABSTRACT:
There are many applications ranging from pervasive computing to sensor
networks where access to accurate location information is important.
Although the Global Positioning System (GPS) is an excellent technology
for outdoor environments, it does not work well indoors or in urban
areas around tall buildings. Cricket is a system that provides accurate
location information to mobile and sensor devices indoors. This talk
will describe the design, implementation, and evaluation of Cricket,
highlighting both Cricket's algorithms and some of its mobile and sensor
computing applications. Cricket units are now commercially available;
its software is obtainable under an open source license. See
http://cricket.csail.mit.edu/

Biography:
Hari Balakrishnan studied at IIT Madras (B. Tech., '93) and UC Berkeley
(PhD, '98). He is now an Associate Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering at MIT, where he leads the Networks and Mobile Systems Group
at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. His research
interests are in networked computer systems, including resilient
networking, wireless networks, sensor and location-aware computing, and
large-scale systems. His honours include the ACM doctoral dissertation
award, an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award,
MIT's Harold Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award, two MOBICOM Best Paper
Awards, and the IEEE Communication Society's William R. Bennett Prize.



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