David E. Culler, co-founder and chief technology officer of Arch Rock Corporation, has won the 2007 SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions award for his work in developing TinyOS, the open-source operating system for wireless embedded sensor networks.

Professor Culler, who has been on the computer science faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, since 1989, worked on TinyOS beginning in the late 1990s in his role as principal investigator for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s Network Embedded Systems Technology (DARPA NEST) program.

The Outstanding Contributions Award is the highest honor given by ACM SIGMOBILE, an organization of the Association for Computing Machinery focused on mobile computing and wireless networks. Presented to an individual each year since 1996, the award recognizes that person’s significant and lasting contribution to the technical research in the field.

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As part of the European research project WASP (Wirelessly Accessible Sensor Population), the EPFL AudioVisual Communications Laboratory (LCAV) is looking for a Research Assistant (100%).

The WASP project aims at developing an autonomous and intelligent infrastructure based on wireless sensor networks with applications in three main areas selected for their societal relevance and technical differences: assisted road transport, elderly care, and herd health control.

We are looking for an independent and creative CS/EE engineer to drive this project. He will also collaborate with other sensor networks related projects in which LCAV takes part, such as the SensorScope project.

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