From Blog SPOT Blog: The Beta for a Software-only version of the Sun SPOT SDK is now available. What this means is that you don’t have to buy the Development Kit to get in on the fun. You can get
Monthly Archives: February 2008
Nokia Research Center Provides a WSN Postdoc Position
Position description: 1. Responsible for research and innovation in wireless sensor networks and mobile Internet services 2. Responsible for algorithm design and prototyping multimedia sensor network systems 3. Contribution to publications and IPRs Requirement: 1. Ph.D degree holder in computer
TinyOS 2.0 Support for Crossbow’s IRIS Mote Platform
Earlier this month, Crossbow announced the availability of the TinyOS 2.0 Operating System for Crossbow’s advanced IRIS Motes. TinyOS 2.0 is the latest major release of the popular open source embedded operating system. This release now enables developers to use
WSN and National Science Foundation CAREER Award
Wenjing Lou, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has received a five-year, $450,000 CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation. The award is the NSF’s most prestigious for young faculty members. Lou’s research focuses
Wireless sensors the Lego way
Todd Winkler, a professor at Brown University in Rhode Island, and Mikael Fernstrom, a lecturer at the University of Limerick in Ireland, have choreographed performance pieces in which the dancers are rigged up with small wireless sensors that can alter
Mimos, Oracle team up on sensor grid for agriculture industry
Mimos Bhd and Oracle Corporation Malaysia are collaborating to develop and deploy a sensor grid pilot project for the agriculture industry under KnowledgeGRID Malaysia, a Mimos initiative. The sensor-based grid technology is currently in the initial testing phase and is
CFP IEEE MASS 2008
Fifth IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems is to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, between September 29 – October 2, 2008. The IEEE MASS 2008 aims at addressing advances in research on multi-hop ad-hoc and sensor
5 PhD positions in Electrical Engineering, KTH Sweden
The Communication Theory Lab is conducting research and education in the general area of digital communications and in wireless communications in particular. We work both with basic research and with more applied problems, often in collaboration with industry. More information
Big Brother bird watching boosts ecology
A wireless surveillance network will be used to monitor the nesting and mating rituals of a remote North Atlantic seabird colony, providing scientists with unprecedented access to their behaviour and ecology. Researchers from Oxford University and Microsoft Research in the
Skidaway Institute scientists help develop Ossabaw Island as a living laboratory
The dream to turn Ossabaw Island into a living laboratory accessible to anyone with a computer is a step closer to reality. Skidaway Institute of Oceanography and the Ossabaw Island Foundation have received $200,000 in grants from the Georgia Power

