Professor Sir Ara Darzi, (not many notes… :)
Today, the complexity of healthcare has tremendous impact on people life’s. Technology is moving us from minimally invasive towards incision-less surgery.
Sir Darzi
There is a need for a more dynamic and personalized monitoring of patients, in particular the one who suffer from a long disease. […]
Professor Anupam Joshi, “Trust, security, and privacy in Ubiquitous Computing”.
Security is essential because we interact with devices that are not in our home or office, but most of the work done in security for distributed system is not directly applicable to unicomp because these systems are open and dynamic. For that we can create policies […]
In the afternoon, professor Jeannette Wing presented her talk entitled “Computational thinking and thinking about computation” (slides). She wrote a short essay “J.M. Wing, “Computational Thinking, CACM Viewpoint, March 2006, pp. 33-35 (paper) and introduced her big vision for our future.
Prof. Wing
Computational thinking (CT) should become a fundamental skill for everybody in the […]
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The day started with Professor Gaetano Borriello, from University of Washington and his talk entitled “Invisible Computing.”
Prof. Bariello started with the classical Weiser’s quote “the most remarkable technologies are those that disappear”, but remarked that currently computers are not really disappearing. He stressed an important aspect in the metaphor of […]
Professor Ozalp Babaoglu: “self-* properties of complex systems“.
Current information systems have reached a level of complexity that makes it very complicated to manage and deploy distributed software using traditional techniques. Nowadays, most costs are related to maintain and fix existing systems rather than buying new equipment. To lower the total cost of ownerships of IT […]
I just got back from London today, and… what a city! Hugely diverse, an amazing mash-up of cultures, fun, and food packed in a funky city. I took the time to visit (of course) the Tate Modern (an totally amazing building by the way), and a cool exhibition of Banksy in there. It’s crazy to […]
I’m off for London tomorrow as there is this this awesome meeting next week entitled “From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020“, organized by the Royal Society. I’ll try to take plenty of notes, but it’ll be hard as it’s packed with great people. Like I’m gonna feel quite insignificant with such a line-up:
Professor Ozalp […]
[personal rave & rants]
I’ve been traveling around for the last month or so and finally it came to an end. I’ve been in grenoble, Japan, Geneva, Zurich (okay - that’s home). I was supposed to blog for a while but kinda… forgot. Actually, I was busy with lots of things in particular I’m struggling with […]
I’ve recently stumbled upon a fantastic idea, actually, I literally fell off my chair. Some guys came up with a new way of using markers for textiles (wash at 60°, dry clean only, do not iron, etc), but instead of printing them, they used an RFID tag into it. The new idea is that rather […]
This is really funny! A new robot to help farmers has been developed (in Japan of course), and comes as an exoskeleton that you can wear and help you carry stuff. It reminds me when I was working with humanoid robots in Japan, in particular with the i-1 humanoid robot (formerly called DB), at ATR. […]
