Sensors, Web, and Data Centers: Recent Progress in Networked Embedded Computing Research at Microsoft

Speaker:	Dr. Feng ZHAO
		Microsoft Research
		Redmond, USA

Title:		"Sensors, Web, and Data Centers: Recent Progress in
		 Networked Embedded Computing Research at Microsoft"

Date:		Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre F
		(Leung Yat Sing Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST

Abstract:

We have been investigating a number of research problems relating to
sensors, embedded platforms, Web, storage and server management. In this
talk, I will give an overview of the work, and dive into a subset of the
topics below as time permits:

(1)	Wireless sensors and networks: what does it take to run
	WSDL/TCP/IP on a device with only 48K ROM and 10K RAM?

(2)	Multi-processor/radio scheduling: what is the energy per bit
	cost and the performance/power trade?

(3)	Peer to peer production: how do we quantify value of information
	and enable sharing of wide area reality data without compromising
	privacy?

(4)	System management: is flash going to replace disk? How does one
	optimize server power consumption in data centers of 200,000+
	servers?


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Biography:

Feng Zhao (http://research.microsoft.com/~zhao/) is a Principal Researcher
at Microsoft Research, where he manages the Networked Embedded Computing
Group. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
from MIT and has taught at Stanford University and Ohio State University.
Dr. Zhao was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC and directed PARC's
sensor network research effort. He serves as the founding Editor-In-Chief
of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and has authored or co-authored
over 100 technical papers and books, including a recent book published by
Morgan Kaufmann - Wireless Sensor Networks: An information processing
approach. He has received a number of awards, and his work has been
featured in news media such as BBC World News, Business Week, and
Technology Review.