[VPM] Tue, 2007 July 3rd, 7:00pm - July RCSS meeting

[Darren Duncan]

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Addendum #1: The meeting is on Tue, July 3rd.

Addendum #2: FYI ... for those of you who are driving to UVic take 
note that half of Ring Road is now closed, and unfortunately that is 
the half starting from the Henderson entrance and all the way to 
Finnerty Rd. including parking lot #1, so make sure you give yourself 
enough time to walk through the whole campus. Nearest parking lot is 
probably behind the MacLaurin building.

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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 15:28:51 -0700
From: "Peter van Hardenberg" <pvh at pvh.ca>
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Subject: [reccompsci] July Meeting
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RCSS meeting announcement:

Talks
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Dr. Kui Wu (Guest Speaker) -- Wireless Sensor Networks
Adam Parkin -- Gem Cutter and the Open Quark Framework
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Meeting Location
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The usual.
ECS 104, UVic, 7:00PM.
This is the last lecture-hall to your left on the ground floor when
entering the new computer science building from ring road.
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this month's RCSS meeting will feature Dr. Kui Wu, a networking
professor at UVic.  Dr. Wu has been kind enough to provide a preview
of his presentation:

Recent progress in wireless communication and Micro-ElectroMechanical
System (MEMS) makes it feasible to build tiny wireless sensor nodes
that integrate sensors, processors, memory, and wireless transceivers
within the size of several cube centimeters. Such tiny sensor nodes,
when clustered together, automatically create highly flexible,
low-power wireless sensor networks (WSNs) with numerous new
applications ranging from environment monitoring, building control
systems to smart entertainment devices that adjust audio and video
quality based on changing environments. Over the last several years,
WSNs have become one of the major driving forces for technology
innovation, and substantial research and development efforts have been
devoted to this new technology from both academy and industry. In this
talk, I will introduce current progress and applications of WSN
technology, including the merge of sensors, actuators, wireless mesh,
and the Internet. At the end of the talk, I will try to predict the
day after WSNs and try to convince you that the story in Michael
Crichton's science fiction, Prey, is actually very close to reality.


See you all there,
Peter van Hardenberg

-- 
Peter van Hardenberg
Victoria, BC, Canada
"Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt." -- Kurt Vonnegut

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