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Overview | Agenda | Attendees | Presentations | Breakout Session Summaries | Grantee Poster Presentations

NSF Electrical And Communications Systems (ECS) Division Workshop On Wireless Networked Sensor And Actuator Systems And Grantees Meeting. September 8 And 9, 2003, UCLA

Morning Day One:  Monday, September 8

   

Session

Presenters

7:00 – 8:00

 

Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:30

 

Welcome, Introductions, Workshop Goals, Logistics, and Opening Remarks

Dr. William Kaiser, Professor, UCLA
Dr. Vittal Rao, Program Director, NSF
Dr. Vasundara Varadan, Division Director, ECS

Vision Presentations

8:30 – 9:00

 

Decentralized and Collaborative Detection

Dr. Venugopal Veeravalli
Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, and
Program Director, Communications Research, NSF

Dr. Feng Zhao
Manager, Embedded Collaborative Computing PARC Corporation

9:00 – 9:15

 

Sensor Device Technology for Wireless Networked, Systems

Dr. Frank Lewis
Professor, University of Texas, Arlington, and Associate Director, Automation and Robotics Institute

Breakout Sessions

9:15-9:20

 

Charge to Parallel Breakout Sessions

Dr. William Kaiser
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles

9:20 –11:00

 

Decentralized and Collaborative Detection | Sensor Device Technology for Wireless Networked Systems

11:00 -11:15

 

Report and Discussion:
Decentralized and Collaborative Detection Group

11:15–11:30

 

Report and Discussion:
Sensor Device Technology for Wireless Networked, Systems

11:30 -12:30

Lunch

Afternoon Day One:          Monday, September 8

12:30-2:30

 

Town Hall Meeting
Chair: Dr. Priscilla Nelson, NSF

12:30-12:50

 

NSF Engineering Directorate’s Perspective of Cyber Infrastructure

Dr. Priscilla Nelson
Senior Advisor, Directorate for Engineering, NSF

12:50 – 1:30

 

An Embedded Networked Sensing CyberInfrastructure

Dr. Deborah Estrin
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles Computer Science Department
Director, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing

 

Dr. David Culler
Professor, University of California, Berkeley Computer Science Department
Academic Director, Intel Research Berkeley

1:30 – 2:30

 

Open Discussion on the Role of Sensor Networks in Cyber Infrastructure

Moderators:
Drs. Nelson, Culler, Estrin, and Rao

Vision Presentations

2:30 – 2:50

 

Distributed, Scalable, Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

Dr. Panos Antsaklis
Professor, University of Notre Dame, and
Director, Center for Applied Mathematics

2:50 – 3:10

 

ECS Challenges in Energy Aware Networked Sensor Systems

Dr. Mani Srivastava
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles
Program Director, Communications Research, NSF

3:10-3:30

 

Break

Parallel Breakout Sessions

3:30 – 5:00

 

Distributed, Scalable, Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

ECS Challenges in Energy Aware Networked Sensor Systems

 

5:00 – 5:15

 

Report and Discussion:
Distributed, Scalable, Control in Wireless Sensor Networks

5:15 – 5:30

 

Report and Discussion:
ECS Challenges in Energy Aware Networked Sensor Systems

5:30 PM
7:00 PM

 

Grantees Poster Session and Reception

7:00 PM

 

Workshop Dinner

Morning Day Two: Tuesday, September 9

7:00-8:00

 

Continental Breakfast

8:00-8:10

 

Workshop Progress Update

Dr. William Kaiser

Vision Presentations

8:10-8:30

 

Actuation in Sensor Networks

Dr. Gaurav Sukhatme
Professor, University of Southern California
Director, Robotics Embedded System Laboratory
Co-Director, Robotics Research Laboratory

8:30-8:50

 

Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications Of Wireless Sensor Networks

Dr. Tom Harmon
Professor, University of California, Merced Division of Engineering

Parallel Breakout Sessions

8:50-10:20

 

Actuation in Sensor Networks

Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications Of Wireless Sensor Networks

10:20-10:35

 

Report and Discussion:
Actuation in Sensor Networks Group

10:35-10:50

 

Report and Discussion:
Civil and Environmental Engineering Applications
Of Wireless Sensor Networks

10:50-11:30

 

NSF Funding Opportunities
Dr. Vasundara Varadan, ECS
Dr. John Cozzens, CISE
Dr. Vicki Booker, EEC

11:30-11:45

 

Initiative on Sensors and Sensor Networks
Dr. Vittal Rao, ECS

11:45-12:15

 

Workshop Closing Statements:
ECS Opportunities in Networked Embedded Sensing
Action Items
Chairs: Dr. Vasundara Varadan and William Kaiser

12:15

 

Lunch

 

 

 

 
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