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10Dec/130

Live-blog from CoNEXT 2013 – day 1

Posted by aa535

Kicking off the conference with some explanations about how the TPC selected the papers. The program looks great and I will be covering some of the sessions here over the next three days.

12Nov/130

Live-blog from SenSys 2013 – Day 1

Posted by Aaron

The 11th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys 2013) just kicked off, held at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' in Rome. From Cambridge, Cecilia is chairing the session "Sensing People" and the SenSys 2013 Doctoral Colloquium.

Some facts about SenSys 2013:

  • 250+ attendees
  • 1/3 are students
  • 40% have registered for both the conference and the workshops

For submission:

  • 21 papers got accepted out of 123 submissions (17%)
  • most of them received 3 to 8 reviews
  • 70 presentations in the poster and demo track - each one also got a 1-min madness talk during the main conference

There is an interesting opening talk by the chairs showing some stats about the submission this year (as far as I can recall)

  • register the paper earlier, and submit it late (close to the DL) - this holds for most of the accepted ones
  • most of the accepted papers are from America, around 50%
  • certain key words in the title will lead to rejection: nodes, networking, vehicle, etc. (I should have taken a photo while laughing at that slide.. :(

Since there is no electro-plug in the conference room. Most of notes are on the paper. Will find time to move them here.

Keynote by Shahram Izadi from MSR Cambridge: "The New Face of the User Interface"

Introduce the work carried out at MSR Cambridge by the Human-Computer-Interaction (HCI) group, including the 3D interaction of physical and digital objects, 3D model reconstruction using smartphones (using the Queens' College and the Mathematics bridge in the demo). They highlight how to design using low price component and smartphones.

Session 1 - Communication Systems

Chaos: Versatile and Efficient All-to-All Data Sharing and In-Network Processing at Scale

Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Federico Ferrari (ETH Zurich, Switzerland), Marco Zimmerling (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)

Q: Mainly evaluated by simulation, will it be a gap if the design is applied to real environment?

A: Not yet tested in real environment, hence we don't know.

Let the Tree Bloom: Scalable Opportunistic Routing with ORPL

Simon Duquennoy (SICS Swedish ICT AB, Sweden), Olaf Landsiedel (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden), Thiemo Voigt (SICS Swedish ICT AB and Uppsala University, Sweden)

Practical Error Correction for Resource-Constrained Wireless Networks: Unlocking the Full Power of the CRC

Travis Mandel (University of Washington), Jens Mache (Lewis & Clark College)

Use CRC to correct wireless transmission errors, solving the reliable issue by their design TVA, Transmit-Verify-Ack.

Very good presentation, and presenter ends his talk with a song about CRC :)

Session 2 - Sensing People

iSleep: Unobtrusive Sleep Quality Monitoring using Smartphones

Tian Hao (Michigan State University), Guoliang Xing (Michigan State University), Gang Zhou (College of William and Mary)

Using sound monitoring to infer sleeping quality.

Lifestreams: a modular sense-making toolset for identifying important patterns from everyday life

Cheng-Kang Hsieh (UCLA CSD), Hongsuda Tangmunarunkit (UCLA CSD), Faisal Alquaddoomi (UCLA CSD), John Jenkins (Cornell Tech), Jinha Kang (UCLA CSD), Cameron Ketcham (Cornell Tech), Brent Longstaff (UCLA CSD), Joshua Selsky (Cornell Tech), Betta Dawson (UCLA CSD), Dallas Swendeman (UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences), Deborah Estrin (Cornell Tech), Nithya Ramanathan (UCLA CSD)

Probably the longest author list in SenSys history.

14GB data collected for 44 young mothers.

Q: How do you recruit patients?

A: Done by the partners in hospital.

Q: Any new findings from the data?

A: We detect some hidden behaviors not noticed by the patients, e.g., unusual long walking outdoors, due to anxiety.

Diary: From GPS Signals to a Text-Searchable Diary

Dan Feldman (MIT), Andrew Sugaya (MIT), Cynthia Sung (MIT), Daniela Rus (MIT)

5Nov/130

Live-blog from SOSP 2013 – Day 2

Posted by Ionel Gog

The second day of the 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles has just started.  Several of us are here and will be live-blogging the talks and Q&A sessions.

4Nov/130

Live-blog from SOSP 2013

Posted by Malte Schwarzkopf

The 24th ACM Symposium on Operating Systems Principles is about to kick off in beautiful Nemacolin Woodlands this morning. Several of us are here and will be live-blogging the talks and Q&A sessions. We've got exciting papers on multi-core scalability, fast transactions, synchronization and many other topics coming up, and that is just the first session!

 

25Oct/130

Liveblogging IMC 2013 – Day 3

Posted by aa535

Last day of IMC 2013 - starting with network scaling and their analysis at scale and will have some rather funky if not weird papers later today.