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Participatory Urban Sensing: Vision Video

We are pleased to announce our new video piece that envisions how communities can use everyday mobile phones to gather data about things that are important to them. This vision is being made into reality right now by the center's researchers, who are working on projects such as the Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR).

 

"We envision a world where researchers, students, industry and goverment routinely use distributed sensor and actuator networks to understand and control both natural and artificial systems."

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UCLA’s Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) is a major research enterprise focused on developing wireless sensing systems and applying this revolutionary technology to critical scientific and societal pursuits. In the same way that the development of the Internet transformed our ability to communicate, the ever decreasing size and cost of computing components is setting the stage for detection, processing, and communication technology to be embedded throughout the physical world and, thereby, fostering both a deeper understanding of the natural and built environment and, ultimately, enhancing our ability to design and control these complex systems.
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National Science Foundation
Cooperative Agreement #CCR-0120778
Title: Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS)
PI Names: Deborah L. Estrin, Michael Hamilton, Mark Hansen, Thomas Harmon, Gaurav Sukhatme
Effective Date: August 1, 2002 Expiration Date: July 31, 2012

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Events

Upcoming Events

  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Kamin Whitehouse, University of Virginia
    A Comprehensive Approach to Macroprogramming

    January 9, 2009 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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Recent Events

  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Nicolai Munk Petersen and Taimur Hassan
    The Configurable Micropublising Platform

    December 12, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Cens Seminar Room

    Description: Note the special location: CENS Main Conference Room. It
    is followed by the CENS Holiday Reception, for which you hopefully all registered here Read More

  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Martin Lukac, UCLA
    Recovering Temporal Integrity with Data Driven Time Synchronization

    December 5, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Philip Levis
    Improving Network Visibility

    November 21, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Christine Lee, UCLA
    A rapid measurement tool for near real-time tracking of microbiological water quality in urban watersheds and potential applications for citizen science

    November 7, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: BH 4760

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Min Y. Mun
    Inferring Mobility States using GSM and Wi-Fi Traces from Mobile Phones

    October 31, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Prof. Gregory J Pottie
    Cooperation, Sampling, and Models in Sensors Network Research

    October 24, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: Boelter Hall 4760

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  • CENS 6th Annual Research Review

    October 22, 2008 -- 8:30 AM - 4:00 PM

    Location: Tom Bradley International Center, UCLA Campus

    Description: Members of the Center and partners from across the world gather for a day-long symposium to communicate recent results and accomplishments in this rapidly developing field. We invite you to join us as we highlight our measurement and sensing technologies and look forward to future developments. Read More

  • CENS Technical Seminar Series: Thomas Lochmatter
    Odor Source Localization with Mobile Robots

    October 10, 2008 -- 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM

    Location: BH 4760

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News

  • New York Times - CENS High School Scholar Ian Cinnamon

    30-Oct-08

    The New York Times features an article about iPhone applications created by Ian Cinnamon (CENS High School Scholar ‘07, ‘08). Read More

  • 2008-2009 CENS Intel Scholars Program

    29-Sep-08

    APPLY TODAY TO BECOME A CENS INTEL SCHOLAR!
    CENS is accepting applications for the CENS Intel Scholars Program! Deadline October 8, 2008 Read More

  • CENS News - Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing (MIT Press, 2008)

    19-Sep-08

    A new book by UCLA GSEIS researcher Jane Margolis describes four years of research in LA schools on high school computer science education and why so few African Americans and Latino/as are learning computer science. It also describes our program for high school teachers. Now available from MIT Press!

  • UCLA Today - Calculate Your Carbon Footprint with a Cellphone

    02-Sep-08

    CENS' Deborah Estrin has put herself on the line for her work, comparing her carbon output to that of her friends and then showing the results, flattering or unflattering, on Facebook. Read More

  • Business Wire - Personal Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) - Press Release

    16-Jun-08

    CENS unveils new tool to help people understand their relationship with the environment. Read More

  • EOS - AGU Student Award

    02-Jun-08

    CENS student Igor Stubailo received an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his poster about shear wave splitting in Mexico. Read More

  • Google - Anita Borg Scholarship Winner

    02-Jun-08

    Diane Budzik, a CENS GSR, has been named one of the winners of the 2008 Anita Borg Scholarship. Read More

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