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Written by Chintu Parikh
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| | Kris Pister
FOUNDER and CTO, Dust Networks
The inventor of Smart Dust and a longtime leader in the academic wireless sensor networking community, Kris Pister co-founded Dust Networks in 2002 to deliver his vision of a commercially robust wireless sensor networking platform. Kris is the chief architect of Dust Networks’ patent pending Dust SmartMesh™ technology, and also provides a strong technology vision for the company and for the wireless sensing industry- Kris is a frequent invited speaker and lecturer on wireless sensor networking and related core technologies. Previously, Kris successfully commercialized or licensed micromachine technologies with Tanner Research, OMM Inc., Xactix, and Sony. Kris holds a PhD and MS in electrical engineering and computer sciences from UC Berkeley and a BS from UC San Diego. Currently on leave as a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at UC Berkeley – and a father of four brilliant children – he is doing his part to continue the advancement of technology in the next generations.
| | | Mike A. Horton
President & CEO, XBow Technology
Mike Horton co-founded Crossbow® Technology and has served as its President & CEO since inception. Horton has led Crossbow from its founding product line of digital MEMS accelerometers and tilt sensors to its current market leading inertial sensor and wireless sensor networking platforms. To this point in time, he has co-authored four patents. Under his leadership, the company's revenue has grown more than 50 fold and became net profitable in 2002. Horton has closed $13 Million in venture financing for the company, including from Intel Capital, its lead corporate investor. Horton was named one of the Top 100 Innovators in the MIT Technology Review and was named one of The Top 50 Movers and Shakers in high technology by Electronic Business Magazine. He graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering. He was nominated for the University Medal and won the Warren Y. Dere Design Award. | | | David E. Culler
Co-Founder and CTO, Arch Rock
Dr. Culler comes to Arch Rock from the faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, where he has served as Professor of Computer Science since 1989. He was the Principal Investigator of the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Network Embedded Systems Technology project (DARPA NEST) that created the open platform for wireless sensor networks based on TinyOS, and was the founding Director of Intel Research, Berkeley. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, an ACM Fellow, an IEEE Fellow and was selected in Scientific American's 'Top 50 Researchers' and in Technology Review's '10 Technologies that Will Change the World'. He was awarded the NSF Presidential Faculty fellowship and NSF Presidential Young Investigator award. He has done seminal work on networks of small, embedded wireless devices, planetary-scale internet services, parallel computer architecture, parallel programming languages, and high performance communication, and specifically includes TinyOS, PlanetLab, Networks of Workstations (NOW), and Active Messages. He has served on Technical Advisory Boards for several companies, including Inktomi and ExpertCity (now CITRIX on-line). David received his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley in 1980, and M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT in 1985 and 1989. | | | Matt Welsh
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Harvard University Professor Welsh is a leading WSN researcher. His research interests include operating system, network, and language support for large-scale distributed systems. His current research focuses on wireless sensor networks, with an emphasis on high-level languages and programming models. His group is developing sensor network platforms for applications such as medical care and monitoring volcanic eruptions. They are also developing an Internet-based infrastructure for collecting and processing large volumes of real-time sensor data.
| | | Deborah Estrin Professor of computer science at the University of California, Los Angeles, and director of the National Science Foundation’s Science and Technology Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Her research addresses protocols for autonomous, distributed and physically coupled wireless systems, with particular application to environmental monitoring. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 26 November 2006 )
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