4th Workshop in Speckled Computing

4th Workshop in Speckled Computing

This Workshop took place at the Prestonfield and Salisbury Rooms at the John McIntyre Centre within the Pollock Halls of Residence.

Thursday 15 September 2005

12:00 Registration with a light lunch in the Salisbury Room

12:30    “Speckled Computing – Half-Term Report” () (Video)
            D K Arvind, University of Edinburgh

13:00    “The 5Cube and 5CubeOTS Projects" () (Video)
            Hugh Leather and Martin Ling, University of Edinburgh

13:20    “Powering Specknets: Advanced Rechargeable Lithium Batteries” () (Video)
            Allan Paterson,

13:40     “A Low-Power Digital Transceiver for the 5Cube” () (Video)
            Louise Crockett and Neil MacEwen, University of Strathclyde

14:00     “Transceiver ASIC Design for the 5Cube” () (Video)
            Matthew Barnes and Martin Ling, University of Edinburgh

14:20     “Miniaturisation of Antennas for Specknet” () (Video)
            Griogair Whyte, University of Glasgow

14:40     “Prototype Radio Xceiver” (Video)
            Ian McGregor, University of Glasgow

14:50     “Low-Power LNA/PA”  () (Video)
            Ali Albuelmaatti, University of Glasgow

15:00     “5x5mm MMIC Transceiver” () (Video)
            Khalid Elgaid, University of Glasgow

15:20     Coffee Break in the Salisbury Room

15:40     “ProSpeckz64: A Testing Grid for Specknets” () (Video)
            Matthew Barnes and Tom Feist, University of Edinburgh

16:00     “Methods of Distributed Duty-Cycling for Specks” () (Video)
            Steven Wong, University of Edinburgh

16:20     “Multiple Dispatch and Code Diffusion in Specknets” () (Video)
            Andy Koppe, University of Edinburgh

16:40     “Distributed Posture Tracking” () (Video)
            Alex Young, University of Edinburgh

17:00     “Towards Biospecks" () (Video)
            Marc Blenkiron, University of Edinburgh

17:20     Close

18:00     Research Advisory Board meeting in the Salisbury Room

20:00     Reception and Dinner in the Prestonfield Room

Friday 16 September 2005

08:45     Coffee in the Salisbury Room

09:00    “Pervasive Networks – A Defensive and Security Sector Perspective”
            John Innes, SELEX (formerly BAE Systems)

09:40     “Location Discovery in SpeckNets” () (Video)
            Ryan McNally, University of Edinburgh

10:00     “SpeckZones and Mobile Specks”  (Video)
            Andrew Bates, University of Edinburgh

10:20     “Channel Estimation for Short Range Wireless Sensor Network” () (Video)
            Faisal Darbari, University of Strathclyde

10:40     Coffee Break in the Salisbury Room

11:00     “Optical Triangulation in Specks” () (Video)
            Chris Reardon,

11:20     “Optical Beam Steering” () (Video)
            Christina Carlsson,


11:40     Lunch in the Salisbury Room

13:00     “Speckled Computing: A New Challenge for Human-Computer Interaction”() (Video)
            Matthew Leach, Napier University

13:20     “Tracking Time” (Video)
            Vanessa Bullick, Edinburgh College of Art

13:40     “Tracking Time: Technical Details” (Video)
            Janek Mann, University of Edinburgh

14:00     Demonstrations/Discussions (Coffee available)

16:00     Close