USENIX Workshop on Embedded Systems Call for Papers

Robert Hettinga (rah@shipwright.com)
Tue, 5 Jan 1999 22:17:24 -0500

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Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 16:09:44 -0800
To: rah@shipwright.com
From: Cynthia Deno <cynthia@usenix.org>
Subject: USENIX Workshop on Embedded Systems Call for Papers

Robert Hettinga,

Would you consider please forwarding this notice on to your moderated dcsb
mailing list. Dan Geer, a member of the USENIX board and reader of your
list, suggests that it will be of interest to other readers.

Your help is much appreciated,

Cynthia Deno, Marketing Diector
USENIX Association

WORKSHOP ON EMBEDDED SYSTEMS
    March 29-31, 1999
    MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Workshop Web site: http://www.usenix.org/events/es99/

Sponsored by
USENIX, The Advanced Computing Systems Association, and
MIT Media Laboratory

Call for Papers
    January 31: Extended abstracts due
    February 10: Acceptance notification
    March 15: Full papers due

Program Committee Co-Chairs
    Dan Geer, geer@world.std.com, CertCo
    Mike Hawley, mike@media.mit.edu, MIT Media Lab

There will be no registration fees. The program committee will limit
attendance to 60 selected individuals.

The goal of this workshop is to convene a limited number of leading
engineers and researchers from a cross section of academia, industry, and
government to discuss critical challenges in developing and deploying
embedded intelligence over a wide range of applications. These are "out of
the box" systems in every way, shape, and form. They demand big, bold,
maverick thinking.

This meeting will consist of invited talks, refereed papers, and
work-in-progress reports. Plenty of informal mingling opportunities include
an Open House at the Media Lab in conjunction with the Things That Think
consortium.

We hope the results will help clarify and coordinate the research and
development agenda in embedded systems, recognizing that, in engineering
and science, getting the problem statement right is much of the battle. Be
prepared to engage in discussions that will encompass a range of areas from
low-level materials innovations to novel forms of networking, new kinds of
software systems to groundbreaking applications, usability to high-level
policy.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Applications in unusual domains: toys, appliances, cars, human implants, etc.
* Capillary network architectures (Bluetooth, IrDA, PLC, etc)
* Software systems to make these systems work
* Case studies, and cost-benefit analyses
* New interface paradigms
* Self-healing and self-assembling systems
* Drastic scaling issues
* Secure communications
* Emerging standards

Best Paper Awards will be given for the best paper and best student paper
at the conference.

The USENIX Student Stipends program may cover travel and hotel to enable
full-time students to attend. Preference is given to students who are
speakers.
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USENIX is the Advanced Computing Systems Association. Its international
membership includes engineers,scientists, and technicians working on the
cutting edge of systems and software. Our conferences are recognized for
delivering pragmatically-oriented technical excellence in a highly
interactive, vendor-neutral forum.

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