Inaugural lecture: Prof D K Arvind

Professor D K Arvind presents his inaugural lecture "Speckled Computing".

A specknet is a wireless network of autonomous specks which provides one or more services: each speck is capable of sensing and is programmed to process this data, and a collection of specks collaborate to extract information from the sensed data in a distributed manner.

Specknets link the physical world of sensory data with the virtual world of network of computers. Specknet on the person with the appropriate sensors can, for example, monitor movement and physiological conditions and, in turn, infer the state of his/her well being which can be transmitted over the internet. Computation with specknets, or Speckled Computing, affords new modes of interaction with the digital world in which the physical world is the primary site of interaction.

The talk will give a broad overview of Speckled Computing and will be illustrated with examples of applications in healthcare, digital media and environmental monitoring.

Recorded 18 January 2012 at the Informatics Forum, The University of Edinburgh.

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