3rd Workshop in Speckled Computing

Friday 20 May 2005

08:30 Registration with coffee in the Bonnar Room

09:00 Welcome
            D K Arvind, University of Edinburgh

09:20    “Rechargeable Batteries for Specknet” (PPT)
            Allan Paterson, University of St Andrews

09:40    “Optical Beam Steering” (PPT)
            Christina Carlsson, University of St Andrews

10:00    “Optical Triangulation” (PPT)
            Chris Reardon, University of St Andrews

10:20    “Miniaturisation of Antennas for Specknet” (PPT)
            Griogair Whyte, University of Glasgow

10:40    “Prototype Low Power RF Front End” (PPT)
            Ian McGregor, University of Glasgow

11:00     Coffee Break in the Bonnar Room

11:20    “Multicast routing on ProSpeckz II” (PPT)
            Martin Ling, University of Edinburgh

11:40    “Power Aware SpeckZones” (PPT)
            Andrew Bates, University of Edinburgh

12:00    “Memory and Bandwidth Considerations for Location Maintenance” (PPT)
            Ryan McNally, University of Edinburgh

12:20    “Thoughts on Location” (PPT)
            Alex Young, University of Edinburgh

12:40    “Ideas for Programming Specknets” (PPT)
            Andy Koppe, University of Edinburgh

13:00    “ProSpeckz Applications:  Two Case Studies”
            Steven Wong, University of Edinburgh

13:20    Lunch in the Bonnar Room

14:20    “Visualising Social Space with Networked Jewellery” (PPT)
            Sarah Kettley, Napier University

14:40    “Offering a View of the Invisible” (PPT)
            Mathew Leach, Napier University

15:00    “Self-Organisation in Specknets” (PPT)
            Tom Ten Thij, Napier University

15:20   Edinburgh Research and Innovation
            Nora Kellock and Derek Waddell

16:00    Coffee Break in the Bonnar Room

16:20    “A Low-Power OOK Digital Transceiver” (PPT)
            Neil MacEwen, University of Strathclyde

16:40    “A Low-Power OOK digital Transceiver – Moving Forward” (PPT)
            Louise Crockett, University of Strathclyde

17:00    “Wireless Channel Estimation” (PPT)
            Faisal Darbari, University of Strathclyde

17:20    “Performance Issues of Non-Coherent Envelope Detectors” (PPT)
            Eugen Pfann, University of Strathclyde

17:40    Round-up

18:00    Close