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6/7/2007: 15:00—15:50 at Glasgow East 117
Modern smartphones are computational equivalents of PCs of just a few years ago. As powerful as the phones are, they are used only a fraction of the time they are switched on. When not used, they are twiddling--using up battery and doing nothing in anticipation that they may be used. While twiddling, they could be used as personal servers for a variety of applications. TwiddleNet is a mobile personal server network which harnesses the power of smartphones to enable 1) instant content capture and publish, 2) full owner control of content, and 3) search, view and download of content which was previously inaccessible. TwiddleNet is useful for a number of applications including social networking, first-responder networking and information sharing, and applications that require immediate content capture and dissemination (traffic condition reporting, disaster reporting). The TwiddleNet portal can be scaled down depending on the need of the application. It can run on handheld devices to support small first-responder teams and on large computers to link together millions of smartphones sharing images and video.
Speaker Bio: Gurminder Singh is a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Center for the Study of Mobile Devices and Communications at NPS. His primary focus is wireless networking and handheld devices. Prior to NPS, he was the President and CEO of NewsTakes, Inc., a company specializing in repurposing of multimedia content for delivery to wireless networks and devices. Dr. Singh has been involved with ACM and IEEE for many years in conference organization and editing special journal issues. He has published extensively. Dr. Singh founded the ACM Virtual Reality Software and Technology Conference in 1994 and co-chaired VRST ’05.
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