"What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen?" Pervasive Computing Workshop at CIOT 2010

Rob van Kranenburg has been invited to serve on the program committee (PC) of CIOT 2010, a Pervasive Conference Workshop on "What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen?" which will be held on May 17 in Helsinki at the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing. Florian Michahelles (ETH), Stephan Karpischek (ETH), and Albrecht Schmidt (Univ. Duisburg-Essen) will be the chairs of the workshop. A workshop web site has been set up.

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Matt Ratto

Matt Ratto is an Assistant Professor and director of the Critical Making lab in the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto. Past appointments include a postdoctoral position with the Netherlands Institute for Scientific Information (NIWI), researcher and founding member of the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences in Amsterdam (VKS-KNAW), visiting scholar at the University of Amsterdam, and a research position in the Humlab, University of Umea, Sweden. His current research focuses on how hands-on productive work. In particular, Ratto’s work addresses the movement of digital media and information from screens and into the material environment. This trend, known as ‘ambient’ or ‘ubiquitous’ computing, or more colloquially as the ‘Internet of Things’, is the primary focus of his work and builds upon the new possibilities offered by open source software and hardware, and the developing technologies of 3D printing and rapid prototyping.

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Joy Tang

Joy Tang is the Founder of oneVillage Foundation, a global nonprofit organization using innovative approach to deliver the power of technology and information to people in the developing countries, giving them valuable tools for building better lives. She is active in sustainable education and development, promotion of indigenous culture heritage, creation of ecotourism as social enterprise and designing appropriate information and communication technology (ICT) devices and solutions to facilitate collaboration and learning.

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Jiu Jin (Tommy) Hong

Jiu Jin (Tommy) Hong is an embedded software engineer keeping updates for the internet of things development and traditional embedded systems, including GSM/RFID/Sensor/Smart software/MEMS to serve for internet of things development in China, aiming to discover new markets and introducing good 'sensing' products.

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"What can the Internet of Things do for the Citizen?" Pervasive Computing Workshop at CIOT 2010

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