[4eyes] Fwd: Fwd: [FACULTY] CS Colloquium: Monday, August 27, 2012: Nigel Davies (NOTE: talk is at 11am)

[Matthew Turk]

A talk next Monday in CS on the transformation of public displays....

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> UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT PRESENTS:
>
> Monday, August 27, 2012
> 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
> Room 1132 Harold Frank Hall
>
> HOST: Elizabeth Belding
>
> SPEAKER: Nigel Davies
> Professor, Lancaster University
>
> Title: A Communications Medium for the 21st Century : Towards Open 
> Public Display Networks
>
> Abstract:
>
> Most public displays deployed today literally disappear: people have 
> become so accustomed to their low utility that they have become highly 
> skilled at ignoring them. In contrast to Mark Weiser's influential 
> vision of the ``Computer for the 21st Century,'' however, public 
> displays of the 21st century should not disappear. Rather they should 
> become the backbone of a new global communications medium that 
> provides valuable information to viewers who are motivated to actively 
> embrace the technology. In this talk I will argue that the 
> transformation of public displays to this new communications medium 
> requires significant innovation that can only occur through opening 
> display networks to applications and content from a wide range of 
> sources, such as city officials, local residents, and visitors. Based 
> on this idea I will discuss our work in creating the building blocks 
> to realise this vision and our experiences of running an experimental 
> public display system for over seven years.
>
> Bio:
>
> Nigel Davies is a Professor in the School of Computing and 
> Communications at Lancaster University and was the Department Head 
> from 2008-2011. He was previously an Associate Professor at the 
> University of Arizona and has held visiting positions at SICS, Sony's 
> Distributed Systems Lab in San Jose, the Bonn Institute of Technology 
> and ETH Zurich where he worked on public display systems. At present 
> he is a visiting scientist at Google Research. He holds a PhD from 
> Lancaster University. Nigel is active in the research community and 
> has co-chaired both Ubicomp and MobiSys conferences. He is the 
> editor-in-chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing and chair of the steering 
> committee for ACM HotMobile. Nigel is a member of the ACM and the IEEE.
>
> -- 
> Tiffany Sabado
> Assistant to the Chair
> Computer Science Department
> Phone (805) 893-2207
> Fax (805) 893-8553
>
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