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A talk next Monday in CS on the transformation of public
displays....<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">UCSB COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
PRESENTS:<br>
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Monday, August 27, 2012<br>
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM<br>
Room 1132 Harold Frank Hall<br>
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HOST: Elizabeth Belding<br>
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SPEAKER: Nigel Davies<br>
Professor, Lancaster University<br>
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Title: A Communications Medium for the 21st Century :
Towards Open Public Display Networks<br>
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Abstract:<br>
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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.<br>
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Bio:<br>
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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.<br>
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Tiffany Sabado<br>
Assistant to the Chair<br>
Computer Science Department<br>
Phone (805) 893-2207<br>
Fax (805) 893-8553<br>
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