We are pleased to announce that Prof. Jacob Sorber, Professor at Clemson University, USA, will be giving a talk on his research on intermittent computing.

Title: Learning to Compute without Reliable Power

Date and location: Monday, 26.06.23 at 11:30 am in room HS28 - 0.08

You are warmly invited!

Abstract

The Internet of Things is just hype until we learn to compute without batteries and reliable power. We are simply not going to recharge, replace, and dispose of trillions of batteries. Battery-less sensing devices offer a more sustainable option (smaller, cheaper, more environmentally friendly) that can be deployed for decades (batteries typically wear out after 2–5 years), but they store less energy and lose power more often. Even with energy harvesting advances, today's batteryless devices are difficult to program, test, and deploy, due to unpredictable energy supplies, limited energy storage, and frequent power failures.

Biography

Jacob Sorber is a Dean's Professor of Computer Science at Clemson University. His work makes mobile sensors and embedded systems more efficient, robust, deployable, and secure, by exploring novel systems (both hardware and software) and languages. His research has received support by the National Science Foundation (including a CAREER Award), the US Geological Survey, General Electric, and other sources. He works on problems in health, biology, agriculture, and manufacturing. Before joining Clemson, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth College and a graduate student at UMass Amherst.