Bruce Childers receives IBM Faculty Partnership Award
Dr. Childers recently received a highly competitive Faculty Partnership Award from the IBM Austin Center for Advanced Studies. This award was given in response to Dr. Childers' research on Power-Aware Information Appliances.
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ABSTRACT:
In the last few years, there has been tremendous growth in the popularity of personal electronics, including cellular phones, personal digital assistants (PDAs), MP3 players, and digital cameras. In the future these devices will connect a variety of appliances and other devices to themselves and to the Internet through wireless ad hoc networks. Some of these devices will be relatively simple, nothing more than small sensors and actuators with a network connection. Other devices, such as set-top boxes and home servers, will be more complex, and have the ability to collect, process, and serve data and interact with one another and users. These more complex devices, called information appliances (IAs), will be extremely small, cooperate and share services, consume negligible energy, be portable and battery-operated, have a wireless network link, and have lightweight server capabilities. One major challenge to achieving this vision is reducing energy consumption, which affects device cost, weight, packaging size and type, quality of service, and mission length. Our work addresses the problems of low power IAs through research in device cooperation and mobile code, computer architecture and compiler optimization, and system power management.
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