Title: Department of Computer Science Seminar
Date:  Friday, 7 March 2003
Time:  2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Speaker: Dr Chris Johnson (DCS at ANU)

Title:   Picking a Winner in Wireless


Abstract:
  The dot.comm boom included the development of light-weight wireless
  communication technologies WiFi (IEEE 802.11b) in the world of
  Ethernetted computers, Bluetooth in the world of personal devices and
  computers - and GPRS in the world of mobile phones - with no apparent
  commercial killer dominating the others.

  The question of which technology is worth an investment of research
  effort for a Cooperative Research Centre or a university department
  requires some answer to the question of which, if any, will be dominant
  in 10 years' time - or even in existence.

  Since no two technologies are ever in exactly the same part of the
  market there is a flavour of comparing apples and oranges - but I will
  try to make a fruitful comparison of these technologies using simple
  models of usability, technology adoption and dominance. 


Biography:
  Chris Johnson is a Bachelor graduate of Information Science (as it was
  then called) at Monash University and a PhD in Computer Science from ANU.
  He has worked at the Universities of York (UK), Monash, UNSW (Duntroon),
  and since 1986, ANU -  with research interests in distributed and parallel
  computer systems, programming languages, and software engineering. He has
  been Head of the Department of Computer Science at ANU since 1998 during
  a time of very rapid growth in its teaching programs. He was also a
  researcher and project leader in the ACSys Advanced Computational Systems
  CRC and now has the same role in the Intelligent Environments Program of
  the Smart Internet Technology CRC.
  Chris has been a member of the Executive of the Australasian Computer
  Science Association and its Treasurer, organising chair of the Australasian
  Computer Science Week 2000, and organiser of WICAPUC - the Wearable,
  Invisible, Context-Aware etc etc Computers workshop at ACSW 2003.
  Extra-curricular activities include a lot of cooking and a little
  book-binding. 


URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars03/dept20030307