Software engineering student powering up nano chips
A School of Computer Science software engineering student is helping to solve one of pervasive computing's pervasive problems - how to improve the efficiency of mobile sensors that are being used to track objects in a ubiquitous computing environment. David Kooymans won a CSIRO scholarship to spend 12 weeks at CSIRO's Queensland Centre for Advanced Technology which is developing miniature sensors, called FLECK Nanos, for a range of applications from finding missing objects to livestock control in rural Australia.
David is quoted as saying that he wanted some real world experience and welcomed the opportunity to work in the CSIRO's world-class research facility during his summer break. His work has helped to improve the power usage of the mobile sensors.
Read the Canberra Times article, "Quietly sensitive new age chips," by Nyssa Skilton, Canberra Times, 28 February 2010.
