Weekly Seminar: Jacob Sorber (Canceled)
September 26, 2024
When: October 3rd @ 11am
Where: TMCB 1170
Talk Title: Adventures in intermittent power and faith
"The Internet of Things has a battery problem. We simply can’t afford to recharge, replace, and dispose of trillions of batteries. Batteryless computing offers hope of a more sustainable future with devices that can be deployed maintenance-free for decades, but they are difficult to design, program, test, and deploy, due to frequent and unpredictable power failures. This talk will explore lessons learned from two decades of research on intermittently-powered systems and the transformative power of uncertainty and hope in the journeys of disciples and scholars."
Jacob Sorber is a Professor and Computer Science Division Chair 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 been supported by the NSF
(including a CAREER Award), the USGS, General Electric and other sources. He works on problems in health,
biology, agriculture, and manufacturing with an emphasis on using less energy and enabling untethered
devices that don't need batteries. Before joining Clemson, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Dartmouth
College, a graduate student at UMass Amherst, and an undergraduate student at BYU.