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Where: TMCB 1170

When: March 20th @ 11AM

Speaker: Jacob Sorber

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 Chair of the Computer Science Division of Clemson University’s School of Computing. 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 Dept. of Energy, 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, a graduate student at UMass Amherst, and an undergraduate student at BYU.

Donuts will be served!