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» Magda El Zarki » Michael Franz » Scott Jordan » Sharad Mehrotra » Padhraic Smyth » Nalini Venkatasubramanian Mobile computing extends the Internet into its next phase, beyond the PC and wired connections to a complex but seamless communication network of high-speed wireless nodes that are cheap, prolific, always on and accessed through a variety of technologies.
These new devices will include palm-sized computers and Internet-enabled phones and also sensors, processors embedded in physical objects, and, perhaps, even microprocessors inside human beings.
The Bren School hosts an infrastructure for exploration of research issues related to mobile computing and wireless communication. Researchers are investigating several areas of research related to mobile computing and communication, including:
» Data organization
» Protocols for low power mobile access
» WLAN performance testing
» Access point-based transmitter power control
» HCI and mobile platform usability researchMore information : http://nil.ics.uci.edu/labs/mobile.html
Professor of informatics Crista Lopes (left) and professor of chemical engineering Stanley Grant are developing a web-based watershed information and management tool called the California Sustainable Wetland Information Manager, CalSWIM. 