About the talk:
 

Energy is a scarce resource in today's economy. Energy conservation is limited by our poor visibility into how energy is produced, distributed, and consumed. I will describe recent work in instrumenting homes, offices, and data centers so that we can better account for where the energy goes and optimize for the energy use. Designing a monitoring and control system of this scale requires rethinking of the networking, programming, and system management of sensor network systems.

 

About the speaker:
 

Feng Zhao (http://research.microsoft.com/~zhao) is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he manages the Networked Embedded Computing Group. He received a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT. Dr. Zhao was a Principal Scientist at Xerox PARC and directed PARC's sensor network research effort. He serves as the founding Editor-In-Chief of ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, and has authored or co-authored over 100 technical papers and books, including a recent book published by Morgan Kaufmann - Wireless Sensor Networks: An information processing approach (with Leo Guibas). He has received a number of awards, and his work has been featured in news media such as BBC World News, BusinessWeek, and Technology Review.