Tuesday 1 Nov 2005
405 Soda
11:30am - 1:00pm

Title: Programming Models and Languages

Speaker: David Gay, Intel Research, Berkeley

Abstract: This talks presents and contrasts three models for programming sensor
networks: nesC, a low-level, close to the hardware language; Maté, an
infrastructure for building application-specific virtual machines; and
TinySQL, a programming model which views the sensor network as a queriable
database. In particular, this talk looks at how each of these models address
the unique challenges and requirements of sensor networks.

Bio: David Gay obtained his PhD, on region-based memory management,
from UC Berkeley in 2001. Since then, he has been working on system
and programming language support for sensor networks at Intel
Research, Berkeley.