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SEMINAR ANNOUNCEMENT
SPARCCS
– Smartphone-Assisted Readiness, Command and Control System
Gurminder
Singh
Watkins Hall Rooms 275/285, NPS
Thursday, 19 Apr 2012 at 1200
Abstract
SPARCCS – Smartphone-Assisted Readiness, Command, and
Control System - uses smartphones in conjunction with cloud computing to
support distributed response to HA/DR (Humanitarian Assistance/Disaster
Response) and military missions. SPARCCS enables real-time situational
awareness among distributed teams of first responders while
simultaneously ensuring that the command centers receive accurate,
up-to-date reports from the field.
Bio
Dr. Gurminder Singh - Gurminder
Singh is a Professor of Computer Science
and Director of the Center for the Study of Mobile Devices and
Communications at the Naval Postgraduate School
(NPS), CA. His primary area of focus is wireless and handheld
device technology. He is currently involved in research in Mobile Devices
and Wireless Sensor Networks. Prior to NPS, he was the President and CEO
of NewsTakes, Inc., a company specializing in
repurposing of multimedia content for delivery to wireless networks and
devices. He has been involved in this area for the last 10 years. Prior
to NewsTakes, Dr. Singh was Director at the
Kent Ridge Digital Lab (now I2R) where his
responsibilities included strategic directions for research, management
of research staff, and commercialization of intellectual property. He led
an R&D lab focused on a variety of research themes including video
and audio processing, PDAs for students, and online learning communities
for children. His lab contributed significantly to the formation of the
MPEG-7 standard. As a senior researcher in the lab, he was deeply
involved with research in networked media, user interface software, and
networked virtual worlds.
Dr. Singh has helped mentor and spin-off several start-ups in
wireless, internet and multimedia in recent years. He has been on the
management and advisory boards of start-up companies, and has advised
companies and VCs on business plans, intellectual property issues, and
management teams.
Dr. Singh has been involved with ACM and IEEE for many years in organizing
conferences, editing special issues of journals, and publishing in their
journals. He has published extensively and edited special issues of the
Communications of ACM, ACM Transactions on CHI, IEEE Multimedia and ACM
Multimedia Systems etc. Prof. Singh founded the ACM Virtual Reality
Software and Technology Conference in 1994 and co-chaired VRST 2005. He received his Ph.D. in Computing
Science from the University of Alberta, Canada.
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