Title: RFID: Bridging Enterprise Applications with Real-World
Speaker: Dr Tao Lin
Director of Auto-ID in SAP Research
SAP Labs LLC, Palo Alto
Date: Tuesday, 28th August
Time: 11-12
Venue: K17-113 (Level 1 Seminar Room) UNSW
Host: Xuemin Lin (dbg@unsw)
Abstract: RFID technology is significant to enterprise applications as this
technology can enable enterprise to automatically react to real-world. This
talk will introduce how this new technololgy work with enterprise applications.
Besides the tradtional B2B communication, RFID and Auto-ID technology brings
two additional communication channels for inventory data: global level and
physical object level. This talk will discuss the challenges and opportunities
of RFID to enterprise applications in particular with those two additional
channels. We will introduce some key research issues and initial results.
Bio: Dr. Tao Lin: Director of Auto-ID in SAP Research, SAP Labs LLC, Palo Alto.
Since 2001, Dr. Lin led the design and development of a research system that
integrates RFID with SAP enterprise applications. This research prototype has
been used successfully for the pilot with Metro Future Store and the pilot with
P&G and Wal-Mart. Based on this research system, SAP has developed an Auto-ID
Infrastructure product which is No 1 with both customers and revenue in RFID
deployment. Dr. Lin was a member of SAP RFID core team and has been heavily
involved in technical and partnership strategy for SAP's Auto-ID solutions.
Before joined SAP, Dr. Lin was an Application Architect in SGI and led the
development of a framework for the data mining and visualization applications.
As a research scientist, Dr. Lin worked in CSIRO Mathematical and Information
Science Division, Australia from 1993 to 1999. Dr. Lin holds a Ph.D. in
Computer Science from University of Newcastle, Australia.
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Title: Streamspin: Enabling Mobile 2.0
Speaker: Prof Christian S. Jensen
Center for Data-intensive Systems
Department of Computer Science
Aalborg University
Time: 11am, 23rd July (Mon)
Venue: Level 1 seminar room at CSE, K17, UNSW
Host: Xuemin Lin (dbg@unsw)
Abstract:
The new Internet, known as Web 2.0, embraces an abundance of new, innovative technologies and services. We are also witnessing the rapid emergence of a communication and computing infrastructure that encompasses hundreds of millions of people with mobile devices, such as mobile phones, with Internet connectivity. This infrastructure
enables the Internet to go mobile. Indications are that the mobile Internet will be "bigger" than the conventional Internet.
This talk describes the background and aspirations of a new research project that aims to contribute to enabling Mobile 2.0. The project is concerned with data management aspects of innovative mobile Internet services, including push-based and context-aware services. It envisions websites that enable users to easily create, publish, and
share services, and that supports the delivery of services to millions of concurrent users. Put simply, the project aims to develop technologies that enable sites that are for mobile services what YouTube is for video.
In addition to covering the vision and current status of the project, the talk briefly covers two geo-context components that are being integrated into the system as web services. The first aims to enable services that rely on the tracking of the continuously changing positions of populations of mobile-service users. The second aims to
extend the geo-context of a user to include not only the user's current location, but also the user's (anticipated) destination and route towards that destination.
About the speaker:
Christian S. Jensen, Ph.D., Dr.Techn., is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark.
His research concerns data management and spans issues of semantics, modeling, and performance. With his colleagues, he receives substantial national and international funding for his research, and he has authored or coauthored many scientific papers. He is a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the EDBT Endowment, and the VLDB Endowment's Board of Trustees. He received Ib Henriksen's
Research Award 2001 for his research in mainly temporal data management and Telenor's Nordic Research Award 2002 for his research in mobile services.
His service record includes the editorial boards of ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE and the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. He was the general chair of the 1995 International Workshop on Temporal Databases and a vice PC chair for ICDE 1998. He was PC chair or co-chair for the Workshop on Spatio-Temporal Database Management, held with VLDB 1999, for SSTD 2001, EDBT 2002, VLDB 2005, and MobiDE 2006. He co-chairs the PC of MDM 2007, and is a vice PC chair of ICDE 2008. He serves on the boards of directors and advisors for a small number of companies.
