The speakers at this week's seminar will be Susan Lysecky and Frank Vahid.

Abstract:

"The eBlocks project, at UC Riverside, is empowering regular people, having no programming or electronics experience, to build basic useful electronic systems around the home, office, store, etc. While decreases in cost, size, and power consumption has led to the integration of embedded systems into new emerging domains, including RFID tags and ingestible pills, the design of even the simplest of embedded systems, such a system indicating when a garage door has been left open at night, still requires advanced engineering skills beyond the reach of most users. "

The Informatics Seminar is held in ICS2 136 at 3pm, followed by a happy hour at 4pm. See you there!

This talk will be videocaptured, broadcast live, and archived via this blog. 15 minutes before the live broadcast we will publish a multicast ".spd" file which will allow a quicktime client to tune into the event.