Where: Bldg 20 Auditorium
Credit: 1
Description
The Global Positioning System GPS has been a driver for so many applications that it is often considered to be a key technology of our time. GPS is not only the dominant positioning service, but it is also the most important source for accurate timing. While GPS is 40 years old, several novel ideas have been popping up recently. In this talk, the speaker will present some of these exciting new developments: In particular, he will show how to drastically improve the energy consumption of a GPS tracker, how to achieve indoor localization, and how to prevent location spoofing. He will start out with an introduction to the fundamentals of GPS, including the importance of GPS for the global time standard UTC.
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Roger Wattenhofer
Roger is a full professor at the Information Technology and Electrical Engineering Department, ETH Zurich, Switzerland. He received his doctorate in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. He also worked at Microsoft Research in Redmond, Washington, at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, and at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. His research interests are a variety of algorithmic and systems aspects in computer science and information technology. His work received multiple awards, e.g. the Prize for Innovation in Distributed Computing for his work in Distributed Approximation. He published the book “Distributed Ledger Technology: The Science of the Blockchain“, which has been translated to Chinese, Korean and Vietnamese.
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