IBM Israel Research Seminars

We are facing an unprecedented proliferation of mobile devices, many equipped with unregulated wireless technologies such as Bluetooth or 802.11. This environment will enable a new class of local search-and-discover applications that are independent of an infrastructure or a database server. We are currently building a platform, called MOBI-DIK, for supporting such applications. In this talk I will discuss the research challenges in MOBI-DIK.

Speaker Bio
Ouri Wolfson's main research interests are in database systems, distributed systems, and mobile/pervasive computing. He is currently the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directs the Databases and Mobile Computing Laboratory, and the newly established Mobile Information Systems Research Center. He is also an Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He served as a consultant to Argonne National Laboratory, to the US Army Research Laboratories, and to the Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences at NASA. He is the founder of Mobitrac, a high-tech startup specializing in advanced fleet management software; it has about forty employees in Chicago and lists major companies such as Fedex among it clients. Before joining the University of Illinois he has been on the computer science faculty at the Technion and Columbia University, and he has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories.

Ouri Wolfson authored close to 130 publications, and holds three patents. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, an editor of the ACM/URSI/Baltzer Wireless Networks Journal, a Member of the ACM SIGMOD Digital Review Editorial Board and served as a guest editor for several issues of the ACM/Baltzer Journal on Special Topics in Mobile Networks. He is the 2001 recipient of the UIC College of Engineering Faculty Research Award. He served as a Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery during 2001-2003. He participated in numerous conferences (including ACM-SIGMOD, VLDB, PODS, ICDE, NGITS, ICDCS, MOBIDATA, DOOD, SSD, GIS, PDIS, CIKM) as a program committee member, keynote speaker, tutorial presenter, session chairman, and panelist. His research has been funded at a level close to ten million dollars by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), NATO, US Army, NASA, the New York State Science and Technology Foundation, Hughes Research Laboratories, Informix Co, and Accenture Co.