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SUMMARY:Earphones: The Next Significant Platform after Smartphones - Romit
  Roy Choudhury (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
DTSTART:20191120T150500Z
DTEND:20191120T155500Z
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DESCRIPTION:Abstract: This talk will argue that “earables” is the next
  significant mobile computing platform after smartphones. With numerous se
 nsors\, processors\, and radios getting embedded into modern earphones\, w
 e envision these devices to create a new eco-system in the next 5 years. E
 arables will run voice assistants like Alexa\; will sense human motion and
  gestures\; will track health metrics through the ear\; and will open new 
 forms of interactions\, such as acoustic AR/VR. The leap from today’s ea
 r-phones to “earables” will mimmic the transformation from basic-phone
 s to smart phones. Today’s smartphones are hardly a calling device anymo
 re\, much like how tomorrow’s earables will hardly be a wireless speaker
  or microphone. This talk will attempt to foresee the road ahead\, startin
 g with the socio-technical drivers and opportunities\, followed by the tec
 hnical research questions that emerge from this new eco-system.\n\nBio: Ro
 mit Roy Choudhury is a Jerry Sanders Scholar and Professor of ECE and CS a
 t the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He joined UIUC fr
 om Fall 2013\, prior to which he was an Associate Professor at Duke Univer
 sity. His research interests are in wireless networking\, embedded sensing
 \, and signal processing. Along with his students\, he received a few rese
 arch awards\, including the 2017 ACM MobiSys Best Paper Award\, the 2016 U
 IUC Distinguished Alumni Award\, the 2015 ACM Sigmobile Rockstar Award\, e
 tc. He was elevated to IEEE Fellow in 2018. Visit Romit's Systems Networki
 ng Research Group (SyNRG) at http://synrg.csl.illinois.edu
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre 2\, Computer Laboratory
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