Summer School on Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing

The intended audience are post-graduate students, PhD students, and young researchers. The goal is to provide a basic survey of the most relevant subfields, to present the perspectives and the underlying technologies, but also to identify the pertinent issues that form the new field of ubiquitous and pervasive computing, and to identify important research themes. The school will provide a good opportunity to get to know other people working in the field, to meet distinguished scholars, and to establish contacts that may lead to research collaborations in the future.

Topics include:

• Middleware and pervasive computing infrastructures
• Radio tags, smartcards and embedded computers
• Models of context and context awareness
• Location models and location awareness
• Wireless networks and mobile computing
• Wearable computing
• Perception and computer vision
• Human-computer interaction
• Smart environments and smart spaces
• Physical-virtual integration
• Device aggregation and interoperation
• Security and privacy

Participation is open to all qualified applicants, but the number of participants is limited to a maximum of about 60. The registration fee is EUR 650. Applicants should register before June 7, 2002, but preferably as soon as possible at http://www.inf.ethz.ch/vs/events/dag2002/#registration.