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Community Sense and Response Systems: Your Phone as Quake Detector
February 18, 2015 @ 6:45 pm
Annie Liu, Software Engineer, Facebook
Michael Olson, Software Engineer, Google
Agenda
*** Alternate HP Location ***
6:30 Doors Open, Food & Networking
7:00 Presentation
*** Please arrive by 7 PM due to Security ***
Event Details
The proliferation of smartphones and other powerful sensor-equipped consumer devices enables a new class of Web application: community sense and response (CSR) systems, distinguished from standard Web applications by their use of community-owned commercial sensor hardware. Just as social networks connect and share human-generated content, CSR systems gather, share, and act on sensory data from users’ Internet-enabled devices. In this talk, we discuss the Caltech Community Seismic Network (CSN) as a CSR system harnessing accelerometers in smartphones and consumer electronics, including the systems and algorithmic challenges of designing, building, and evaluating a scalable network for real-time awareness of dangerous earthquakes.
Speaker Bio
Annie Liu is an engineer at Facebook working on entity classification to help grow and improve the Facebook graph. In the past life she was a PhD student at Caltech doing research in the intersection between machine learning and sensor networks.
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/annie-h-liu/24/520/637
Michael Olson is an engineer at Google working on cloud infrastructure for providing Google services externally. Michael got his PhD from Caltech working on algorithms for fusing sensor data in cloud platforms.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/micolson
They were two of the coauthors for the cover story of the July 2014 CACM
Event page provided by ACM
https://www.sfbayacm.org/event/community-sense-and-response-systems-your-phone-quake-detector