U.S.-Egypt Workshop on: Ubiquitous Computing: Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks, December, 2007, Cairo, Egypt

该合同将支持2007年12月在埃及开罗举行的“无处不在的计算：传感器和无线传感器网络美国-埃及研讨会”。美国的组织者是博士。位于拉斐特的路易斯安那大学计算机科学系的Magdy Bayoumi和Mohamed Elgamel说。埃及组织者是埃及开罗电子研究所（ERI）的主席Ayman El-Dessouki博士。研讨会将汇集来自美国和埃及的研究人员和工程师，讨论智能传感器设计和无线传感器网络的多学科研发问题，以及它们在普适计算中的应用。会议将组织讨论传感器节点的概念，该网络的硬件和软件设计过程。重点将放在未来计算系统物理层的使能技术、传感器网络的无线协议、工业、医疗和娱乐领域的应用、高性能网络基础设施、大型系统协作建模以及社会、经济和文化领域的应用。讲习班将包括全体会议和以技术为重点的平行会议。将组织两次小组讨论，以帮助确定美国和埃及研究人员之间共同感兴趣的领域和潜在的合作。来自中东的其他国家将被邀请参加，以建立美国科学家和这些国家科学家之间的长期合作研究项目。智力优势：涉及传感器和执行器的微系统和纳米系统技术发展迅速。传感器技术已经实现了各种各样的当前和潜在的应用和服务，包括无线通信、生物医学应用、微型机器人、遥感和环境应用的分布式传感器网络。下一代智能传感器需要完全集成、低成本、可靠，并完全采用微系统技术集成电路。MEMS技术的进步使各种各样的微型智能传感器成为可能，这些传感器应用于生物医学、汽车、军事、环境和射频无线通信系统。在普适计算中集成这些物理设备的新功能对于实现该领域的高性能分布式传感器网络非常重要。埃及和美国之间的研讨会和合作将带来知识的转移，为两国的学生和教师提供交流访问的机会，并有可能制定涉及埃及工业和消费电子部门的具体应用项目。更广泛的影响：研讨会的主要目标是关注知识的现状和创新技术，包括智能传感器的设计、建模和制造。组织者将确保代表性不足的群体的最大参与，参与者的多样性，并包括初级教员、妇女、少数民族和残疾科学家和工程师。该项目得到了美国-埃及联合基金项目的支持，该项目向两国的科学家和工程师提供资助，以开展这些联合科学活动。

0723952 BayoumiDescription: This award is to support a "US-Egypt Workshop on Ubiquitous Computing: Sensors and Wireless Sensor Networks" to be held in Cairo, Egypt in December 2007. The U.S. organizers are Drs. Magdy Bayoumi and Mohamed Elgamel, Department of Computer Science at the University of Louisiana in Lafayette. The Egyptian organizer is Dr. Ayman El-Dessouki, President of the Electronic Research Institute (ERI), Cairo, Egypt. The workshop is to bring together researchers and engineers from both the US and Egypt to discuss multidisciplinary R&D issues in smart sensors design and wireless sensor networks, and their applications in ubiquitous computing. Sessions will be organized to address the concept of sensor nodes, the process of designing hardware and software of this network. Focus will be placed on enabling technologies for the physical layer of a future computing system, wireless protocols for sensor networks, applications in industry, medicine, and entertainment, high performance network infrastructure, and applications in cooperative modeling of large systems, and in social, economic, and cultural fields. The workshop will include plenary sessions and technology-focused parallel sessions. Two panel discussions will be organized to help identify mutual areas of interest and potential collaborations between US and Egyptian researchers. Other countries from the Middle East will be invited to participate, to establish long-term collaborative research projects between US scientists and those from these countries. Intellectual Merit: There is a rapid growth of microsystems and nanosystem technologies which involve sensors and actuators. Sensor technology has enabled a wide variety of current and potential applications and services including wireless communications, biomedical applications, microrobotics, remote sensing and distributed sensor networks for environmental applications. Next-generation smart sensors need to be fully integrated, low cost, reliable, and fully costumed with IC using microsystem technology. Advances in the MEMS technology has enabled a wide variety of smart sensors, miniature in size, and which have applications for biomedical, automotive, military, environmental, and RF wireless communication systems. Integrating these new capabilities of physical devices in the ubiquitous computing is important to enable a high performance distributed network of sensors in this field. The workshop and collaboration between Egypt and the US will result in the transfer of knowledge, opportunities for exchange visits for students and faculty from both countries, and the possibility for formulating specific applied projects involving the industrial and consumer electronics sectors in Egypt. Broader Impact: The main goal of the workshop is to focus on the state of knowledge and the innovative technologies, which involve design, modeling, and fabrication of smart sensors. The organizers will ensure maximum participation of underrepresented groups, the diversity of the participants and the inclusion of junior faculty members, women, and minority and disabled scientists and engineers. This project is being supported under the US-Egypt Joint Fund Program, which provides grants to scientists and engineers in both countries to carry out these joint scientific activities.