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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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Atlanta, GA | Posted: May 27, 2008
Shwetak Patel, a Ph.D. candidate in the School of
Interactive Computing (SIC) took home the Best Paper Award from the Pervasive
Computing 2008 conference, which was held May 19-22 in Sydney, Australia.
Professor Gregory Abowd, Patel’s faculty adviser, and Matt Reynolds,
former Senior Research Scientist in SIC and now assistant professor at Duke
University, contributed to the winning paper titled “Detecting Human
Movement by Differential Air Pressure Sensing in HVAC System Ductwork: An
Exploration in Infrastructure Mediated Sensing.”
Patel also won the Best Paper and Best Presentation awards
at Ubicomp 2007 and was nominated for best paper at the Pervasive Computing
conference in 2006. In his five years as a graduate student at the College of
Computing, Patel has published nine full papers at these two top forums for
research in ubiquitous computing.
