organizers
Simon Mayer
Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich - Zurich, Switzerland
Simon Mayer is working as a PhD student and Research Assistant in the Internet of Things/Web of Things domain at the Institute for Pervasive Computing, ETH Zurich. His main research topics are aspects of integrating smart things into the Web, like the deployment of such devices, their semantic description, and infrastructures that would support human users and machines in finding and using the information and services provided by such physical artifacts. He is also interested in facilitating the interaction with smart things for end users and in empowering them to monitor and control their things and create physical mashups. Simon also worked as a visiting researcher at MIT's Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity on connecting automobiles to the Web within the CloudThink project. He graduated from ETH Zurich in computer science.
Vlad Trifa
Evrythng Ltd. - Zurich/London
Dr. Vlad Trifa is the co-founder of WebofThings.org and also chief product officer and co-founder of EVRYTHNG, a Swiss-British company that builds the Web of Things. Widely published, Vlad is a recognized expert in networked embedded devices with higher-level applications using Web technologies. Previously, he worked as a researcher in urban and mobile computing at MIT and in Singapore, in bio-acoustics and distributed signal processing at UCLA, and in human-robot interaction and neurosciences at ATR in Kyoto (Japan). He also gained industrial experience in factory automation and enterprise computing working as a research associate at SAP Research. Vlad received a PhD in computer science from ETH Zurich and a MSc in computer science from EPFL.
Dave Raggett
World Wide Web Consortium
Dr. Dave Raggett is the W3C Staff contact for the System Applications Working Group, Near Field Communications Working Group and the Model-Based UI Working Group. He has been closely involved with the development of Web standards since 1992, contributing to work on HTML, HTTP, MathML, XForms, voice and multimodal interaction, ubiquitous web applications, financial data, and privacy and identity. Dave is currently involved in three European FP7 research projects: webinos, Serenoa and COMPOSE, and before that in PrimeLife. In addition to his work on standards, he is a keen programmer which he sees as a practical way to explore new ideas. He was educated in England and obtained his doctorate from the University of Oxford. He currently is a visiting professor at the University of the West of England.
Dominique Guinard
Evrythng Ltd. - Zurich/London
Dr. Dominique Guinard is the CTO of an Internet of Things related startup called EVRYTHNG. He is also the co-founder of the Web of Things initiative and workshop series. During his PhD at ETH Zurich, he researched on the foundations of the Web of Things and especially focused on facilitating application development in the form of physical mashups. He was also a visiting researcher at the Auto-ID Labs of MIT, working on bringing global networks of tagged objects to the Web. Before this he worked 4 years as a research associate for SAP Research, building a service oriented architecture to enable real-world device integration into business software. Dominique had further experiences with several research institutions and companies in the Internet of Things domain such as with Lancaster University, Nokia research or Sun Microsytems. He graduated in Computer Science from the universities of Fribourg and Bern.
program committee
- Michael Blackstock, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Benoit Christophe, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, France
- Carolina Fortuna, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Aitor Gomez-Goiri, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
- Artem Katasonov, VTT Labs, Finland
- Gerd Kortuem, The Open University, UK
- Matthias Kovatsch, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Rodger Lea, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Olivier Liechti, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Switzerland
- Marino Linaje, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain
- Diego López de Ipiña, Universidad de Deusto, Spain
- Friedemann Mattern, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Florian Michahelles, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Guido Moritz, Universität Rostock, Germany
- Claro Noda, Universidade do Minho, Portugal
- Jacques Pasquier, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
- Cesare Pautasso, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI), Switzerland
- David Resseguie, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
- Till Riedel, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
- Andreas Ruppen, Université de Fribourg, Switzerland
- Vlad Stirbu, Nokia, Finland
- Inaki Vazquez, Symplio, Spain
- Erik Wilde, EMC Corporation, USA