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Student poster sessions are one of the favorite events of the workshop. Here, students demonstrate a real-time sign language interpreter.

The Industry Madness session included industry leaders with products focused on IoT. It offered great insight into where industry sees IoT moving toward and what applications will
be coming out in the future.

lively, interactive talks, followed by an
outdoor student poster session and then
the Industry Madness session.
Keynote Speaker Dr. Scott Hanson,
vice president of engineering/chief
technology officer of Ambiq Micro,
started the workshop off with "Chasing Down Every Last Picojoule in the
Internet of Things." He focused on
the billions of battery-powered devices that will be shipped as part
of the IoT explosion; subthreshold

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operation, energy-efficient microcontrollers, radios, sensors, and
power electronics with a focus on
how dramatic improvements to the
energy efficiency can be provided by
software, which is something that is
often overlooked.
Prof. Edward A. Lee, Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professor in the
Electrical Engineering and Computer
Science Department at the University of California, Berkeley, gave the

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next keynote talk titled "Better Engineering Through Better Models." He
talked about how IoT application is
a cyberphysical system (CPS), rooted
in web and cloud technology, which
was not designed for interactions
with physical processes. He then
provided alternative views of the
CPS design problem that focuses on
deterministic models for distributed
cyberphysical systems.
The final keynote speaker was
Jamie Smith, director of embedded
systems at National Instruments,
whose talk, "Smart Edge Devices Are
the Key Building Block of the Industrial Internet of Things," focused on
common architecture and tools used
to build IoT systems today for energy,
transportation, and manufacturing.
One of the most anticipated
events of the day was the student
poster session that fills up each
year. Students from regional universities talked about their recent work
and advancements in the engineering field. Industry leaders and
academics spent time viewing the
posters and networking. Based on
feedback, many of the participants'
favorite part of the workshop was
this time geared toward discussions
of IoT advancements.
The final event was an Industry
Madness session where local companies sent engineering leaders for
a panel discussion and demo session. Companies that participated
included ARM (Bill Curtis), Freescale
(Emmanuel Sambuis), Samsung (Mohan Chirala), and Texas Instruments
(Xiaolin Lu), each talking about IoT
from their company's research and
product development perspective.
This year's organizers included Taylor Barton, Jennifer Dworak, Jiang
Hu, Roozbeh Jafari (chair), Sunil
Khatri, Farinaz Koushanfar, Zhuo Li,
Bao Liu, Kevin Nesmith, David Pan,
Nan Sun, Cliff Sze, Natarajan Viswanathan, Duncan Walker, and Seth
Wilk (cochair).
-Seth Wilk
SSCS/CAS-Central Texas
Joint Chapter Chair

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