24-Mar-08
UCLA researchers are setting up a wireless data collection, dissemination and analysis system in Costa Rica's La Selva rainforest Read More
13-Mar-08
CENS student Allen Husker receives an Outstanding Student Paper Award for his presentation: Tomography of the subducting Cocos plate in central Mexico: Images of a truncated slab.
07-Feb-08
CENS Director Deborah Estrin and graduate student Teresa Ko presented CENS research at the NSF FY 2009 Budget Open House. Read More
12-Dec-07
CENS Faculty Christine Borgman has authored a new book in which she "explores the technical, social, legal, and economic aspects of the kind of infrastructure that we should be building for scholarly research in the twenty-first century." Read More
11-Dec-07
CENS Faculty Tom Harmon is leading research using wireless sensors to measure the effects that manure produced by California's dairy industry has on our state's groundwater supply. Read More
28-Nov-07
Just running an elevator up and down is enough to determine the "structural health" of a building, a new study reveals. Read More
15-Nov-07
CENS Faculty Eddie Kohler (Computer Science) has received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), one of 20 such awards made by the National Science Foundation. Read More
14-Nov-07
CENS graduate student researcher Amarjeet Singh has been awarded the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Master of Science Student Award, while undergraduate researcher Andre Encarnacao received the Edward K. Rice Outstanding Undergraduate Student Award. Both awards were announced at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science 2007 Awards Dinner. Congratulations to both students on these prestigious awards. For the full list of student awards, please visit the 2007 Awards Dinner page: Read More
25-Oct-07
CENS Member and UCLA statistician Mark Hansen joins with artist Ben Rubin to create Moveable Type, a work of art displaying statistically selected phrases and individual sentences from the New York Times databases on hundreds of small screens on two walls in the lobby of the Times' new office tower. Read More
05-Jul-07
Sensor networks link students, researchers with real-world data Read More
27-Jun-07
CENS Faculty Member William Kaiser was awarded the prestigious 2007 Gold Shield Faculty Prize. Read More
25-Jun-07
When the stench in Redondo Beach's King Harbor started driving people away, scientists had an idea. Read More
30-Apr-07
CENS Researcher Dave Caron discusses the relationship between increased quantities of algae and domoic acid and the health of marine life. Read More
26-Apr-07
The University of California at Merced on Wednesday announced its first agricultural research project -- one that will study nitrate levels in soil and water. The project is led by CENS faculty member Tom Harmon. Related stories: UC Merced Farming for Research and Education and Ag Coming Together
11-Feb-07
CENS Director Deborah Estrin talks to the Associated Press about CENS research. This AP article was published in over 75 newspapers. Read More
11-Feb-07
CENS researcher Jeff Burke's research project Remapping LA was profiled in UCLA Today. Read More
07-Feb-07
This issue features several articles by CENS members on a variety of CENS Research Projects. Read More
01-Feb-07
Marine biologist Astrid Schnetzer, from the lab of CENS member David Caron, talks with Bill Whitaker, CBS Evening News, about the surge of toxic algae and its effect on marine life. Read More
25-Jan-07
Photograph of CENS members deploying sensors to detect red tides appears on The Beach Reporter homepage. Read More
23-Jan-07
CENS functional new space of glass and steel is highlighted in Architecture Week. Read More
19-Jan-07
David Caron and his team of researchers will be distributing sensors in the water off Redondo Beach to monitor oxygen levels and understand the causes of the fish kills that come with red tide algae blooms. Read More
16-Jan-07
The EETimes covered Director Deborah Estrin's talk last week at the IEEE Radio and Wireless Symposium. Read More
19-Dec-06
CENS has contributed a chapter entitled "Innovations in Environmental Monitoring" to the Institute of the Environment 2006 Report Card. Read the press release or access the report card directly.
20-Sep-06
Since 1999, the editors of Technology Review have honored the young innovators whose inventions and research is most exciting; today that collection is the TR35, a list of technologists and scientists, all under the age of 35. CENS member Eddie Kohler was selected for his "Better Operating System." Read More
09-Aug-06
Research of CENS Member David Caron is mentioned in an article on toxic algae. Read More
11-Jun-06
Where do you go to see the Internet? A mesmerizing answer to that question just went on exhibit at the San Jose Museum of Art, which has unveiled "Listening Post" by Ben Rubin and CENS member Mark Hansen. Read More
07-Jun-06
A new computer installation at the San Jose Museum of Art mines the Internet in real time for found poetry. New York sound artist Ben Rubin and CENS member Mark Hansen first developed "The Listening Post" in 1999-2001. The Listening Post has been mutating and growing ever since. Read More
25-May-06
CENS Professor Jennifer Jay joined KCRW's Which Way, L.A.? as a guest to report on the condition of Southern California beaches. Read More
23-May-06
A UCLA study finds that bacteria persist in wet portions of beaches even when water is deemed clean. Health risks have yet to be determined. CENS Professor Jennifer Jay headed the study. Read More
18-May-06
Lake Fulmor is the site of cutting-edge technology Tuesday, May 9, as the San Jacinto Mountain Reserve hosts robotics engineering and microbiology research teams from UC Riverside, UCLA and USC. The teams deployed a robotic boat that traveled around the lake measuring water temperatures and algae growth, a robotic helicopter equipped with GPS and wireless video, and a wired cable robot that took water samples at varying locations and depths, all pre-programmed and operating autonomously. Here, the USC team's robotic helicopter takes off on its mission to image the lake from above. The scientists will compile data on the health of the lake and return several times this summer to collect more data. Photo by Michael Erlich [PDF with photo]
21-Apr-06
Scientists marking 1906 disaster say future toll could be worse because of surging population and development and lack of retrofitting, CENS researcher Monica Kohler’s work mentioned. Read More
04-Apr-06
Professor William Kaiser comments on how the use of technology is helping us understand how humans impact the environment and how the environment can impact public health. Read More
28-Mar-06
Deborah Estrin has been selected as the 2006-2007 ACM-W Athena Lecturer. She will give her invited lecture at the MobiCom conference in September, a SIGMOBILE meeting. A video of the talk will appear on the ACM Web site. Read More
23-Mar-06
The James Reserve is using Google Earth to display sensor data and webcam views of the Reserve. Visit the James Reserve's Data Management System to download the KMZ file. You must have Google Earth installed. The James Reserve application has been highlighted on the Google Earth Blog and the Ogle Earth blog.
22-Mar-06
Tiny computers that constantly monitor ecosystems, buildings and even human bodies could turn science on its head. Declan Butler investigates. Read More
08-Feb-06
Dr. Michael Hamilton, discusses smart sensors with host Jerry Gordon. Read More
09-Jan-06
A paper on the CENS Illumimote system, a novel high-performance light sensor module for sensor networks in film production, has been awarded the 2nd place award and a cash prize of $2000 at the Student Design Contest (System Category) jointly organized by the prestigious 2006 ACM Design Automation Conference and the 2006 IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference. The paper was co-authored by Heemin Park, Jonathan Friedman, and Prof. Mani Srivastava from the Networked and Embedded Systems Lab, and Pablo Gutierrez, Vids Samanta, and Prof. Jeff Burke from the Hypermedia Studio. For more information on Illumimote: Read More
06-Jan-06
David Avery joined CENS January 1st as Administrative Director for CENS and Dr. Jeff Goldman joined CENS March 1st as its first Director of Program Development. Read More
24-Sep-05
A submission on Heliomote, a solar energy harvesting module for wireless sensor nodes, has been selected as one of the winners of the low power design contest at the ACM/IEEE - International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design (ISLPED) [being held at San Diego on Aug 8-10]. This work was performed by CENS graduate students Jason Hsu, Jonathan Friedman, Vijay Raghunathan, and Aman Kansal under the guidance of CENS faculty Mani Srivastava at the Networked and Embedded Systems Laboratory. Read More
23-Sep-05
An article on James Reserve field research station in the San Jacinto Mountains, where a network of robots and sensors developed by CENS monitor the forest’s vital signs, such as temperature, humidity and who’s living there. Read More
11-Jul-05
NBC News story on CENS and the James Reserve Read More
17-Jun-05
Saurabh Ganeriwal has been awarded the dissertation year fellowship in the Electrical Engineering Department. Read More
10-May-05
In the wilds of the San Jacinto Mountains, along a steep canyon, scientists are turning 30 acres of pines and hardwoods in California into a futuristic vision of environmental study. Read More
01-May-05
UCLA Spotlight: Deborah Estrin and the Center for Embedded Network Sensing. View the video in which Estrin talks about what embedded networks can do today and where we go from here. Read More
27-Apr-05
A research demonstration on SOS, a new operating system for sensor networks with dynamic module reconfiguration capabilities, was declared co-winner of the Best Demonstration Award at the ACM/IEEE The Fourth International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN 2005). The demonstration was presented by CENS graduate students Simon Han, Ram Kumar, and Roy Shea who have developed SOS under the guidance of CENS faculty Eddie Kohler and Mani Srivastava. More details on SOS, including downloadable source code and detailed technical documentation, are available at the SOS project website: Read More
07-Apr-05
Nithya Ramanathan, a CENS graduate student, is a recipient of the Google 2005 Anita Borg Scholarship for female students in the computer sciences. Read More
28-Feb-05
The proposed building for CENS is designed to move research beyond the traditional laboratory setting. The systems developed by CENS researchers will be operating throughout the building, not only collecting data for ongoing research but showcasing the many practical uses this technology will serve. Read More
07-Feb-05
Smart sensors embedded in the wireless network could help reduce pollution, says Deborah Estrin, and even improve our response to natural disasters Read More
01-Dec-04
December 2004, Vol. 11, No. 6
See at IEEE ComSoc Digital Library or IEEE Xplore
22-Sep-04
The AIBS-NEON Design Consortium is pleased to announce the completion of the Cooperative Agreement between the National Science Foundation and the American Institute of Biological Sciences under which NEON will be fully planned, designed and budgeted. The NEON Project Office has opened its doors, at AIBS Headquarters in Washington DC. Read More
09-Sep-04
This year's top prizewinner for interactive art at Ars Electronica was "Listening Post" by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin. In it 231 small displays are mounted in a grid. A computer scans Internet chat rooms, message boards and forums, and displays the results, while a speech synthesizer reads some of them. Read More
01-Aug-04
August 2004, Vol. 37, No. 8
See at IEEE Computer Society Digital Library or IEEE Xplore
01-Feb-04
Under the direction of PI Professor William Kaiser (UCLA), a recent ITR award has enabled the development of Networked Infomechanical Systems (NIMS). Read More
01-Feb-04
The Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS), an NSF Science and Technology Center (STC) headquartered at the University of California, Los Angeles, has expanded its work in diversity through an NSF Gender Diversity in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) education grant. Read More
01-Dec-03
CENS Center Director and Computer Science Professor Deborah Estrin has been elected Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Estrin was honored for her innovations in scalable network protocols and sensor network research. She was also recently named to the "Brilliant 10" list of top researchers in Popular Science magazine. Read More
01-Nov-03
17-Sep-03
"The NIMS program is an essential next step for networked embedded sensing by now including a hierarchy of fixed and mobile nodes along with infrastructure. NIMS allows us to introduce the physical reconfiguration that is neccessary for adapting physical sensor networks to the full complexity of environments. NIMS also enables transport and reconfiguration of sensor nodes and actual physical samples collected by nodes, all with the low energy that an infrastructure can provide." -- Professor William Kaiser. Read More
18-Aug-03
CENS Professor Greg Pottie testifies in a California Senate Committee Informational Hearing on RFID Technology and Pervasive Computing. Read More
18-Aug-03
"Deborah Estrin, UCLA professor of computer science, has been named to Popular Science magazine second annual Brilliant 10, a list of young scientists doing extraordinary work." Read More
01-Aug-03
Environmental Cyberinfrastructure Needs For Distributed Networks
01-Jun-03
"Smart, networked sensors will soon be all around us, collectively processing vast amounts of previously unrecorded data to help run factories, maintain crops, and even watch for earthquakes." Read More
05-Feb-03
"This is a new venture that is focused on intelligent mobile robots -- robots that are used in flexible environments, not automated toolsets in fixed locations. For example, Intel-based mobile robots will be used at the James Reserve by the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) to map terrain and monitor habitats." Read More
02-Feb-03
Spotlight on wireless sensor networks and TinyOS, a compact operating system only a few kilobytes in size. Read More
01-Jan-03
A profile on the work of CENS Principal Investigator and UCR Professor Michael Hamilton.
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06-Dec-02
ZDnet reports Deborah Estrin is pushing wireless technology into places it's never been before. Read More
21-Oct-02
Deborah Estrin comments on the uses of intelligent sensors in the James Reserve project. Read More
21-Oct-02
The Emerging Challenges in Sensor Network Research 10.25.02 --"Imagine high-rise buildings in downtown Los Angeles that could detect their structural faults, then alert authorities on corrective action," begins Deborah Estrin, a professor of Computer Science at UCLA and a member of Cal-(IT)²'s Advisory Board. This was the opening scientific challenge Estrin posed at a seminar she gave October 21 at the UCSD Computer Science and Engineering Department. Read More
06-Sep-02
03-Jun-02
Will Use Wireless Technology to Create Wide Array of Sensor Systems to Monitor Environment, Buildings. Read More