In a previous post, I gave an overview of Protothreads and talked about my days in Sweden. Protothreads got featured on the cover of this month's Embedded Systems Magazine (May 2008 Vol. 21 No. 5). The cover story is by Michael Dorin and is titled "Building "instant-up" real-time operating systems". Check it out!

Our group leader Koen Langendoen, recently got featured on the cover of a dutch ICT magazine. So apparently the sensornets research works of our group (like the infamous potato deployment) are not going unnoticed. Also, congrats Koen on becoming a Full Professor!

Next month, I will be a guest lecturer at the Abdus Salam Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. Abdus Salam is the first Muslim and the first (and only) Pakistani Nobel Laureate. He unified two (electromagnetism and weak interaction) of the four fundamental forces of nature, which is still the latest step towards the unified description of all four physical forces. ICTP was founded by Salam in 1964. Salam wanted to bridge the scientific and economic gap between the rich and poor populations of the world - something that we are trying to do through Dritte. ICTP, following on its founder's vision, is organizing a School on Wireless Networking for Development, where i will be giving lectures on Feb 24th and 25th.

I am excited about this trip, as I think that Abdus Salam's vision will inspire me to focus on fundamental problems in scientific research and to try and bring the benefits of science to the poor.

I'm spending the summer at Stanford working with Phil Levis. On my first day at the Gates Hall, Phil pointed me to something interesting in the basement of the building - the original Google storage (image on right). Its fascinating to think that the multi-billion dollar search giant came out of *this* machine.

Most of my entries related to sensor networks are now posted on WSNblog.com instead. WSNBlog.com recently got featured on M2M magazine (although they got some information wrong about us). Some comments on this issue of the M2M magazine: I am keeping an eye out for ArchRock's IPv6 solutions. Lets see how the industry responds to the idea of running IPv6 on sensornets. I recently attended a talk by Bob Metcalf at Cambridge, MA. It seems to me that Bob and Ember believe that they have found the "killer app" in energy management -- interesting.