1. NSF NOSS Workshop 10/18-19 School of Mines

2. Related Info on NOSS Workshop http://toilers.mines.edu/NOSS/Infoagenda.html with links to the presentations of PIs, invited speakers, and NSF program manager Guru Parulkar.http://toilers.mines.edu/NOSS/Infoagenda.html Vijay Raghavan of DARPA presents technical challenges. D. Rychaudhuri of Rutgers WINS Lab discuss research challenges in Sensor Nets and Pervasive Computing. He also gave an excellent presentation on how to write effective grant proposals!

3. Research Challenges in Sensor Networks from Vijay Raghavan of DARPA Extreme Scale Auto Calibration of UGS Network Collaborative Signal Processing Robust Self-Localization Deployment (Coverage/Communications) Self-Stablization (based on local info; distributed control Platform Improvement Composition of diverse applications from a suite of algorithms/protocols optimized for specific platforms

4. Research Challenges in Sensor Networks Security of sensor networks (Authentication; intrusion tolerance) Energy Source Models of computing for sensor networks. Investigate complexity measures that expose trade-off, platform independent, semantic of basic operations Query of sensor networks (support distributed DB) High fidelity simulation tools for characterizing performance (terrain;deploy statistics…) Programming in the large: A new language/compiler that support the delay binding based on deployment characteristics, remote re-programming for bug fixes, adapting to environment