Friday lecture talk: Christian S. Jensen
2009.06.08
| Date | Fri Sep 25 |
| Time | 14:00 — 15:00 |
| Location | DI-5510.103 (IT-huset Store Aud) |
Enabling geo-spatial context on the mobile internet
The Internet is going mobile, and indications are that the mobile Internet will be "bigger" than the conventional Internet. Due to aspects such as user mobility, much more varied use situations, and the form factor of mobile devices, context awareness is important on the mobile Internet. During the past decade, the speaker has been engagedin research aimed at enabling geo-spatial context awareness on the mobile Internet, such as outdoor and indoor tracking, user-generated indoor positioning, destination and route prediction, location and query privacy, and continuous query and update processing. This talk aims to offer an overview of some this research.
About the speaker:
Christian S. Jensen is a Professor of Computer Science at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research concerns data management and spans semantics, modeling, and indexing and query processing. During the past decade, his focus has been on spatio-temporal data management. He is an IEEE Fellow and a member of the Danish Academy of Technical Sciences, the EDBT Endowment, and ERCIM's Board of Directors. He is vice chair of ACM SIGMOD and a trustee emeritus of the VLDB Endowment. He received Ib Henriksen's Research Award 2001 for his research in mainly temporal data management and Telenor's Nordic Research Award 2002 for his research in mobile services.
He is an editor-in-chief of The VLDB Journal and has served on the editorial boards of ACM TODS, IEEE TKDE, and the IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin. He was PC chair or co-chair for SSTD 2001, EDBT 2002, VLDB 2005, MobiDE 2006, MDM 2007, DMSN 2008, and TIME 2008.
From September 2008 to August 2009, he was on sabbatical at Google Inc., Mountain View.