Current mobile technology offers the key to enabling a host of new wireless devices, protocols, applications, and services using location awareness, environmental sensing, personal-area networks, and intelligent energy management. This area of research pushes the boundaries of existing technologies taking a broad systems perspective rather than focus narrowly on low-level components to explore and gain insight into investigating the next generation of mobile systems. In 2008, the first Phd Forum on Mobile Systems Applications and Services held in conjunction with MobiSys provided a friendly and supportive environment for doctoral students to present and discuss their dissertation research. The forum succeeded on all accounts, bringing together future researchers with their peers and with a panel of experienced researchers from academia and industry. In addition to providing feedback and advice, this forum provided an opportunity for students to network as well as to practice presenting their research clearly and concisely. The MobiSys 2010 PhD Forum workshop will be organized entirely by PhD students and recent graduates?providing valuable experiences reviewing submissions, fund raising, and hosting events. Support of this activity enables the participation of graduate students who would otherwise be unable to attend the MobiSys 2010 PhD Forums.
This grant enabled 15 student grant recipients to attend the Ninth International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications and Services (MobiSys 10) by fully or partially offsetting their registration and travel expenses. MobiSys 10 is the primer conference in the emerging area of mobile technology and is attended by leading scientists from academia, government, and industry. These grants provided a future generation of scientists the opportunity to interact with and gain valuable insight from scientific leaders in the field of mobile technology. The grant recipients also contributed greatly to the success of the Mobisys 10 by presenting their research findings at the conference, workshops, and poster session on a variety of topics including improved energy efficiency, communication range, privacy and security for mobile devices. This work holds the promise of overcoming key challenges to improving future mobile devices. All of the grant recipients attend US accredited universities and as part of broadening participation in the STEM fields five of the 15 grants were awarded to women, underrepresented minorities, or persons with disabilities. Specifically two of the grant awardees were female, one identifies as African American, one as Hispanic, and one as Native American. MobiSys 10 appreciates the financial support of the NSF, which allowed us to grant awards to many qualified applicants.
