"Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than an exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise." - John W. Tukey, 1962.

Adam Dunkels (Ph D), experimental computer scientist in the Computer Systems Laboratory of the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista, Sweden. Founder and senior scientist of the Networked Embedded Systems group,

My research interests are system software and low-power IP networking for small embedded systems and wireless sensor networks.

I've written some well-known software for networked embedded systems that is used in lots of interesting places such as satellites, air planes, racing car engines, oil bore holes, cargo ships, TV-transmission equipment, and in products from hundreds of companies, including ABB, Altera, BMW, Cisco, Ericsson, GE, HP, Xilinx, etc.

My scientific publications.

Some recent talks.

New book: Interconnecting Smart Object with IP - The Next Internet, by Jean-Philippe Vasseur and Adam Dunkels, published by Morgan Kaufmann, 2010. To be published in June 2010. Available for preorder from Amazon.com. Website: TheNextInternet.org.

In 2009, I was listed as one of the TR35 top 35 innovators under 35 by the MIT Technology Review. In 2008, I received the Xerox Chester Carlson award, for my work on IP networking for embedded systems, the 2008 ACM SIGOPS EuroSys Roger Needham award for the best 2007 European doctoral thesis in computer systems, and the 2008 ERCIM Cor Baayen award.

What does the press write?

The Internet Protocol for Smart Objects Alliance. White paper "IP for Smart Objects" by A Dunkels & JP Vasseur.

Current Projects

• Protothreads - Extremely lightweight stackless threads for severely memory constrained systems.
• uIP - A TCP/IP stack for tiny embedded systems.
• Contiki - A networked operating system for memory constrained embedded systems such as sensor network nodes.
• Promos
• SICSlowpan
• Designing Supple Systems
• Resense
• GINSENG
• ESNA
• More software projects...

Recent Professional Activities

TPC co-chair HotEmNets 2010
TPC vice chair IEEE/ACM DCOSS 2010
Program committee ACM/IEEE IPSN SPOTS 2010
Local steering committee ACM/IEEE CPSWEEK 2010
Program committee ACM EuroSys 2010
Program committee EWSN 2010
Program committee Web of Things workshop 2010

TPC co-chair ACM BuildSys 2009
Program committee ACM SenSys 2009
Program committee ACM/IEEE IPSN/SPOTS 2009
Program committee ICDCS 2009

Program committee ACM SenSys 2008
Program committee ACM/IEEE IPSN/SPOTS 2008
Program committee, TPC co-chair ACM REALWSN 2008
Program committee ACM NSDR 2008
Program committee WWIC 2008
Program committee IEEE MidSens 2008
Program committee WEWSN 2008

Program committee IEEE MidSens 2007
Program committee ACM NSDR 2007
Publications chair ACM SenSys 2007

Personal

Andrejs Dunkels (1939-1998) in memoriam (by Brian Phillips).

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