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Talks & Tutorials

News: PLDI Tutorial!
I will be giving a tutorial titled "Programming Abstractions and Languages for Wireless Sensor Networks: Fundamental Concepts and State of the Art" at the 33rd SIGPLAN Int. Conf. on Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) - next June in Beijing (China). This year, PLDI is also co-located with ECOOP, LCTES and ISMM!

In the following, you find a sample collection of talks and presentations I gave over time, representing my past and current work. Information on WSN programming tutorials I have been giving are also included.

"Meet the Tower that Breathes!": the talk I gave at the Cor Baayen Award ceremony when receiving the prize, in November 2011 at the ERCIM Gala Dinner in
Berlin - available on
"Developing Software for the Internet of Things: Challenges and Opportunities": an invited talk on the issues in developing and building IoT software I gave in September 2011 at the ERC Workshop on Software Quality in Venice - available on
"Bullet-proof Software Development for Networked Embedded Systems: Dream or (Future) Reality?": a lecture on static verification of networked embedded system software I gave in July 2011 at the 3rd CONET summer school in Bertinoro "Networked Embedded Systems: Humans in the Loop" - available on
"Programming WSNs: From Great Duck Island to Enterprise Integration": a short talk I gave at the 2011 SICS Open House event, describing a perspective on the evolution of WSN software development - available on

Moreover, along with Gian Pietro Picco, I prepared an extensive tutorial on programming WSNs largely based on my Ph.D. thesis. We are presenting (or presented) the tutorial in different versions at a number of venues, including:

CPSWEEK 2010, held in Stockholm (Sweden) in April 2010. CPSWEEK brought together five leading conferences - HSCC, ICCPS, IPSN, LCTES, and RTAS - on the research and development of cyber-physical systems. About 40 people attended the tutorial in Stockholm.

Attendees at the CPSWEEK10 tutorial.
The 1st International School on Cyber-Physical and Sensor Networks held in Monastir (Tunisia) in December 2009. More than 60 students participated to the school.
The 6th European Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN) held in Cork (Ireland) in February 2009. The tutorial was half-day with live demonstrations and different WSN technologies shown during the discussion. About 30 people attended in Cork.

During the tutorial at EWSN09.
The 7th ACM/USENIX International Middleware Conference held in Leuven (Belgium) in December 2008. The tutorial was full-day, with a theory part in the morning and a hands-on session in the afternoon where we gave the attendees real WSN nodes to experiment directly. Here too, about 30 people attended the tutorial.

Explaining the main topic at Middleware08.

Attendees experiment with WSN devices.
The GII doctoral school in Computer Engineering held in L'Aquila (Italy) in September 2008. Here the tutorial was part of the lectures on "Boosting Services and Information in Adaptive Networked Enterprises", with about 20 students attending.

During the tutorial at the GII doctoral school.