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LaMarca, Anthony

Anthony LaMarca is the associate director of Intel Research Seattle. His research interests include location technologies, ubiquitous computing, distributed systems, and human-centered design. His former project, Place Lab, enabled wide-scale device positioning using radio beacons. He is currently leading the Everyday Sensing and Perception project with the goal of building high-coverage, high-accuracy techniques for inferring common contexts. He has a BS in computer science from the University of California at Berkeley and an MS and PhD in computer science from the University of Washington.
Eyal de Lara is an associate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Toronto. His research interest lies in the area of mobile and pervasive computing, and in the past he has led projects in the fields of content customization for mobile devices, accurate localization in indoor environments, and secure spontaneous communication. He has a BS in computer science from the Instituto Technologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM), Mexico, and an MS and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University.
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Location Systems

Advances in electronic location technology and the coming of age of mobile computing have opened the door for location-aware applications to permeate all aspects of everyday life. Location is at the core of a large number of high-value applications ranging from the life-and-death context of emergency response to serendipitous social meet-ups.