Uppsala VINN Excellence Center for
Wireless Sensor Networks
WISENET

Awards connected to WISENET

• Prof Estrin, appointed Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa at Uppsala University 2010 She is a Professor of Computer Science with a joint appointment in Electrical Engineering at UCLA, holds the Jon Postel Chair in Computer Networks, and is Founding Director of the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS). Estrin received her Ph.D.in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She was selected as the first ACM Athena Lecturer in 2006 and was awarded the Anita Borg InstituteÄôs Women of Vision Award for Innovation in 2007.
  For more information:
  • 2011-01-27 at 13:15 Doctor Honoris Causa Presentation: Participatory mHealth
  • Abstract and more information.
  • http://research.cens.ucla.edu/people/estrin/
  • Press release: Fyra nya hedersdoktorer inom teknik och naturvetenskap

Awards to WISENET members

2013-2015

Best paper award at ExtremeCom 2013 was received by Hjalmar Wennerström, Lars-Åke Norden and Thiemo Voigt as co-authors to Hot Packets: A Systematic Evaluation of the Effect of Temperature on Low Power Wireless Transceivers. The first author Carlo Alberto Boano (TU Graz) visted UU in february.

Phase 2, 2009-2012

• 12-12-14, Fredrik Bruhn tilldelas Hjärnäpplet för bildandet och utvecklandet av rymdteknikföretaget ÅAC Microtec. Pressmeddelande
• 2012-06-20 Best poster award at IEEE SECON 2012 for the poster titled Pragmatic Low-Power Interoperability: ContikiMAC vs TinyOS LPL, authored by Nicolas Tsiftes and Adam Dunkels from SICS, and JeongGil Ko and Andreas Terzis from Johns Hopkins University. SICS news.
• 2011-11-10 Luca Mottola receives Cor Baayen Award 2011.
• 2011-07-14 Adam Dunkels Listed as a Top Internet of Things Thinker, Postscapes have listed the worldwide top 100 influential thinkers in the Internet of Things area, with Adam Dunkels at spot #16.
• 2011-04-14 Luca Mottola, the paper "Is There Lights at the Ends of The Tunnel? Wireless Sensor Networks for Adaptive Lighting in Road Tunnels", co-authored along with Trento people, has been awarded the IPSN/SPOTS Best Paper Award. The SICS news page.
• 2011 -03-15 Termosense Vinnare av Retail Awards 2011, Årets tekniska lösning.
  Juryns motivering: Ett företag som har utvecklat befintliga system som ligger rätt i tiden. Det trådlösa och webbaserade systemet är överlägset flexibel, lättillgänglig och enkel att övervaka. Bättre ekologi och ekonomi genom lägre energiförbrukning, lägre elräkningar och minskat varusvinn är en svårslagen kombination. Prismottagare: Janis Platbardis, grundare och innovatör. TermoSense AB
• 2010-06-21 Dogan Yazar, Student thesis receive Bengt Asker Award for best MSc thesis in real-time and embedded systems, for his thesis RESTful Wireless Sensor Networks. The thesis is available here in fulltext on line at Uppsala university library, DIVA. Thesis advisor was Adam Dunkels, SICS, and university examiner was Per Gunningberg, Uppsala University. Read also the thesis presentation at SICS.

Phase 1, 2007-2009

• 2009-08-18 Adam Dunkels selected as one MIT Technology Review 2009 Young Innovators Under 35, the descripton of Adam's achievement. SICS press release
• 09-02-24 WISENET postdoc Luca Mottola receives EWSN 2009 Award for his PhD thesis.
• 2008-10 Adam Dunkels is the winner of the 2008 Cor Baayen Award for a promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics.
• 2008-04 Adam Dunkels is the winner of the 2008 ACM EuroSys Roger Needham award for the best 2007 European doctoral thesis in the area of computer systems.
• 2008-01-07 Adam Dunkels is the winner of the Xerox Chester Carlson award, the most prestigious award in the information sciences in Sweden.