Seminar

The Future Mobile Phone

Speaker: Prof Dr Max Mühlhäuser
Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany

Time: Friday 24 February 2012, 4:00-5:00pm
Location: The University of Sydney, School of IT Building, Lecture Theatre (Room 123), Level 1
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Abstract

A 1995 mobile phone and a 2010 Smartphones have little in common. Will the 2025 mobile phone be again very different? While predicting the future is always dangerous and likely to fail, one may look at major technology trends and options, and at crucial social and political issues that may determine the look and feel of future mobile phones. The talk will discuss these trends and issues and “drill down” to some of the relevant research activities.

Three technology areas will be investigated in this respect:

Interaction – this part sheds light on the potentials of future displays (emphasized) and speech technology, and on multi-device interaction and proactive UIs.

Protection beyond classical IT security– with an emphasis on privacy and trust modeling.

Communication – where minimal delay may become a more important issue than available bitrate in a ‘clouded’ world – with consequences on higher layers.

Speaker's biography

Max Mühlhäuser is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany. He received his Doctorate from the University of Karlsruhe and founded a research center for Digital Equipment (DEC). Since 1989, he worked as either professor or visiting professor at universities in Germany, Austria, France, Canada, and the US. Max published more than 300 articles, co-authored and edited books about ubiquitous computing, E-learning, and distributed & multimedia software engineering. He heads the Telecooperation Lab and the Departmental Computing Services within the Informatics Department, a graduate school in eLearning, and one of three departments in the large new Darmstadt research center for IT security named CASED.