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Dr. Randy Smith
Senior Staff Engineer
Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) Project
Sun Microsystems Laboratories


16 Network Circle
umpk16-158
Menlo Park, CA 94025


Randy Smith is a Senior Staff Engineer at Sun Microsystems Laboratories, working on the Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (Sun SPOT) project.

His research interests include Collaborative Computing, Computer-mediated Communication, Graphics, Object Oriented Programming, theoretical physics and mathematical modeling, User Interfaces and Wireless sensor networks.

Education:

* BS Double major in physics and mathematics, suma cum laude 1974, University of California, Davis * PhD Theoretical Physics 1981,University of California at San Diego

Technical Reports

  • Virtual Collaborative Learning: A Comparison between Face-to-Face Tutored Video Instruction (TVI) and Distributed Tutored Video Instruction (DTVI)
    By: Robert L. Pannoni, Randall B. Smith, Michael J. Sipusic, John Dutra, William R. Sutherland and James F. Gibbons
    Report Number: TR-99-72
    Jan 1, 1999
  • Self: The Power of Simplicity
    By: Randall B. Smith and David Ungar
    Report Number: TR-94-30
    Dec 1, 1994

    Latest Sun Patents

  • Session mobility for wireless devices
    (Jul 14, 2009)
  • Method for detecting objects separated from a group
    (May 26, 2009)
  • Chemical time modification of an object
    (Jan 22, 2008)
  • Stationary semantic zooming
    (Sep 19, 2006)
  • Method and apparatus for using RFID tags to determine the position of an object
    (Jun 15, 2004)
    See all 11 patents »

    Awards

    News

  • Sun Labs Open House - Big Project: Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOT)
    Sun Microsystems

  • Sun pushes Java for sensor networks
    vnunet.com


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