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Web: http://ubicomp.lancs.ac.uk/~bischoff Email: u.bischoff [at] comp.lancs.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0) 1524 510 367 Fax: +44 (0) 1524 510 492 skype: urs_bischoff

• Wireless sensor networks, ubiquitous computing
• Programming abstractions for wireless sensor networks, macroprogramming
• Energy-efficient algorithms for executing distributed applications in wireless sensor networks

Urs Bischoff is a full-time PhD student in the Embedded Interactive Systems (EIS) group. He received the MSc degree in Computer Science from the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, in 2004. Prior to that he studied at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and Lund University, Sweden. He obtained an engineering degree (Dipl. Inf.-Ing. ETH) from ETH Zurich in 2003. His advisors are Hans Gellersen and Gerd Kortuem.

, , [Abstract]. Urs Bischoff and Gerd Kortuem. "RuleCaster: A Macroprogramming System for Sensor Networks". In Proceedings OOPSLA Workshop on Building Software for Sensor Networks, Oct 22, 2006, Portland, Oregon, USA.
, , [Abstract]. Urs Bischoff. A Top-Down Approach to Writing Software for Networked Ubiquitous Systems. In Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Software Engineering Challenges for Ubiquitous Computing (SEUC'06), Lancaster, UK, 2006.
, , [Abstract]. Urs Bischoff, Gerd Kortuem. "Programming the Ubiquitous Network: A Top-Down Approach". In Proceedings of the Workshop on System Support for Ubiquitous Computing, at the 8th Annual Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp 2006), Orange County California, September 17-21, 2006
, , [Abstract]. Urs Bischoff, Martin Strohbach, Mike Hazas, Gerd Kortuem. "Constraint-based Distance Estimation in Ad-hoc Wireless Sensor". To appear in Proceedings of the Third European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN), ETH Zurich, Switzerland, on February 13-15, 2006.
, , [Abstract]. Urs Bischoff and Jarek Rossignac. TetStreamer: Compressed Back-To-Front Transmission of Delaunay Tetrahedra Meshes. In Proceedings of the Data Compression Conference (DCC'05), Snowbird USA, 2005.