A student receives a picture text to her mobile device and swipes her phone toward a printer. Within seconds, the printer recognizes the location of the phone and prints the image. If the team at Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley has its way, all of our electronic devices will operate in this fashion. The teammates-Electrical and Computer Engineering students Shijia Pan, Aveek Purohit, and Zheng Sun, and their faculty advisor, Pei Zhang-were awarded Best Demo at Ubicomp 2011, an international conference on ubiquitous computing, for their demo PANDAA: Physical Arrangement Detection for Networked Devices through Ambient Sound Awareness.
-Lisa Kay Davis (DC'09)

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