Deborah Estrin and the Center for Embedded Network Sensing

Deborah Estrin Director, CENS Center for Embedded Network Sensing

There's a reason Popular Science magazine named Deborah Estrin to its "Brilliant 10," a list of young scientists doing extraordinary work. Estrin, a professor of computer science, is a leader in the emerging discipline of embedded networks.

Such a network might include thousands of microprocessors linked to tiny motion detectors, cameras, acoustic or chemical sensors gathering and reporting complex, real-time information about the natural world — or about man-made structures.

Estrin talks about what embedded networks can do today and where we go from here.