Mission to Mars: An agile release planning game

Summary form only given. Mobile devices, applications, cloud services and associated mobile experiences have seen exponential advancements in recent years. We have recently seen major improvements in user interfaces such as multi-touch, mobile compute and storage capabilities, wireless network bandwidth as provided by HSPA+ and LTE, sensors such as low-power accelerometers and gyroscopes, location estimation and associated mobile maps and location-based services, cloud-assisted applications and services such as voice recognition and context-aware personal assistants, and a variety of mobile social networking services. It is tantalizing to imagine what the future may hold: interactive augmented reality, portable light-field cameras, accurate gesture recognition, mobile visual search, mobile health monitoring and diagnosing, and using embedded nano-projectors to turn arbitrary surfaces into displays-all of which require solving challenging signal processing problems. In this talk, we will discuss and try to make informed predictions on what is possible in the next few years-and how signal processing can help turn these predictions into reality.