Education & Professional experience

Zary Segall is since 2011 professor of Scalable Mobile Services at Communication Systems, School of ICT.. Prior to joining KTH, Professor Segall has been full professor at the University of Maryland (UMBC), University of Oregon as Computer and Information Science and at Carnegie Mellon University.

As part of his research activity, he had developed theoretical methods and practical systems for parallel processing, highly dependable systems, networking and wearable information systems. His work led to software licensing to IBM, AT&T, GE and NASA and to applications to parallel processing, NASA missions, Air Traffic Control and telecommunication services.

Dr. Segall is a fellow of the IEEE Computer Society and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair and has been honorary guest chair professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and Stockholm University.

Research interests

System Evaluation and Validation, Wearable Computers , Convergent Design, Human Aware Computing

Projects

COSEM, SerMON

Teaches currently:

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Personal webpage: http://www.zary.com

Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. had a solid academic background when he left USA to become a full professor at KTH 1994. He sees his work with his students as his most important activity.

All of his students work in industry, and all of their theses are motivated by real-life problems. He wants to encourage industrially relevant work.

Gerald Maguire completed his Ph.D. & M.S. in Computer Science at the University of Utah and a B.A., magna cum laude, in Physics at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In July 1994 he became Professor of Computer Communication (Datorkommunikation).

“My research area is the broad area of Computer Communication, with particular emphasis on personal computing and communication systems”, Maguire explains. In recent years an emphasis has been on adaptive and context aware computing and communication systems.

Gerald Q. Maguire – or “Chip” as he is often called - has previously been on the faculty of Columbia University, Gastprofessor at Graz University of Technology, Acting & Guest Professor at KTH, Invited Lecturer at Leiden State University, and Program Director for Experimental Systems, U.S. National Science Foundation. He had a Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship at Karolinska Institutet. He has published 5 books, 5 chapters, 51 journal papers, 106 conference papers, and given more than 210 invited lectures. He has produced 8 doctoral students (4 at KTH), 9 licentiate students, supervised >30 MS/Civ.Ing. students, examined >300 Civ.Ing. theses & a number of BS/Ing. theses, and been an opponent or member of numerous doctoral committees.

Read more: Gerald Maguire: A goal-oriented problem solver

Feelings are becoming increasingly important in the development of IT related products. Technology that conveys joy and security is the future, says Mark T. Smith, professor of IT product development at KTH.

– Using Stockholm Local Traffic’s new ticket card, SL Access, is deadly dull. There are no feelings involved. But if a status update on Facebook can be linked to the journey and the use of the card, then things start to happen, says KTH professor Mark T. Smith.

The big thing with no-cash cards in the future will not be different ways of paying, according to Mark T. Smith. With this statement he relegates the ”wallet in the mobile” discussion to a cul-de-sac in the history of technology.

Instead he describes ordinary days as filled with different situations that people like to share in blogs and social networks such as Twitter. We travel, check in and out of hotels, go to airports and buy clothes, trips abroad, new mobile phones or maybe a glass of wine.

If these events were to create entries on blogs or on Twitter – which is entirely feasible since much of the technology is already in place – a whole new world would open up, claims Mark T. Smith. A world of interaction between people, which in turn would generate positive feelings.

Read more: Mark T. Smith: Your mobile phone will now make you feel good

Professor Seif Haridi is a researcher with a clear vision as to how communication will be in the future. He sees before him a network of computers that are “equal” and with the same rights and the same responsibilities - where all computers make contributions based on their ability.

What interests him is the actual computer systems - the architectural and structural aspects of the networks, and how the computers cooperate for example in carrying out common tasks.

Seif Haridi came to Sweden in 1974 to take a doctor’s degree. He defended his thesis at KTH in 1981 in computer systems. He has worked at IBM in the USA and came back to Sweden and 1986 to be in charge of research at the then recently formed SICS in 1986. In 1993 he became research manager at SICS and in 1999 professor at KTH.

Seif Haridi continues to work for both KTH ICT and SICS. He is scientific leader for the research group Computer Systems Laboratory, CSL which from an organizational point of view belongs to SICS, but he also carried out research at both KTH and SICS.

Read more: Seif Haridi: A researcher with visions

Professor Jens Zander wants people to use the frequency space on the airwaves in the best and most efficient way. The networks should also be used by others, not just by the major operators that have licenses.

He wants to see, right of access with regard to the utilization of the frequency spectrum – a right which also means that we have obligations.

Professor Jens Zander is one of the country's most powerful IT individuals if we are to believe Ny Teknik. For several years he has been among the three top 50 in the magazine's annual list where he has been given the epithet “Mobile Guru”. He is one of the leading researchers in mobile communication and is in charge of the research unit Communication systems and the centre Wireless@KTH – a so-called VINNOVA Industry Excellence Center. Research in his group ‘Radio Systems technology' focuses on three main areas – the use of the radio frequency spectrum, the economic aspects of mobile application and sensor networks.

Read more: Jens Zander: Common right of access on the airwaves