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Dr. Jim Steele, Sensor Platforms’ VP of Engineering,
To Speak at First Android Developer Conference
Speaker is co-author of “The Android Developer’s Cookbook”
San Jose, California, March 1, 2011 – Dr. Jim Steele, Vice President of Engineering at Sensor Platforms, Inc. will speak at AnDevCon, the first-ever Android Developer Conference, March 7-9 in San Mateo, California.
His talk, “An Introduction to Android Sensors,” presents new opportunities, as well as adoption challenges, to smart phone apps developers now presented with an array of new sensors at their disposal. These include image sensors (cameras), inertial sensors, audio sensors (microphones), as well as GPS, pressure, temperature, light, and proximity sensors.
Dr. Steele is co-author of The Android Developer’s Cookbook (Addison-Wesley Professional, 2010), designed to help applications developers start working on the Android mobile operating system. The book has become a best seller on Amazon.
Dr. Steele’s work at Sensor Platforms focuses on making user motion and context information available, while shielding applications developers from the complexity and physics of sensor hardware. Before joining Sensor Platforms, Dr. Steele held senior management positions at Spansion, Polaris Wireless and ArrayComm, as well as research positions in theoretical and particle physics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Ohio State University. He holds a Ph. D. in theoretical physics from State University of New York at Stony Brook.
About AnDevCon
AnDevCon is the technical conference for software developers building or selling Android apps. This first-time event will take place March 7-9 at the San Mateo (California) Marriott, and offer one day of intensive workshops, followed by two days of technical classes. More than 300 software developers, marketers, and entrepreneurs are expected to attend the inaugural Android DevCon.
About Sensor Platforms
Sensor Platforms, Inc. develops and licenses algorithmic software and platforms that take commodity sensor data and interpret it so that mobile applications better understand and interpret user motion, context and intent. The venture capital-financed company, located in Silicon Valley, has a brain trust experienced in sensor physics, advanced algorithms, precision analog/mixed signal design, and real-time systems. That team combines those elements with proprietary application-specific heuristics enabling mobile applications to understand the position and motion of their users. The company’s FreeMotion™ remote control allows viewers to manipulate objects and menus on a TV screen by moving a remote input device freely in 3-dimensional space, doing for the TV even more than the mouse did in 2-dimensions for the personal computer. The company is located at 2860 Zanker Road, #210, San Jose, CA 95134. For information: [email protected].