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Nick Palmer
PhD Student
Email address:
Phone:
+31 20 598 7726
Fax:
+31 20 598 7653
Mailing address:
Nick Palmer
Faculty of Science
Dept. of Computer Science
Vrije Universiteit
De Boelelaan 1081A
1081 HV, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Office:
De Boelelaan 1081
Room P4.71
Research
- My research is a continuation of the work I started durring my Masters on Enabling Distributed Applications for Smart Phones. I am working to build a platform for distributed applications I call interdroid, which you can read more about on the interdroid.net website.
Publications
Papers
- Interdroid Versioned Databases: Decentralized Collaborative Authoring of Arbitrary Relational Data for Android Powered Mobile Devices
Emilian Miron, Nicholas Palmer, Roelof Kemp, Thilo Kielmann and Henri Bal
MobiCASE 2011
in Los Angeles, CA, October 24-27 - Towards Collaborative Editing Of Structured Data On Mobile Devices
Nicholas Palmer, Emilian Miron, Roelof Kemp, Thilo Kielmann and Henri Bal
MDM 2011 - 12th International Conference on Mobile Data Management
Lulea, Sweeden, 6-9 June 2011. - ContextDroid: an Expression-Based Context Framework for Android
Bart van Wissen, Nicholas Palmer, Roelof Kemp, Thilo Kielmann and Henri Bal
PhoneSense 2010,
Zurich, Switzerland, 2 November 2010. - The Smartphone and the Cloud: Power to the User (Invited Paper)
Roelof Kemp, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann and Henri Bal,
MobiCloud 2010,
Santa Clara, CA, USA, 28 October 2010. - A Decentralized Decision Support System for Mobile Devices (Winner of the Best Demo Award and the Sprint Wimax 4G Contest)
Gert Scholten, Nicholas Palmer, Roelof Kemp, Thilo Kielmann and Henri Bal,
MobiCASE 2010,
Santa Clara, CA, USA, 25-28 October 2010. - Cuckoo: a Computation Offloading Framework for Smartphones (Best Paper Award)
Roelof Kemp, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann and Henri Bal,
MobiCASE 2010,
Santa Clara, CA, USA, 25-28 October 2010. - Real-World Distributed Computing with Ibis,
Henri E. Bal, Jsaon Massen, Rob V. van Nieuwpoort, Niels Drost, Roelof Kemp, Timo van Kessel, Nick Palmer, Gosia Qrzesiska, Thilo Kielmann, Kees van Reeuwijk, Frank J. Seinstra, Ceriel J.H. Jacobs, Kees Verstoep,
Computer,
September 2010, Vol 43, No. 8, pp. 54-62 - Opportunistic Communication for Multiplayer Mobile Gaming: Lessons Learned from PhotoShoot,
Roelof Kemp, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann, Henri Bal,
MobiOpp 2010,
February 22-23, 2010, Pisa, Italy. - eyeDentify: Multimedia Cyber Foraging from a Smartphone,
Roelof Kemp, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann, Henri Bal,
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2009),
San Diego, CA, USA, Dec 14-16, 2009. - Ibis for Mobility: Solving Challenges of Mobile Computing Using Grid techniques (Best Presentation Award)
Nicholas Palmer, Roeloef Kemp, Thilo Kielmann, Henri Bal,
HotMobile 2009,
February 23-24, 2009, Santa Cruz, CA, USA. - Serialization For Ubiquitous Systems: An Evaluation of High Performance Techniques on Java Micro Edition,
Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann, Henri Bal,
UBICOMM 2008,
Valencia, Spain, Sept 29-Oct 4, 2008.
- Interdroid Versioned Databases: Decentralized Collaborative Authoring of Arbitrary Relational Data for Android Powered Mobile Devices
Masters Thesis
- Enabling Distributed Applications for Smart Phones, Masters Thesis, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Aug 2007
Posters
- Efficient Serialization: An Evaulation of High Performance Techniques on Resource Constrained Devices, Nicholas Palmer, Thilo Kielmann, Henri Bal, Proceedings of the fourteenth annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, Heijn, The Netherlands, June 11-13, 2008, Edited by G.J.M Smit, D.H.J Epema, M.S. Lew
- Ibis for Mobility: Solving Challenges of Mobile Computing Using Grid Techniques, Nicholas Palmer, Roelof Kemp, Thilo Kielmann, Henri Bal, Proceedings of the fourteenth annual conference of the Advanced School for Computing and Imaging, June 3-5, 2009.
Contests
- A Decentralized Decision Support System for Mobile Devices:
Winner of the Sprint Wimax 4G Contest at MobiCASE 2010. October 2010 - PhotoShoot - The Duel:
Android Developer Challenge II, 6th Place in Category Games - Arcade/Action, August 2009
- A Decentralized Decision Support System for Mobile Devices:
Press
- 22 Feb 2020: ACM Tech News: Mention of Technology Review Article.
- 20 Feb 2010: Slashdot: Mention of Technology Review Article
- 19 Feb 2010: Technology Review (Published by MIT): Phone Game Needs No Server by Duncan Graham-Rowe
- 6 Nov 2009: Planet Droid: Nederlandse game PhotoShoot ook door naar tweede ronde in ADC2 (Dutch)
- 25 Sep 2009: News Agenda: VU participates in Google's Android Challenge
- 25 Sep 2009: Android World: PhotoSHOOT Android Dev Challenge
Teaching
Students
Masters Students
- Emilian Miron - MSc August 2011
Interdroid Versioned Databases - An integrated framework for decentralized authoring of arbitrary relational data on the Android platform - Bart van Wissen - MSc June 2011
ContextDroid: an Expression-Based Context Framework for Android - Reza Santoso - MSc August 2010
Utilizing Social Network Services for Mobile Distributed Applications - Gert Scholten - MSc August 2009
A Decentralized Decision Support System for Mobile Devices - Nicolas Tittly - MSc August 2009
Bluetooth Ibis: Enabling Mobile Distributed Applications - Jens de Smit - MSc December 2008
Introducing Group Awareness into the SMF protocol
Bachelors Students
- Benjamin Wijchers
ContextDroid User Interface: Creating context conditions easily - Rick de Leeuw
Writing Sensors For The ContextDroid Framework
Courses
- Computer Science Seminar - Computer Systems Track 2011
- Computer Science Seminar - Computer Systems Track 2010
- Internet Technology: Kumasi, Ghana, February 2010
- Computer Networking Practical Fall 2008
- Computer Networking Practical Fall 2007
- Teaching Assistant: Network Programming Fall 2006
Other
- JetNet Career Day 2010
- JetNet Career Day 2009
Projects
- I am very happy to supervise Masters and Bachelors projects related to my areas of interest. Some project ideas can be found on my projects page, but I am open to discussion with students as to their interests for mobile and distributed research topics.
Education
Masters
- I earned my Masters degree, with honors (GPA: 8.36/10), right here at the VU in 2007 in the top masters program for Parallel and Distributed Computer Systems. I liked the program and the faculty so much (not to mention living in Amsterdam) I signed on for another four years. My thesis was entitled Enabling Distributed Applications for Smart Phones and was supervised by Henri Bal and Thilo Kielmann.
Bachelors
- I recieved my Bachelors degree, with honors (GPA: 3.67/4), in Computer Engineering in 2000 from the University of Arizona with minors in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics.
Public Key
- I prefer to receive email encrypted and/or signed to ensure privacy, integrity, and authenticity. My public key can be found on the usual keyservers or via the link.
