Ouri Wolfson

Ouri Wolfson’s main research interests are in database systems, distributed systems, and mobile/pervasive computing. He received his PhD degree in Computer Science from Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University. He is currently the Richard and Loan Hill professor of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he directs the Mobile Information Systems Research Center. He is also an affiliate professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. Ouri Wolfson is the founder of Mobitrac, a high-tech startup company that had about forty employees before being acquired. Most recently he founded Pirouette Software Inc., and currently serves as its President. Before joining the University of Illinois he has been on the Computer Science faculty at the Technion and Columbia University, and he has been a Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories. Ouri Wolfson authored over 150 publications, and holds six patents. He is a fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery, and serves on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing and the Springer's Wireless Networks Journal. He received the best paper award for "Opportunistic Resource Exchange in Inter-vehicle Ad Hoc Networks," at the 2004 Mobile Data Management Conference.

Publications

Applications of Moving Objects Databases
Applications of Moving Objects Databases
Ouri Wolfson, Eduardo Mena. © 2005. 18 pages.
Miniaturization of computing devices and advances in wireless communication and sensor technology are some of the forces propagating computing from the stationary desktop to the...