In this talk, I will discuss the complex relationship between the university research lab and the startup community and how it varies in different places. There will be some emphasis on software focused startups as these are quite special in terms of the low capital investment costs required to deliver an initial working product, but the talk will also consider the wider set of high tech startup enterprises, some of which are built on a deep understanding of a problem domain arising from substantial research. The talk will discuss the similarities and differences between the activities and skills of the research lab and the startup.

Con el título La Ciencia es mi Vida, entre las 19:00 y las 21:00 horas del viernes 28 de septiembre de 2012, se va a celebrar en la Residencia de Estudiantes de Madrid (calle Pinar 21-23) una mesa redonda que, moderada por el catedrático de Física Teórica Alfredo Poves, va a reunir a varios investigadores de los Institutos Madrileños de Estudios Avanzados (IMDEA).

Disculpa, pero esta entrada está disponible sólo en English.The design, standardization and future deployment of vehicular communications systems have been driven so far by safety applications. There are two more aspects of the vehicular networking that have increased their importance in the last years: Infotainment and traffic efficiency, as they can improve drivers' experience, making vehicular communications systems more attractive to end-users.

Institute IMDEA Networks annually holds a by-invitation-only thematic workshop in Madrid. The workshop accompanies a meeting of our Scientific Council comprised by prominent researchers. In addition to talks by Scientific Council members, the workshop includes invited talks by external experts in the research theme of the workshop. The goal of the 2012 workshop is to foster discussion on a critical aspect of research in networking: data.

Objectives of the meeting: Review status of the internal specifications milestones, synchronization intra and inter work packages and coordination for future work.

Give the attendees an evolutionary view on the access networks and open perspectives on the potential developments upcoming. It will always keep an eye on the standardization trends and other ecosystem parameters (as regulation, cost and timeline constrains) in order to provide the attendees the background to further perceive some of the upcoming opted solutions and dynamics.

We focus on collaborative video streaming in wired overlay networks using low cost network codes. We propose a scheme that builds on both rateless codes and network coding in order to improve the system throughput and the video quality at clients. Our hybrid coding algorithm permits to efficiently exploit the available source and path diversity, without the need either for expensive routing or for scheduling algorithms.

Disculpa, pero esta entrada está disponible sólo en English.METFAC-2.1 is a software tool for stochastic modeling using Markov reward models, i.e. continuous-time Markov chains with a reward rate structure on their state space. The tool has been developed under the direction of Prof. Juan A. Carrasco and offers many state-of-the-art numerical methods as well as simulation methods.

Mobile devices are energy-limited. Both industry and the research community proposed solutions to overcome these limitations with relative success at different levels such as hardware, operating system and even applications.