About the Contributors
Chris Baber
Chris Baber is the Chair of Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing at the University of Birmingham. His research interests focus on the many ways in which computing and communications technologies are becoming embedded in the environment around us and the things we use on a daily basis. Not only do we have significant computing power in the mobile phone in our pocket, but, increasingly, other domestic and personal products are gaining similar capabilities. Chris is interested in how such technologies will develop and how they will share the information they collect, and also in how these developments will affect human behaviour.
Cristina Barrado
Cristina Barrado was born in Barcelona in 1965 and is a computer science engineer from the Barcelona School of Informatics, which belongs to the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC). She also holds a PhD in Computer Architecture from the same university. Dr Barrado has been working with UPC since 1989 and is currently an associate professor at the School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering of Castelldefels (Escola d'Enginyeria de Telecommunicació i Aeroespacial de Castelldefels, EETAC). Her current research interests are in the area of the UAS civil mission, including payload processing, avionics ...
