A Workshop on "Exploring the Internals of Mobile Technologies"
Event details
When
from 01:00 AM to 09:30 AM
Where
Contact Name
Contact Phone
Objective:
Bringing together the technical/hacker community and individuals interested in mobile devices to explore mobile devices internals and capabilities
Scope of Conference and Workshop:
- Hardware Hacking (Board/Chips Capabilities)
- Operating System Internals (Hardware/OS Interfacing)
- Software Development Kit (MRE, etc.)
- Forensic Analysis
- Understanding of Mobile as Telecommunication Device (2G/3G, etc.)
- Understanding Mobile/Devices Internals
- Working with JTAG/UART Ports
- Porting Open Softwares on Mobiles/Hardwares
Expected outcomes:
- Understanding of mobile devices internals and capabilities
- Documenting mobile devices capabilities and internals
- Publishing of blogs on knowledge generated
- Exploration/Speculation on research/development avenues
Agenda
| I. Core Talks |
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| Tea/Coffee: Time: 9:00 - 9:30 a.m. |
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1. Arduino Board Capabilities and Playing Around It! |
| 2. Initiatives@CIS Objective: Discussing the research initiative that has led CIS to become interested in mobile device internals and capabilities |
| 3. Mobile Hacking Through Linux Drivers Objective: Understanding the Linux kernel & driver internals from the perspective of reverse engineering |
| 4. Hardware Hacking (Board/Chips Capabilities) Objective: Discuss and explore key areas of mobile hardware |
| Lunch Time Time: 12:45 - 1:30 p.m. |
| 5. Porting Open Software on Hardware Objective: Cover porting examples for each type of peripherals Cover Android and Linux bringup as an example Speaker: Khasim Syed Mohammed Level: Intermediate to Advance Duration: 2 Hours Time: 1:30 - 3:30 p.m. |
| II.Community Knowledge Sharing/Hacking! |
| Time: 3.30 to 5.30 p.m. |
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5. Free Slot |
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6. Free Slot |
| Tea/Coffee Time |
| 7. Free Slot |
| 8. Free Slot |
We are inviting community members to take up Free Slots to share their knowledge in this section. In this section, any person can propose a talk, workshop, or speculation about any device for a duration 30 minutes to 1 hour, as long as the topic falls within broader scope of the focus areas described at the in the “Scope of the Conference and Workshop” section of the workshop objectives.
Venue, Dates and Logistics
The event will take place on Saturday, October 27, 2012, at the following address:
TERI Southern Regional Centre
4th Main, Domlur II Stage
Bangalore - 560 071
Karnataka
The event will be begin at 9 a.m. on Saturday and end in the evening around 5 p.m. Lunch and snacks will be provided by CIS.
Available Resources:
CIS has purchased 12 gray-market mobile phones with the intent to document as much information about the life-cycles, hardware, software and content of each phone as possible. We request that the producers, make and model of each device be kept anonymous in discussions/publications that take place outside of the workshop.
The Speakers
1. Anil Kumar Pugalia
The author is a freelance trainer in Linux internals, Linux device drivers, embedded Linux & related topics. Prior to this, he was at Intel and Nvidia. He has been working with Linux since 1994. A gold medallist from IISc, Linux & knowledge sharing are two of his many passions. Creating and playing with open source hardware is one of his hobbies, which he materializes through his company eSrijan, which can be accessed at:
Website: http://profession.sarika-pugs.com/
2. Jadine Lannon
Jadine is a research intern at the Centre for Internet and Society. She is currently working on the “Pervasive Technologies: Access to Knowledge in the Marketplace” research project. More information on the research project can be found here: http://cis-india.org/a2k/pervasive-technologies-access-to-knowledge-in-the-market-place
3. Khasim Syed Mohammed
Khasim leads Open Hardware and Software Initiatives at Texas Instruments. Blog: http://www.khasim.in/; http://khasim.blogspot.in/
4. Sudar Muthu
Sudar does open hardware as hobby; Arudino is his playground. He is passionate about programming (particularly web-based) and loves to design and build web sites/services from scratch. AJAX, Web2.0, Semantic Web, Comet, RDF or any of those latest buzz-field jargons.
Blog: http://SudarMuthu.com; http://hardwarefun.com;
Supporting Communities:
- NULL: http://null.co.in/
- SecurityXploaded: http://securityxploded.com/
- Computer Club India: http://computerclub.in/Main_Page
Register at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?fromEmail=true&formkey=dG1UcHBYR2xRLWhPZ0QwVWlaaEg0SXc6MQ
