PerCom 2024 in Biarritz: of Computation Offloading and Learning from Failures

15 March 2024, by Anton Semjonov

Photo: Anton Semjonov

We are back home after an exciting week at the PerCom 2024 conference in Biarritz. It was Anton's first participation in an academic conference and he got to present his paper "Wasimoff: Distributed Computation Offloading Using WebAssembly in the Browser" at the third edition of the STARLESS workshop collocated with the conference. Janick also presented a paper "Emotion Prediction Through Eye Tracking in Affective Computing Systems" in the EmotionAware workshop and held a keynote on "Why Tasklets have not taken over the world (yet)" at the PerFail workshop, which was an interesting collection of cautionary tales and motivational learnings. We've made a lot of new friends and seen some familiar faces from previous visits at our working group.

The program in the main track was as diverse as the area of pervasive computing is broad: from optimizations and deployments of tiny machine-learning models on edge devices and microcontrollers, to new approaches and sensor technologies in human activity recognition, and better predictive models for landslides in Japan – there were many inspiring presentations and new ideas.

When we weren't busy listening to the presentations in the main track, we could spend time exploring the beautiful city and taking lots of pictures. We'll never get tired of watching the atlantic ocean's waves hitting the rocky coastline. And after watching surfers from afar all week, some of us even got to swim ourselves on friday.