(live-PR.com) - www.archrock.com - Arch Rock Corporation Brian Bohlig, 415-692-0828 ext. 2838 bbohlig@archrock.com or Ulevich & Orrange, Inc. Janis Ulevich, 650-329-1590 ulevich@u-o.com David E. Culler, co-founder and chief technology officer of Arch Rock Corporation, has won the 2007 SIGMOBILE Outstanding Contributions award for his work in developing TinyOS, the open-source operating system for wireless embedded sensor networks.

Professor Culler, who has been on the computer science faculty of the University of California, Berkeley, since 1989, worked on TinyOS beginning in the late 1990s in his role as principal investigator for the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Network Embedded Systems Technology (DARPA NEST) program.

The Outstanding Contributions Award is the highest honor given by ACM SIGMOBILE, an organization of the Association for Computing Machinery focused on mobile computing and wireless networks. Presented to an individual each year since 1996, the award recognizes that person's significant and lasting contribution to the technical research in the field.

Victor Bahl, chairman of the ACM SIGMOBILE award committee, said, "David Culler is an outstanding thought leader in the field of sensor networks and systems. His fundamental contributions have influenced a new generation of researchers and engineers across the world, and his work stands as a shining example of what is good in the American academic system."

TinyOS, adopted by thousands of developers worldwide on numerous platforms for a broad range of wireless sensor networks. Its communication-centric design and modular software model are tailored to the unique requirements of these networks, where applications and services are distributed over collections of resource-constrained, unattended devices that stream data to and from the physical world. TinyOS plays a key role in the wireless sensor network technology offered by Arch Rock, the company co-founded by Professor Culler in 2005. Arch Rock in early 2007 delivered the first TinyOS-based WSN platform with embedded Internet Protocol (IP) networking using the IETF RFC 4944 (6LoWPAN) open standard and embedded web services.

About SIGMOBILE

The Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Mobility of Systems, Users, Data and Computing (ACM SIGMOBILE) was formed in 1995 to foster research in mobility and ubiquitous connectivity. Today SIGMOBILE sponsors such conferences as MobiCom, MobiHoc, MobiSys and SenSys, and publishes the quarterly journal Mobile Computing and Communications Review. For more information, visit www.sigmobile.org.

About Arch Rock Corporation

Arch Rock is a pioneer in open-standards-based wireless sensor network technology. The company's products, which gather data from the physical world and integrate it into the enterprise IT infrastructure using IP networking and web services, are used in environmental monitoring, tracking and logistics, industrial automation and control. Arch Rock's founders, while at the University of California-Berkeley and Intel Research, did seminal research and development work on WSNs, creating three generations of wireless sensor nodes, mesh networking protocols, and the leading operating system for sensor networks. For more information, visit www.archrock.com.

Arch Rock Co-founder Developed Open-source Operating System for
Wireless Sensor Networks