I’ll be giving the keynote this Friday at the UCSD Jacobs School of Engineering Research Review. The theme is "Living Labs" and while I will, of course, be talking primarily about our experience with proactive displays at UbiComp 2003, I’ll be starting off by emphasizing the committment of Intel Research to the concept of living labs (as illustrated by this and other projects, e.g., PlanetLab and PlaceLab).
The other talks look interesting [too], with topics including a network telescope, unmanned aerial vehicles, a smart vivarium and a project to "integrate live cell arrays with synthetic ‘chip’ platforms" (this last one, in particular, adds a whole new dimension to the idea of a "living lab").