Embedded systems are ever present in our environment, and in future will be even more so.  Resource management and optimization at all levels of abstraction in such embedded networks is of critical importance. Tajana Simunic Rosing addresses three different areas of embedded system resource management: management at the system and server level, hardware management and embedded software optimization. Simunic Rosing will also present a tool flow and a methodology that automates the use of complex processor instructions and pre-optimized software library routines using symbolic algebraic techniques. From the Series:CSE Colloquia - 2004