EE Distinguished Lecturer Seminar: Internet of Things — The Quest for Trust
Event details
| Date | 03.05.2019 |
| Hour | 13:15 › 14:15 |
| Speaker | Lothar Thiele was born in Aachen, Germany on April 7, 1957. He received his Diplom-Ingenieur and Dr.-Ing. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Munich in 1981 and 1985 respectively. After completing his Habilitation thesis from the Institute of Network Theory and Circuit Design of the Technical University Munich, he joined the Information Systems Laboratory at Stanford University in 1987. In 1988, he took up the chair of microelectronics at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Saarland, Saarbrucken, Germany. He joined ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as a full Professor of Computer Engineering, in 1994. His research interests include models, methods and software tools for the design of embedded systems, internet of things, cyberphysical systems, sensor networks, embedded software and bioinspired optimization techniques. Lothar Thiele is associate editor of INTEGRATION - the VLSI Journal, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Journal of Systems Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Real-Time Systems, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Cyberphysical Systems, and ACM Transaction on Internet of Things. In 1986 he received the "Dissertation Award" of the Technical University of Munich, in 1987, the "Outstanding Young Author Award" of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, in 1988, the Browder J. Thompson Memorial Award of the IEEE, and in 2000-2001, the "IBM Faculty Partnership Award". In 2004, he joined the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Honorary Blaise Pascal Chair of University Leiden, The Netherlands. Since 2009 he is a member of the Foundation Board of Hasler Foundation, Switzerland. Since 2010, he is a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2013, he joined the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract: If visions and forecasts of industry come true then we will be soonsurrounded by billions of interconnected embedded devices. We willinteract with them in a cyber-human symbiosis, they will not onlyobserve us but also our environment, and they will be part of manyvisible and ubiquitous objects around us. We have the legitimateexpectation that the individual devices as well as the overallsystem behaves in a reliable, predictable and trustworthy manner.
Besides, there are many application domains where we rely on acorrect and fault-free system behavior. We expect trustworthyresults from sensing, computation, communication and actuation dueto economic importance or even catastrophic consequences if theoverall system is not working correctly, e.g., in industrialautomation, distributed control of energy systems, surveillance,medical applications, or early warning scenarios in the context ofbuilding safety or environmental catastrophes. Finally,trustworthiness and reliability are mandatory for the societalacceptance of human-cyber interaction and cooperation.
It will be argued that we need novel architectural concepts, anassociated design process and validations strategies to satisfy thestrongly conflicting requirements and associated design challengesof platforms for the Internet of Things: Handle at the same timelimited available resources, adaptive run-time behavior, andpredictability. These challenges concern all components andfunctions of an IoT system, e.g., information extraction fromglobal data, local decision making, computation, storage, wirelesscommunication, energy management, energy harvesting, sensors,sensor interfaces, and actuation. The focus of the presentation ison new models and methods as well as examples from various fieldsin environmental monitoring.
Besides, there are many application domains where we rely on acorrect and fault-free system behavior. We expect trustworthyresults from sensing, computation, communication and actuation dueto economic importance or even catastrophic consequences if theoverall system is not working correctly, e.g., in industrialautomation, distributed control of energy systems, surveillance,medical applications, or early warning scenarios in the context ofbuilding safety or environmental catastrophes. Finally,trustworthiness and reliability are mandatory for the societalacceptance of human-cyber interaction and cooperation.
It will be argued that we need novel architectural concepts, anassociated design process and validations strategies to satisfy thestrongly conflicting requirements and associated design challengesof platforms for the Internet of Things: Handle at the same timelimited available resources, adaptive run-time behavior, andpredictability. These challenges concern all components andfunctions of an IoT system, e.g., information extraction fromglobal data, local decision making, computation, storage, wirelesscommunication, energy management, energy harvesting, sensors,sensor interfaces, and actuation. The focus of the presentation ison new models and methods as well as examples from various fieldsin environmental monitoring.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Prof. Elison Matioli
Contact
- [email protected] / +41 21 69 33721