| Title: | Cyber Physical Systems: Promises and Challenges |
| Date: |
June 20, 2008 (Friday)
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| Time: |
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
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| Venue: |
Room 121, 1/F, Ho Sin-hang Engineering Building,
The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T. |
| Speaker: |
Prof. Lui Sha
Donald B. Gillies Chair professor Computer Science Department University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign USA |
The Internet has made the world "flat" by transcending space. We can now interact with people and get useful information around the globe in a fraction of a second. The Internet has transformed how we conduct research, studies, business, services, and entertainment. However, there is still a serious gap between the cyber world, where information is exchanged and transformed, and the physical world in which we live.
The report of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) has placed Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) on the top of the priority list for federal research investment in IT, and the planned NSF CPS Research Initiative aims at creating the science and technologies for future CPS systems. This talk gives an overview on some of the promises and challenges of CPS.
BIOGRAPHY:
Lui Sha graduated with Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in 1985. He is Donald B. Gillies Chair professor of Computer Science at University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is a fellow of the ACM and IEEE. His work transformed the IEEE standards on real time computing and was cited as a major accomplishment of computer science in National Academy of Science's report: A Broader Agenda for Computer Science and Engineering. His work was also cited as a key enabling technology for many high technology projects, including GPS in orbit upgrade, the Mars Pathfinder and the International Space Station. He served on US National Academy of Science's study committee on certifiably dependable software, and is a member of the organizing committee for CPS Research Initiative.
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