IEEE CIT 2008

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurence Tianruo Yang, St Francis Xavier University , Canada

Title:
Ubiquitous/Pervasive Intelligence: Visions and Challenges

Abstract:
Ubiquitous/Pervasive computers, networks and information are paving a road towards a smart world (SW) in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout the physical environment to provide trustworthy and relevant services to people. This ubiquitous/pervasive intelligence (UI/PI) will change the computing landscape because it will enable new breeds of applications and systems to be developed; the realm of computing possibilities will be significantly extended. By embedding digital intelligence in everyday objects, our workplaces, our homes and even ourselves, many tasks and processes could be simplified, made more efficient, safer and more enjoyable. Ubiquitous or pervasive computing, composes these many "smart things/u-things" to create the environments that underpin the smart world.

In this presentation, the potential trends towards smart world (SW) and ubiquitous/pervasive intelligence (UI/PI) from smart u-things to smart spaces and then to smart hyperspaces will be addressed, as well as, the challenges in smart u-things’ research in terms of technical and real world complexity.

Brief Bio:
Dr. Laurence T. Yang¡¯s is a professor in computer science and engineering at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence.

He has published around 280 papers in refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general conference chair and more than 200 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE CS Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is the chair of IEEE CS Technical Committee of Scalable Computing, co-chair of IEEE CIS Task force on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing and IEEE CIS Task force on Autonomic and Trusted Computing. He is also in the executive committee of IEEE SMC Technical Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, and of IFIP Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems, and of IEEE Technical Committee of Granular Computing.

In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of 10 international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of 30 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won four Best Paper Awards (including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06)); one IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007; one IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007; one Best Paper Nomination; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Distinguished Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University Research/Publication/Teaching Award 00-02/02-04/04-06.