[Nets-seminars] Seminar next Friday 23rd May 16:00 GS/102

[Richard G. Clegg]

There has been a change to our seminar line up and our remaining two 
speakers for this term have swapped round. The speaker this Friday is 
Prof Mischa Dohler from Kings. The seminar is at 16:00 in GS/102 on 23rd 
May. I hope to see you all there.

Title: The Dawn of Connected Machines

Abstract:
An emerging paradigm is gripping industrial and academic ICT communities 
alike, the one of Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications. It refers to 
the ability of machines to communicate with one another without human 
intervention. If predictions are to be believed, we will have some 50bn 
devices “speaking” to each other by 2020. Touted by some the 4th 
Industrial Revolution, this hyper-connected cyber-physical world will 
certainly ignite unprecedented economic and social opportunities.
In this talk, I will review recent technological developments which we 
believe will allow us to address this scale of connectivity. I will also 
dwell on some lessons we learned from prior connectivity exercises and 
discuss mistakes made. I will then expose major research and design 
challenges which need to be addressed to facilitate a truly connected 
cyber-physical world, including issues related to Big Data, Open Data 
and Privacy.

Biography:
Mischa Dohler is Professor in Wireless Communications at King's College 
London, member of the Board of Directors of Worldsensing, Fellow and 
Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE, and Editor-in-Chief of the 
Transactions on Emerging Telecommunications Technologies.
He is a frequent keynote, panel and tutorial speaker. He has contributed 
to numerous wireless broadband and IoT/M2M standards, holds a dozen 
patents, chaired numerous conferences, and published more than 160 
refereed transactions, conference papers and books. He has a citation 
h-index of 33.
He acts as policy, technology and entrepreneurship adviser, examples 
being Richard Branson's Carbon War Room, the House of Lords UK, the 
EPSRC Strategy Advisory Team, the European Commission, and various 
start-ups.
He is also an entrepreneur, angel investor, passionate pianist and 
fluent in 6 languages. He has talked at TEDx. He had coverage by 
national and international TV & radio; and his contributions have 
featured in the Wall Street Journal and BBC.

-- 
Richard G. Clegg,
Dept of Elec. Eng.,
University College London
http://www.richardclegg.org/