MUE2007 :: 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering ::

Invited Speakers

2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering

April 26th ~ 28th, 2007
Korean Bible University , Seoul, Korea
　

1. Dr. Sajal K. Das (University Texas at Arlington, USA)
2. Dr. Laurence T. Yang (St. Francis Xavier University, Canada)
3. Dr. Andrzej Czyzewski (Technical University of Gdansk, Poland)
4. Dr. Sankar K. Pal (Indian Statistical Institute, India)
5. Dr. Timothy K. Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

	Ubiquitous/Pervasive Intelligence: Visions and Challenges
	Dr. Laurence T. Yang Professor, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Summary of His Talk
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 nable 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 keynote 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 real world complexity.
About Dr. Laurence T. Yang
Dr. Laurence T. Yang is a professor at St Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes high performance computing and networking, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and intelligence, autonomic and trusted computing, computational science and engineering. He has published around 240 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 or general conference chair and more than 200 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is in the executive committee of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), and of IEEE 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. He is also the co-chair of IEEE Task force on Intelligent Ubiquitous Computing. In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of 10 international journals and few book series. He is serving as an editor for 14 international journals. He has been acting as the author or editor/co-editor of 30 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has received 3 Best Paper Awards including the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA-06); 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.