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Dr. J. Sairamesh (Ramesh), Managing Partner at 360Fresh Inc.
In this talk I will cover Service ValueNetworks that have emerged in various Industries...
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Dr. J. Sairamesh (Ramesh), Managing Partner at 360Fresh Inc.
In this talk I will cover Service ValueNetworks that have emerged in various Industries (e.g. Manufacturing, Pharma, HealthCare and others) in various forms and shapes over the last decade. The Service ecosystems supporting such value networks are complex and ad-hoc and have varying risk criteria, interconnectivity and risk measurements when compared to more traditional supply-chains and value-chains. Value networks as a research area represent a novel approach to modeling complex enterprise relationships from the perspective of value creation and sharing.
This talk addresses three major challenges of value network-driven enterprise analysis:
(1) unifying the business knowledge of multiple enterprises and their diverse and conflicting objectives in the value network,
(2) sensing the value network and processes through systems design, and
3) analyzing the value offered by multiple service entities in the network based on common goals and metrics.
Biography:
Dr. J. Sairamesh (Ramesh) is currently a Managing Partner at 360Fresh Inc. Previously he was a Manager and Program Leader for Business Solutions and Manufacturing Quality Research at IBM Watson Research, New York. He was one of the functional architects for IBM's e-business and e-Marketplace products. At IBM, from 2001 to 2007, he helped drive the vision and strategy for business solutions on value-chain management, warranty and enterprise quality in manufacturing (automotive) for IBM. He led a team on early warning solutions, services middleware and end-to-end quality technologies. He has helped incubate and drive three commercial business solutions for IBM's customers in the areas of Dealer-CRM, Early Warning for Warranty and Supply-Chain Quality. He has numerous US Patents and over 50 research publications. He has won three outstanding innovation awards and a research division award for his eCommerce and Business Solutions work at IBM. He received his M.S., M. Phil.(1992), and Ph.D (1996) from EE and CS at Columbia University.
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CellScope: Mobile Imaging for Disease Diagnosis
Dr. Erik Douglas, leader of the CellScope project at UC Berkeley
Abstract:
Microscopy is the gold ...
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CellScope: Mobile Imaging for Disease Diagnosis
Dr. Erik Douglas, leader of the CellScope project at UC Berkeley
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Microscopy is the gold standard for medical diagnosis, but the necessary technology and personnel demands are often too high for use in the developing world. We are developing a platform for cell phone-based telemicroscopy, called the CellScope, which will enable remote image analysis for diagnosis and monitoring of diseases like malaria and tuberculosis. I will discuss the landscape of alternative diagnostics, our prototype system, and promising results we have achieved both in the lab and in field work.
Dr. Douglass research focuses on microdevices for cellular analysis, and point of care diagnostics for use in the developing world. He joined the CellScope project in Summer 2008, and is directing the development and implementation of the technology for mobile microscopy in the developing world.
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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Bill Spencer on Smart Sensing Technology
Smart Sensing Technology: A New Paradigm for Structural Health Monitoring
Bill ...
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Nokia Distinguished Lecture: Bill Spencer on Smart Sensing Technology
Smart Sensing Technology: A New Paradigm for Structural Health Monitoring
Bill Spencer
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Abstract:
The ability to continuously monitor the integrity of civil infrastructure in real-time offers the opportunity to reduce maintenance and inspection costs, while providing for increased safety to the public. Furthermore, after natural disasters, it is imperative that emergency facilities and evacuation routes, including bridges and highways, be assessed for safety. Addressing all of these issues is the objective of structural health monitoring (SHM). Smart sensors densely distributed over structures can provide rich information for structural health monitoring using their sensing, computational, and wireless communication capabilities. Though smart sensor technology has seen substantial advances during recent years, implementation of smart sensors on full-scale structures has been limited; interdisciplinary efforts to address issues in sensors, networks, and application specific algorithms have only now begun to germinate. Following an overview of these issues, a new paradigm for structural health monitoring employing a network of smart sensors will be presented. Because of its ability to meet the demands of data intensive applications such as SHM, Intels Imote2 is adopted for this research. The performance of the proposed SHM system is first evaluated through experimental studies employing a three-dimensional truss structure. Subsequently, full-scale implementation on a historic bridge in Mahomet, Illinois is conducted. The system is investigated from the sensing, network, and SHM algorithmic perspectives and shown to perform effectively.
Bio:
B.F. Spencer, Jr. received his Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1985. He worked on the faculty at the University of Notre Dame for 17 years before returning to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he currently holds the Nathan M. and Anne M. Newmark Endowed Chair in Civil Engineering and is the Director of the Newmark Structural Engineering Laboratory. His research has been primarily in the areas of smart structures, fatigue reliability, stochastic computational mechanics, and natural hazard mitigation. He is a Fellow of ASCE, an elected Foreign Member of the Polish Academy of Sciences, the North American Editor in Chief of Smart Structures and Systems, and the president of the Asia-Pacific Network of Centers for Research in Smart Structures Technology.
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Discourse Architecture
Warren Sack [Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz]
ABSTRACT: In the United States, public space is...
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Discourse Architecture
Warren Sack [Associate Professor of Film & Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz]
ABSTRACT: In the United States, public space is splintering into shards. Poor urban planning and the demise of many institutions of civil society are two factors that are to blame. But, media technologies, like television, are usually, also, seen to be destructive forces in this shattering of public space. Can new media technologies be designed to engender community rather than undermine it? I outline discourse architecture, an approach to designing social software for community and then present a few examples of technologies that my group and I have designed in the last several years.
BIO: Warren Sack is a software designer and media theorist whose work explores theories and designs for online public space and public discussion. He is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz and earned a B.A. from Yale College and an S.M. and Ph.D. from the MIT Media Laboratory. Warren's writings on new media and computer science have been published widely and his art work has been shown at the ZKM|Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the artport of the Whitney Museum of American Art; and, in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
As always, these talks are free, open to the public and broadcast live on-line at mms://media.citris.berkeley.edu/webcast the day and time of the event. Questions can be sent via Yahoo IM to username: citrisevents.
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Intelligence for the Humanoid Robot ASIMO: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Principles of Processing in the Brain.
I would like to welcome you ...
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Intelligence for the Humanoid Robot ASIMO: A Synthetic Approach to Understanding Principles of Processing in the Brain.
I would like to welcome you to the web site of the Honda Research Institute Europe (HRI-EU).
The Honda Research Institute Europe is one of three basic research units Honda inaugurated in a bold and foresighted move in 2003. It is our mission to contribute to the future of our society and thereby to the future of Honda by pursuing emerging technologies.
By translating principles of biological information processing systems into unique and innovative technology, the team at the Honda Research Institute Europe strives towards becoming the Centre of Excellence for Intelligent Systems Research in Honda.
The human brain demonstrates that robustness, functional autonomy and cognition in unconstrained environments are possible. Hence, an understanding of the brain is the most promising way towards the creation of intelligent systems.
In order to understand the brain, we follow an "analysis through synthesis" philosophy. We set the architectural and processing constraints for self-assembly through evolution and learning of the artificial system in interaction with the environment.
To progress from pre-programmed skills to learnt and thereby actively acquired behaviour provides us with the key for a new class of systems: systems whose architecture and dynamics provide the basis for brain-like intelligence.
I hope you enjoy this concise introduction to the work of our institute.
Prof. Dr.-Ing. E. Körner
President
Offenbach, 2007
http://www.honda-ri.de/
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