Ubiquitous Intelligence and Hyperspace: Visions and Challenges Distinguished Keynote Speaker: Laurence T. Yang. St Francis. Xavier University, Canada

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 terms of technical and real world complexity.

Short Bio:

Professor Laurence T. Yang is with Department of Computer Science of St. Francis Xavier University, Canada. His current research includes parallel and distributed computing, embedded and ubiquitous/pervasive computing.

He has published more than 300 papers in various refereed journals, conference proceedings and book chapters in these areas including around 100 international journal papers such as IEEE and ACM Transactions.  He has been involved actively in conferences and workshops as a program/general/steering conference chair and numerous conference and workshops as a program committee member. He served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing Applications (2001-2004), the chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (2008-2011), and the chair of IEEE Task force on Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (2009-now). Now he is in the steering committee of IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC-XY) conference series, and the National Resource Allocation Committee (NRAC) of Compute Canada.

In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of several international journals. He is serving as an editor for many international journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor of more than 25 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won several Best Paper Awards (including IEEE Best and Outstanding Conference Awards such as the IEEE 20th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (IEEE AINA-06), etc.); one Best Paper Nomination; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Canada Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003. He has been invited to give around 20 keynote talks at various international conferences and symposia.