| Title | : | Internet of Things — The Quest for Trust |
| Speaker | : | Lothar Thiele (ETH Zurich) |
| Details | : | Mon, 1 Jul, 2019 3:00 PM @ A M Turing Hall |
| Abstract: | : | If visions and forecasts of industry come true then we will be soon surrounded by billions of interconnected embedded devices. We will interact with them in a cyber-human symbiosis, they will not only observe us but also our environment, and they will be part of many visible and ubiquitous objects around us. We have the legitimate expectation that the individual devices as well as the overall system behaves in a reliable, predictable and trustworthy manner.
Besides, there are many application domains where we rely on a correct and fault-free system behavior. We expect trustworthy results from sensing, computation, communication and actuation due to economic importance or even catastrophic consequences if the overall system is not working correctly, e.g., in industrial automation, distributed control of energy systems, surveillance, medical applications, or early warning scenarios in the context of building safety or environmental catastrophes. Finally, trustworthiness and reliability are mandatory for the societal acceptance of human-cyber interaction and cooperation. It will be argued that we need novel architectural concepts, an associated design process and validations strategies to satisfy the strongly conflicting requirements and associated design challenges of platforms for the Internet of Things: Handle at the same time limited available resources, adaptive run-time behavior, and predictability. These challenges concern all components and functions of an IoT system, e.g., information extraction from global data, local decision making, computation, storage, wireless communication, energy management, energy harvesting, sensors, sensor interfaces, and actuation. The focus of the presentation is on new models and methods as well as examples from long-term monitoring (10+ years) of environmental processes in extreme environments. Bio: Lothar Thiele joined ETH Zurich, Switzerland, as a Professor of Computer Engineering, in 1994. His research interests include models, methods and software tools for the design of embedded systems, internet of things, cyberphysical systems, sensor networks, embedded software and bioinspired optimization techniques. Lothar Thiele is associate editor of INTEGRATION - the VLSI Journal, Journal of Signal Processing Systems, IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, Journal of Systems Architecture, IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Journal of Real-Time Systems, ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks, ACM Transactions on Cyberphysical Systems, and ACM Transaction on Internet of Things. In 1986 he received the 'Dissertation Award' of the Technical University of Munich, in 1987, the 'Outstanding Young Author Award' of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society, in 1988, the Browder J. Thompson Memorial Award of the IEEE, and in 2000-2001, the 'IBM Faculty Partnership Award'. In 2004, he joined the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2005, he was the recipient of the Honorary Blaise Pascal Chair of University Leiden, The Netherlands. Since 2009 he is a member of the Foundation Board of Hasler Foundation, Switzerland. Since 2010, he is a member of the Academia Europaea. In 2013, he joined the National Research Council of the Swiss National Science Foundation. Lothar Thiele received the 'EDAA Lifetime Achievement Award' in 2015. Since 2017, Lothar Thiele is Associate Vice President of ETH for Digital Transformation. |
