Title:  Ubiquitous Intelligence and Cyber Individual

Speaker: Prof. Ma Jianhua, Hosei University of Japan

Time: 14:30, Feb 21, 2011

Venu: B8 Lecture Hall

About the Speaker:

Jianhua Ma is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer and Information Sciences of Hosei University since 2000. His research from 1983 to 2003 covered wireless communications, data encryption, speech processing, multimedia QoS, 1-to-m HC hyper-interface, graphics ASIC, e-learning and virtual university, CSCW, multi-agents, Internet audio/video, mobile web service, P2P network, etc. Since 2003 he has been devoted to what he called Smart World/Hyperworld pervaded with smart physical u-things, characterized with Ubiquitous Intelligence (u-Intelligence, UI) for u-Services with UbiSafe guarantee. Dr. Ma has published over 200 papers in journals and proceedings, and edited over 10 books. He is a Co-Editor-in-Chief of JUCI, JMM, JoATC, JPCC and IJUNESST. He is on the editorial boards of IJCPOL, IJDET, IJWMC, IJSH, IJSIA, IJDTA, IJCIT and IJAS, and has edited over 15 journal special issues as a Guest Editor. He organized many IEEE/ACM Conferences. He is a Chair of IEEE CIS Task Force on Autonomic and Trusted Computing, and a co-founder of IEEE Task Force on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing.

Lecture Summary:

Ubiquitous/pervasive sensors, actuators, tags, devices, networks and information are paving a road towards a hyper world on cyber, physical and social integrated spaces, in which computational intelligence is distributed throughout not only pure digital environments but also usual physical environments. Ubiquitous intelligence (ubi-intelligence, u-intelligence, UI) is focused on various forms and levels of smart/intelligent u-things, i.e., computerized/networked physical objects, environments and systems, as well as their related scientific issues, engineering technologies and social impacts brought by such intelligence embedment and pervasion. The grand challenge is how to enable these u-things to offer ubiquitous/pervasive services (u-services) to all people in right time, right place and right means so as to make the hyper world truly smart. To do so, the essential and existence of human in the digital era should be re-examined. Cyber-Individual, with a short term ‘Cyber-I’, is a real individual’s counterpart in cyberspace. Cyber-I can be seen as a comprehensive description of a real individual including one’s physical status, physiological states, psychological behaviors, personal features, social relations, history experiences, etc. Such kind of individual description and modeling is fundamental to offer personalized services to different users according to their needs and situations. In this talk, we shall present our visions on the ubi-intelligence and cyber-I as well as essential challenging issues we have leant in our studies.