Opportunities abound for the development of new technologies and business models to address some of the most pressing problems of society: such as the integration of IoT, Data Analytics and Machine Learning and Cloud Computing into our societal scale infrastructures, collaboration between robots and humans, augmented reality for enhancing education and entertainment, better delivery of health care, a low carbon high efficiency energy economy,? and the alleviation of poverty.? The key to such large programs such as the digital transformation of society, the evolution of work,? and brain machine interfaces is an education which is on the one hand technological deep, but also includes societal design variables which capture usability, privacy, security, and indeed social justice issues. A key issue to be addressed is the resilience of these societal systems which have learning enabled components and combine data analytics.

报告人简介: Shankar Sastry is a Berkeley alumnus, as well as a seasoned, popular professor and an internationally recognized expert on embedded and autonomous software. He has invested decades in technology research, spearheading projects to improve the nation’s cybersecurity and network infrastructure. His other research initiatives include robotics and hybrid and embedded systems.

In 1981, Sastry earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer sciences from Berkeley. Since joining the faculty in 1983, he has become known as one of Berkeley’s most distinguished professors, and for his energy, determination and commitment in both the classroom and the lab. He has held directorships of the Information Technology Office at DARPA and the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. He served as chair of the Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences department at Berkeley from 2001 to 2004 and as director of the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) from 2006 to 2008. He currently serves as the faculty director of the Richard C. Blum Center for Developing Economies.