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SUMMARY:A.I. is a half-truth without H.I.! POVAR and other examples of the Internet of Truth and Integrity for Consumer Electronics: See the invisible waves that see you!
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday December 2\, 2015 at 6:00 p.m. Steve Mann\, University of Toronto Professor and Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman’s School of Management\, will be presenting “A.I. is a half-truth without H.I.! POVAR and other examples of the Internet of Truth and Integrity for Consumer Electronics: See the invisible waves that see you!”. \nSpeaker: Steve Mann\nProfessor in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments\nUniversity of Toronto\nChief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab\nRotman’s School of Management \nDay & Time: Wednesday\, December 2\, 2015\n6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room WI1017\, Wilson Hall – New College\n40 Willcocks St\, Toronto\, ON M5S\nBuilding Map Link \nRegistration: Please register at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ai-is-a-half-truth-without-hi-povar-and-other-examples-of-the-internet-of-truth-and-integrity-for-tickets-19671375614 \nContact: nabavi@ieee.org \nTo read the full presentation abstract see: http://wearcam.org/ConsumerElectronicsDec02.htm \nFor more details on the guest speaker see: http://wearcam.org/bio.htm \nAbstract: Today’s technological advancements in Artifical Intelligence (AI) and the Internet of Things That Think (IoT and TTT) are rapidly changing the way consumers interact with technology. Gone are the days of open source and open box consumer electronics and in their place we are left with proprietary devices that are difficult to understand and copy. Steve suggests there are two major problems with this new technological way: (1) discouragement of the scientific method and (2) increased personal risk. These problems have led to a world where humans don’t realize the risks they face as they are unable to understand the fundamentals of their technology. Join us as Steve introduces a number of new concepts that will shed light on the technology we use in daily life. \nBiography: Steve Mann is widely regarded for his work on computation photography\, particularly for wearable computing and high dynamic range imaging. As an inventor and visionary\, his work established Toronto as the world’s epicenter of wearable technologies in the 1980s and led him to found MIT Media Lab’s Wearable Computing project. Steve received his PhD from MIT in 1997 and then returned to Toronto in 1998 where he is now a tenured full professor at the University of Toronto in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science departments. During his early years at University of Toronto\, he created the world’s first Mobile Apps Lab (1999) as a part of his wearable computing and AR course. He is also the Chief Scientist at the Creative Destruction Lab at Rotman’s School of Management. Mann holds multiple patents\, and has contributed to the founding of numerous companies including InteraXON\, makers of Muse.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/a-i-is-a-half-truth-without-h-i-povar-and-other-examples-of-the-internet-of-truth-and-integrity-for-consumer-electronics-see-the-invisible-waves-that-see-you/
LOCATION:Room WI1017\, Wilson Hall – New College (40 Willcocks Street\, Toronto)
CATEGORIES:Industry Applications
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SUMMARY:Connected Cars for Smart Cities
DESCRIPTION:Monday December 7\, 2015 at 12:30 p.m. Shahrokh Valaee\, Professor and Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies at the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, will be presenting “Connected Cars for Smart Cities”. \nSpeaker: Shahrokh Valaee\nProfessor\, Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies\nEdward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\nUniversity of Toronto \nDay & Time: Monday\, December 7\, 2015\n12:30 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. \nLocation: Room ENG 288\, Ryerson University\nGeorge Vari Center for Engineering & Computing\n245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Computer\, Magnetics and Instrument-Measurement Chapters \nContact: Dr. Maryam Davoudpour \nAbstract: Recently we are witnessing the emergence of situation-aware vehicles\, equipped with plurality of sensors that can help driver with vehicle control and maneuvering. Cars that can park themselves\, provide lane-departure warning\, and monitor the driver alertness are marketed with affordable prices. The sensing and processing power of cars are increasing\, enabling various safety-enhancing features\, such as blind-spot warning\, adaptive headlights\, adaptive cruise control\, and so on. In this talk\, we will discuss the next steps for autonomous vehicles. In particular\, we will project the path forward by transitioning from autonomous cars to cognitive and intelligent vehicles. Future cars will be enabled with car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communication capabilities. We will review such enhancement and will focus on two recent research directives that will make future cars intelligent. The two enablers are compressive sensing and network coding. We will show that cooperative compressive sensing can reduce the wireless channel congestion\, which is the main challenge in dense vehicular networks. To discuss the communications aspects of vehicular networks\, we will introduce a repetition-based medium access control method using positive orthogonal codes\, and then propose an opportunistic network-coding scheme to enhance the reliability of communication. We will finally discuss some open research issues. \nBiography: Shahrokh Valaee is with the Edward S. Rogers Sr. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Toronto\, where he is a Professor and the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies. He is the Founder and the Director of the Wireless and Internet Research Laboratory (WIRLab) at the University of Toronto. Professor Valaee recently served as the TPC Co-Chair of ICT 2015. He was the Track Chair of the IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference (WCNC) 2014\, the TPC Co-Chair and the Local Organization Chair of IEEE Personal Mobile Indoor Radio Communication (PIMRC) Symposium 2011\, and the Co-Chair for Wireless Communications Symposium of IEEE GLOBECOM 2006. From December 2010 to December 2012\, he was the Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Currently\, he serves as an Editor of IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications. Since Feb 2015 he has been an Editor of the Elsevier Journal of Computer and System Science. Professor Valaee is a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/connected-cars-for-smart-cities/
LOCATION:Room ENG 288\, Ryerson University\, 245 Church Street\, Toronto\, ON
CATEGORIES:Computer,Instrumentation & Measurement,Magnetics
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SUMMARY:Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Cluster Assessment in Square and Rectangular Relational Data
DESCRIPTION:Monday December 7\, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Professor Emeritus James Bezdek will be presenting “Every Picture Tells a Story: Visual Cluster Assessment in Square and Rectangular Relational Data”. \nSpeaker: Emeritus James Bezdek\nPast President of NAFIPS\, IFSA and the IEEE CIS \nDay & Time: Monday\, December 7\, 2015\n4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room 1180\nBahen Center for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Signals & Computational Intelligence Chapter\nDistinguished Lecturer Program \nContact: Lorenzo Livi\, Email:llivi@scs.ryerson.ca \nAbstract: The VAT/iVAT\, algorithms are the parents of a large family of visual assessment models. \nPart 1. Definitions of the three canonical problems of cluster analysis: tendency assessment\, clustering\, and cluster validity. History of Visual Clustering. Applications: role-based compliance assessment\, eldercare time series data\, and anomaly detection in wireless sensor networks. \nPart 2. Extension to siVAT\, scalable iVAT for big data. This is the basis of clusiVAT and clusiVAT+ for clustering in big data (Topic 4 below). Application: image segmentation. Extension to coiVAT for assessment of co-clustering tendency in the four clustering problems associated with rectangular relational data. Application: response of 18 Fetal Bovine Serum Treatments to the treatment of fibroblasts in gene expression data. \nBiography: Jim received the PhD in Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 1973. Jim is past president of NAFIPS (North American Fuzzy Information Processing Society)\, IFSA (International Fuzzy Systems Association) and the IEEE CIS (Computational Intelligence Society): founding editor the Int’l. Jo. Approximate Reasoning and the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems: Life fellow of the IEEE and IFSA; and a recipient of the IEEE 3rd Millennium\, IEEE CIS Fuzzy Systems Pioneer\, and IEEE technical field award Rosenblatt medals. Jim’s interests: woodworking\, optimization\, motorcycles\, pattern recognition\, cigars\, clustering in very large data\, fishing\, co-clustering\, blues music\, wireless sensor networks\, poker and visual clustering. And of course\, clustering in big data. Jim retired in 2007\, and will be coming to a university near you soon.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/every-picture-tells-a-story-visual-cluster-assessment-in-square-and-rectangular-relational-data/
LOCATION:Room 1180\, Bahen Center for Information Technology\, University of Toronto
CATEGORIES:Signals & Computational Intelligence
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SUMMARY:Applications of Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces in Designing Microwave Lenses\, Reflectarrays\, and Polarization Converters
DESCRIPTION:Friday December 11\, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. Prof. Nader Behdad of University of Wisconsin – Madison\, will be presenting “Applications of Miniaturized-Element Frequency Selective Surfaces in Designing Microwave Lenses\, Reflectarrays\, and Polarization Converters”. \nSpeaker: Prof. Nader Behdad\nUniversity of Wisconsin – Madison \nDay & Time: Friday\, December 11\, 2015\n4:00 p.m. \nLocation: Room BA1210\, Bahen Center for Information Technology\n40 St. George Street\, Toronto\, ON\, M5S 2E4 \nOrganizer: IEEE Toronto Electromagnetics and Radiation Chapter \nContact: Sean Victor Hum \nAbstract: Over the past several years\, we have conducted research on a class of frequency selective surfaces with building blocks that consist of cascaded arrays of non-resonant\, sub-wavelength periodic structures. Due to the small lateral dimensions and thicknesses of their unit cells\, these structures are referred to as miniaturized-element frequency selective surfaces (MEFSSs). As spatial filters\, MEFSSs can be designed to provide a wide range of response types with arbitrary levels of selectivity. MEFSSs capable of operating at extremely high incident power levels have also been developed and experimentally demonstrated for operation as spatial filters in HPM systems. Finally\, MEFSSs having suppressed harmonics over extremely broad bandwidths have been developed for reduction of radar signatures of antennas and other objects. \nIn addition to acting as spatial filters\, the building blocks of MEFSSs can be used to serve other purposes as well. For example\, by using the unit cells of a band-pass or a low-pass MEFSS as a spatial phase shifter or a spatial time-delay unit (TDU)\, wideband\, true-time-delay lenses and reflectarrays may be designed. By using anisotropic versions of these spatial TDUs\, wideband linear-to-circular polarization converters or polarization selective surfaces can be designed. In this presentation\, I will first briefly discuss the principles of operation of MEFSSs and present examples of spatial filters developed for different applications. Subsequently\, I will discuss three specific applications where the unit cells of MEFSSs are used as transmissive or reflective time-delay units. These include the development of wideband true-time-delay microwave lenses and reflectarrays as well as broadband linear-to-circular polarization converters designed using anisotropic time delay units. \nBiography: Nader Behdad received the B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Tehran\, Iran) in 2000 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan (Ann Arbor\, MI\, U.S.A.) in 2003 and 2006 respectively. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science\, University of Central Florida\, Orlando\, FL\, USA\, from 2006 to 2008\, and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering\, University of Wisconsin–Madison\, Madison\, WI\, USA\, from 2009 to 2013\, where he is currently an Associate Professor. His research expertise is in the area of applied electromagnetics with emphasis on electrically-small antennas\, antenna arrays\, antennas for biomedical applications\, biomedical applications of RF/microwaves\, periodic structures\, frequency selective surfaces\, passive high-power microwave devices\, metamaterials\, and biomimetics and biologically inspired systems in electromagnetics. \nProf. Behdad was a recipient of the IEEE R. W. P. King Prize Paper Award in 2014\, the IEEE Piergiorgio L. E. Uslenghi Letters Prize Paper Award in 2012\, the CAREER Award from the U.S. National Science Foundation in 2011\, the Young Investigator Award from the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research in 2011\, and the Young Investigator Award from the United States Office of Naval Research in 2011. He received the Office of Naval Research Senior Faculty Fellowship in 2009\, the Young Scientist Award from the International Union of Radio Science (URSI) in 2008\, the Horace H. Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship from the University of Michigan in 2005-2006\, the best paper awards in the Antenna Applications Symposium in Sep. 2003\, and the second prize in the paper competition of the USNC/ URSI National Radio Science Meeting\, Boulder\, CO\, in January 2004. His graduate students were the recipients of the ten different awards/recognitions at the IEEE Pulsed Power & Plasma Science in 2013\, IEEE AP-S/URSI Symposium in 2010\, 2012\, 2013\, and 2014\, and the Antenna Applications Symposium in 2008\, 2010\, and 2011. He serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters and served as the co-chair of the technical program committee of the 2012 IEEE International Symposium on Antennas and Propagation and USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting.
URL:https://www.ieeetoronto.ca/event/applications-of-miniaturized-element-frequency-selective-surfaces-in-designing-microwave-lenses-reflectarrays-and-polarization-converters/
LOCATION:Room BA1210\, Bahen Center for Information Technology\, 40 St. George Street\, Toronto
CATEGORIES:Electromagnetics & Radiation
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