Dear all, Pl. find an invite for the Distinguished Lecture on “How Internet of Things (IoT) Will Transform Everything Creating a Smarter World” by Dr San Murugesan on 23rd Dec at 5.30 p.m. The pdf invite is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2013/mm-131223.pdf The invite in word doc format is available at http://ieeecs-madras.managedbiz.com/pgms/2013/mm-131223.doc While the entry to this pgm is free, to facilitate logistics, pl. pre-register at http://goo.gl/GTzKg With reagrds HR Mohan Chairman, IEEE CS & PCS INVITE ========================================== IEEE Computer Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Professional Communication Society, Madras Chapter IEEE Technology Management Council, Madras Chapter Computer Society of India, Chennai Chapter Cordially invite you to the Distinguished Lecture on “How Internet of Things (IoT) Will Transform Everything Creating a Smarter World” by Dr San Murugesan Distinguished Speaker, IEEE Computer Society Editor-in-Chief, IEEE IT Professional Director, BRITE Professional Services Adjunct Professor, University of Western Sydney, Australia on Monday, 23rd December 2013 at 5.30 p.m. at Conference Hall, Anna University Alumni Centre Anna University, Guindy, Chennai – 600025 Mr. H.R. Mohan, Chairman, IEEE CS & PCS Madras Mr. K.V. Rupchand, Chairman, IEEE TMC Madras Mr. P. Kumar, Chairman, CSI Chennai Programme ======== 5.30: Tea & Fellowship 6.00: Distinguished Lecture 7.30: Dinner About the presentation ================= The evolution and growth of the Internet is phenomenal and is an ongoing process: in just 25 years, it has grown to link billions of people through computers and mobile devices. It is now being used to connect various objects such as cars, sensors, controllers, TVs, machinery, transport containers and electrical appliances, creating the Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT reaches out into the real world of physical objects; it is predicted that by the year 2020, 50 to 100 billion things will be connected to the Internet facilitating human-to-human, human-to-thing and thing-to-thing (also called M2M) communication. The IoT facilitates deployment many new applications and services, and has the potential to change the world, just as the Internet did -- maybe even more so. Time is ripe to look at how we can leverage and benefit from it. We can optimistically look forward to an IoT-assisted world that is both connected and smarter. In this talk, following a brief introduction to the IoT, the IEEE CS distinguished speaker will present a snapshot of applications of IoT in different areas and also discuss the opportunities and issues that IoT presents to IT professionals, academics and researchers and why one should be interested in it. About the Speaker ============== Dr. San Murugesan is a Distinguished Speaker of IEEE Computer Society, Editor in Chief of IEEE IT Professional; Director of BRITE Professional Services, Sydney; and adjunct professor at University of Western Sydney, Australia. He is a corporate trainer, a consultant and an author. He is a former Senior Research Fellow of the US National Research Council, at NASA Ames Research Center, California, USA, and served in various positions at ISRO satellite Centre, Bangalore. His expertise and interests span a range areas and includes cloud computing, green IT, IT for emerging regions, Web 3.0 and 2.0, smart systems and mobile computing applications. He is a co-editor of the new book, Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices (John Wiley, 2012; Indian Edition, 2013), and Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications (Information Science Reference, 2009). He is also a co-editor of the upcoming Encyclopedia of Cloud Computing (Wiley, 2014), and edits and contributes to the “Cloud Cover” department in Computer. Dr. Murugesan is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, a Fellow of IETE and a Sr. Member of IEEE CS. More at www.bitly.com/sanprofile While the entry to this pgm is free, to facilitate logistics, pl. pre-register at http://goo.gl/GTzKg -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.