A picture is worth a thousand words …. Although this phrase emerged in the analog age of the early 20th century, the rise of digital photography offers the tantalizing possibility of joining each image’s thousand words with those of others,…
Photo Album 2015: Breaking the Boundaries
Today, more than 75 percent of people on our planet have mobile phones with cameras, and we use them frequently; in 2014 alone, we took an estimated one trillion photographs. At any important place or event, people are using their…
Back to Cyber – 3: Now and Future
Social Life Networks In our research group, we are developing a framework that we termed Social Life networks because this is a network of people, sensors, and actuators to solve important social life problems, such as emergency response, traffic management,…
Back to Cyber – 2: Computational Cybernetics
From computational perspective, there are the following major steps in building a cybernetic system: • Building model of the system • Measuring appropriate parameters continuously • Estimating State • Deciding actions to be applied to the system The easiest to…
Back to Cyber – 1
With advances in computing, we now live in the cyber space, talk about Cyber-Physical systems, and have started thinking about Cyber-Physical-Social systems. Cyber has become almost synonymous with Internet and the Web. Social computing is taking us back to the…