Gjesteforelesning: "Envisioning the Future of Embedded Real-Time Systems" - Professor Seppo J. Ovaska, Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering
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Date: Friday May 9th 2014, 14:15
Place: Store Aud, Realfagsbygget, UiT
Title: " Envisioning the Future of Embedded Real-Time Systems "
Lecturer: Professor Seppo J. Ovaska, Aalto University, School of Electrical Engineering
Abstract
Technology forecasts are typically used for supporting decision-making processes and for strategic planning purposes. The fundamental methodologies behind forecasting are the use of analogies, extrapolation, and modeling, as well as their combinations. Conversely, vision creation on the development of some technology is a speculative form of technology forecasting that is strongly supported by human intuition—even imagination. Such technology visions are sometimes used in place of professional forecasts or in parallel to complement them.
In this lecture, we provide selective visions of the evolution and advancement of embedded real-time systems. The time span of our visions is up to year 2040; hence, some of the visions are necessarily “blue-sky” visions, while others are more “feet-on-the-ground” type. The visions we present are derived from our insight informed by the current literature on real-time systems technologies. Our insight, on the other hand, has matured during the exciting 35 years that we have been involved with real-time systems, particularly the embedded ones.
Our visions on real-time systems have five dimensions: real-time hardware, real-time operating systems, real-time programming languages, real-time systems development, and real-time applications. And these distinct vision elements are presented with illustrative examples.
Biography
Dr. Seppo J. Ovaska received his D.Sc. (Tech.) degree from Tampere University of Technology (Finland) in 1989. He is currently a Professor in the School of Electrical Engineering at Aalto University (Finland). In the academic year 2006–2007, he served as a Visiting Professor at Utah State University. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Ovaska developed control systems for high-rise elevators, both in Finland and in the United States. His research expertise includes computational intelligence, green computing, and industrial electronics. Dr. Ovaska has published more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals, and he holds six U.S. patents.
He has served as an associate/guest editor for several IEEE journals, including a guest-editorship for the prestigious Proceedings of the IEEE. Dr. Ovaska was an elected member of the Board of Governors, IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC) Society. In addition, he has founded two IEEE SMC workshop series, SMCia and SMCals, and has run them with his SMC colleagues in Asia, Europe, and North America. He is a recipient of two Outstanding Contribution Awards and the Most Active SMC Technical Committee Award of the IEEE SMC Society.
Dr. Ovaska’s travels have taken him to Muroran Institute of Technology (Japan), North Carolina State University, the University of Passau (Germany), Utah State University, and Virginia Tech. Those major collaboration visits have greatly enhanced his practical and theoretical knowledge on various fields of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
His textbook Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis: Tools for the Practitioner (Wiley – IEEE Press, Hoboken, NJ, 2012) is on Intel’s Recommended Reading List for Developers “Books for Embedded Developers – Software”, see http://noggin.intel.com/rr.
He is currently serving as a Visiting Professor at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where he is working on a new research initiative “Green Computing in Arctic Environment.”
