[CSEE-colloq] Prof. Ouri Wolfson on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1pm Fri 12/2, ITE325, UMBC

[Tim Finin]

		      Distinguished Lecture
	   Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
	    University of Maryland, Baltimore County

	      Silence of the labs: Why are we still
	     commuting the way we did 40 years ago?

		     Professor Ouri Wolfson
		University of Illinois at Chicago

	     1:00pm Friday 2 December 2011, ITE 325b

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) have been in research
and development since the 70's but their impact so far has been
relatively small. In this talk I will argue that this is about to
change, and that these systems will soon revolutionize the way we
commute. I will describe research issues and Information
Technology approaches related to ITS. I will focus on urban
transportation, and discuss novel applications enabled by mobile
wireless technologies. Such applications have the potential to
improve safety, mobility, environmental impact, and energy
efficiency of urban transportation. The applications are based on
vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication,
and they epitomize ITS efforts currently undertaken throughout
the world, particularly the IntelliDrive initiative of the US
Department of Transportation. I will also relate these efforts to
our NSF-sponsored IGERT PhD program in Computational Transportation
Science.

Ouri Wolfson's is the Richard and Loan Hill Professor of Computer
Science at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and an
Affiliate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign. He is the sole
founder of Mobitrac, a venture-funded high-tech startup that was
acquired by Fluensee Co. in 2006.

Ouri Wolfson authored over 180 publications, and holds seven
patents. He is a Fellow of the Association of Computing
Machinery, a Fellow of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science (AAAS), a University of Illinois Scholar
for 2009, and serves on the editorial boards of several
journals. He co-authored three award winning papers, served as a
Distinguished Lecturer for the Association of Computing Machinery
during 2001-2003, and participated in numerous conferences as a
keynote speaker, general chairman, program committee chairman or
member, tutorial presenter, session chairman, and panelist. Most
recently he was the keynote speaker at the Mobilware 2010
Conference, and the general chair of the 17th ACM SIGSPATIAL
International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information
Systems (ACM GIS 2009) . His research has been funded by the
National Science Foundation (NSF), Air Force Office of Scientific
Research (AFOSR), Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA), NATO, US Army, NASA, the New York State Science and
Technology Foundation, Hughes Research Laboratories, Informix
Co., Accenture Co., and Hitachi Co.

Wolfson’s main research interests are in database systems,
distributed systems, and mobile/pervasive computing. Before
joining the University of Illinois he has been on the computer
science faculty at the Technion, Columbia University, and a
Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs.

Host: Yelena Yesha (yeyesha at umbc.edu)