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Lectures from 2012

Innovation for a Smarter Planet

Professor Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor

When: Tuesday 12 June 2012, The Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East, University of York

Professor Andy Stanford-Clark, IBM Distinguished Engineer and Master Inventor, will introduce technology which is helping to make the planet smarter: instrumenting objects in the real world with sensors, linking them together over a network, and then applying intelligent applications to reason about what's happening, and how to react accordingly. Andy will illustrate this "smarter planet" vision with features of his home automation system, including monitoring power consumption and water usage, remote control of electrical appliances from his mobile phone, and his electronic mouse traps! He will describe other applications of this technology, including vehicle telematics and the intriguing world of "tweetjects" - objects that Twitter.

Professor Andy Stanford-Clark is the Chief Technologist for IBM's consulting business in Energy and Utilities for the UK and Ireland. He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer, and "Master Inventor" with more than 40 patents. Andy is based at IBM's Hursley Park laboratories in the UK, and specialises in remote telemetry, energy monitoring and management, Smart Metering and Smart Grid technologies. He has a particular interest in home energy monitoring, home automation, demand-side management, and driving consumer behaviour change. Andy has a BSc in Computing and Mathematics, and a PhD in Computer Science. He is a visiting professor at the University of Newcastle and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

See Andy Stanford-Clark slides (PDF , 2,210kb) from this lecture, or watch a similar talk he gave at TEDx.

Lectures from 2011

Predicting our technological future - IBM's Global Technology Outlook

Rashik Parmar, Chief Technology Office of IBM Northern Europe

When: Monday 7 November 2011, The Ron Cooke Hub, Heslington East, University of York

The Global Technology Outlook is a yearly report prepared by IBM and a community of some of the world's top scientists, which identifies significant technology trends five to ten years before they come to realisation. The report has previously identified and examined high-impact technologies that have led to the creation of industry-changing products and services, such as virtual server security, optimised systems, pervasive connectivity and the rising importance of data and analytics.

The GTO is not designed to singularly benefit IBM. In fact, some of the trends explored are well beyond IBM's current scope of business. And that's what makes the GTO such a success each year; it provides IBM's clients and partners with an impartial take on the world and the evolution of IT across business, economic and natural systems.

Rashik Parmar, Chief Technology Officer of IBM Northern Europe guides us through the results of the 2011 GTO. Whether you're an interested enthusiast or at the cutting edge of IT, this lecture will inform and engage. Find out whether analytics push the petascale barrier. What else can benefit from an Internet infrastructure? And how much value is buried in volumes of unstructured data? Join us for a technological look into the future.

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