NSF Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems

 

Final Schedule and Presentations

 

 

·        Sunday, October 15, 2006

·        Monday, October 16, 2006

·        Tuesday, October 17, 2006

 

 

Sunday, October 15, 2006

 06:30-08:00pm          Reception/Registration

 

 

Monday, October 16, 2006

07:30 am                      Continental Breakfast/Registration

 

08:30 am                      Welcoming Remarks

·        Prof. Raj Rajkumar, Carnegie Mellon University

·        Prof. Insup Lee, University of Pennsylvania

                                               

Opening Remarks

·        Dr. Wei Zhao, Director, Computer and Network Systems Division, NSF (slides)

·        Dr. Helen Gill, Program Director, Computer and Network Systems, NSF (slides)

·        Dr. Scott Midkiff, Program Director, Electrical, Communications and Cyber-Systems Division, NSF

·        Dr. Mario Rotea, Program Director, Division of Civil, Mechanical & Manufacturing Innovation, NSF

 

09:00 am                      Academics Panel Session #1

·        Prof. Janos Sztipanovits, Vanderbilt University, Moderator (slides)

·        Prof. Alan Burns, University of York (slides)

·        Prof. Seth Goldstein, Carnegie Mellon University

·        Prof. Edward Lee, University of California at Berkeley (slides)

·        Prof. Wayne Wolf, Princeton University (slides)

 

10:30 am                      Coffee Break

 

10:30 am                      Academics Panel Session #2

·        Prof. Bruce Krogh, Carnegie Mellon University, Moderator

·        Prof. Panos Antsaklis, University of Notre Dame

·        Prof. John Baras, University of Maryland (slides)

·        Prof. Munther Dahleh, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (slides)

·        Prof. Bruce McMillin, University of Missouri at Rolla (slides)

·        Prof. Mark Spong, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign (slides)

 

12:00 pm                      Lunch

 

01:00 pm                      Keynote:

“Technologies for Programming Asynchronous, Heterogeneous, Multiprocessor Systems”

Dr. James Truchard

President and CEO

National Instruments

 

02:15 pm                      Brief instruction on breakout sessions

 

02:30 pm                      Coffee Break

 

02:45 pm                      Breakout Session #1: 5 Working Groups

Introduce participants; discuss problems, current state and needs

 

05:30 pm                      End of Day’s Program

 

06:30 pm                      Reception and Dinner (Sponsored by National Instruments)

                                    Iron Cactus Restaurant at 606 Trinity Street (northwest corner of Trinity and  6th)

http://www.ironcactus.com/dt_austin.asp

 

 

Tuesday, October 17, 2006

07:30 am                      Continental Breakfast

 

08:30 am                      Keynote:

“Asking the Four Questions that Define the Cyber-Bio Interface”

Dr. Harvey Rubin

Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and Computer Science

University of Pennsylvania

 

The cyber-bio interface can be defined by answers to four fundamentally symmetrical questions.

 

1. Can biological systems operationalize certain aspects of cyber systems so that we can understand and design advanced biological systems?

 

2. Can biological systems operationalize certain aspects of cyber systems so that we can understand and design advanced cyber systems?

 

3. Can cyber systems operationalize certain aspects of biological systems so that we can understand and design advanced biological systems?

 

4. Can cyber systems operationalize certain aspects of biological systems so that we can understand and design advanced cyber systems?

 

Examples from the research program of the relatively newly anointed “synthetic biology” which has come to dominate thinking about question 1, will be briefly discussed.  We will argue that solutions to question 2 have not yet lived up to expectations.  Research on question 3 is emerging and has found a focus in many nano-bio programs and medical devices and surveillance programs.  We will pay special attention to question 4 where new results will be discussed and a more complete research agenda will be suggested. 

 

09:15 am                      Industry Perspectives on Cyber-Physical Systems

·        Dr. Jay Bayne, Meta Command Systems (slides)

·        Dr. Tim Crowley, United Technologies Research Center (slides)

·        Dr. Thomas E. Fuhrman, General Motors (slides)

·        Dr. Bill Milam, Ford (slides)

·        Dr. Feng Zhao, Microsoft Research (slides)

 

10:30 am                      Coffee Break

 

10:50 am                      Breakout Session #2:  Working Groups

Refine R&D challenges, promising technologies &  roadmap

 

12:00 pm                      Breakout Session #3: 5 Working Groups

Prepare summary presentation and plan for written report

 

12:30 pm                      *Working* Lunch

 

01:30 pm                      Working Group Summaries (15 minutes per area)

·        Smart Transportation (slides)

·        Tele-Physical Services and Applications (slides)

·        Critical Physical Infrastructures (slides)

·        System Infrastructure (slides)

·        Scientific Foundations, Theory and Education (slides)

 

03:00 pm                      Final Discussion

 

03:30 pm                      Wrapup