When: September 10, 2021, 07:00 PM Eastern Time
Where:
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Meeting ID: 813 4575 5351
Passcode: 24682468
Speaker: Professor Aliakbar Jalali
Language: Parsi
Synopsis:
The Internet of Things, or IoT, refers to the billions of physical devices around the world that are now connected to the internet, all collecting and sharing data. There will be 35.82 billion IoT devices installed worldwide by 2021 and 75.44 billion by 2025! The Internet of Things has the potential to transform our society, economy, and how we live our lives. IoT helps us work smarter, live smarter, and gain complete control over our lives, but it’s also supporting our wellbeing behind the scenes.
In this presentation, Professor Jalali will describe briefly what IoT is and how it works today. He will discuss the benefits of IoT, some applications of IoT, IoT challenges, and top IoT technologies and trends. He also will give you his personal ideas about the future of IoT, based on his theory “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”.
About the Speaker:
Professor Aliakbar Jalali is an adjunct professor in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He has been teaching Internet of Things (IoT) and Practical Data Networking at UMBC since 2017. He also was teaching and doing research in the school of Electrical Engineering at the Iran University of Science and Technology (IUST) for 30 years. Throughout his work with IUST he has defined, led, and managed research and development teams in the areas of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Internet of Things (IoT), 3D Printers and Control Systems Design and their Applications.
Jalali is well-known for his activities towards the development of ICT and its applications on a national level and as a UNESCO chair in e-learning at the international level. Since 1994, he has had hundreds of speeches, workshops, seminars, lectures, and programs on national radio and television for establishing the benefits of ICT applications in Iran.
Jalali has written and translated 50 books or chapters in addition to more than one hundred journal and conference papers. He is the author of reference books in advanced control systems theory, titled “Reduced Order Systems”, Springer, 2006. Jalali has given a theory known as “Virtual Age: Next Wave of Change in Society”, about 20 years back which the world is recognizing it today!
Professor Jalali is the winner of the best creativity and innovation of the 2007 eASIA Award, Bridging Digital Divide, for his project “The First Rural ICT Center and the first Internet village in Iran”, from UNESCO and UN. He received the President’s award, known as “distinguished engineer of IoT in Iran for the year 2015”. He also received the biggest prize of “International Public Relation”, for the year 2009, which alongside this prize, he honors to receive the title of “Father of Information and Communication Technology in Iran”.
More information about professor Jalali, in Farsi, is available on his web pages at www.drjalali.ir.
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