Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has been a Professor at the  University of California, Berkeley since 1976. He was a co-founder of Cadence and Synopsys, the two leading companies in Electronic Design Automation. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Cadence, Sonics, Expert Systems, and of KPIT Technologies. He was a member of the HP Strategic Technology Advisory Board, of the Science and Technology Advisory Board of GM, and is a member of the Technology Advisory Council of UTC. He is member of the Scientific Council of the Italian National Science Foundation (CNR) and of the Executive Committee of the Italian Institute of Technology. He is President of the Consiglio Nazionale Garanti della Ricerca, and of the Strategic Committee of the Italian Strategic Fund.
He received the Kaufman Award for “pioneering contributions to EDA”, the IEEE/RSE Maxwell Medal “for groundbreaking contributions that have had an exceptional impact on the development of electronics and electrical engineering or related fields”, the first ACM/IEEE A. Richard Newton Technical Impact Award. He holds an honorary Doctorate by the University of Aalborg, Denmark and one by KTH, Sweden.
He is an author of over 850 papers, 17 books and 2 patents, is IEEE and ACM Fellow and a Member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Cyber-Physical Systems for Medical Data Collection and Analysis

Technology advances are creating major shifts in the industrial landscape. Traditional sectors such as transportation, medical and avionics, are witnessing fundamental changes in the supply chain and in the content where the interactions between the physical world and the computing world are becoming increasingly tight. Cyber Physical Systems, Systems of Systems, Internet of Things, Industrie 4.0, Swarm Systems and The Fog are all sectors that attract massive attention from the research communities and massive investment from industry. These concepts are tightly intertwined and describe a movement towards a fully interconnected planet where billions of devices interact via a complex mesh of wireless and wired communication infrastructures. The most compelling vision for the future of technology and industry is one where a swarm of devices is connected with the cloud to provide platforms for myriad of new applications. Among these applications, health devices and services take center stage for their social and economic implications. Precision medicine implies the conception and design of cyber-physical systems that combine physical sensors and actuators with sophisticated computing. Some of these devices such as brain-machine interface devices and an integrated disposable ECG will be reviewed and the future of the swarm technologies for health applications presented.

Internet of Things (IOT) and Virtual Reality