Seminar 19th May 2010 5:30 p.m. University of Southampton, Lanchester Building (7)
Building a Smarter Planet City by City
Rashik Parmar, Chief Technology Officer
IBM, North-East Europe
- Web page
- http://www.events.soton.ac.uk/event/ev:q9-g8llfc10-yz5afa/
- Categories
- Built Environment, Climate, Evolution, Human environment interaction, Social and Socio-economic Systems, Social Networks
- Submitter
- Petrina Butler
Rashik Parmar, IBM, Chief Technical Officer
Computing systems are now pervasive. Whether in the home, in the car, at an event or even just walking down the street - computers are invisibly performing a range of calculations that enable us to go about our business. This is causing profound changes that will transform the world we live in. Information and communication technology is infusing with the physical world and provides the promise of creating a Smarter Planet.
‘Smarter Planet’ is IBM’s campaign to support and engage with technology innovation, which will increasingly shape the world around us.
This presentation will:
- describe the underlying technology trends that are leading to the emergence of a Smarter Planet
- discuss the societal and some of the environmental factors that motivate the creation of a Smarter Planet
- explore the Smarter City as a building block in the creation of a Smarter Planet.
"By smarter, we mean that intelligence is being infused into the systems and processes that make the world work – into things no one would recognise as computers: cars, appliances, roadways, power grids, clothes, even natural systems such as agriculture and waterways."
Rashik Parmar
To register your place, please email e.roe@southampton.ac.uk by 14 May 2010.