Citation
Edward A. Lee. "Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A New Intellectual Challenge?". Talk or presentation, 10, December, 2013; Video of presentation given by author at a seminar at Supélec in Gif-sur Yvette, France.

Abstract
The term cyber-physical systems (CPS) refers to the integration of computation and networking with physical processes. CPS is firmly established as a buzzword du jour. Yet many of its elements are familiar and not altogether new. Is CPS just a rehash of old problems designed to attract new funding? In this talk, I will argue that quite to the contrary, CPS is pushing hard at the frontiers of engineering knowledge, putting severe stress on the abstractions and techniques that have proven so effective in the separate spaces of cyber systems (information and computing technology) and physical systems (the rest of engineering). My argument will center on the role of models, and I will show that questions about semantics of models become extremely challenging when the models are required to conjoin the cyber and the physical worlds.

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  Edward A. Lee. <a
  href="http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1044.html"
  ><i>Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A New
  Intellectual Challenge?</i></a>, Talk or
  presentation,  10, December, 2013; Video of presentation
  given by author at a seminar at Sup&eacute;lec in
  Gif-sur Yvette, France.

• Plain text

  Edward A. Lee. "Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A
  New Intellectual Challenge?". Talk or presentation, 
  10, December, 2013; Video of presentation given by author at
  a seminar at Supélec in Gif-sur Yvette, France.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{Lee13_CyberPhysicalSystemsARehashOrNewIntellectualChallenge,
      author = {Edward A. Lee},
      title = {Cyber-Physical Systems:A Rehash or A New
                Intellectual Challenge?},
      day = {10},
      month = {December},
      year = {2013},
      note = {Video of presentation given by author at a seminar
                at Sup\élec in Gif-sur Yvette, France.},
      abstract = {The term cyber-physical systems (CPS) refers to
                the integration of computation and networking with
                physical processes. CPS is firmly established as a
                buzzword du jour. Yet many of its elements are
                familiar and not altogether new. Is CPS just a
                rehash of old problems designed to attract new
                funding? In this talk, I will argue that quite to
                the contrary, CPS is pushing hard at the frontiers
                of engineering knowledge, putting severe stress on
                the abstractions and techniques that have proven
                so effective in the separate spaces of cyber
                systems (information and computing technology) and
                physical systems (the rest of engineering). My
                argument will center on the role of models, and I
                will show that questions about semantics of models
                become extremely challenging when the models are
                required to conjoin the cyber and the physical
                worlds. },
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/1044.html}
  }
  

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