The Wonders and Threats of the Interconnected World: IOT
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Citation
Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "The Wonders and Threats of the Interconnected World: IOT". Talk or presentation, 4, April, 2017; World Congress on the Future of Science, Universita' di Milano Bicocca.

Abstract
Information technology moves rapidly to an increasingly decentralized and collaborative environment (the Cloud) with rich interfaces to the physical world (the Internet of Things). In particular, it has been predicted that by 2020 several billions (thousands per person) of electronic devices will be available. These devices will allow making the computing infrastructure invisible to humans and supporting societal scale applications that are unthinkable today. However, even today, we are facing a number of severe challenges in applications such as autonomous vehicles, that should be monitored carefully with respect to safety, security and privacy concerns. Design of complex distributed system such as the Internet of Things is essentially about connections: Connection of concepts, Connection of objects, Connection of teams. Products of the future will be connected across physical and virtual domains. Connections can produce systems that offer more than the sum of the components but they can also lead to systems that are less powerful, secure and private than the sum of the components or that are so compromised by their interactions that they do not work at all. And this situation is getting worse: a nightmare waiting to occur! An efficient management of interactions among deployed parts of a larger system requires principles that are common to the design methods developed at the bleeding edge of technology. I will point to a number of exciting fields such as Industry 4.0, energy efficiency, synthetic biology, autonomous aircraft and cars where advances are constantly made towards the mastering of distributed, autonomous systems.

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  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/952.html"
  ><i>The Wonders and Threats of the Interconnected
  World: IOT</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  4,
  April, 2017; World Congress on the Future of Science,
  Universita' di Milano Bicocca.

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  Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli. "The Wonders and
  Threats of the Interconnected World: IOT". Talk or
  presentation,  4, April, 2017; World Congress on the Future
  of Science, Universita' di Milano Bicocca.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{SangiovanniVincentelli17_WondersThreatsOfInterconnectedWorldIOT,
      author = {Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli},
      title = {The Wonders and Threats of the Interconnected
                World: IOT},
      day = {4},
      month = {April},
      year = {2017},
      note = {World Congress on the Future of Science,
                Universita' di Milano Bicocca.},
      abstract = {Information technology moves rapidly to an
                increasingly decentralized and collaborative
                environment (the Cloud) with rich interfaces to
                the physical world (the Internet of Things). In
                particular, it has been predicted that by 2020
                several billions (thousands per person) of
                electronic devices will be available. These
                devices will allow making the computing
                infrastructure invisible to humans and supporting
                societal scale applications that are unthinkable
                today. However, even today, we are facing a number
                of severe challenges in applications such as
                autonomous vehicles, that should be monitored
                carefully with respect to safety, security and
                privacy concerns. Design of complex distributed
                system such as the Internet of Things is
                essentially about connections: Connection of
                concepts, Connection of objects, Connection of
                teams. Products of the future will be connected
                across physical and virtual domains. Connections
                can produce systems that offer more than the sum
                of the components but they can also lead to
                systems that are less powerful, secure and private
                than the sum of the components or that are so
                compromised by their interactions that they do not
                work at all. And this situation is getting worse:
                a nightmare waiting to occur! An efficient
                management of interactions among deployed parts of
                a larger system requires principles that are
                common to the design methods developed at the
                bleeding edge of technology. I will point to a
                number of exciting fields such as Industry 4.0,
                energy efficiency, synthetic biology, autonomous
                aircraft and cars where advances are constantly
                made towards the mastering of distributed,
                autonomous systems.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/952.html}
  }
  

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