Title:
Beyond Screens and Sounds - The Future of Multi-Modal Interactions
Abstract:
"This talk will lay out a long-term vision for the future of human collaboration, communication, and interactions. It will discuss approaches to solving the key technical challenges as we move towards realizing this vision - to provide people with enhanced awareness of their world, to help them better sense and interpret their digital and physical environments, to enable the long-distance exchange of people’s emotions and perceptions, and to augment and improve the human experience in a digitally connected world. The talk will take a software- and systems-focused perspective, discussing how AI-enabled devices revolutionize the diagnosis and prediction of diseases, how analytic-based approaches to infrastructure automation help tame the ever-increasing network complexity, how a world-wide platform for real-time analytics helps make sense of the billions of data streams from IoT devices, and how software might - or might not - be created by artificial intelligence."
Brief bio:
Markus Hofmann is an Executive Vice President at Nokia Bell Labs Research, leading the Software and Data Systems Research. His work covers the invention, design, implementation, and deployment of large-scale software, communication, and data analytic systems, and of applications that build on top of them. What drives him is the combination of developing technology visions, performing the bleeding-edge research needed to realize them, and then drive their commercialization towards successful market solutions. Markus has a Ph.D. with honors in Computer Engineering from the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. For more information, please visit my website.
