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ECE Graduate Seminar Lecture
Science / Technology - Lecture/Discussion - WPI Only
Thursday, February 11, 2010
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Atwater Kent Laboratories
AK 108
Title:
Achieving Smart City Resilience: A Sense-and-Respond Architecture for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Speaker:
Robert I. Desourdis Jr.
Senior Systems Architect, VP for Technology
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Abstract:
This lecture will describe both the essential use of adaptive sense-and-respond IT and communication architecture to achieve the promise of smart cities and an approach for achieving critical IT and communication interoperability. It depicts sample results for a fictitious day-to-day commuting and emergency/disaster evacuation, and demonstrates how the same sense-and-respond architecture employed for a day-to-day smart-city commuting problem also applies to evacuation involving that city. At this point, smart-city resilience to man-made and natural disasters has been achieved by ensuring individual authorities are not overburdened with sole decision-making responsibility for responding to these large-scale events. These authorities maintain oversight and can affect directives, but they no longer need to rapidly determine solutions in complex environments because tested policies and procedures have already been put in place. The lessons from history are then learned and applied to public safety and emergency response in the smart city.
*Robert Desourdis will be holding a book signing at 2:00 pm on February 11th at the campus center book store where two of his newest books will be available for purchase!
*New book from Bob Desourdis et al: Achieving Interoperability in Critical IT and Communication Systems, http://www.amazon.com/Achieving-Interoperability-Critical-Communication-Systems/dp/1596933895 addressing several misconceptions and misunderstandings about communications interoperability that continue to limit capabilities in the field, this unique book provides a detailed examination of the subject, focusing on the use of voice, data, and video systems for public safety and emergency response.
Host: Professor William Michalson
Suggested Audiences:
College
E-mail:
ecesec@ece.wpi.edu
Last Modified: February 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM
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ECE Graduate Seminar Lecture
Science / Technology - Lecture/Discussion - WPI Only
Thursday, February 11, 2010
11:00 AM-12:00 PM
Atwater Kent Laboratories
AK 108
Title:
Achieving Smart City Resilience: A Sense-and-Respond Architecture for Emergency Preparedness and Disaster Response
Speaker:
Robert I. Desourdis Jr.
Senior Systems Architect, VP for Technology
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
Abstract:
This lecture will describe both the essential use of adaptive sense-and-respond IT and communication architecture to achieve the promise of smart cities and an approach for achieving critical IT and communication interoperability. It depicts sample results for a fictitious day-to-day commuting and emergency/disaster evacuation, and demonstrates how the same sense-and-respond architecture employed for a day-to-day smart-city commuting problem also applies to evacuation involving that city. At this point, smart-city resilience to man-made and natural disasters has been achieved by ensuring individual authorities are not overburdened with sole decision-making responsibility for responding to these large-scale events. These authorities maintain oversight and can affect directives, but they no longer need to rapidly determine solutions in complex environments because tested policies and procedures have already been put in place. The lessons from history are then learned and applied to public safety and emergency response in the smart city.
*Robert Desourdis will be holding a book signing at 2:00 pm on February 11th at the campus center book store where two of his newest books will be available for purchase!
*New book from Bob Desourdis et al: Achieving Interoperability in Critical IT and Communication Systems, http://www.amazon.com/Achieving-Interoperability-Critical-Communication-Systems/dp/1596933895 addressing several misconceptions and misunderstandings about communications interoperability that continue to limit capabilities in the field, this unique book provides a detailed examination of the subject, focusing on the use of voice, data, and video systems for public safety and emergency response.
Host: Professor William Michalson
Suggested Audiences: College
E-mail: ecesec@ece.wpi.edu
Last Modified: February 5, 2010 at 2:09 PM
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