*Please distribute to others who may be interested...* You are hereby invited to the next weekly seminar in our interdisciplinary series on Evolution, Complexity and Cognition<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108>(ECCO) and theGlobal Brain Institute<http://www.globalbraininstitute.org/>(GBI).
*Time*:* Friday, November 9th, *14:00-16:00 p.m *Place*: *Room 3B217 * (building B, level 3, From the elevator take the long corridor to the right, to its end), on the VUB Campus Etterbeek (Pleinlaan 2, 1050 Brussels), Free entrance: everybody welcome! ------------------------------ The Internet of Things - a proactive approach Rob van Kranenburg<http://www.theinternetofthings.eu/content/rob-van-kranenburg> *Abstract:* Currently we can discern two main blocks of thought on IoT. The first is a reactive framework of ideas and thought that sees IoT as a layer of digital connectivity on top of existing infrastructure and things. This position sees IoT as a manageable set of convergent developments on infrastructure, services, applications and governance tools. It is assumed that, as in the transition from mainframe to Internet some business will fail and new ones will emerge, this will happen within the current governance, currency end business models. The second is a proactive framework of ideas and thought that sees IoT as a severely disruptive convergence that is unmanageable with current tools, as it will change the notion of what data and what noise is from the supply chain on to 'apps'. In both these approaches we find the same challenges. The difference will be in the solutions and approaches. From my perspective as a citizen and enduser I can fully accept the consequences of going fully for the solutions in the proactive framework. From the perspective of a corporation with vested assets and business inteests and from the perspctive of a government that has to ensure continuity and harmony it is realistic to assume that they both will find solutions within the reactive framework. No doubt solutions will be found, but as that framework has its roots in the pre digital transition it cannot inspire nor create viable business models that take the current reality into account. The Speaker: Rob van Kranenenburg is self employed. Co-founder of bricolabs.net, IoP theinternetofpeople.eu and founder of Council, theinternetofthings.eu. He is involved in iot-a.eu <http://www.iot-a.eu/public> as Stakeholder Coordinator and iot-i.eu with a task on ethics. He is a member of the Expert Group for the European Commission on Internet of Things. ------------------------------ * Forthcoming ECCO/GBI seminars* *Winter 2012-2013* * ** November 16 * Henri Waelbroeck The financial market as an algorithmic “global brain” – <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/192> a view from the field of market impact modeling <http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/192> *November 23 * David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) <http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum> (Global Brain Institute, VUB <https://sites.google.com/site/gbialternative1/>) Scalable cognition and its modelling with chemical organization theory<http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/197> * November 30 * *Juho Salminen <http://lut.academia.edu/JuhoSalminen> *(Lappeenranta University of Technology) SuperCrowdsource Me * December 7 * *Joël de Rosnay <http://www.derosnay.com>* TBA * December 14 * *Ben Goertzel <http://wp.goertzel.org/?page_id=58>* General Artificial Intelligence and the Global Brain * December 17 (Monday) * Johan Bollen <http://informatics.indiana.edu/jbollen/Home.html> (Indiana University) TBA More info about the ECCO seminar program: http://ecco.vub.ac.be/?q=node/108 -- David R. Weinbaum (Weaver) ECCO/GBI Seminar Coordinator Email: [email protected] http://clea.academia.edu/DavidWeinbaum
