Jan Rabaey, prospective honorary doctor at LTH through EIT, will give an open lecture in connection to his visit in Sweden. EIT is welcoming all interested!

Talking about science fiction? Jan Rabaey, the man behind the InfoPad, is lecturing at LTH May 24.

Time: Thursday May 24, 13.15

Place: E-building at LTH, auditorium E:A, Lund

Snacks and refreshments will be served after the lecture.

Abstract:

It was a dinner conversation sometimes in the mid 1980s that truly kindled my fascination for wireless technology. On a visit to Berkeley, Sven-Olof Öhrvik, then head of Ericsson Radio Systems (ERA) research and Professor at Lund University, ventured that over the next decade cellphones would become both digital and so small in size that they could slip into your shirt pocket. At a time when analog cellphones were barely a niche market, this sounded almost as an excerpt of a Science Fiction novel. The rest is truly history.

Since that very moment addressing the questions on how to make wireless components ever smaller and energy-efficient, and what truly ubiquitous wireless connectivity would mean to the society-at-large, have been leading threads through most of my research activities. It has led us along some exciting paths – from InfoPads and sensor networks to information-technology systems in support of society (CITRIS).

Notwithstanding the amazing impact these technologies have already had, the story does not end here. The wireless revolution is still going strong – wireless devices will continue to become smaller and more ubiquitous, giving birth to “swarms” of sensory and actuator devices that will blur the separation between the physical/biological world and the cyberspace. The endless opportunities this paradigm offers, what is needed to make this happen, and what could prevent it from happening are the main topics of this presentation. Some of it may read as Science Fiction again.

More:

He wished for an iPad 20 years ago
Jan Rabaey’s homepage

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Conclusions from the report were presented at a full-day workshop where those parties were invited that have contributed to the funding of the research. Region Skåne and Mobile heights did attend, and Mobile Heights was represented in the panel discussion during the related Press Event.

When: Wednesday December 14 at 9.00-10.00

Where: LTH, E-huset, Ole Römers väg 3, room E:1426

Registration no later than December 13 at 12.00 via:

http://www.lth.se/programvaruportalen/kalendarium/2011_12_14/

Abstract:
The presentation summarizes a paper by Tobias Ek, Camilla Kirkegaard, Håkan Jonsson, and Pierre Nugues: Named entity recognition for short text messages. In Proceedings of the 12th PACLING Conference, Kuala Lumpur, July 19-21, 2011.

The paper describes a named entity recognition (NER) system for short text messages (SMS) running on a mobile platform. Most NER systems deal with text that is structured, formal, well written, with a good grammatical structure, and few spelling errors. SMS text messages lack these qualities and have instead a short-handed and mixed language studded with emoticons, which makes NER a challenge on this kind of material.

We implemented a system that recognizes named entities from SMSes written in Swedish and that runs on an Android cellular telephone. The entities extracted are locations, names, dates, times, and telephone numbers with the idea that extraction of these entities could be utilized by other applications running on the telephone. We started from a regular expression implementation that we complemented with classifiers using logistic regression. We optimized the recognition so that the incoming text messages could be processed on the telephone with a fast response time. We reached an F-score of 86 for strict matches and 89 for partial matches.

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Fler planerade arrangemang finns på:

http://www.lth.se/programvaruportalen/kalendarium/

Välkommen!
Jonas Wisbrant

Tid:
Onsdagen den 30 november kl 9-10

Plats:
LTH, M-huset, IP2 (plan 2 intill robotlabbet), Ole Römers väg 1.

Föranmälan senast 28 november kl 12 på:
http://www.lth.se/programvaruportalen/kalendarium/2011-11-30_at_9
Antalet platser är begränsat.

Abstract:
As part of the European robotics week the robotics lab in the M-house at Lund University, arranges presentations and guided tours in the RobotLab, LTH.

Robotic systems are examples of real-time systems for which there is great demand for flexibility (in programming and configurability), making research relevant to several other types of long-term product development.

LTH Productive robotics lab interacts with industry locally and globally. Earlier projects like SMErobot (www.smerobot.org) has given valuable results, and demonstrated the importance of full-scale experimental verification in close collaboration with industry.

Our robots have now been moved into a new lab in the M-building, where comprehensive and effective activities links LTH departments and forms the basis for a continued close and collaboration with ABB in the Rosetta Project (www.fp7rosetta.org).

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Näst-nästa LUCAS-frukost 2011-12-14:
Named entity recognition for short text messages

Fler planerade arrangemang finns på:
http://www.lth.se/programvaruportalen/kalendarium/

Välkommen!
Jonas Wisbrant