Balangingi in Bandar Sunway

Hello All!

There's a lot of hard, computing science papers here, and I feel like my head is swimming from all the computational terms and concepts, but when I come up for air (and coffee) I am able to process the seminars.

A lot of the talks here are about ambient intelligence, intelligent environments and their applications in real life. I know it sounds terribly technical but it is simply this: technology that helps create environments that help humans live in - and with - automated places. These can be homes, schools, offices, shopping malls, or transportation vehicles. It's "embedded and cognitively invisible technology in the physical world." Technology that makes tasks efficient but is not invasive. But they're pervasive, and yet you don't "see" them. Keri?

Some examples: mobile learning, ID codes in almost everything to track them, customer-centered designs, smart homes which "tell" you things according to your needs and preferences. Virtually everything you see in a science fiction movie.

In fact, there was a session that encouraged fictional creations that would push scientific and research methodologies. It's multi-disciplinary, and it's about time. :) I can tell you more when we meet next!

Hope everything's going well with your planning and conceptualization. Will be looking forward to seeing/hearing about what you came up with. See you soon!