Stephan Winter
University of Melbourne
Date: Monday, January 28th, 2013
Time: 4 PM
Venue: CS102.
From cars to vacuum cleaners, nowadays the term intelligent system has become a marketing attribute, perhaps just because of the opaque meaning of the term. In this talk I will lay out the role and prospect of intelligent systems in the geospatial domain. I will look beyond the marketing hype, and identify fundamental research questions, many of them intimately connected with properties of space and time and the way how people experience their environment. These questions will be developed along three aspects of spatial intelligence: a capability to communicate with people, a capability to sense and learn, and a capability to interact. I will illustrate these aspects with some contributions of my group in the domain of (increasingly intelligent) navigation systems.