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Kenneth A. Loparo, Ph.D. – Arthur L. Parker Professor, Department of Electrical, Computer and Systems Engineering, and Faculty Director, Institute for Smart, Secure, and Connected Systems |
Friday January 31, 2020
12:30-1:30 p.m.
Dampeer Room
Kelvin Smith Library*
Case Western Reserve University
Dear Colleagues:
Is the “Internet of Things” (IoT) the shape of things to come – and is that good?
By one account, 20 billion devices will be connected in 2020. Another says 30 billion.
IoT devices can sense information, communicate it to networks and, in some cases, act on that information. Communicating and processing quantities and types of information that have never been captured before could include automatic responses “to improve industrial processes, public services, and the well-being of individual consumers,” according to the U.S. GAO.
But as GAO also notes, that involves “potential challenges” such as information security, privacy, safety, setting standards, and a mix of economic effects. We may notice IoT most as consumers, as Amazon and other companies enhance or infiltrate our lives with these products. But ISAACS focuses on the Industrial IOT, described as having potential applications including “manufacturing, city infrastructure, energy, and the medical/healthcare field.” Professor Loparo joins us to share his observations on what the IoT really is and can be.
All best regards,
Joe White
Luxenberg Family Professor of Public Policy and Director, Center for Policy Studies
About Our Guest
Kenneth A. Loparo was an assistant professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Cleveland State University from 1977 to 1979 and he has been on the faculty of the Case School of Engineering at Case Western Reserve University since 1979. He is Nord Professor of Engineering in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and holds academic appointments in the departments of biomedical engineering and mechanical and aerospace engineering in the Case School of Engineering. He has received numerous awards including the Sigma Xi Research Award for contributions to stochastic control, the John S. Diekoff Award for Distinguished Graduate Teaching, the Tau Beta Pi Outstanding Engineering and Science Professor Award, the Undergraduate Teaching Excellence Award, the Carl F. Wittke Award for Distinguished Undergraduate Teaching and the Srinivasa P. Gutti Memorial Engineering Teaching Award. He was associate dean of engineering from 1994 -1997 and chair of the Department of Systems Engineering from 1990 -1994. He has been active in the Faculty Senate and has served as the chair of the Personnel Committee and as a member of the Executive Committee, the Personnel Committee and the Compensation Committee. He served as vice chair of the Faculty Senate in 1998-1999 and chair of the Faculty Senate in 1999-2000. He served as the president of the Case Alumni Association from 2009-2011.
Loparo’s research interests include stability and control of nonlinear and stochastic systems with applications to large-scale electricity systems including generation and transmission and distribution; nonlinear filtering with applications to monitoring, fault detection, diagnosis, prognosis and reconfigurable control; information theory aspects of stochastic and quantized systems with applications to adaptive and dual control and the design of distributed autonomous control systems; the development of advanced signal processing and data analytics for monitoring and tracking of physiological behavior in health and disease.
Where We Meet
The Friday Public Affairs Lunch convenes each Friday when classes are in session, from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. Our programs are open to all and no registration is required. We usually meet in the Dampeer Room of Kelvin Smith Library.
* Kelvin Smith Library requires all entrants to show identification when entering the building, unless they have a university i.d. that they can magnetically scan. We are sorry if that seems like a hassle, but it has been Library policy for a while in response to security concerns. Please do not complain to the library staff at the entrance, who are just doing their jobs.
Parking Possibilities
The most convenient parking is the lot underneath Severance Hall. We regret that it is not free. From that lot there is an elevator up to street level (labeled as for the Thwing Center); it is less than 50 yards from that exit to the library entrance. You can get from the Severance garage to the library without going outside. Near the entry gates – just to the right if you were driving out – there is a door into a corridor. Walk down the corridor and there will be another door. Beyond that door you’ll find the entrance to an elevator which goes up to an entrance right inside the doors to Kelvin Smith Library.
Schedule of Friday Lunch Upcoming Topics and Speakers:
February 7: Ohio in the 2020 Presidential Election. With Thomas C. Sutton, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science and Director, Community Research Institute, Baldwin Wallace University.
February 14: What to Do About Vaping??? With Erika Trapl, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Population and Quantitative Health Sciences and Associate Director, Prevention Research Center for Healthy Neighborhoods.
February 21: Are Nano-Particles the New Asbestos? With Katharine Van Tassell, J.D., Visiting Professor of Law.
February 28: China’s Belt and Road Initiative and China’s Record in Foreign Development. With Julia C. Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of Chinese Politics, University of London School of Oriental and African Studies.
March 6: The Racial Geography of Cleveland Heights. With Jessica A. Kelley, Ph.D., Professor of Sociology.
March 13: Spring Break
March 20: Taking Away the Car Keys (from seniors). With Weidi Qin, MSW, MPH, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences.
March 27: China’s Tibet Dilemma at a Crossroads. With Melvyn C. Goldstein, Ph.D., John Reynolds Harkness Professor in Anthropology and Co-Director, Center for Research on Tibet.
April 3: Creating Army Officers for the 21st Century. With Lt. Col. Brian Ferguson, Professor of Military Science, John Carroll University.
April 10: What’s the Beef? The Controversy Over Health Effects of Red Meat. With Hope Barkoukis, Ph.D., Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Professor in Wellness and Preventive Care and Chair, Department of Nutrition.
April 17: Targeted Assassinations, and Other Red or Not-So-Red Lines. With Shannon French, Ph.D., Inamori Professor of Ethics and Director, Inamori International Center for Ethics and Excellence.
April 24: Regulating Content of Online Platforms. With Raymond Ku, J.D., Professor and Laura B. Chisholm Distinguished Research Scholar, CWRU School of Law. |
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January 26, 2020
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Upcoming Events
Governance of “Do-It-Yourself” Gene Editing
The Elena and Miles Zaremski Law Medicine Forum, a discussion with Maxwell J. Mehlman, J.D., Arthur E. Petersilge Professor of Law and Director of the Law-Medicine Center at the CWRU School of Law, Tuesday February 4, 2020, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m., Moot Courtroom (A59), CWRU School of Law, 11075 East Blvd, Cleveland, OH 44106.
A large and highly heterogeneous group of individuals conducts genetic and genomic research outside of traditional corporate and academic settings. They can be an important source of innovation, but their activities largely take place beyond the purview of existing regulatory systems for promoting safe and ethical practices. Historically the gene-targeting technology available to non-traditional experimenters has been limited, and therefore they have attracted little regulatory attention. New techniques such as CRISPR-cas9, however, may create a need for alternate governance approaches. This lecture explores whether alternate governance approaches might be needed and, if so, what governance approaches would be most likely to enable non-traditional experiments to be conducted safely and ethically.
Building the Post-1949 State in China and Taiwan
A Global Currents Discussion with Julia Strauss, Ph.D., Professor of Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London, Thursday February 27, 2020, 4:00 p.m., Tinkham Veale University Center, Room 134, 11038 Bellflower Rd., Cleveland, OH 44106. This program is made possible by the generosity of Ms. Eloise Briskin. Refreshments will be provided.
Building a new state is hard. A governing apparatus must be built, a populace convinced (not always willingly!) and a sense of what the state is and how it should act must make it intelligible to both its agents and citizens or subjects. How a state is built shapes its future – and is shaped by the past. Professor Strauss shows how somewhat similar challenges and inherited understandings led to both commonalities and differences in how authority was consolidated on both sides of the Straits. That has lessons for understanding both China and state-building.
Julia C. Strauss joined the faculty of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London in 1994, and currently serves as Professor of Chinese Politics. From 2002 – 2011 she also served as editor of The China Quarterly. Professor Strauss earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1992 and has published widely on 20th century state building and institutional development in China and Taiwan. This includes her new book, State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign and Performance (Cambridge University Press, 2019) as well as her previous Strong Institutions in Weak Polities: State Building in Republican China, 1927-1940 (Oxford University Press, 1998). She co-edited, with Donal B. Cruise O’Brien, Staging Politics: Power and Performance in Asia and Africa (I.B. Tauris, 2007). As part of her work with The China Quarterly, Professor Strauss also co-edited special volumes on China and Africa, China and Latin America, Gender in contemporary China, The History of the People’s Republic, and Culture in the Contemporary PRC.
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