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Plenary Sessions

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13TH FRIDAY, OCTOBER 14TH
6:30PM–9:30PM 8:30AM–9:30AM
Great Lakes B&C Ballroom Great Lakes B&C Ballroom

Speaker: Jean-Jacques Slotine, MIT Speaker: Datta Godbole, Honeywell Building Solutions

RUFUS OLDENBURGER LECTURE “Smart Homes & Buildings – Connected People in a Digital Society”

“Collective Computation in Nonlinear Networks and the Grammar of Abstract: The “Internet of Things (IoT)” revolution is dramatically simplify-
Evolvability” ing our lives by digitizing everyday tasks and making them frictionless. At
their core, IoT opportunities are realized when intelligent devices connect
Award: The Rufus Oldenburger Medal is a prestigious Society award for people and building systems, enabling applications of advanced sensing,
lifetime achievements in automatic control. Inaugurated in 1968, the medal controls, monitoring and optimization. This transforms buildings from
recognizes significant contributions and outstanding achievements in the passive vessels to smart entities that can dynamically shape their
field of automatic control. Such achievements may be, for example, in the environments to ever-changing contexts within their walls. This presenta-
areas of education, research, development, innovation, and service to the tion will provide a glimpse of upcoming new technologies in smart homes
field and profession.
and buildings, and identify challenges in modeling & control of a large
The award was established to honor Rufus Oldenburger for his distinctive collection of building systems in order to optimize societal scale objec-
achievements in the field and for his service to the Society and the tives.
Division. The list of recipients is a true honor role of major contributors to Biography: Datta Godbole, is Chief Technology Officer for Honeywell
the science and profession of control.
Building Solutions. He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and
Abstract: Computation, synchronization, and control are key issues in Computer Science from University of California at Berkeley in 1994. From
complex networks. Vast nonlinear networks are encountered in biology, 1994 to 1998, Datta worked as research engineer at California PATH
for instance, and in neuroscience, where for most tasks the human brain program for intelligent vehicle highway systems. He is a co-recipient of
grossly outperforms engineered algorithms using computational elements Eliahu Jury Award for Outstanding Research in System Theory, from
7 orders of magnitude slower than their artificial counterparts. We show University of California, Berkeley in 1997. Datta joined Honeywell in 1999
that nonlinear systems tools, such as contraction analysis and virtual and has held multiple research and engineering positions in Honeywell
dynamical systems, yield simple but highly non-intuitive insights about Labs, Honeywell Aerospace and Honeywell Automation & Control
such issues, and that they also suggest systematic mechanisms to build Solutions. His interests include control of large scale system of systems
progressively more refined networks and novel algorithms through stable such as next generation ground and air transportation including autono-
accumulation of functional building blocks and motifs. mous vehicles, smart home & building controls and smart grid.

Biography: Jean-Jacques Slotine was born in Paris in 1959, and received
his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983. After
working at Bell Labs in the computer research department, in 1984 he
joined the faculty at MIT, where he is now Professor of Mechanical
Engineering and Information Sciences, Professor of Brain and Cognitive
Sciences, and Director of the Nonlinear Systems Laboratory. He is the
co-author of the textbooks “Robot Analysis and Control” (Wiley, 1986) and
“Applied Nonlinear Control” (Prentice-Hall, 1991). Prof. Slotine was a
member of the French National Science Council from 1997 to 2002, and of
Singapore’s A*STAR SigN Advisory Board from 2007 to 2010. He is
currently on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Institute of
Technology.

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