IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter    Vol. 62, No. 4, November, 2016

On September 9, 2016, Dr. Jeffrey Voas, Senior Past President, gave a seminar co-sponsored by the Dallas Chapter and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD). This was part of the society’s distinguished lectures. The title of this seminar was “Networks of Things”.

In this work, Dr. Voas discussed five core primitives belonging to most distributed systems. These primitives apply well to systems with large amounts of data, scalability concerns, heterogeneity concerns, temporal concerns, and elements of unknown pedigree with possible nefarious intent. These primitives are the basic building blocks for a Network of “Things” (NoT), including the Internet of Things (IoT). This talk offers an underlying and foundational science to IoT based on the realization that IoT involves sensing, computing, communication, and actuation. Although the material discussed is generic to all distributed systems that employ IoT technologies (i.e., “things” and networks), the ideas and the manner in which IoT is presented is very unique. More details can be found at the website of the Advanced Research Center for Software Testing and Quality Assurance under the Section of “News and Events”.

Dr. Voas’ seminar was well received by the students and faculty of the Computer Science Department at UTD, and IT managers, computing and software engineers from companies in the Dallas/Fort Worth metropolitan area.

Seminar by Dr. Jeffrey Voas at UTD on September 9, 2016