Digital Dialogue | Professor Antonio Liotta | 29 October 2015

Why the IoT will not be an unpredictable mess | Prof Antonio Liotta on the Digital Dialogue

Predictions are that over 1 trillion things including phones, fridges, cars, sensors and micro-processors will be connected, sending and receiving data across the internet by 2020.

With so many 'things' connected and providing data there ARE some physical challenges that need to be resolved including - how do we power so many things; and how do we process all the data.

Professor Antonio Liotta from Eindenhoven University of Technology, Netherlands is an expert in complex networks, data science and future of IoT with a speciality in miniature machine learning. Professor Liotta recently presented at Queensland University of Technology and the Institute of Future Environments.

In a factual and straight forward account discusses the challenges, opportunities and the implication for STEM and higher education on the digital dialogue. The answer he suggests is learnt from the octopus, who has the capacity to learn via neurones right down to the end of its tentacles.