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IoT and Environmental Science

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Our feature this week is an interview by Amit Chopra who talked to Gordon Blair on IoT and environmental science.

Jumps:

00:10 Intro

00:32 News

  • 00:32 Brainwave Authentication

    • 02:14 Quiz Questions

    03:18 Interview

    • 03:18 Introduction
    • 03:40 How did you start off working on Distributed Systems?
    • 05:15 What are some of the challenges that face today’s network engineers?
    • 06:07 What is the source of this complexity?
    • 07:18 Interoerpability is a big challenge.
    • 08:00 What would be a system of systems?
    • 09:17 We need these massive systems to address some of the biggest problems of society nowadays.
    • 10:10 Are IoT and cloud computing crucial building blocks in solutions that address these problems?
    • 11:10 Is the problem of IoT the lack of software engineering methodologies designed for it?
    • 12:30 Is security a critical challenge that needs to be addressed?
    • 13:30 What’s the way forward to addressing the problems of trust and security?
    • 14:30 Can you talk a bit about your fellowship?
    • 15:40 Do the scientist you are working with have access to data centres to carry out the simulations?
    • 16:50 What kind of scientists are you working with?
    • 17:17 How do these scientists communicate? How is modeling done?
    • 18:12 Is the project also going to look into the Data Science aspects of data curation?
    • 19:02 How has the field changed in the last thirty years?
    • 19:56 What principles of the field will carry us forward in the next ten-twenty years?
    • 20:40 Is using more declarative languages something that interests you?
    • 21:45 Which of the many projects was the work that gave you the most satisfaction?
    • 22:45 What is computational reflection and what does it mean for adaptation?
    • 24:08 How would you advise younger researchers on approaching problems?
    • 25:00 Interview outro

      • 25:28 Quiz Answers

      29:37 Outro

      Crew for this episode:

      • Chris Banks
      • Stan Manilov
      • Andrew McLeod
      • Amit Chopra
      • Pavlos Petoumenos
      • Hugh Leather

        • Guests:

        • Prof Gordon Blair

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