AI lecture series - Eric Nivel - IkonFlux: A Proto-Architecture for Autonomous Systems

WHERE:  K5 Kringlan 1

WHEN:   Wednesday 14.01.09 from 12-13

ABSTRACT

This talk will address the issue of engineering genuinely autonomous systems, in the strong acceptation of the term, that is, systems able to adapt to unforeseen changes in environments of real-world complexity. This is still far beyond reach of current systems. Real-time operation, scalability, tractability, integration, ability to reason with limited resources and incomplete knowledge: these are some of the fundamentals that must be addressed as a coherent whole. This has received little attention from mainstream research and so far, none of the resulting systems practically go beyond solving toy problems. Ikon Flux has been developed in an attempt to address this shortcoming. It is a novel computational substrate to implement a new model of architectures for autonomous systems. This model stems from the theory of autopoiesis and defines autonomous systems as self-programming systems. Ikon Flux has been fully implemented and field-tested in full scale under real-world conditions.

SHORT BIO

Eric Nivel joined CADIA as an analyst in the spring of 2007. His areas of interests range from general autonomous systems to high-performance computing, with a special emphasis on real-world applications. Before joining RU, he was a lead software engineer at Holografika, and designed their software for real-time generation and transmission of dynamic holograms.  He has consulted in the area of intelligent process control for aerospace, telecom, and research institutions.