Speaker: Dorian Sabaz, CTO Intelligent Robotics Corporation
When: 11:30AM Friday 26th September 2008
Venue: GP South 78-420
Abstract:
Intelligent Robotics Corporation and Simon Fraser University are together working on developing an embedded technology that will enable any electronic device (digital or analog) to connect with any other device in a distributed, peer-to-peer way. A discussion of the work and present technology already done will be introduced, including;
- hardware we have built using a PXA 270 controller with openembedded.org linux
- Jam and Cacao Java that has been ported, and
- software systems providing distributed intelligent systems that we call Holonic Technology
Biography:
Dorian Sabaz is the Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Robotics Corporation, Vancouver, Canada. After completing physics at Macquarie University, he did research in excimer laser damage of polymers, and military related research in the area of material science.
From this start, he developed programming and systems development experience, and brought it to developing systems for various commercial, high technology and financial houses. Dorian was involved with getting Aerotek's break-through and successful contract into Canada with Union Carbide, which then precipitated their national growth. With AIG (New Zealand), he redesigned their systems, and created their software platform that implemented their break-through set of life assurance products that took AIG from next to last in New Zealand to 1 in less than a year, and have never looked back since.
Dorian has been involved in working on a theory and development of systems for implementation of a platform for distributed intelligent systems, or as he has coined, Holonic Technology. This is done concurrently with supervising and instructing several Masters and Ph.D students at the Electrical Engineering Faculty, Simon Fraser University, including teaching them modern systems development techniques, like agent methodologies and introducing to them the use of higher mathematical concepts like lattice or order theory (better known as Formal Concept Analysis) to build distributed systems, and also leading research into reconfigurable FPGAs.
Dorian has also been involved in IEEE, from being on the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Society's board of governors as web-editor (you can blame him for the new look and feel of the SMC website), to refereeing and writing papers and being on technical committees focusing on distributed intelligent systems. As a proponent of Distributed Intelligent Systems, Dorian believes that the world is at a crucial junction. Today's technologies like the Internet, Peer-to-peer, and mesh communications, demand major changes to our business models and practices, economic systems (e.g. accounting and booking), and governance structures. This change is being instigated by society, and if companies and governments don't change, as has always been the case throughout history, it will be forced upon us.
Contact: Professor Neil Bergmann