Special Student contest on a Collective Intelligence Challenge Problem

Students and observers are cordially invited to join a Student Special Session on Thursday afternoon concerning a “Collective Intelligence Challenge Problem” (snacks and coffee provided.) From Wikipedia, “Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals.” Sign up at the registration desk beginning on Tuesday for speaking time slots (5 minutes) and the option to present two power point slides in a speed session focused on using collective intelligence to understand possible research areas for collaborative control system engineering. For instance, come give us your thoughts on how we can better organize and disseminate controls knowledge, control algorithm objects, and control system building blocks within the open cyber world? How do we solve the problem that control system engineers within industry are overwhelmed by the amount of controls related information available through cyber discovery, as even a simple search on “control system” gives over 1 billion hits! As control system engineers, how should we organize the knowledge within our area of engineering to facilitate expedient development of control systems in an increasingly systems-of-systems world? Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues.