Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Bio: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~satya
Edge Computing: a New Disruptive Force
At the height of
its success, Cloud Computing is yielding to Edge Computing
Why is this happening? What is the unique value proposition of
Edge Computing? As real-world deployments of Edge Computing
appear, how will the lives of end users be improved? What
new applications and capabilities will they see? Based on
my team's decade-long exploration of Edge Computing, I will share my
insights
on these questions. Of particular interest is a new class of
"Wearable Cognitive Assistance" applications that lie at the
intersection of edge computing, wearable devices and cognitive
algorithms (e.g., computer vision, speech recognition, natural language
processing). I will describe and demo (on video) some examples of
these applications. "Augmented Reality Meets Artificial
Intelligence" best characterizes these emerging
applications, which will have enormous impact on society at
large. Drawing upon insights from these applications I will explore what hardware and software infrastructure is needed for Edge Computing .