Mobile cognitive systems: the business of connecting data to user-centred services with a smile

Recent technological advances made several of futuristic visions and science fiction a possible reality. For example, the advances in smartphones and tablet hardware that enables very powerful computers being packed into a palm size devices with multiple sensors and communication ports make visions of living machines and augmented human presence a realistic possibility. Communication ports and protocols expand the social dimension of such a possibility. Similarly, the powerful processors on the mobile devices provide computational environment sufficient to run some of the most computationally demanding artificial intelligence algorithms and to host some of the most complex of architectures. This enables the intelligent mobile agents to roam the ever expanding world of connected clouds exploring both data storages and mobile devices with ever shrinking boundaries between storage, processing and user devices. However, integrative technologies are still needed to realise the potential of such amazing advances. This talk aims to explore such technologies and current research in the light of big data initiatives and on the lines of mobility, cognition and connected systems.