Panel Discussion

October 13 14:00-15:00

One area that is recognized is that this is the right time to invest in research. Governments and EU have increased the spending, realizing that this is one possibility to turn the tide. Our focus will be on the next step, one step that we have identified as the weak link in this route to the future.

That is to increase the communication between the research environment and the industrial world.  The optimal situation is not that research is done in a closed chamber and one day a result is presented, looking for industrial partners. Better is a working relationship with interactive definition of problems and solutions.

This is not to say that this does not happen. On the contrary, is does exist and we want to have a debate about how to develop this further.

Moderator

Tor Ericsson

Director Hardware design at ÅF-Infrastruktur AB
Member of the Board ÅF-AB
Chairman for ICES, innovative center of embedded systems på KTH.

Biographies

Christer Svensson received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1965 and 1970, respectively. He was with Chalmers University from 1965 to 1978, where he performed research on MOS transistors, nonvolatile memories, and gas sensors. He joined Linköping University, Sweden 1978, where he became Professor in Electronic Devices 1983 and initiated a new research group on integrated circuit design. He pioneered the fields of high-speed CMOS design in 1987, and low-power CMOS 1993. His present interests are high performance and low power analog and digital CMOS circuit techniques for computing, wireless systems and sensors. He founded several companies, for example, Switchcore (publ.) and Coresonic where he also serves as director. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences and was 2003 awarded Fellow of IEEE.

Prof. Jerker Delsing received the M.Sc. in Engineering Physics at Lund Institute of Technology, Sweden 1982. In 1988 he received the PhD. degree in Electrical Measurement at the Lund University. During 1985 - 1988 he worked part time at Alfa-Laval - SattControl with development of sensors and measurement technology. In 1994 he got the docent degree (associate prof) in Heat and Power Engineering. Early 1995 he was appointed full professor in Industrial Electronics at Lulea University of Technology where he currently is working as the scientific head of EISLAB, http://www.eislab.csee.ltu.se. For the period 2004-2006 he also served as Dean of the engineering faculty at Lulea University of Technology. His present research profile can be entitled "Embedded Internet Systems", EIS, with applications to industry, medicine and sport. The general idea is that most sensors and actuator will have communication capability using the Internet and the "TCP/IP" protocol suite and be capable of ah-hoc integration into a communication network and an application framework. Since 1999 he is president of ITF (Instrument Tekniska Foreningen/Instrument Society of Sweden).

Martin Törngren is a Professor in Embedded control systems at KTH since 2002. Since his PhD, he has been conducting multidisciplinary research and education addressing the science and engineering of embedded systems. Much of the research has been conducted in close collaboration with industry and with the academic disciplines Mechatronics, Automatic control, Computer science and Software
engineering. His research interests are in the areas of model based engineering, architectural design and mechatronics co-design, where he has supervised seven PhDs. He is today heading a research group of 14 persons at KTH, and is the director of ICES - the KTH based Embedded systems centre. For more information including a longer CV see
www.md.kth.se/~martin

Professor Mikael Sjödin holds a position at Mälardalen Real-Time research
Centre (MRCT), Mälardalen University since 2006. His academic background
includes a PhD from Uppsala University in 2000 and has included work in
real-time analysis of many types of advanced real-time systems and
communications systems. Since 2000 he has shared his time between academia
and industry, working with development of software for distributed embedded
systems.

Dr. Per Runeson is a professor in software engineering at Lund University, Sweden, and is the director for the industrial excellence center EASE (Embedded Applications Software Engineering). His research interests include methods to facilitate, measure and manage various aspects of software quality, especially testing and inspection methods as well as agile methods. The research has a strong empirical focus including cooperation with major companies.
He received a PhD from Lund University in 1998 and has five years of industrial experience as a consulting expert in software engineering. Prof. Runeson is ranked 5th worldwide in R. Glass ranking of SSE research scholars 2002-2006. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of Empirical Software Engineering, Journal of Software Testing, Verification and Reliability and several program committees