Plenary Lecture
Cloud Technology-Based Education with Special Emphasis on Using Virtual Environment
Professor Imre J. Rudas
Óbuda University
Budapest, Hungary
E-mail: rudas@uni-obuda.hu
Abstract: Cloud Computing as an emerging technology is a new paradigm in Information Technology and can dramatically change our everyday life.
The presentation summarizes the basics of cloud computing, namely the main idea, the definition, the cloud model composed of essential characteristics, service models and deployment models. The concept of Cloud Technology as a generalization of cloud computing is introduced.
In the second part of the presentation the new perspectives of cloud technology based education are discussed. Some higher educational institutions do not have sufficient hardware or software to provide the students full learning environment and experience. This problem is particularly important in various fields of Engineering Education. Cloud Technologyprovides services which allow the students to access the latest technologies with a low budget.
The next part of the presentation summarizes the results and ideas of a new generation internet and Cloud Technology based Virtual Collaboration Arena (VirCA) developed in Hungary and some of its application possibilities in education.
VirCA provides a platform where users can build, share and manipulate 3D content, and collaboratively interact with real-time processes in a 3D context, while the participating hardware and software devices can be spatially and/or logically distributed and connected together via IP network. The 3D content and processes in VirCA can be synchronized with the real world, which allows the combination of reality and virtual world in the collaboration arena.
Brief Biography of the Speaker: Prof. Dr. Imre J. Rudas graduated from Bánki Donát Polytechnic, Budapest in 1971 and received the Master Degree in Mathematics from the Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest while the Ph.D. in Robotics from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1987. He is active as the President of Obuda University and as a professor of John von Neumann Faculty of Informatics.
Prof. Rudas is a Fellow of IEEE, Administrative Committee member of the Industrial Electronics Society, member of the International Board of the Robotics & Automation Society, Chairman of the joint Hungarian Chapter of these Societies, and RAS and IES Chapter Coordinator of Region 8. He is also a registered expert of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization and the EU.
He is the President of the Hungarian Fuzzy Association and Steering Committee Member of the Hungarian Robotics Association and the John von Neumann Computer Society.
Prof. Rudas serves as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, member of editorial board of Journal of Advanced Computational Intelligence and Control Engineering Practice, member of various national and international scientific committees. He is the founder of the IEEE International Conference Series on Intelligent Engineering Systems Prof. Rudas was the General Co-chair of ICAR2001, and also serves as General Chairman and Program Chairman of numerous scientific international conferences.
His present areas of research activity are: Robot Control, Soft Computing, Computed Aided Process Planning, Fuzzy Control and Fuzzy Sets. Prof. Rudas has published more than 280 papers in various journals and international conference proceedings.