In his opening keynote, Professor Joseph Sifakis discusses the Internet of Things (IoT) vision born from the convergence between embedded and networking technologies. Reaching this vision challenges our capacity to design mixed hardware-software systems that are trustworthy and optimal. Significant advances are needed in three key scientific areas:
1) linking physicality and computation;
2) component-based systems engineering;
3) intelligence in particular as the ability of system adaptation in order to meet given requirements in the presence of uncertainty.
The advent of IoT will have a tremendous societal, technological and scientific impact. In particular, it will reinvigorate Computing and enrich the discipline with novel scientific foundations and technological perspectives.
