Emil M. Petriu receives an Honorary Professorship from Óbuda University in Budapest, Hungary

September 29, 2011

The presentation was made on September 5th, 2011, during the Opening Ceremony for the University’s new academic year.

Dr. Emil Petriu is the University of Ottawa’s Research Chair in Ubiquitous Computing Technologies and E-Society

The focus of his research is the development of networked wireless sensor-based Intelligent Information Appliances (I2As) that are able to autonomously carry out their designed functions and interact with their environments, other I2As and diverse computer and/or human users.

The e-society, defined as one that uses digital media in most relationships, is expected to produce dramatic changes in our social and economic realities. However, the well-established, readily usable infrastructure that the e-society requires has yet to be developed. Emil Petriu, a professor with the School of EECS since 1994, is pursuing a unique vision of this e-society and the development of its infrastructure.

Recognized by his peers as a pioneer in the development of intelligent sensor-based information appliances for e-society applications such as intelligent homes and cars, Petriu envisions a world where intelligent appliances go about daily life interacting with human users as well as with other appliances such as software agents in an e-commerce environment or smart robots in an environment dangerous for humans. Called ubiquitous computing because of this ‘everywhere and all the time’ connection of things in the real world with those in the world of computers, this technology will preserve the original appearance, purpose and use of the appliance.

Dr. Petriu’s other Awards and Accomplishments

• University of Ottawa Chair, 2004
• Fellow of IEEE, EIC, and CAE
• Recipient of IEEE Donald G. Fink Prize Award
• 2003 (1st Canadian) IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Award
• University of Ottawa, Glinski Excellence in Research Award, 2003

Dr. Petriu is the Director of the School of EECS and is currently on leave until December 2011.

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