The IEEE Ottawa EMBS Chapter, ComSoc/BTS/CES Joint Chapter, TM, PCS, & SSIT Joint Chapter, CI and SMC Joint Chapter, LM Affinity Group, and Algonquin College Student Branch invite all interested IEEE members and nonmembers to a seminar on:

Large-Scale Industrial Software Systems: Research Opportunities and Challenges
by Dr. Srini Ramaswamy

DATE: Thursday, October 20, 2011.
TIME: Refreshments, Registration and Networking: 06:10 p.m.; Seminar: 06:30 p.m. – 07:30 p.m.
PLACE: Algonquin College, 1385 Woodroffe Ave., Advanced Technology Building (T), Room T129.
PARKING: No fee at the parking lots 8 and 9 at the time of seminar. Please respect restricted areas.
ADMISSION: Free. Registration required.

Please register by e-mail contacting: Sreeraman Rajan: sreeraman@ieee.org.

Abstract
Software systems development is fast becoming a globalized activity and this is an increasingly major trend within all industrial sectors. Due to the many benefits of globalization, from the integration of multiple ethnic / market perspectives driven idea generation to development cost structuring, middle and small-sized software companies are now beginning to establish worldwide development campuses / partners. Thus, globalization has become an overwhelming phenomenon in the software industry and is rapidly defining the nature of software development for the 21st century. For Industrial Automation companies like ABB in emerging markets such as India, these opportunities are both exciting we well as immensely challenging. They present problems that are incredibly different from similar-sized western markets and require a significant amount of innovation and creativity to develop robust, sustainable, yet significantly low-cost solutions for such markets. In this talk, I will!
present an overview of ABB in India and its research activities, specifically in the areas of Industrial Communications and Industrial Software Systems.