11 a.m. in TI Auditorium (ECSS 2.102). Refreshments at 10:45 a.m. in the lobby.

Abstract: There has been a great deal of work in recent years on the evolution of "Action Webs". By this we mean closing the loop around networked sensors. These networked control systems (NCS) are fast becoming the next generation Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) infrastructure for a number of societal scale physical infrastructures such as power, water, building systems, etc. Societal Scale CPS systems need to have the attributes of robustness, fault tolerance and the ability to operate through cyber-attacks. We believe that the development of a theory of resilient CPS systems needs to stand on the twin legs of Resilient NCS (RC) and Economic Incentivization (EI) for investing in high confidence systems design and operation. In this talk we will provide the rudiments of a resilience theory for integrating RC and EI in societal CPS systems by integrating real time data analytics. This includes modeling confidentiality, integrity and availability attackers on action webs, tools for defending them in depth, or if attacks are successful to enable them to operate through attacks. We will discuss how we can provide economic incentives to the private entities which own individual action webs to address the issues of "under investment in the common good". Further, we need to address privacy issues in the handling of the data arising from these societal CPS systems.

Dr. Shankar Sastry received his B.Tech. from IIT, Bombay, a M.S. in EECS, M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in EECS from Berkeley. He is currently dean of the College of Engineering. Dr. Shankar Sastry's previous appointments include: Director of CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute @ CITRIS Berkeley, Chair of the EECS department, Director of the Information Technology Office at DARPA, and Director of the Electronics Research Laboratory at Berkeley. He is the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering and holds faculty appointments in Bioengineering, EECS and Mechanical Engineering. Dr. Shankar Sastry was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2001 and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. He is on the Technical Advisory Group of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. He was on the US Air Force Science Board from 2003-2006, and is chairman of the board of the International Computer Science Institute. He is also a member of the boards of the Federation of American Scientists and ESCHER (Embedded Systems Consortium for Hybrid and Embedded Research). His many honors include: President of India Gold Medal in 1977, the IBM Faculty Development award for 1983-1985, the NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1985, the Eckman Award of the of the American Automatic Control Council in 1990, the Ragazzini Award for Distinguished Accomplishments in teaching in 2005, Fellow of the IEEE in 1994, and the David Marr prize for the best paper at the International Conference in Computer Vision in 1999.

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