BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//eluceo/ical//2.0/EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:b905b773c2eda7c7fc9923ff97caea4b DTSTAMP:20261015T180134Z SUMMARY:WASP Lighthouse Seminar: Is Information Digital? A Defense of Reali ty DESCRIPTION:Kontakt: alexandros.sopasakis@math.lth.se\n\nWhen: 10 July 2026 \, 14:00 to 15:00Where: Teknodromen\, M-Hus\, LundCoffee and fika will be served after the seminar.Please sign up at survey.mailing.lu.se/Survey/656 29 before 3 July.Data-driven techniques\, such as large-language models\, have proven astonishingly powerful in recent years\, but progress has been much slower with cyber-physical systems such as robots. Many people assum e this is because there is not enough training data. In this talk\, I expl ore a possible explanation that is much more fundamental. Specifically\, I ask the question of whether there is a fundamental difference between acq uisition of knowledge through observation and acquisition of knowledge thr ough embodied interaction. Can you learn to ride a bicycle by watching oth ers ride a bicycle? In previous work\, I have used concepts from computer science (zero-knowledge proofs\, bisimulation\, etc.) to show that there a re things you can learn from embodied interaction that cannot be learned b y objective observation. In this talk\, I use Shannon information theory t o argue that objective observation falls far short of revealing everything about physical reality. There is information in the real world that canno t be represented digitally\, and objective observation can never acquire m ore than a small subset of this information. In short\, learning to ride a bicycle may require getting on a bicycle\, even for a robot. \; \ ;Edward A. Lee is Professor of the Graduate School and Distinguished Profe ssor Emeritus in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at th e University of California at Berkeley\, where he has been on the faculty since 1986. He is also co-founder of Xronos Inc. and BDTI\, Inc. He is the author of seven books\, some with several editions and translations\, inc luding two for a general audience\, and hundreds of papers and technical r eports. Lee has delivered hundreds of keynotes and other invited talks at venues worldwide and has graduated 40 PhD students. Image Professor Lee’ s research studies cyber-physical systems\, which integrate physical dynam ics with software and networks. His focus is on the use of deterministic m odels as a central part of the engineering toolkit for such systems. He is the director of iCyPhy\, the Berkeley Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems R esearch Center. From 2005-2008\, he served as Chair of the EE Division and then Chair of the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. He has led the developm ent of several influential open-source software packages\, notably Ptolemy and Lingua Franca. Lee received his BS degree in 1979 from Yale Universit y\, with a double major in Computer Science and Engineering and Applied Sc ience\, an SM degree in EECS from MIT in 1981\, and a Ph.D. in EECS from U C Berkeley in 1986. From 1979 to 1982 he was a member of technical staff a t Bell Labs in Holmdel\, New Jersey\, in the Advanced Data Communications Laboratory. Lee is a Fellow of the IEEE\, was an NSF Presidential Young In vestigator\, and won the 1997 Frederick Emmons Terman Award for Engineerin g Education. He received the 2016 Outstanding Technical Achievement and Le adership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCR TS)\, the 2018 Berkeley Citation\, the 2019 IEEE Technical Committee on Cy ber-Physical Systems (TCCPS) Technical Achievement Award\, the 2022 Europe an Design and Automation Association (EDAA) Achievement Award\, the 2022 A CM SIGBED Technical Achievement Award\, an honorary doctorate from the Tec hnical University of Vienna in 2022\, the 2023 CASES Test of Time Award fo r a paper published in 2008 on PRET machines\, and the 2024 HiPEAC Technol ogy Transfer Award.More about Edward A. Lee: eecs.berkeley.edu/~eal\n\nMer information om händelsen: https://www.eit.lth.se/evenemang/wasp-lighthou se-seminar-information-digital-defense-reality DTSTART;TZID=GMT:20260710T120000 DTEND;TZID=GMT:20260710T130000 LOCATION:Teknodromen\, M-building\, LTH END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR