An open house briefing for the U.S. Congress on cyber-physical systems (CPS) was held by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Computing Research Association on July 9. Other co-sponsors of the event included ACM, the Coalition for National Science Funding, and the American Chemical Society’s Science & the Congress Project. The purpose of the briefing was to allow industry and academic experts to share their insights into CPS, which have garnered increased scrutiny from the U.S. Congress since a President’s Council of Advisers for Science and Technology spotlighted it for higher priority. Among the speakers at the briefing was NSF’s Jeannette Wing, who said the foundation plays the role of innovation coordinator so that scientific advances throughout industry and academia can be shared and instantiated in other fields. Among the demonstrations representing the latest CPS research presented at the event were robotic and human-machine systems that could aid disabled persons, find use as behavioral study tools, assist surgeons during operations, drive unmanned vehicles, or be enabled for haptic interaction. Other systems included those capable of reasoning about human or environmental activities.
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