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MENLO PARK, Calif., Nov. 3 /PRNewswire/ --
WHAT: Charles Ortiz, Ph.D., program director in SRI International's Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC), will be a panelist at the upcoming Greentech Media conference: The Networked Grid. The conference will provide insights to the electric power industry as the power transmission and distribution market grows with the addition of renewable energy sources. During the afternoon panel, Networking Renewable Energy: Integrating Utility-Scale Renewables, Storage and Distributed Generation Resources at Mass Scale, Dr. Ortiz will discuss how smart grid technology can integrate energy generation, storage, and intelligence. His presentation will focus on some of the technical challenges that arise when developing such massive systems for utilities. He will explain how designs for such complex systems involve a host of tradeoffs and that individual components, such as renewable energy, distributed control, and demand response, cannot be developed in isolation. WHEN: Wednesday, November 4, 2009, from 4:45 - 6:00 p.m. WHERE: PG&E headquarters, auditorium 77 Beale Street San Francisco, CA 94105 WHO: Charles Ortiz, Ph.D., is a program director in the Artificial Intelligence Center (AIC) at SRI International. In this role, he leads a group of researchers in the study and development of multiagent and multirobotic systems. Among the areas with which his research group is engaged in is the development of complex systems that can operate both autonomously and collaboratively with each other and with humans. This includes the development of distributed algorithms which can self-organize and adapt to novel and problem situations as well as support effective human interaction and understanding. In addition, Dr. Ortiz works with SRI's Center of Excellence in Energy, which enables multidisciplinary efforts at the institute to address important energy problems, from developing alternative energy sources to using conventional resources in a more sustainable manner. Dr. Ortiz received his Ph.D. in computer and information science from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.S. in computer science from Columbia University. His undergraduate S.B. degree is from MIT. He was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Harvard University where he conducted research in collaborative multiagent systems. Dr. Ortiz has served as an Adjunct Professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Berkeley and is a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. He is the author of numerous publications including the book Distributed Sensor Networks: A Multiagent Perspective and Collaborative Multiagent Systems (for MIT Press, in preparation). VISUALS: PowerPoint presentation
For more information, please visit: http://www.greentechmedia.com/events/live/the-networked-grid/agenda
SOURCE SRI International
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