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Jun
6
Tue
2023 IEEE Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA) @ Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL), Parsons Auditorium
Jun 6 – Jun 8 all-day

The 2023 IEEE International Conference on Assured Autonomy (ICAA) will take place from June 6-8, 2023 at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Parsons Auditorium. The conference, which includes keynote speeches and paper presentations, is co-sponsored by IAA.

Registration: https://web.cvent.com/event/cb3ab2c8-b5ff-491d-bca3-5496f841e727/summary.

Full conference schedule: https://icaa-conf.github.io/icaa2023/.

Jun
20
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Speaker TBD
Jun 20 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional details coming soon.

Jul
18
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Speaker TBD
Jul 18 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional details coming soon.

Aug
15
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Speaker TBD
Aug 15 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional details coming soon.

Sep
19
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Speaker TBD
Sep 19 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional details coming soon.

Oct
17
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Speaker TBD
Oct 17 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional details coming soon.

Nov
14
Tue
IAA Seminar Series – Speaker TBD
Nov 14 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Additional details coming soon.

How Do We Create an Assured Autonomous Future?

Autonomous systems have become increasingly integrated into all aspects of every person’s daily life. In response, the Johns Hopkins Institute for Assured Autonomy (IAA) focuses on ensuring that those systems are safe, secure, and reliable, and that they do what they are designed to do.

Pillars of the IAA

Technology

Autonomous technologies perform tasks with a high degree of autonomy and often employ artificial intelligence (AI) to simulate human cognition, intelligence, and creativity. Because these systems are critical to our safety, health, and well-being as well as to the fabric of our system of commerce, new research and engineering methodologies are needed to ensure they behave in safe, reasonable, and acceptable ways…

Ecosystem

Autonomous systems must integrate well with individuals and with society at large. Such systems often integrate into—and form collectively into—an autonomous ecosystem. That ecosystem—the connections and interactions between autonomous systems, over networks, with the physical environment, and with humans—must be assured, resilient, productive, and fair in the autonomous future…

Ethics and Governance

The nation must adopt the right policy to ensure autonomous systems benefit society. Just as the design of technology has dramatic impacts on society, the development and implementation of policy can also result in intended and unintended consequences. Furthermore, the right governance structures are critical to enforce sound policy and to guide the impact of technology…

  • In recent years, we have learned that the most important element about autonomous systems is – for humans – trust. Trust that the autonomous systems will behave predictably, reliably, and effectively. That sort of trust is hard-won and takes time, but the centrality of this challenge to the future of humanity in a highly autonomous world motivates us all.
    Ralph Semmel, Director, Applied Physics Laboratory
  • In the not too distant future we will see more and more autonomous systems operating with humans, for humans, and without humans, taking on tasks that were once thought of as the exclusive domains of humans. How can we as individuals and as a society be assured that these systems are design for resilience against degradation or malicious attack? The  mission of the Institute is to bring assurance to people so that as our world is populated by autonomous systems they are operating safely, ethically, and in the best interests of humans.
    Ed Schlesinger Benjamin T. Rome Dean, Whiting School of Engineering