This planning workshop is to engage multiple sectors of stakeholders to have a discussion about underwater cyber infrastructure via two days of Zoom meetings.
The overall goal of the workshop is to help NSF with strategic planning in addressing the cyber infrastructure of underwater technologies affecting the blue economy, in particular an appropriate funding program that supports the next generation advances in Internet of Underwater Things (IoUT), underwater wireless communication, sensing, and networking.
The specific topics of the workshop are as follows:
Session 1 - Ocean Science Perspectives: Needs and Challenges
Session 2 - IoUT Hardware, Electronics and Applications in Extreme Environments
Session 3 - Underwater Communications, Signal Processing, and Networking
Session 4 - Marine Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for IoUT