REFLECTIVE REPORT (INDUSTRIAL TALK)
INTRODUCTION
On 25th September 2018, there was a programme called “Industrial Talk” at Astana Hall held from 2.00p.m. until 5.00p.m.. This programme are compulsory to all students from School of Electrical Engineering to join. There were two invited speakers on that day which is Mr. Anssi Ikonen, a senior lecturer from Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Science and Mr. Lock Choon Hou, a design engineer from Intel Corporation. In this programme, there were two session which is session 1 and session 2. For session 1, Mr. Anssi Ikonen delivered a talk about ‘’Internet of Things (IoT) in Industrial Applications’’. And for the session 2, Mr. Lock Choon Hou delivered a talk on “Machine Learning (ML)-from Buzzword to Value Creation”.
ANALYSIS
This was the first time I heard about IoT and ML in my entire life. I feel so excited to know more about them when Mr. Anssi Ikonen started his talk. For introduction, he promoted his country which is Finland. He shared about the nice view of Finland and some information about his country. I was quite shocked when he showed to us photo of some scenery such as aurora that occur in Finland. It touches my heart that God’s creation are so adorable. Then he talked more about their culture and so on. After that, he continued his talk by introducing the definition of IoT. The internet of things, or IoT, is a system of interrelated computing devices, mechanical and digital machines, objects, animals or people that are provided with unique identifiers (UIDs) and the ability to transfer data over a network without requiring human-to-human or human-to-computer interaction. Example of internet of things is My Fridge, which is a smart fridge. An IoT is a device connected to the internet that responds based on the input called a sensor. Mr. Anssi Ikonen informed us that the IoT is a human brain based programme.
For the session 2, Mr. Lock Choon Hou talked about Machine Learning. He explain to the students about what is machine learning and whats the use of machine learning. Machine learning is an artificial intelligence (AI) discipline geared toward the technological development of human knowledge. AI can function as a human-like robot. It can allows computer to handle situations by doing analysis, self-training and observation. There are one of the examples of AI which is Siri. Siri can be defined as the personal assistant in a phone, which is in this context Apple company-Iphone. Siri can make our life easier where by assisting it’s user in such many ways such as finding information, getting direction in the map and sending messages. From this talk, I can increase my knowledge about AI and the more I know that most of AI help us in everyday routine.
CONCLUSION/ACTION PLAN
I hope that this talk can be held more in the future. This is because it’s benefits to all of students in UTM especially for engineering students. I can gain more information about IoT and machine learning. And I hope from this talk, I can get the idea to design new machine in the future. Last but not least, I want to thank UTM for giving chance to engineering students to attend this talk. This talk really benefits us for our future and to make our life better.