讲座简介：

A smart society utilized the power and potential of information technology to increase human productivity, and ultimately to improve health, well-being, and quality of life. The key to creating a smart society includes smart life and intelligent society construction, smart infrastructure, and intelligent governance. This talk will focus on the interpretation of ‘smart society’, the connotation of a smart society, the model of a smart society, from ‘smart city’ to ‘smart society’, challenges and opportunities. Discussion and criticism are welcomed focusing on: With the rapid development of AI technology, what will be the role of the ‘smartness’ of human being? Especially in the spatial information science and technology, what kind of challenges we are going to meet and are we ready to face them?

主讲人简介：

Prof. Qiming Zhou is a Professor at College of Surveying and Geo-informatics, Tongji University. He is also a professor emeritus at Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) and research fellow at HKBU Shenzhen Institute of Research and Continuing Education (IRACE). His research interests cover a broad area of geo-spatial information science, particularly in geo-computation and remote sensing applications. He has been actively engaged in research such as digital terrain analysis, climate change and its impacts on regional and global ecosystems, landuse and land cover change detection, and GIS and remote sensing applications to urban, environment and natural resource management.