On Feb.24 th 2011, Dr. Douglas R. Vogel, VP of AIS, paid a visit to our institute. Prof. CHEN Xiaodong, Director of Science and Technology Department of SARI, received him and held a meeting with visitors.
Mr. LIU Jianzhou, Project Manager of International Cooperation Department, gave a brief introduction of SARI and outlined its five-year plan. Then, Prof. CHEN Xiaodong conducted in-depth discussion with Prof. Doug Vogel in terms of establishing international standard association of Internet of things in Agriculture, associate AIS, academic journals of Things of Internet as well as jointly setting post-doctoral station, etc.
Currently, Prof. Vogel is a Chair Professor in Department of Information Systems of City University of Hong Kong. He has more than 40 years' experience in related fields with major research areas in the application and influence of information system in interpersonal relationship, group discussion, cooperation, intelligence management, etc.