Honda Begins Joint Research with Boston University in Information Security for Artificial Intelligence
May 16 2017 - 1:14AM
JCN Newswire (English)
Honda Research Institute (HRI), a Honda R&D subsidiary, and
Boston University have agreed to begin joint research in the area
of data security and privacy for artificial intelligence (AI)
research.
Since its foundation, with a passion to provide people everywhere
with the joy of expanding their life's potential, Honda has been
striving to evolve mobility and improve the daily lives of people
all around the world with its products including motorcycles,
automobiles and power products.
In the midst of this pursuit, and with the advancement of digital
technologies including AI technologies, Honda began to see a
growing possibility to create value in a wider range of fields
beyond its current businesses. Responding to such changes in the
business environment, in addition to its continuous pursuit of the
art of making things (Mono-zukuri), Honda will take on new
challenges in enhancing brand story creation about the new value
and experiences (Koto-zukuri) Honda can provide through the art of
making things. In this way, Honda will strive to make people's
lives more enjoyable using AI technology.
Honda will develop Cooperative Intelligence: AI that cooperates
with people which will 1) empower: expands the potential of people,
2) share experience: accommodate and grow together with people, 3)
empathize: be capable of understanding and relating to the emotions
of people.
In order to enable AI to cooperate with people, personal
information about the users must be collected and analyzed. Using
sophisticated information security, we must protect this
information.
To accelerate its research in the area of information security,
Honda has chosen the Rafik B. Hariri Institute for Computing and
Computational Science & Engineering of Boston University as one
strategic partner for joint research collaboration. To coordinate
and structure the collaboration, an oversight committee has been
established, consisting of the members of Boston University and
Honda, including Dr. Azer Bestavros, Distinguished Professor of
Computer Science Department at Boston University and Founding
Director of Boston University Hariri Institute for Computing, and
Dr. Bernhard Sendhoff, Head of Global Operations of HRI and
President of HRI Europe.
A first research project will investigate data privacy control;
using a technology called secure multi party computation(1).
Currently, personalized services such as recommender systems have
become common in our daily lives. These systems typically share
personal data of users, often without their knowledge and
control.
Our goal is to create data security technologies that enable users
to control which data can be shared with systems and which cannot.
This project officially started on May 1, 2017.
Honda is envisioning a future society where mobility products and
robots equipped with secure Cooperative Intelligence are highly
capable and at the same time trusted devices that play an important
and joyful part in peoples' everyday lives. In order to continue
providing people everywhere with the joy of expanding their life's
potential, Honda will continue to strive to create more and more
innovations.
Comments by Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic
Officer
"Boston University is delighted to be entering this important and
promising partnership with the Honda Research Institute. For a
global research university of BU's scale, privacy is an area of
study that uniquely connects so many diverse disciplines, from
computer and data sciences to the social sciences, humanities, and
healthcare, making it a great example of convergent research. We
believe this partnership will be a model for future
academic-industrial collaborations, opening exciting new
opportunities for research that benefit both institutions and
advance societal good."
Comments by Dr. Bernhard Sendhoff
"The synergy between Boston University's world-class research in
data security and privacy and our approach and our experience in
Cooperative Intelligence will enable significant progress to
provide people with both confidence and trust in intelligent
systems of the future."
About Boston University
Established: 1839
Location: Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Provost: Dr. Jean Morrison, University Provost and Chief Academic
Officer
About Honda Research Institute
Established: 2003
Location: Wako, Saitama, Japan
Offenbach am Main, Hessen, Germany
Mountain view, California, U.S.A.
Capitalization ratio : 100% Honda R&D Co., Ltd.
(1) One kind of cryptography. It conducts computation with the data
kept private.
About Honda
Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (TSE:7267/NYSE:HMC/LSE:HNDA) is one of the
leading manufacturers of automobiles and power products and the
largest manufacture of motorcycles in the world. Honda has always
sought to provide genuine satisfaction to people worldwide. The
result is more than 120 manufacturing facilities in 30 countries
worldwide, producing a wide range of products, including
motorcycles, ATVs, generators, marine engines, lawn and garden
equipment and automobiles that bring the company into contact with
over 19 million customers annually. For more information, please
visit http://world.honda.com.
Source: Honda
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