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Monday Keynote: Practical Autonomic Computing
George Cybenko (Dartmouth College)
Tuesday Keynote:
Werner Vogels (Amazon.com)
Wednesday Keynote: Plenary Panel on Software Technology
& Applications
Stephen S. Yau (Arizona State University), Paul C. Clements (Carnegie
Mellon University), Warren Harrison (Portland State University), John
Knight (University of Virginia)
Thursday Keynote: Service Computing: The AppExchange Platform
Steve Fisher (salesforce.com)
Friday Keynote: Business Drivers for Services
Computing
K Ananth Krishnan (Tata Consultancy Services Limited)
Monday Keynote: Practical Autonomic Computing
George Cybenko
Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering,
Dartmouth College
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~gvc
Abstract
to follow.
About the speaker
George Cybenko is the Dorothy and Walter Gramm Professor of Engineering
at Dartmouth College. Cybenko's current research interests are distributed
information and software systems, especially related to security, infrastructure
protection and autonomic computing. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief
of IEEE Security and Privacy magazine and investigator on projects funded
by DHS, DARPA, NSF and ARDA. Cybenko received his BA in mathematics
from the University of Toronto and his Ph.D. in applied mathematics
from Princeton. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, a member of the IEEE Computer
Society's Board of Governors and a Director of the Computing Research
Association.
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Tuesday Keynote:
Werner Vogels
CTO, Amazon.com
http://www.allthingsdistributed.com/
Abstract
to follow.
About the speaker
Dr. Werner Vogels is Vice President & Chief Technology Officer
at Amazon.com where he is responsible for driving the company¡¯s technology
vision, which is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of
Amazon¡¯s customers at a global scale. Vogels holds a Ph.D. from the
Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam and has authored close to 80 articles
for journals and conferences, most of them on distributed systems technologies
for enterprise computing.
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Wednesday Plenary Panel: Future Trends of Software Technology and Applications
- Chair: Stephen S. Yau
Arizona State University, USA
http://dpse.asu.edu/yau/
yau@asu.edu
- Software Architecture
Paul C. Clements
Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
http://www.sei.cmu.edu/staff/clements/
clements@sei.cmu.edu
- The Phone is the Computer
Warren Harrison
Portland State University and IEEE Software Magazine
http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~warren/
warren@cs.pdx.edu
- Model-Based Development
John C. Knight
Department of Computer Science, University of Virginia
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~jck/
knight@cs.virginia.edu
Abstract
to follow.
About the speaker
to follow.
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Thursday Keynote: Service Computing: The AppExchange
Platform
Steve Fisher
Senior Vice President, Salesforce.com
Abstract
On-demand computing has transformed enterprise software, lowering risk
and cost while increasing user adoption and customer success. To be
successful, an application must be designed for on-demand from the ground-up,
including core architectural elements such as multi-tenancy, availability,
performance, security, metadata-driven customization, integration via
web services, etc. As with any new paradigm, initial applications must
design and implement all these core attributes, but ultimately platforms
emerge that encapsulate core computing services, allowing application
developers to focus on innovation and value, and not on reinventing
the wheel. With AppExchange, salesforce.com has delivered the first
on-demand platform, allowing developers to easily develop and deliver
the next generation of on-demand applications. In this talk, Steve Fisher
discusses the technical architecture of the AppExchange platform.
About the speaker
Steve Fisher is senior vice president of AppExchange at salesforce.com.
In this role Fisher leads the team responsible for building the business
for AppExchange, salesforce.com's Web-based platform for business applications.
Fisher is also chairman of salesforce.com's Technology Architecture
Committee, which defines and ensures the integrity of the architecture
for the salesforce.com service. With more than 16 years in the technology
industry, Fisher has held positions with Apple Computer and AT&T
Labs, where he served on the team responsible for architecting AT&T's
VoIP and utility computing strategies. Fisher also founded NotifyMe
Networks, an interactive voice-alerting platform application service
provider and served as the company's first CEO. He has been named an
inventor on 14 patents. Fisher graduated with a BS degree in Mathematical
and Computational Science and an MS in Computer Science from Stanford
University.
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Friday Keynote: Business Drivers for Services
Computing
K Ananth Krishnan
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Tata Consultancy Services
Limited
Abstract
Global IT Services and Consulting organizations like Tata Consultancy
Services (TCS) have been investing considerable resource into the emerging
discipline of Services Computing. The address focuses on the business
drivers for Services Computing across multiple industries across the
world and why this could be the ¡®silver bullet¡¯ for many of our challenges.
The address uses the TCS framework for Services Computing as a backdrop
¨C across services strategy, services implementation and most importantly
services governance. This is a progressive approach towards bridging
the gap between 'what IT delivers' and 'what the business wants' through
a well defined 'value measurement framework' This framework links organizational
readiness, solution maturity and delivery assurance. Finally, the importance
of aligning the competencies and roles across different parts of the
organization and its stakeholders is examined.
About the speaker
K Ananth Krishnan is an M. Tech. in Computer Science from the Indian
Institute of Technology, Delhi. He also has a Masters degree in Physics
from the same Institute and a Bachelor's degree in Physics from Fergusson
College, Pune.
He joined TCS in February of 1988, straight from campus. He is currently
the Chief Technology Officer of TCS. He is a member of the TCS Corporate
Think-Tank since 1999, and has helped in the conceptualization of several
new initiatives. He is also a Principal Architect and Lead Consultant
in the Architecture and Technology Consulting Practice.
He was an invitee to the quarterly management review with the TCS Board
(the executive committee of Tata Sons Limited) from April 2000 to March
2004. He has also been an invitee to the board meetings of Jataayu Software,
a TCS invested company, from December 2000 to April 2005 and is on the
Board of Advisors for IBM-Rational from January 2006.
Ananth is married, with two children and lives in Chennai. He has formally
retired from a successful career in Trivia and Quizzing (which includes
the 'Brain of IIT' individual title and two 'Cranuim Cup' titles at
IIT and several years on the IIT Quiz team), public speaking, crossword
puzzle solving and cricket. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a
member of the Computer Society of India, and is an adjunct faculty in
the Department of Management Studies at the Indian Institute of Technology,
Madras.
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