2011 Joint Panels
(CLOUD & ICWS & SCC & SERVICES)
CLOUD
& ICWS & SCC & SERVICES 2011
will organize a set of
panels, centered on the theme "Cloud Computing" but focusing on
different aspects.
Panel 1 (Plenary): The Federal
Cloud
Panel 2 (Plenary): Science in Cloud Computing
Panel 3 (Lunch Plenary Industry Panel): Enterprise Clouds vs. Commodity Clouds:
Divergence or Convergence
Panel 4: Security in
Cloud
Panel 5: Opportunities of Services
Business in Cloud Age
Panel 6: Towards Omnificent Multimodal
Situation-Aware Services
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Panel
1 (Plenary): The Federal Cloud (10:00-11:30am, 7/7/2011,
Thursday)
Moderator: Simon
Liu, Director of The National Agricultural Library (NAL), USA
Panelists:
- Chris Smith, CIO of USDA, USA
- Linda Cureton, CIO of NASA, USA
- George Strawn, CIO of NSF, also Director of
NITRD, USA
Abstract:
The
federal government is moving toward the cloud. Cloud computing presents
a new computing paradigm and different business opportunity.
The promise of on-demand services delivering computing platforms,
storage, network, common infrastructure and applications over the
Internet, the
way utilities provide electricity, has
federal officials looking for ways to leverage the technology and seize
the opportunity. In fact, cloud computing is fundamental to Obama
Administration’s technology strategy to improve IT
efficiency, increase IT effectiveness, reduce IT costs, facilitate open
access, and promote open government.
While
the transition to cloud computing seems inevitable in the federal
government, many obstacles such as security, privacy, performance,
reliability exist. Specific doubts remain that externally controlled
cloud services can be adequately protected and federal
agencies are carefully analyzing industry offerings to ensure adequate
security and privacy. Transition to the cloud in the federal government
is a complex endeavor with many challenges. The Federal Cloud Panel
assembles five top federal IT executives to share their views on the
why, when, what, and how of their cloud journey. Specifically, they
will discuss and address the following important topics:
- Federal
agencies’ strategic approach to cloud computing.
- The
state and trends of cloud computing implementation in federal agencies.
- Challenges
federal agencies face today and how cloud computing helps to address
these challenges.
- Benefits
federal agencies realized by deploying cloud solutions.
- Metrics
federal agencies used to measure performance and calculate the ROI.
- Major
challenge is the cloud computing deployment in the federal government.
- Highlights
of successful cloud computing projects in the federal government.
- Best
practices to enable a successful cloud computing project in the federal
government.
- Lessons
learned from cloud computing projects in the federal government.
- Perspectives
on cloud computing evolution in the federal government over the next
five years.
Attendees
of the Federal Cloud Panel will leave with abundant ideas, examples,
practices, tips, and lessons learned they can apply immediately to
leveraging the cloud, helping them to improve performance, reduce cost,
and increase the agility and scalability of their Enterprise IT
capacities to support enterprise mission, business and operations.
About the moderator:
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Dr.
Liu is the Director of the National Agricultural Library (NAL). Prior
to that, he was an Associate Director and Director of Information
Systems at the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Acting Director
of Information Management and Security at the Department of Justice,
the Chief Information System Architect at the Treasury Department, and
a program manager in the private sector.
Dr.
Liu holds two doctorate degrees, in Computer Science and Higher
Education Administration, from George Washington University, a Master
of Arts degree in Government from Johns Hopkins University, a Master of
Business Administration (MBA)
degree from the University
of Maryland, a
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Master
of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University,
and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Chun-Yuan
University, Taiwan.
Dr.
Liu has taught courses at four universities including Johns Hopkins
University, the University of Maryland, George Washington University,
and the University of Maryland University College. He is the
Editor-in-Chief of an information technology magazine and an editor of
an information technology journal. Dr. Liu has published more than 60
book chapters, journal articles, and conference papers and has served
as a speaker of numerous conferences, workshops, and seminars.
About the Panelists:
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Chris
Smith serves as the Chief Information Officer for USDA with executive
leadership responsibility for all USDA Information Technology
Investments, Operations and Management. Mr. Smith provides
leadership
for USDA's IT Architecture, IT Policy, Cyber Security Operations and
the Department's operational portfolio including Network, Enterprise
Data Centers, International Technology Services, and Innovations group.
Mr.
Smith joined OCIO in January 2008 and served as Associate Chief
Information Officer for
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Integration
and Operations and
Deputy Chief
Information Officer position to coordinate the efforts of OCIO
operations: National Information Technology Center, Telecommunications
Services and Operations, and International Technology Services.
Before joining the OCIO leadership team Mr. Smith served USDA as Chief
Information Officer for Rural Development where he provided leadership
and executive strategic direction for the Rural Development IT
portfolio supporting more than $96 billion in active loans and grants.
Prior to joining Rural Development, Mr. Smith served as the IT Director
to the Chief Financial Officer of the United States General Services
Administration. In this position, he led shared services IT operations
and operated one of four named Financial Management Lines of Business
Centers of Excellence and one of four named ePayroll operations within
the Federal Government. Additionally, Mr. Smith is a Reserve Air Force
Communications Officer who has led multiple tactical communications
missions around the globe.
Chris Smith received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in International
Studies and his Master of Public Administration Degree from the
University of South Florida. Additionally, Mr. Smith holds a Master of
Science Degree in Management Information Systems from George Washington
University.
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Linda
Y. Cureton is the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). As NASA CIO, she provides
the requisite leadership to transform the management of information
technology (IT) capabilities and services to support and enable
NASA’s
mission. She ensures that the Agency's information resource management
(IRM) strategy is in alignment with NASA's vision, mission, and
strategic goals. Accordingly, Ms. Cureton ensures the development of
integrated IRM strategies, including standards, policies, NASA Enterprise
Architecture, IT
security, management, and operations. She
has the responsibility, authority
and
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accountability
for ensuring that
NASA's information assets are selected, controlled and evaluated
consistent with federal policies, procedures, and legislation.
Ms.
Cureton was appointed as the NASA CIO in September 2009. Prior to this
appointment, Ms. Linda Y. Cureton served as the CIO of the NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center (GSFC) and led the Information Technology and
Communications Directorate. As the GSFC CIO, Ms. Cureton was
responsible for ensuring that GSFC's information assets are acquired
and managed consistent with Agency and Federal Government policies. She
was responsible for ensuring that the Center's Information Technology
strategy aligns with NASA's vision, mission, and strategic goals.
Prior to her arrival at GSFC, Ms. Cureton was the Deputy Chief
Information Officer of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
(ATF) and led the Office of Science and Technology as Deputy Assistant
Director. The Office of Science and Technology is responsible for
providing leadership in the innovative and efficient application of
science and technology used to collect, clarify, and communicate
information needed to reduce violent crime, collect revenue and protect
the public. As the ATF Deputy CIO, she was responsible for ensuring
that the use of Information Technology for the Bureau's mission and
business requirements fulfill customer and stakeholder needs.
Previously, Ms. Cureton served in executive positions at the Department
of Energy and the Department of Justice. As a strong advocate for the
practical application of technology, she has served as a member of
organizations such as the Government Information Technology Investment
Council, the American Council for Technology, and Women in Technology.
Ms. Cureton earned a Bachelor of Science Degree from Howard University
in 1980 graduating magna cum laude with a major in Mathematics and a
minor in Latin. She also received a Master of Science Degree in Applied
Mathematics from Johns Hopkins University in 1994, and a Post-Master's
Advanced Certificate in Applied Mathematics from Johns Hopkins
University in 1996. She performed extensive research in numerical
analysis and has been published in the "Journal of Sound and Vibration."
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Dr.
George O. Strawn is the Director of the National Coordination Office
(NCO) for the Federal government’s multiagency Networking and
Information Technology Research
and Development (NITRD) Program. He also serves as the Co-Chair of the
NITRD Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council. The
NCO reports to the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP)
within the Executive Office of the President.
Dr.
Strawn is on assignment to the NCO from the National Science Foundation
(NSF), where
he most recently
served as Chief Information Officer (CIO). As the CIO for NSF, he
guided the agency
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in
the development anddesign
of innovative information
technology, working to enable the NSF staff and the international
community of scientists, engineers, and educators to improve business
practices and pursue new methods of scientific communication,
collaboration, and decision-making.
Prior to his appointment as NSF CIO, Dr. Strawn served as the executive
officer of the NSF Directorate for Computer and Information Science and
Engineering (CISE) and as Acting Assistant Director for CISE.
Previously, Dr. Strawn had served as the Director of the CISE Division
of Advanced Networking Infrastructure and Research, where he led
NSF’s
efforts in the Presidential Next Generation Internet Initiative. During
his years at NSF, Dr. Strawn was an active participant in activities of
the interagency IT R&D program that is now called NITRD.
Prior to coming to NSF, Dr. Strawn was a Computer Science faculty
member at Iowa State University (ISU) for a number of years. He also
served there as Director of the ISU Computation Center and Chair of the
ISU Computer Science Department. Under his leadership, ISU became a
charter member of MIDNET, a regional NSFNET network; he led the
creation of a thousand-workstation academic system based on an
extension of the MIT Athena system; and the ISU Computer Science
department was accredited by the then-new Computer Science
Accreditation Board.
Dr. Strawn received his Ph.D. in Mathematics from Iowa State University
and his BA Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics and Physics from Cornell
College.
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Panel 2 (Plenary): Science
of Cloud Computing (16:30-18:00, 7/5/2011, Tuesday)
Moderators: Ling
Liu, Professor, George Tech, USA; Manish Parashar, IEEE
Fellow, Professor,
Rutgers University, USA
Panelists:
- Geoffrey Charles Fox, Indiana University, USA
- Robert Grossman, University of Chicago, USA
- Jean-Francois Huard, CTO, Netuitive, Inc., USA
- Vanish Talwar, HP Labs, USA
Abstract:
Cloud
computing as one of the dominating disruptive technologies of the 21st
century has penetrated the heart of many enterprises in both business
and government world-wide. The amount of investment in cloud computing
has continued to grow at an astounding pace in different industry
sectors (ranging from computing and IT industry to healthcare,
communication, transportation, and retails) across multiple continents.
This panel will explore the fundamental research issues underlying
cloud computing, i.e., the Science of Cloud Computing. These issues go
beyond technical aspects, and include social, legal and economic
aspects. The panel will also describe not only how cloud computing is
impacting business but also how it is changing the way that science and
engineering is done. This panel will include both academic
researchers and industry leaderships. Each panelist will bring their
perspective in developing a research agenda for shaping the science of
Cloud Computing and the impact of such an endeavor on our society, the
growth of the IT industry as a whole and the speed of IT penetration in
many fields of science and engineering worldwide in the next 10-20
years.
About the moderators:
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Ling
Liu is a Professor in the School of Computer Science at Georgia
Institute of Technology. There she directs the research programs in
Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining various
aspects of data-intensive systems with the focus on performance,
availability, security, privacy, and energy efficiency. Prof. Liu has
published over 300 International journal and conference articles in the
areas of databases, distributed systems, and Internet Computing. She is
a recipient of the best paper award of ICDCS 2003, WWW 2004, the 2005
Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award, and 2008 Int. conf. on Software
Engineering and Data Engineering. Prof. Liu has served as general chair
and PC chairs of numerous IEEE and ACM conferences and is a co-EIC of
the 5 volume Encyclopedia of Database Systems (Springer). Her current
research is primarily sponsored by NSF, IBM, and Intel.
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Manish
Parashar is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at
Rutgers University. He is also the founding Director of the Center for
Autonomic Computing and The Applied Software Systems Laboratory
(TASSL), and Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Information
Assurance (RUCIA). He is currently serving as Program Director in the
Office of Cyberinfrastructure (OCI) at the US NSF. Manish received his
Ph.D. degree from Syracuse University. His research interests are in
the broad area of Applied Parallel and Distributed Computing and
Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering. He is Fellow of
IEEE and Senior Member of ACM.
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About the Panelists:
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Geoffrey
Charles Fox received a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Cambridge
University and is now distinguished professor of Informatics and
Computing, and Physics at Indiana University where he is director of
the Digital Science Center and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate
Studies at the School of Informatics and Computing. He has supervised
62 PhD students and published over 600 papers in physics and computer
science. He currently works in applying computer science to
Bioinformatics, Defense, Earthquake and Ice-sheet Science, Particle
Physics and Chemical Informatics. He is PI of FutureGrid – a new
facility to enable development of new approaches to computing.
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Robert
Grossman is a faculty member at the University of Chicago, where he is
the Director of Informatics at the Institute for Genomics and Systems
Biology, a Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute, and a Professor
of Medicine in the Section of Genetic Medicine. His research group
focuses on bioinformatics, data mining, cloud computing, data intensive
computing, and related areas. He has published over 150 technical
articles in these areas. He is the Founder and a Partner of Open Data
Group, which provides strategic consulting and outsourced services in
analytics and big data.
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Jean-Francois
Huard is CTO and VP of Research and Development at Netuitive, Inc.,
responsible for leading the company’s vision and technology
innovation effort. His research and product interest focuses on
real-time analytics for large data sets, including, anomaly detection
for application performance management, managing the virtual data
center and closing the cloud control loop. Previously,
Jean-François was Chief Network Architect and VP of Network
Engineering at InvisibleHand Networks. He was awarded a Centennial
Scholarship by the NSERC of Canada. He received Ph. D. (EE) from
Columbia University, USA.
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Vanish
Talwar is a principal research scientist at HP Labs - Palo Alto,
researching management systems for next generation data centers. His
research interests include distributed systems, operating systems, and
computer networks, with a focus on management technologies. He received
his PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign (UIUC). Dr. Talwar is a recipient of the David J Kuck
Best Masters Thesis award from the Dept. of Computer Science, UIUC, and
has numerous patents and papers including a book on utility computing.
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Panel 3 (Lunch
Plenary Industry Panel): Enterprise
Clouds vs. Commodity Clouds: Divergence or Convergence (7/6/2011,
Wednesday)
Moderator: Tony
Shan, Chief Cloudologist, Keane/NTT Data, USA
Panelists:
- Brian Stevens, CTO & VP Engineering at Red Hat
- Jason Hoffman, Chief Scientist and Founder at Joyent
- Jim Stikeleather, Chief Innovation Officer, Dell, USA
- Paul Chemmanoor, CTO at Corporate Executive Board
Abstract:
As Cloud
Computing is gaining increasing traction in the complex heterogeneous
enterprise environments, there is a battle between building private
clouds and leveraging public clouds. More importantly, a key decision
point is whether big organizations should construct enterprise clouds,
which may be on premises or hosted on public providers' data centers,
or large-size firms should migrate to commodity clouds that tend to be
more cost effective economically. Are enterprise and commodity clouds
moving towards separate directions? Or does the trending lead to
combined enterprise commodity clouds? Or will the path become hybrid
routes - diverge then converge, or the opposite sequence? What are the
key criteria and how to justify objectively? This panel will share the
forward-thinking insights and practical forecasts from the industry
gurus and field practitioners by anatomizing the potential outlook and
predicting the tendency in the short term and long run.
About the moderator:
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Tony
Shan is a renowned thought leader and technology visionary with
¼ century of experience and guru-level expertise on cutting-edge
enterprise computing. Specialized in innovative solutioning by
leveraging converged complex technologies and cross-disciplinary
practices, he has directed and advised the lifecycle design and
buildout of large-scale award-winning distributed systems on diverse
platforms in Fortune 50 companies and public sector organizations. He
is a regular speaker and organizer in preeminent conferences, a book
author, an editor/advisory board of IT research journals, and a founder
of several user groups and forums.
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About the Panelists:
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Brian
Stevens has been a member of Red Hat's senior management team since
2001 and has been critical to the company's enterprise operating
system, storage and virtualization strategies. As CTO and Vice
President, Engineering, he manages Red Hat's research and development
organizations for Linux, virtualization, security, messaging and
systems management. Brian was a developer on the first commercial
release of the X Windows System at DEC, where he worked for 14 years to
become a senior member of technical staff, and was responsible for the
architecture and development of the UNIX and clustering product lines.
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Jason
Hoffman is the Founder and Chief Scientist at Joyent, and served as its
CTO for the company’s first 6 years. He is responsible for
research and advanced development, technical outreach, evangelism,
consultative efforts for partners and business units, and manages
Joyent’s intellectual property portfolio. He was once referred to
as a “Renaissance engineer” by ZFS creator Jeff Bonwick,
and has always used “computers” to solve real problems.
Jason taught at the university level for more than a decade, is a
prolific speaker and author and a highly-regarded expert on scalable
systems. He serves as the Outside Director of the WordPress Foundation,
and frequently blogs at Joyeur.
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Jim
serves as Chief Innovation Officer for Dell Services, the IT services
arm of Dell. For more than 25 years, Jim has designed, developed and
implemented information and communications technologies that help
businesses and institutions succeed. Organizations
worldwide rely on Jim for guidance on digital infrastructures,
evaluation of emerging technologies, and strategic guidance on
applications. He participates in international technology
standards bodies and has multiple book and industry-article
contributions to his credit. Previously, he led technology start-ups
and turnarounds as well as the advancement of technology departments
within large global enterprises. He was a founder of the
Technical Resource Connection (TRC), which was acquired by Perot
Systems in 1996. Dell acquired Perot Systems in 2009.. |
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Paul
Chemmanoor is the Chief Technology Officer at Corporate Executive
Board. At C.E.B. He is responsible for strategic IT decisions and leads
teams responsible for architecture, security and web platform
development. Before joining C.E.B, he worked at Capital One as Director
of Application Architecture for Internet facing platforms. Paul has a
Bachelor of Engineering in computer science from Karnatak University, a
MS in Computers and Telecommunication from George Washington University
and a M.B.A. from Darden, University of Virginia.
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Panel 4: Security
in Cloud (7/6/2011,
Wednesday)
Moderator: Billy
Cox, Intel, USA
Panelists:
- Steve Orrin, Intel, USA
- Daniel Walsh, Red Hat, USA
- Christopher Day, SVP, Terremark Worldwide, Inc., USA
- Dennis Moreau, RSA, USA
- Rear Admiral (USN, RET.) Elizabeth A. Hight, Vice
president, Cybersecurity Practice, U.S. Public Sector, HP
Abstract:
Based on
articles and surveys, we would assume that if there is a cloud, then
there is a security problem. But is this really the case? Certainly, we
have to match applications and usages to clouds. But, what does that
really mean? This panel will explore the actual barriers to adoption
from security, the challenges with audit and compliance, look at best
practices for cloud security, and look at the regulatory role in cloud
security.
About the moderator:
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Since
joining Intel in 2007, Billy Cox has been leading the Cloud strategy
efforts for the Intel Software and Services Group. In addition to his
strategy responsibilities, he is also responsible for the Cloud
Builders program. Prior to joining Intel, Billy was Director of Systems
Engineering at HP. During his 14 years at HP, he was responsible for
the development of all infrastructure management tools used to manage
the various server and storage platforms. In his 30+ years of industry
experience, Billy has led the design of compute, network, and storage
solutions and actively participated in multiple standards efforts.
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About the Panelists:
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Steve
Orrin is Director of Security Solutions, for SSG's SPI group at Intel,
Corp. and is responsible for Security Strategy and Pathfinding. Steve
joined Intel as part of the acquisition of Sarvega, Inc. where he was
their CSO. Steve was previously CTO of Sanctum, a pioneer in Web
application security testing and firewall software. Prior to joining
Sanctum, Steve was CTO and co-founder of LockStar, Inc. LockStar
provided enterprises with the means to secure and XML/Web Service
enable legacy mainframe and enterprise applications for e-business.
Steve joined LockStar from SynData Technologies, Inc. where he was CTO
and chief architect of their desktop e-mail and file security product.
Steve was named one of InfoWorld's Top 25 CTO's of 2004 and is a
recognized expert and
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frequent
lecturer on enterprise security. Steve is a member of the Information
Systems Audit and Control Association (ISACA), the Computer Security
Institute (CSI), International Association for Cryptographic Research
(IACR) and is a co-Founder of WASC (Web Application Security
Consortium) and a Co-Founder of the SafeSOA Taskforce. In 2009, Steve
was named a fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies.
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Daniel
Walsh has worked in the computer security field for over 25 years. Dan
joined Red Hat in August 2001. He has led the SELinux project,
concentrating on the application space and policy development.
Previously, Dan worked on Netect/Bindview on HackerShield and BVControl
for Unix, Vulnerability Assessment Products. Prior to this Dan
worked for Digital Equipment Corporation on the Athena Project along
with designing and developing the AltaVista Firewall and AltaVista
Tunnel (VPN) Products. Dan has a BA in Mathematics from the College of
the Holy Cross and a MS in Computer Science from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute.
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Christopher
Day joined Terremark Worldwide, Inc. in December 2005 as Senior Vice
President, Secure Information Services. He is responsible for global
information security services provided to Terremark customers both in
the commercial and government sectors. Prior to Terremark, Mr. Day was
Vice President for SteelCloud, a publicly traded network security
product and services firm headquartered in Herndon, Virginia. Mr.
Day was responsible for directing SteelCloud’s investments in
advanced technology as well as leading the design and development of
SteelCloud’s proprietary security systems.
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With
over fourteen years in the information security industry and working
with Fortune 1000 companies and financial services firms in the United
States, Latin America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and Africa, Mr.
Day has led numerous consulting projects in the areas of security
audit, vulnerability assessment, computer forensics, and secure systems
design. Christopher has also been involved with various security
incidents dealing with system intrusions, theft of intellectual
property, harassment, and fraud including serving as a testifying
expert witness.
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Dennis
Moreau is a specialist in the application of leading edge technologies
to the solution of complex problems in the Information Systems and
Utility Computing management domains. His primary focus is in
addressing advanced threats and developing enterprise/provider scale
solutions to improve IT efficiency and effectiveness for service,
systems, security and configuration management/optimization. He works
actively with the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST), the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) and the Mitre Corporation
on the development of security configuration policy compliance
standards and serves on the Advisory
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Board
for the Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language (OVAL), a key
component of the Security Content Automation Program (SCAP).
Dr. Moreau has over than 35 years of experience in evaluating,
designing, and implementing complex systems and their management and
security infrastructures. Prior to joining RSA’s CTO Office, he
was a
founder and the Chief Technology Officer for Configuresoft. He was also
the Associate Vice President for IT and Chief Technology Officer for
Baylor College of Medicine (BCM). He holds a doctorate in
Computer
Science and has held faculty positions in Computational Medicine and
Computer Science . Dr. Moreau speaks regularly at IT management and
security conferences worldwide.
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Navy
Rear Adm. (Ret.) Elizabeth A. Hight is vice president of HP’s
Cybersecurity Practice. In this role, Rear Adm. Hight leads a team of
cybersecurity experts to deliver strategic, end-to-end cybersecurity
solutions to help HP clients anticipate, overcome and reduce security
threats and vulnerabilities while achieving their missions. Rear Adm.
Hight joined HP in January 2010 as the director of the U.S. Defense
Command and Control Infrastructure Practice, which is designed to
assist U.S. defense clients in transforming their IT environments.
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Previously,
Rear Adm. Hight served as the acting Director of Defense Information
Systems Agency (DISA) and Commander of the Joint Task Force –
Global Network Operations (JTF GNO) from July until December 2009. She
served as the vice director of the DISA, a worldwide organization of
more than 6,600 military and civilian personnel responsible for
planning, developing, and providing interoperable, global net-centric
solutions that serve the needs of the President, Secretary of Defense,
Joint Chiefs of Staff, the combatant commanders, the Military
Departments and other U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) components from
April 2007 until her retirement.
Rear Adm. Hight also served as DISA’s Principal Director for
Operations and Deputy Commander, JTF GNO from 2005 to 2007. As Director
of Operations, she was responsible for providing command, control,
communications, and computer support to the nation’s warfighters.
As Deputy Commander, JTF-GNO, Rear Adm. Hight was responsible to United
States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM) for directing the operation and
defense of the Global Information Grid (GIG).
Rear Adm. Hight joined the Navy in March 1977. Her first duty station
was Naval Communications Area Master Station Western Pacific, Guam,
where she was the High-Frequency Receiver Site Division Officer. During
her career in the Navy, Rear Adm. Hight served in many roles, including
program sponsor for the UHF Satellite Communications Program on the CNO
staff, Executive Officer of the Communications Security Material
Systems, Assistant Program Manager for the UHF Follow-on communications
satellite program and Commanding Officer, Fleet Surveillance Support
Command.
In July 1997, she transferred to the Joint Staff/J6 where she served as
the Chief, Current Operations Division and then as the Executive
Assistant to the Director, C4 Systems. In June 2000, Rear Adm. Hight
reported as the U.S. Space Command Liaison Officer to the U.S. European
Command, Stuttgart, Germany. In 2001, she reported as the Commanding
Officer, Navy Computer and Telecommunications Master Station, Atlantic
and the Program Manager for all IT in the mid-Atlantic region. She was
transferred to the CNO Staff and served as the Director, Net-Centric
Warfare from June 2003 until September 2005.
She is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College, the Naval
Post-graduate School with a master’s degree in telecommunications
systems, and George Washington University with a master’s degree
in information systems.
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Panel 5: Opportunities
of Services Business in Cloud Age (7/8/2011, Friday)
Moderator: Nianjun (Joe)
Zhou, PIC Chair of Services Computing, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
Panelists:
- Ernesto Damiani, Professor, University of Milan, Italy
- Steve
Diamond, General Manager, Industry Standards Office, EMC Corporation,
USA
- Andrzej M Goscinski, Professor, Deakin University,
Australia
- Dejan S. Milojicic, Director, HP Labs, USA
- Gregor
von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA
Abstract:
Cloud
computing has taken the information technology industry by storm with
the promised of more flexibility, greater agility, and less capital
expenditure. Such development provides tremendous opportunities and
challenges for economic and enterprise transformation to this new
utility-oriented paradigm.
At micro-level, enterprises can leverage cloud computing to enhance
efficiency and overcome geographic limitations to compete in a global
market. At macro level, we have to consider cloud computing in
development of economic strategy. What new services business is made
possible? How can resources are shared globally. The next frontier of
services research revolves around making services more standardized,
predictable, asset based with the aid from cloud computing.
Today, cloud technologies and their application to services business
are advanced on every front of research and development – from
low level base system technologies, operational support systems, to
high level business support systems. Like all technology fields that
are driven by immediate market needs, researchers have ample
opportunities to provide cloud enabling technologies. However,
there is not yet consensus on what cloud computing problems may be
long-standing and require persistent attention of the research
community.
As Hilbert's famous twenty-three problems in 1900 were influential in
shaping 20th century mathematics, we are looking for the ten most
interesting problems in services and cloud computing that will shape
the research focus in the next 10 years.
About the moderator:
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Dr.
Nianjun Zhou (Joe) is a research staff member at IBM T.J. Watson
Research Center. He is serving as PIC (Professional Interest Community)
Chair of Services Computing at IBM research. His current research areas
mainly focus on services sciences and service computing to achieve IT
and services solution optimization. He is leading research for resource
estimation and optimization of IT solution and maintenance under global
integration environment; and leading a solution framework development
using standardized toolset, method, and assets to simplify service
engagement.
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About the Panelists:
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Ernesto
Damiani is currently a professor at the Università degli Studi
di Milano and the director of the Università degli Studi di
Milano’s PhD program in computer science. He has held visiting
positions at a number of international institutions, including George
Mason University in Virginia, LaTrobe University in Melbourne,
Australia, University of Technology in Sydney, Australia and the
Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) at Lyon, France.
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Prof. Damiani leads the Software Engineering and Software Architectures
Research (SESAR) lab (http://ra.crema.unimi.it) that was established in
2003 at the Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione of the
Università degli Studi di Milano. SESAR researchers have been
involved in several projects funded by the EC under FP5 (FASTER), FP6
(PRIME) and FP7 (SecureSCM, PrimeLife). The SESAR lab has also a solid
background in the field of empirical software engineering, in system
and network security and in the process of development and adoption of
open source systems for telecommunications. The lab has been involved
in several research projects dealing with best practices in agile and
Open Source software development, funded on national and international
funds such as the Italian Ministry of Research’s Fund for Basic
Research (FIRB).
Prof. Damiani has done extensive research on advanced network
infrastructure and distributed systems and protocols, taking part in
the design and deployment of secure high-performance networking
environments, both as chief scientist and in management positions. His
areas of interest include business process representation, Web services
security, processing of semi and unstructured information (e.g.,
XML), and semantics-aware content engineering for multimedia.
Also, he is interested in models and platforms supporting open source
development.
He is the chair of the IEEE Conference on Digital Ecosystems
(IEEE-DEST), the IFIP Working Conference on Open Source Systems, and
the IFIP 2.6 WG on Data Semantics. He is an Associate Editor of the
IEEE Transaction on Service Oriented Computing, Area Editor of the
Journal of System Architecture and a member of various editorial
boards. He has published several books and about 200 papers and
international patents. His work has appeared, among others, in the IEEE
Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, the ACM Transactions on
Information and System Security, and IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy
Systems, as well as in the ACM Transactions on Information Systems and
the ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology. He has
served and is serving in all capacities on many congress, conference,
and workshop committees. Prof. Damiani is a senior member of the IEEE.
In 2008 he was nominated ACM Distinguished Scientist and he received
the Chester Hall Award for the best paper published in the IEEE
Transaction on Consumer Electronics. His current home page is at
http://www.dti.unimi.it/~damiani.
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Steve
Diamond has 30 years of management, marketing, and engineering
experience in semiconductors, systems, standards, and software. He is
General Manager of the Industry Standards Office and Global Standards
Officer at EMC Corporation. Previously he was Director of Cloud
Computing Product Operations at Cisco; President of the IEEE Computer
Society; VP of Marketing at Equator Technologies; VP of Business
Development at Tycho Networks; Director of Strategic Planning and
Market Development at National Semiconductor; Director of SPARC
Marketing at Sun; Director of Microprocessor Architecture and
Applications Engineering at National Semiconductor; and General Manager
of the Honeywell/Synertek microprocessor division. He has authored more
than 20 technical publications. Steve is a recipient of the IEEE Third
Millennium Medal and the Computer Society Golden Core Award.
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Professor
A. Goscinski has had a long-standing interest in distributed
systems, parallel processing, virtualization, autonomic and
service
computing, and clouds and cloud computing. Since 2004, he has
successfully concentrated his research on autonomic grids based on
SOA,
the abstraction of software and resources as a service, and cloud
computing. The major achievement in the area of autonomic grids
based
on SOA is the development of the concept of a broker that led to
its
use in clouds. The major achievement in the area of
the abstraction of
software and resources as a service and cloud computing is
the development of the Resource Via Web
Services (RVWS) framework
that contains service’s dynamic state and
characteristics, and service publishing, selection and discovery;
the contribution
to level of cloud abstraction in the form of CaaS
(Cluster
as a Service);
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and
comparative study of High Performance Computing
clouds. The results of this research have been published in the
high
quality journals and conference proceedings.
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Dr.
Dejan Milojicic is a senior researcher and director of Open Cirrus
Cloud Computing testbed at HP Labs (1998-). He has worked in the areas
of operating systems, distributed systems, and service management for
more than 20 years. He has been the program chair of the IEEE Agent
Systems and Applications Symposium (ASA/MA'99) and of the first USENIX
Workshop on Industrial Experiences with System Software (WIESS'2000).
Dr. Milojicic published in many journals and conferences. He is an
inaugural editor in chief of IEEE Computing Now, a front end to IEEE CS
publications, and on editorial board of IEEE Internet Computing. He
serves on the IEEE CS Board of Governors (2011-2013). He has been
engaged in various standardization bodies, such as OMG and Global
Grid
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Forum.
He is an ACM distinguished engineer, IEEE Fellow and member of USENIX.
He received his BSc and MSc from University of Belgrade and his PhD
from University of Kaiserslautern. Prior to HP Labs, Dejan worked at
Institute "Mihajlo Pupin", Belgrade (1993-1991) and at OSF Research
Institute, Cambridge, MA (1994-1998).
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Gregor
von Laszewski is the assistant director at the Community Grids Lab at
Indiana University. He is conducting work in Cloud computing as part of
the Future Grid project. During a 2 year leave of absence from Argonne
National Laboratory he was an Associate Professor at Rochester
Institute of Technology. He worked between 1996 and 2007 for Argonne
National Laboratory where he was last a scientist and a fellow of the
Computation Institute at University of Chicago. He received a Masters
Degree in 1990 from the University of Bonn, Germany, and a Ph.D. in
1996 from Syracuse University in computer science. He is involved in
Grid computing since the term was coined. Current research interests
are in the areas of Grid & Cloud computing. He is best known for
his efforts in making Grids usable and initiating the Java Commodity
Grid Kit which provides a basis for many Grid related projects
including the Globus toolkit.
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Panel 6: Towards
Omnificent Multimodal Situation-Aware Services (12:30-2:00pm,
7/8/2011, Friday)
Moderator: Carl
K. Chang, IEEE Fellow, Professor, Iowa State University, USA
Panelists:
- Stephen S. Yau, IEEE Fellow, Professor, Arizona State
University, USA
- Peter Chen, IEEE/ACM/AAAS Fellow, Professor,
Louisiana State University and Carnegie-Mellon University
- Cesar Gonzales, IBM Research, USA
- Ying Cai, Iowa State University, USA
Abstract:
Current
research in pervasive and mobile computing often integrates the
treatments of context and situation. However, it is unclear if there
are universally accepted definitions of context and situation
among the computer science researchers. There is also a large gap
between the conceptual models of situation as viewed by computer
scientists versus the logicians and cognitive scientists.
There are differing ways of discerning situations as far as services
are concerned. In serving humans, the designers imagine various
situations a human user may encounter, and design services to address
varying situations as appropriate. To gain insight as to how users
are situated, multiple detection and inference modes can be utilized,
such as GPS to determine locations, mouse click to determine
browsing patterns, gesture to infer intentions, facial expression
to determine emotions, etc. Clearly, multimodal interactions are hot
topics for mobile, computer gaming, and various HCI researchers
nowadays.
Taking a closer look at existing computer research literature, one may
wonder whether modern-day computing services can ever sufficiently
understand human user’s true situation and provide plausible and
on-demand services. Knowing that humans are dynamic and
continuously evolving beings, the challenge to services
computing researchers will be even steeper if services designers
attempt to evolve services on the fly to meet instantly defined
services requirements when situations clearly deviate from the
predefined set of situational concepts while new concepts suddenly
emerge.
In this panel, panelists will each address different aspects of
multimodal situation-aware services. They will attack
the definitions of situations and contexts from individual
perspectives. They will enumerate practical and
futuristic services that are based on multimodal and
situation-aware information cues. The audience will be invited
to challenge the views of our panelists and debate about where we
are going in the services-laden world of computing. The chair will
summarize the discussions and share his perspective in the end.
About the moderator:
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Carl
K. Chang was 2004 IEEE Computer Society President. He served as EIC for
IEEE Computer (2008-10) and IEEE Software (1991-94). Chang is Professor
and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at Iowa State
University. He received a PhD in computer science from Northwestern
University. Prior to ISU, he was a faculty member of Auburn University
and University of Illinois at Chicago, and worked for GTE Automatic
Electric and Bell Laboratories. His research interests include
requirements engineering, software architecture, and net-centric
computing, and he has published extensively in these areas. He is a
founding member of the IEEE RE, and general chair of ICRE’00 and
RE’03. He is also the chair of the steering committee for SAINT,
PC chair of SAINT’02 and general chair of SAINT’03. In 2005
he serves the general chair for ICWS and SCC. He is Fellow of both IEEE
and AAAS. In 2006, he received the prestigious Marin Drinov Medal from
the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
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About the Panelists:
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Stephen
S. Yau is currently a professor of computer science and engineering and
the Director of Information Assurance Center at Arizona State
University (ASU). He served as the Chair of the Department of Computer
Science and Engineering at ASU in 1994-2001. Previously, he was on the
faculties of Northwestern University and University of Florida. He
served as the President of IEEE Computer Society and on the IEEE Board
of Directors and the Board of Directors of Computing Research
Association. He also served as the EIC of IEEE COMPUTER, and organized
many national and international major conferences. He founded and
organized COMPSAC in 1977. He is the honorary chair and general chair
of ICWS/SCC/CLOUD/SERVICES 2011 and 2010, respectively.
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Dr.
Peter Chen is the internationally renowned inventor of the ER Model,
the top-ranked methodology for database design and the foundation of
many data modeling and systems analysis methodologies, computer-aided
software engineering tools, and repository systems. Dr. Chen's original
paper on the ER model is one of the most cited papers in the field of
computer science. Dr. Chen is a Fellow of IEEE, ACM, AAAS, and is a
recipient of many international awards. He is Distinguished Chair
Professor of Computer Science at Louisiana State University and
Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University. Dr. Chen received his
Ph.D. from Harvard and has also taught at Harvard, MIT, and UCLA.
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Cesar
Gonzales is an IBM Fellow and the research electronics industry
executive, responsible for all interactions between IBM's worldwide
research labs and our electronics industry executives and clients. He
is an expert in image and video processing and compression. He is a
co-inventor of various patented still-frame and motion video
compression techniques that IBM contributed to the JPEG and MPEG
international standards and the DVD patent pool. Cesar has received
multiple external and internal awards, including a corporate-level
award for his leadership in developing IBM's MPEG-based encoders and
system-on-a-chip set top box products. Cesar is IBM Fellow and IEEE
Fellow.
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Ying
Cai received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of
Central Florida. He is an associate professor at the Department of
Computer Science of Iowa State University. His research interests
include wireless networks, mobile computing, and multimedia systems.
Dr. Cai chaired Mobilware'10 and has on numerous conference program
committees. He is on the editorial board of Multimedia Tools and
Applications.
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