Keynotes
Dr. Daniel M. Dias
Director of Service Product Technologies,
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, Hawthorne, NY, USA
Cloud Computing Empowering the Smarter Planet
Date: Oct. 10, 2010Abstract
| In this talk we present cloud computing as a new paradigm for services delivery, and as a key enabler for the smarter planet. We first describe cloud computing architecture, delivery models, management, and transformation to a cloud environment. With this basis, we examine the greening of computing leveraging clouds, including consolidation, efficiency, dynamic allocation, workload migration, remote capabilities and other optimizations. We examine specific uses of clouds and provide quantification of the benefits for some of the types of clouds and optimizations. Finally, we look at key applications leveraging cloud computing including clouds for collaboration, mobile, and smarter planet applications. |
Biography
| Dr. Daniel M. Dias, is director of Service Product Technologies, and an IBM Distinguished Engineer at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, with responsibility for leading world-wide research in technologies for advanced service products, including cloud computing, service management, transformation to and management of virtualized environments, mobile computing and management, and SOA technologies contributing to systems, middleware, communications, end user, business continuity and other service products. Prior to this, Dan was director of the IBM India Research Lab, where he was responsible for leading the research units in India, at Delhi and Bangalore. Dan previously led the internet infrastructure and computing utilities department at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, and the world-wide research and strategy for Systems Management and Advanced Operating Environments. Earlier in his career, he led the distributed systems and middleware department, and the parallel commercial systems group, both at IBM’s Thomas J Watson Research Center. He has received several awards for his contribution to research, including IBM Outstanding Innovation and Technical Achievement Awards and conference best paper awards. He has co-authored more than 90 refereed papers in journals and at international conferences, and holds more than 40 U.S. patents. Dr. Dias received his B.Tech. degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from Rice University, Houston, Texas. |
Dr. Venu Vasudevan
Senior Director of Software Platforms Research,
Motorola, USA
Collaborative Media - from Companion Experiences to Collective Knowledge
Date: Oct. 11, 2010Abstract
| Content and communication have converged towards collaborative media – where media rather than people are the objects around which collaborations & conversations are centered. The device and group dynamics around collaborative media have similarly broadened: from highly capable devices to pervasive devices (e.g. TV & mobile) and from small, strongly connected groups to large collaborative groups of people with weak inter-personal ties. This talk will address some of the experiences and challenges in delivering a collaborative media experience to pervasive devices such as TV and multi-screen collaborative media. We will address the systems challenges in scaling these experiences across large user populations, and creating coherent crowdsourced experiences across large user populations. |
Biography
| Dr. Venu Vasudevan is senior director of the Betaworks Lab at Motorola Applied Research, an incubator with responsibility for identifying technologically differentiating and commercially viable opportunities in the spaces of mobile & pervasive computing, and social media. Prior to this, Venu directed the Software Platforms Lab with research focus on applying distributed computing technologies to efficient and scalable media delivery architectures for advancing television and mobile platforms – including several key Motorola initiatives in the mobile/pervasive media space. Venu holds a PhD from The Ohio State University, and has co-authored over 50 papers in journals and international conferences, and is a member of Motorola’s Science Advisory Board. |