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Dr. David Cohn |
Director, Business Informatics, IBM Research |
Dr. David Cohn is Director, Business Informatics at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center.
He supervises a research team focused on modeling, transforming and integrating information
and business structures for on demand solutions. He directs IBM's worldwide research strategy
in support of on demand e-Business including:
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Model-driven Business Transformation - A new artifact-based modeling approach for
improved efficiency and effectiveness in process transformation
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Performance Monitoring - Methods and tools to improve an enterprise's ability to sense
and respond to important trends and events
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Solutions Frameworks - Structures for solutions to complex client problems in industries
such as automotive, electronics and retail.
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Information Integration - Analysis of information with emphasis on multimedia research.
Prior to his current position, Dr. Cohn was Director of IBM's Austin Research Laboratory which
focuses on exploratory VLSI design, electronic CAD tools and high-productivity system design
and is home of IBM's Low-Power Initiative. He also served as Director, Strategic Projects at
Armonk assisting the Chairman and corporate executives in formulating and assessing IBM's
worldwide business strategy. Before joining IBM, he was Professor of Computer Science &
Engineering and Professor of Electrical Engineering at Notre Dame.
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Semantic Web Services: A New Revolution for e-Commerce? [31 March 2005] |
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Prof. Katia Sycara |
Principal Research Scientist (Professor), School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University |
Professor Katia Sycara is a Research Professor in the School of Computer
Science at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also the Director of the
Laboratory for Semantic Web and Agents Technology. She holds a B.S in
Applied Mathematics from Brown University, M.S. in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Wisconsin and PhD in Computer Science
from Georgia Institute of Technology. She has given numerous invited
talks, and has authored or co-authored more than 200 technical papers
dealing with Multiagent Systems, Software Agents, Agent Teams, Web
Services, the Semantic Web, Human-Agent Interaction, Negotiation,
Case-Based Reasoning and the application of these techniques to
e-commerce, crisis action planning, scheduling, manufacturing and
financial planning. In addition, Prof. Sycara is one of the contributors
to the development of DAML-S/OWL-S, the DAML language for services, as
well as matchmaking and brokering software for agent discovery, service
integration and semantic interoperation. From 2001-2003 she served as
Invited Expert of the W3C (the World Wide Web Consortium) Working Group
on Web Services Architecture. She is a member of the Scientific Advisory
Board of France Telecom, 2003-2006.
Professor Sycara is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial
Intelligence and the recipient of the 2002 ACM/SIGART Agents Research
Award. She has served as the Program Chair of the Second International
Semantic Web Conference (ISWC 2003), as General Chair of the Second
International Conference on Autonomous Agents (Agents 98), as the Chair
of the Steering Committee of the Agents Conference (1999-2001), as the
Scholarship chair of AAAI (1993-1999) and as a member of the AAAI
Executive Council (1996-99). She is a founding member and member of the
Board of Directors of the International Foundation of Multiagent Systems
(IFMAS). She is a founding member of the Semantic Web Science
Association, and the US co-chair of the Semantic Web Services
Initiative. She is a founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal "Autonomous
Agents and Multiagent Systems"; an Editor-in-Chief of the Springer
Series on Agents; on the Editorial Board of the Kluwer book series on
"Multiagent Systems, Artificial Societies and Simulated Organizations";
the Area Editor for AI and Management Science of the journal "Group
Decision and Negotiation". She also serves on the editorial board of the
journal "Concurrent Engineering: Research and Applications". She has
served on the editorial board of the "ETAI journal on the Semantic Web"
(1998-2001), on the Editorial Board of "IEEE Intelligent Systems and
their Applications" (1992-1996), and "AI in Engineering" (1990-1996).
She is a member of AAAI, the ACM, and Senior Member of IEEE.
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Minimalistic Internetworking - Meeting the Needs of Tomorrow [1 April 2005] |
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Dr. Gong Li |
General Manager, Sun Microsystems China Engineering and Research Institute |
Li Gong is the founding General Manager of Sun China Engineering and
Research Institute in Beijing. Previously at Sun, he was a Distinguished
Engineer and engineering head of JXTA, Java Embedded Server, and Java
security and networking. Out of these work he received six US patents
and wrote three books. Prior to Sun, he was with Stanford Research
Institute (SRI) International. He did extensive research in distributed
systems, and served as Program and General Chair for IEEE S&P, ACM CCS,
and IEEE CSFW. He received BS and MS degrees from Tsinghua University,
Beijing, and a PhD from the University of Cambridge, England, all in
Computer Science. He is Associate Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Internet
Computing, and Guest Chair Professor at Tsinghua University and Beijing
University of Post and Telecommunications. He was named one of the 2003
China New Economy People by China Internet Weekly and Sina, and received
the China Open Source Movement Leadership Award in 2003 given by CCID
and the China Software Industry Association.
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