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IT Innovations 09 Keynote
Speakers
We are very
pleased to welcome our conference keynote speakers
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Jan Bosch
Jan Bosch is VP,
Engineering Process at Intuit Inc. Earlier, he was head of the Software and
Application Technologies Laboratory at Nokia Research Center, Finland. Before
joining Nokia, he headed the software engineering research group at the
University of Groningen, The Netherlands, where he holds a professorship in
software engineering. He received a MSc degree from the University of Twente,
The Netherlands, and a PhD degree from Lund University, Sweden. His research
activities include software architecture design, software product families,
software variability management and component-oriented programming. He is the
author of a book "Design and Use of Software Architectures: Adopting and
Evolving a Product Line Approach" published by Pearson Education (Addison-Wesley
& ACM Press), (co-)editor of several books and volumes in, among others, the
Springer LNCS series and (co-)author of a significant number of research
articles. He is editor for Science of Computer Programming, has been guest
editor for journal issues, chaired several conferences as general and program
chair, served on many program committees and organized numerous workshops.
As a consultant, as a professor and as an employee, Jan has worked with and for
many companies on strategic reuse in general and software product lines
specifically, including Philips, Thales Naval Netherlands, Robert Bosch GmbH,
Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, Tellabs, Avaya, Tieto Enator and Det Norska Veritas.
Around software product lines, he has published on, advised and implemented
specific techniques and methods around, among others, software architecture,
software variability management, the link to business strategy, organizational
models, assessment frameworks, adoption frameworks and quality attributes. More
information about his background can be found at his website:
www.janbosch.com.
When not working, Jan divides his time between his family, a spouse and three
young boys, reading science fiction and sports, preferably long distance
running, swimming, biking and horseback riding.
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Pravin
Varaiya
Pravin
Varaiya is Nortel Networks Distinguished Professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at the University of
California, Berkeley. From 1975 to 1992 he was also Professor of Economics
at Berkeley. From 1994 to 1997 he was Director of the California PATH
program, a multi-university research program dedicated to the solution of
California’s transportation problems. His current research is concerned
with communication networks, transportation, and hybrid systems. He has
taught at MIT and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Varaiya has held
a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Miller Research Professorship. He received
Honorary Doctorates from L’Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse and
L’Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, and the Field Medal and Bode
Lecture Prize of the IEEE Control Systems Society. He is a Fellow of IEEE,
a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is on the editorial board of
"Discrete Event Dynamical Systems" and "Transportation Research---C". He has
co-authored three books and 300 technical papers. The second edition of
“High-Performance Communication Networks” (with Jean Walrand and Andrea
Goldsmith) was published by Morgan-Kaufmann in 2000. “Structure and
interpretation of signals and systems” (with Edward Lee) was published by
Addison-Wesley in 2003. Varaiya is a member of the Board of Directors of
Sensys Networks.
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Costas A Courcoubetis
Prof. Costas A Courcoubetis is heading the Network Economics
and Services Group and the Theory, Economics and Systems Lab at the Athens
University of Economics and Business. He graduated from the National Technical
University of Athens, Greece, in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering, and
received his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. From 1982 until
1990 he was Member of the Technical Staff in the Mathematical Sciences Research
Center at Bell Laboratories, from 1990 until 1999 he was with the CS Department
at the University of Crete in Heraklion, Greece, where he headed the
Telecommunications and Networks Group at the Institute of Computer Science,
FORTH, and since then he is with the CS Department at the Athens University of
Economics and Business. His research interests include economics of
communication networks, resource allocation and optimization, peer-to-peer
computing, and regulation policy. He has participated in many projects related
to pricing network services and the Internet. He is a co-author with Richard
Weber of “Pricing Communication Networks: Economics, Technology and Modeling”
(Wiley, 2004).
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Liang-Jie Zhang
Dr. Liang-Jie Zhang (LJ) is a research staff member (RSM) and program manager of
application architectures and realization at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center. He
is the worldwide leader of IBM's SOMA Modeling Environment (SOMA-ME), which is
the model-driven SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) solution design platform
from IBM. He is also the worldwide co-leader of IBM's SOA Solution Stack (a.k.a.
SOA Reference Architecture) project. He published Cloud Computing Open
Architecture (CCOA) in July 2009. He is the lead author of book “Services
Computing” published in 2007 by Springer. He has published more than 140
technical papers in journals, book chapters, and conference proceedings. He has
received 2 IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards, 10 IBM Plateau
Invention Achievement Awards, an Outstanding Achievement Award by the World
Academy of Sciences, and an Innovation Leadership Award from Chinese Institute
of Electronics. Dr. Zhang has 36 granted patents and 20 pending patent
applications. As the lead inventor, he holds federated Web services discovery
and dynamic services composition patents. He is the founding chair of IEEE
Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing and IBM Research
Services Computing Professional Interest Community (PIC). Dr. Zhang currently
serves as the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC)
and chairs the program committee of the IEEE 2009 International Conference on
Cloud Computing (CLOUD 2009). Dr. Zhang received his Ph.D. of Pattern Recognition and
Intelligent Control from Tsinghua University in 1996. He was a guest professor
of Tsinghua University and currently serves as a guest professor of Peking
University. He completed both IBM Services Business Leadership Today (SBLT)
Program and IBM Research’s MicroMBA Program in 2006.
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Marvin R. Sambur
Dr. Marvin Sambur, former CEO of ITT Defense and Assistant
Secretary of the US Air Force, currently holds the position of Professor of the
Practice at the University of Maryland Clark School of Engineering, serves on
the Board of FARO Technologies and the SSA Board of the Canadian company OSI
Geospatial. He also serves on several Government advisory Boards, including the
USA Air Force Science Advisory Board and the National Academy of Science AF
Study Board, and does extensive consulting for global technology and aerospace
companies.
From 2001-2005, Dr Sambur served as Assistant Secretary of the United States Air
Force for Acquisition and Research. In this position, Sambur formulated and
executed a $220 billion Air Force investment strategy to acquire systems and
support services for military combat capability for joint warfighting
commanders. Among his many contributions in this role was transforming the Air
Force’s acquisition process by bringing systems engineering into all stages of
the process. From 1977-2001, Sambur held senior positions at ITT Corp., serving
as President and CEO of ITT Defense from 1998-2001. During 1968-1977, Sambur
also worked with Bell Laboratories.
Dr. Sambur completed his undergraduate studies in Electrical Engineering at the City
College of New York in 1969, and earned his MS and PhD in Electrical Engineering
at MIT in 1969 and 1972, respectively. During his years in industry, Dr Sambur
made many scientific contributions in speech recognition, information
technology, and satellite communication systems, holding patents in well used
consumer products. As President and CEO of ITT Defense, Sambur opened new
opportunities for the company that resulted in major growth in its business, and
is highly regarded in the domestic and international defense industry as one of
the leading minds in defense electronics.
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