Opening Speaker:
Speakers:
Dr. Dana Gibson
In July 2007, Dana Gibson became National University’s third president. Dr. Gibson joined NU from Southern Methodist University, where she had served as Vice President for Business and Finance. Dr. Gibson also served as Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance at the University of Colorado at Denver and University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences Center. Her experience includes service as Vice President of Finance and Administration and Chief Financial Officer of the YMCA of Denver and as Vice President for Academic and Information Services at Texas Women’s University. As a tenured Associate Professor of Accounting and Information System at TWU, Dr. Gibson also served as Speaker Pro Tem of the Faculty Senate.
Dr. Gibson earned both a Bachelor of Science degree in Business-Accounting and an MBA from TWU. She received a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Arlington, with a major field of business accounting and minor fields of information systems and research methods. She has been a Certified Public Accountant since November 1984.
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Dr. Peter Arzberger
Dr. Peter Arzberger is Chair of the Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA; www.pragma-grid.net), an open, institution-based organization of 30 institutions. PRAGMA, founded in 2002, has a mission to build sustained collaborations among researchers around the Pacific Rim by building applications on top of emerging Grid hardware and software. Connected with PRAGMA is PRIME, the Pacific Rim Undergraduate Experiences (prime.ucsd.edu) program, which provides international research and cultural internship experiences to undergraduate students. PRIME, founded in 2004, has admitted 36 students and sent students to four PRAGMA sites. Dr. Arzberger is a founding member of the Steering Committee another international activity, GLEON (http://www.gleon.org), the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network. GLEON is a grassroots network of people, institutions, programs, and data linked by cyberinfrastructure and united by the mission to understand and predict the response of lake ecosystems to natural processes and human activities at regional, continental, and global scales.
In addition, Dr. Arzberger is Director of the National Biomedical Computation Resources (http://nbcr.net), an NIH National Center for Research Resource award. NBCR’s mission is to develop computing and information technologies (e.g., end-to-end tools in cyberinfrastructure) to catalyze and facilitate biomedical research across a broad range of biological scales. He is also Chair of the National Advisory Board to the U.S. Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) network.
Dr. Arzberger is the former Executive Director of the National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI) and a former Program Officer at the National Science Foundation in Computational Biology.
Dr. Arzberger did his B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts, M.S. (Mathematical Statistics) and Ph.D. (Mathematics) from Purdue University in 1983. His research interests are in Data-intensive computing, databases and Computational Biology.
Abstract
The Promise of Cyberinfrastructure and the Challenges in International Research and Education
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Dr. Subhas C. Misra
Dr. Subhas C. Misra is currently a visiting scientist at State University of New York, Buffalo, USA, and is also a Director of Web World Network. He received his Ph.D. degree from Carleton University, in Ottawa, Canada, and M.S. and M.Tech. degrees respectively from the University of New Brunswick, in Fredericton, Canada, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), at Kharagpur, India. Dr. Misra has several years of experience working in the academia, and the public and private sectors in research, teaching, consulting, project management, architecture, software design and product engineering roles. His current research interests include the areas of software management, software quality management, and information systems security, which are multidisciplinary, combining the fields of software engineering, information systems, organizational behavior, and technology and operations management. Dr. Misra has authored over 50 scholarly research papers and published (yet to appear) 4 books. He has won Best Research Paper Award in an international conference held in the United States. He was also the recipient of more than 15 academic awards and fellowships such as the Achievement Award at the 2007 World Congress held in Las Vegas in the United States for “contribution and dedication” to his field, and the Canadian Government’s NSERC Post Doctoral Fellowship. A mention about him and his work has also appeared in the June 8, 2007 issue of the Carleton Now newspaper. His biography has also been selected to appear in the Cambridge Blue Book, Cambridge, England, 2008.
Dr. Misra is the Managing Editor of two international journals - the International Journal of Information and Coding Theory (IJICoT), U.K and the International Journal of Communication Networks and Distributed Systems (IJCNDS), U.K. He is a Guest Editor of a special issue of Computer Communications Journal (Elsevier Science). Dr. Misra is an Associate Editor of the Security and Communication Networks Journal (Wiley) and ICIC Express Letters (an international journal motivated to Innovative Computing, Information, and Control; published from Japan). He is an Editor of the International Journal of Systemics, Cybernatics, and Informatics. He is also an Editorial Board Member of the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science. He was invited to serve as Program chair, Organizing Chair, and Session Chair in different international conferences. He has been serving in the program committees of over a dozen international conferences. Dr. Misra was also invited to offer keynote lectures in more than half a dozen international conferences in different countries of North America, Europe, and Asia. Recently, he was invited to deliver a keynote lecture in the World Congress on Engineering and Computer Science held in California, USA.
Abstract
Agile software development (ASD)
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Norbert J. Kubilus, CCP MBCS
A Computerworld Premier 100 Technology Leader, Norbert has over 30 years of information systems, technology and operations experience in companies ranging from start-up to Global 1000, as well as with non-profits and government agencies. This includes having been CIO or CTO for Diamond Resorts International®, Stellcom Inc., The Leading Hotels of the World, BCM Inc., and Educational Testing Service, as well as COO of DataLEAD Communications and the Network Services Division of National Data Corporation. He was also a Technology Leadership Partner at Tatum LLC, providing technology management leadership to SMB companies primarily in San Diego, and a Faculty Fellow & Professor of Computer Science at The College of New Jersey.
Norbert holds a BS from Seton Hall University and an MS from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Author of over 60 publications and a frequent speaker at conferences in the US and Europe, Norbert enjoys an international reputation as an expert in implementing state-of-the-art technology to achieve competitive advantage. He is a Certified Computing Professional in Management and Systems Development, and he is a professional member of the British Computer Society. Norbert has been a member of AITP since 1979. He is a former president of the San Diego Chapter and currently serves on the Chapter Board of Directors. At the national level, he chairs AITP’s Legislative Affair’s Committee, and he is a member of the Awards Committee.
Abstract
Can We Save IT?
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Todd Walter, CTO, Teradata Research & Development (A Division of NCR)
Todd Walter joined Teradata in 1987. He designed and implemented features of Teradata, managed engineering teams and researched advanced database topics. Todd has worked directly with many customers at the leading edge of adopting data warehouse technology, and guiding the technology to solve real business problems.
He holds several Teradata patents and in 1998 was named NCR Fellow, the highest technical award granted by the company. In his current role as Chief Technical Officer of Teradata R&D, Todd is responsible for vision, strategy and technical leadership, taking Teradata into the future..
Todd earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Montana State University in 1980.
Abstract
Managing Data Warehouses in the Future
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Dr. Lee Whitt Northrop Grumman Mission Systems
Dr. Lee Whitt is an NGMS Technical Fellow and the Technical Director for the Business Unit focused on Navy C4I (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, and Intelligence), headquartered in San Diego. Throughout his 25-year career, he has been active in the design/development of leading-edge military Command and Control (C4I) systems, most recently with emphasis on network-centric operations. He has been an invited speaker to various C4I conferences, both nationally and internationally.
His current work spans several IT domains directly related to C4I systems, including software complexity (related to the implementation & distribution of application business logic), test & evaluation of net-centric SOA-based systems, data sharing and collaboration across the battlespace, and the impact/use of virtual worlds (e.g., Second Life) for C4I mission applications. This work continues and extends a solid record of accomplishments in delivering advanced C4I capabilities to the warfighter (described below).
Dr. Whitt was one of the original developers of the first desktop-based C4I prototype called JOTS (Joint Operational Tactical System), initially deployed in 1985 on US Navy Battle Groups and Ashore Command Centers. During this period, he spent much of his time at-sea on US Navy ships prototyping new C4I mission capabilities in direct support of real-world operations – an early example of the “agile” programming paradigm.
Throughout the decade of the 90s, Dr Whitt’s leveraged new technology to deliver advanced C4I capabilities. In the early 90s, he led a team of developers to build portable applications capable of running in different operating environments (i.e., using a portable GUI toolkit for Windows, Unix, Macintosh) – this effort pre-dated the release of Java by several years. As the Internet revolution took hold in the mid-90s, he employed Internet technologies to introduced new C4I capabilities:
- ELVIS-I, the first web-based C4I system (1995)
- ELVIS-II, the first Java-applet collaborative C4I system (1996)
- Palm ELVIS, the first PDA-based C4I system (1997), where the ELVIS acronym means Enhanced Linked Virtual Information System.
Dr. Whitt earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University (1975) and worked in academia for several years, holding the position of assistant professor on the faculty of Cornell University (1975-77) and Texas A&M University (1977-81). His area of interest was differential and Riemannian geometry, in which he published several research articles.
Todd earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Montana State University in 1980.
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