Panel - Collaborative Computing:
Killer Applications and Future Perspectives

As the world is moving towards unlimited connectivity, computing platforms are evolving from the centralized computation model to more distributed, open, and service oriented computation model. Collaboration as a fundamental capability of networks represents a significant step forward. Many predict that collaboration in computing will become a fundamental capability for eCommerce, eGovernment, and eScience and for managing and accessing information at global scale.

This panel consists of distinguished panelists from industry and governments, each will share their thought, experiences in real world and their vision on Collaborations in Computing, how distribution, service oriented computing play a role in promoting and enabling collaborative computing, and what are important research challenges and management challenges for collaborative computing vision to be successful.

Panelists

• Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Telcordia, USA
  
• Le Gruenwald, NSF CISE IIS (TBA)
  
• Steven Poltrock, Boeing Phantom Works
  

Panelists will give a short (10-15min) interactive presentation on their point of view and their arguments, followed by an open discussion among attendees.

Ling Liu

Dr. Ling Liu is an Associate Professor in the College of Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. There she directs the research programs in Distributed Data Intensive Systems Lab (DiSL), examining performance, reliability, security and privacy issues and technical challenges in building large scale distributed computing systems, including decentralized overlay networks to mobile computing systems and location based services, sensor network computing, and large scale enterprise computing systems. She has published over 150 international journal and conference articles in the areas of Internet Computing systems, Internet data management, distributed systems, and information security. Dr. Liu has received distinguished service awards from both the IEEE and the ACM. Dr. Liu is currently on the editorial board of several international journals, including IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, International Journal of Very large Database systems (VLDBJ), International Journal of Web Services Research. Dr. Liu is the recipient of best paper award of WWW 2004 and best paper award of IEEE ICDCS 2003, a recipient of IBM faculty award in 2003, 2006, and a recipient of 2005 Pat Goldberg Memorial Best Paper Award. Dr. Liu’s current research is primarily sponsored by NSF, DARPA, and IBM.

Dimitrios Georgakopoulos

Dr. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos is a Senior Scientist in Telcordia Technology’s Austin Research Center. He received his PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Houston in 1990 and 1986, respectively, and his BS degree from the Aristotle University in Greece. His current research includes: data collection and analysis from sensors and video, virtual team collaboration and coordination, and event driven architectures. In Telcordia, Dimitrios have been leading/led research for DTO/DARPA, including projects in “Video Event Awareness” and “Awareness Enabled Collaboration,” as well as, strategic and tactical research projects for Telcordia’s business units. Before coming to Telcordia, Dimitrios was the Technical manager and chief architect of the “Collaboration Management Infrastructure (CMI)” consortial project at MCC. Before MCC, Dimitrios was a Principal Scientist at GTE (Verizon) Laboratories Inc., where he led several multi-year R\&D projects in the areas of workflow management and distributed object management systems. Dr. Georgakopoulos was the General chair of the International Conference of Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE 2005), New York, 2005. Before that he has served as the General Chair of the18th Int. Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE) in San Jose, California, 2002, and as the Program Chair of the 17th ICDE in Heidelberg, Germany, 2001. He is currently a member of the ICDE Steering Committee. Dimitrios has served in more than eighty conferences as a Program Committee member and in six journals as an editor or guest editor. He has received a GTE (Verizon) Excellence Award in 1997, two IEEE Computer Society Outstanding Paper Awards in 1994 and 1991, and has been nominated for the Computerworld Smithsonian Award in Science in 1994. He has published more than seventy journal and conference papers.

Le Gruenwald

Dr. Le Gruenwald is a Program Director in the Information Integrationand Informatics in Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at National Science Foundation. She is also the David W. Franke Professor and the Director of the Database Laboratory in the School of Computing Science at The University of Oklahoma (OU). She received her Ph.D. in Computer Science from Southern Methodist University in 1990. Prior to joining OU, she was a Member of Technical Staff in the Database Management Group at the Advanced Switching Laboratory of NEC, Amercia. Her major research interests include Mobile and Sensor Databases, Data Stream Management, Data Security and Privacy, Multimedia and Web Databases, Data Mining and Autonomic Computing. She has published over one hundred articles in books, journals and conferences.

Steven Poltrock

Dr. Steven Poltrock is a Technical Fellow in the Mathematics \& Computing Technology organization of Boeing Phantom Works where he leads Boeing's research in collaboration technology, including projects supporting teamwork, workflow management, and knowledge management. He worked as a programmer and engineer in the aerospace industry for several years before obtaining a Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Washington. He has 20 years of research experience in Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), including 17 years at Boeing. He is an author of more than 50 papers in the CSCW field about topics such as collaborative user interface design, innovative collaboration technologies, adoption of collaboration technologies, and experiences deploying these technologies. He was co-chair of the 1998 ACM CSCW conference, and he has presented tutorials about CSCW to more than a thousand attendees of professional conferences. His current research interest is improvements to collaboration technologies achieved through the development and use of models of human behavior.