Keynotes
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Dr. Haym Hirsh
Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation
Professor, CS, Rutgers University, USA
Socially Intelligent Computing
Date: Nov. 12, 2009Abstract
| Innovations in computing have transformed our world. Information and communication technologies now bring together people and computers in powerful new ways and are creating richly interconnected worlds that demonstrate new forms of collaboration, communication, and emergent intelligence that were not previously achievable by people or computers alone. Our successes pose a new set of challenges that arise from contemplating systems comprised integrally of both computers and people, an area that I call "socially intelligent computing". By socially intelligent computing I refer to efforts in widely disparate realms that attempt to understand the capabilities and limitations that systems of people and computers together possess, and to develop a practical understanding of the purposeful design of such systems. In this talk I will outline various threads that are advancing our knowledge of socially intelligent computing, directions for the future, and programs at the National Science Foundation that contribute to such efforts. |
Biography
| Haym Hirsh is Professor and past Chair of Computer Science at Rutgers University and (through August 2010) is serving as Director of the Division of Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. His research is on foundations and applications of machine learning, data mining, and information retrieval. He received his BS degree from the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments at UCLA and his MS and PhD degrees from the Computer Science Department at Stanford University. |
Dr. Nabil R. Adam
Fellow and Sr. Program Manager, IGD, US Department of Homeland Security
Director of the Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC)
Professor, MS/CIS, Rutgers University, USA
Research & Development at the Department of Homeland Security-Science and Technology
Date: Nov. 13, 2009Biography
| Dr. Adam is currently serving on an assignment as a Fellow and Sr. Program Manager at the Infrastructure & Geophysical Division, Science & Technology Directorate of the US Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professor of Computers and Information Systems; the Founding Director of the Rutgers University Center for Information Management, Integration and Connectivity (CIMIC); the Director of the recently established information Technology for Emergency mAnageMent (i-TEAM) Research Laboratory at Rutgers; Co-founder and past Director of the Meadowlands Environmental Research Institute; and past Chair of the MSIS Department a RBS. Dr. Adam has published numerous technical papers covering such topics as information management, information security and privacy, data mining, Web services and modeling & simulation. His papers appeared in referred journals and conference proceedings including, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, ACM Computing Surveys, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Management Information Systems, and International Journal of Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems. He has co-authored/co-edited ten books. Dr. Adam is the co-founder and the Executive-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal on Digital Libraries and serves on the editorial board of a number of journals including Journal of Management Information Systems, and the Journal of Electronic Commerce. He is also the co-founder and past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Digital Libraries. |
Cynthia K. Pickering
Director of the IT Collaboratory Research Lab, Intel Corporation, USA
Challenges and Advances in Enterprise Class Global Team Collaboration
Date: Nov. 14, 2009Abstract
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Global expansion, outsourcing, competitive pressure to do complex projects more efficiently, along with increased focus on work-life balance drive the need to collaborate more effectively. In today’s turbulent economic and political environment, secure robust methodologies are vital to support company functions and activities, especially the effectiveness of the teamed knowledge worker across time and space.
Today’s consumer oriented Social Computing tools have become de rigueur in recent years. Early adopter usage in the enterprise shows promise of value, yet reveals numerous shortfalls and challenges. I will share findings surrounding a continuum of capabilities exploration ranging from current deployments, architecture driven technology development, early adopter usability studies, and long term research surround Web 3.0. |
Biography
| Cindy Pickering is a Senior Principal Engineer within the Intel IT Strategy, Architecture and Innovation group. She is also director of the IT Collaboration Research Lab, called Collaboratory. Based in Chandler Arizona, the Collaboratory has primary focus on global team collaboration: comprehending people, process, and technology interdependencies. Cindy’s research combines needs assessment, new concept development, emerging usage models definition, and enabling architecture and technologies exploration. Current team collaboration research topics include multi-teaming, expressive interaction with remote team members, impact of time separation on global team coordination, and use of an integrated 3D teaming environment to preserve group memory, attract repeated usage, and support fluid movement between real-time and non real-time modes of collaboration. Cindy received a B.S.E.E. degree from Penn State University in 1981 and has completed some graduate level Computer Science coursework at Stanford University. She joined Intel in 1991 and has 27 years of industry research experience including global team collaboration, expert systems and knowledge engineering. Prior to joining Intel, Cindy worked 6 years for FMC and 4 years for Martin Marietta Denver Aerospace, as a researcher in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for NASA and the Department of Defense. |