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National Science Foundation Day

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Reformulation-Based Approaches to Query Optimization

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WEST: Cloning Data Cache Behavior using Stochastic Traces

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Computer Vision and Image Analysis in the Study of Art

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GSA Social

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Skewed functional processes and their applications

IBM University Days (Fall 2009)

This fall, in place of our semi-annual one day IBM-academic event, we will be hosting IBM University Days on October 22-23, 2009, with a dedicated theme: the use of cloud computing (and the Virtual Computing Lab paradigm, specifically) for educational and research purposes, with special focus on the creation of curricula content and assets for use in a cloud. And the IBM IT Services Curriculum (ITSC) Program will be sponsoring a number of special educational workshops.

Keynote Speakers
Michael King, Vice President, IBM Global Education Industry
Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, Vice President and WebSphere CTO
Matthew Ellis, Vice President, IBM Autonomic Computing
Ric Telford, Vice President, IBM Cloud Services

Michael King
Michael King, Vice President, Global Education Industry, has been with IBM for over 20 years in various executive and management positions. He is currently the worldwide leader for the IBM Education Industry. In this role, he leads IBM's strategy, marketing and sales across schools and higher education. His prior responsibilities include Director, Market Development, Education Industry, focused on solutions and innovation projects, and Director, Alliances for IBM Learning Solutions, where he led a team in developing partnerships across the learning marketplace, including corporate education. He served as the lead market manager for learning in IBM, launching important corporate solution initiatives in Europe and globally. Prior positions include the Global Segment Executive
for the IBM Education industry, leading the strategy for delivering solutions and products to higher education and primary school institutions around the world, and also the worldwide marketing manager for higher education. IBM's broad portfolio of offerings in Education Industry includes hardware and software products, business and IT services, and specific industry initiatives, such as open source software, grid computing, and other leading technologies.

Mr. King has also served as the client executive with responsibility for research universities in California, including the University of California system. In that position, he worked with leading universities in developing creative technology solutions for administrative and academic applications.

Mr. King holds Bachelor's of Science degrees in Physics and Engineering from Kansas State University and an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is a member of the California P16 Education Advisory Council.

Jerry Cuomo
Jerry Cuomo, IBM Fellow, Vice President & WebSphere CTO,has been with IBM since 1987. Jerry holds the prestigious title of IBM Fellow. He is one of the founding fathers of IBM WebSphere Software, and is a breakthrough innovator of solutions in the areas of web application servers, Java, TCP/IP, real-time collaboration software, and high-performance transactional systems. Jerry currently has filed for over 40 US patents.

Jerry is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the WebSphere Division in IBM Software Group, where his prime charter is to “cultivate the future of WebSphere”. He is therefore leading technical initiatives in the areas of SOA, Web 2.0, Appliances, Event Driven Architecture, Open Development, and Virtualization. He has been an integral part of the WebSphere Application Server engineering team from its inception in 1997. During this time, Jerry has been leading innovations in the areas of Web Server Performance, High Availability, Dynamic Caching, Edge Serving, and Security.

Jerry spent the first 9 years of his career working on advanced technology software at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York.

Ric Telford
Ric Telford, Vice President, IBM Cloud Services, has been with IBM for 25 years in product and service development and is noted for bringing innovative approaches to the design and development of key technologies. During his tenure at IBM, Telford has played a number of key roles in various software and service initiatives for IBM, including e-mail and document management, networking, security software, systems management, and IT infrastructure services.

Ric served as Director of Technology for the IBM CIO, responsible for the development, implementation and adoption of technologies that hastened the transformation of IBM into an e-business. Ric was the Director of Technology for Intelligent Infrastructure, the precursor in IBM to "e-business on demand." Ric went on to become VP of Autonomic Computing, where he was responsible for defining and driving the Autonomic Computing initiative for IBM. In this capacity, Ric worked across IBM, as well as the industry and academia, to promote the adoption of open-standards based self-managing technologies. In his prior role as VP of IT Optimization, Ric was responsible for defining complete IBM solutions for customers looking to transform their IT infrastructure. Leveraging IBM's vast software,
hardware and services assets, the IT Optimization business unit provides offerings focused on such transformation topics such as Cloud Computing, Consolidation/Virtualization, Energy Efficient Data Center and Service Management.

In his current position, Ric is responsible for defining and coordinating delivery of IBM's broad portfolio of Cloud services. IBM has a clear vision for what is required to make Cloud Computing accessible and valuable to the enterprise, and provides Cloud consulting, Cloud implementation and Cloud-delivered services to deliver on this vision.

Ric holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.


Matthew Ellis
Dr. Matthew Ellis, Vice President, IBM Autonomic Computing,leads IBM's efforts to develop self-managing technology to support the company's efforts to reduce the complexity of data center management. Advances in autonomic capabilities are critical to the success of dynamic data centers, cloud-computing environments, highly-virtualized and green data centers. Dr. Ellis' team also drives IBM's involvement in industry collaboration for several open standards and interoperability working groups for projects in various bodies including OASIS, Eclipse and the DMTF. Previously, Dr. Ellis was the director of development of the Tivoli Network Management team having joined IBM as a result of the Micromuse acquisition in 2006.

He had been the vice president of development at Micromuse, responsible for the development of its Netcool products for fault and event management in data centers and telecommunications networks. Dr. Ellis joined Micromuse as a result of the acquisition of RiverSoft in 2002, where he lead the product development team for a distributed network management operating system. Prior to joining RiverSoft in 2000, Matt worked for Racal Research Limited, the corporate R&D center for the Racal Electronics Group in the UK. At Racal, he was part of the Adaptive & Learning Systems team, responsible for applications for machine-learning techniques in a wide variety of fields, including telecommunications, radar, radio systems and machine vision. Previously, Ellis also worked with the UK Meteorological Office and UK Ministry of Defense.

Matt has a doctorate in nonlinear dynamics and a degree in theoretical physics.

For more information, please visit http://renoir.csc.ncsu.edu/ICVCI3/
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