i-Society 2007/Organisers/Keynote speakers

Keynote speakers

Antony Satyadas leads worldwide competitive initiatives for IBM. Antony has 23 years (18 in USA, 5 in India) of consulting, marketing, entrepreneur and leadership experience with Government and Fortune 500 companies worldwide. Antony is an expert in intelligent systems modelling, knowledge innovation including portals and collaboration/social computing, BPM, and Service-Oriented Architecture. More recently he has been exploring the 4D web and situational awareness. He has more than 50 publications, member of 10 editorial/advisory boards, 40 program/scientific committees, reviewer for several book publications/journals and has offered more than 20 tutorials in this area. His education is in Marketing, Computer/Cognitive science (MS’92, PhD-abd, University of Alabama, USA), and Electrical Engineering (BS’84, University of Kerala, India).

Ian Foster is the Senior Scientist (Associate Division Director) in the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, where he leads the Distributed Systems Laboratory, and he is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Chicago. He is also involved with both the Global Grid Forum and with the Globus Alliance as an open source strategist. In 2006, he was appointed director of the Computation Institute, a joint project between the University of Chicago, and Argonne. An earlier project, Strand, received the British Computer Society Award for technical innovation. His research resulted in the development of techniques, tools and algorithms for high-performance distributed computing and parallel computing. As a result he is denoted as “the father of the Grid�. Foster led research and development of software for the I-WAY wide-area distributed computing experiment, which connected supercomputers, databases and other high-end resources at 17 sites across North America in 1995. His own labs, the Distributed Systems Laboratory is the nexus of the multi-institute Globus Project, a research and development effort that encourages collaborative computing by providing advances necessary for engineering, business and other fields. Furthermore the Computation Institute addresses many of the most challenging computational and communications problems facing Grid implementations today. Foster's honors include the Lovelace Medal of the British Computer Society, the Gordon Bell Prize for high-performance computing, as well as others. He was elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2003.

Marcus Rogers is a Professor of Computer Information Technology at Purdue University (West Lafayette) specialising in the area of Cyber Forensics. He is also a faculty member with the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS). Dr Rogers is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), a former Senior Lead Instructor for (ISC)2, a member of the QA team for the SSCP and CISSP certifications and the co-author of the Law Investigation and Ethics section of the CISSP CBK Review Course. He is also a former police detective with a background in computer crime investigations. His area of interests include Applied Computer Forensics, Cybercrime Scene Analysis, and Cyber-terrorism. He has authored several book chapters, and articles in the area of computer forensics and forensic psychology and sits on the editorial board for several international journals. Dr Rogers is a frequent speaker at international and national information assurance and security conferences, and guest lectures at various universities throughout the world.

Eli Cohen founded the Informing Science Institute (ISI), an international organisation of over 500 members from over 60 countries. The institute publishes 8 journals and, so far, a dozen books, all of which are available online to everyone without charge. The organisation also holds two international conferences each year. ISI is an organisation of colleagues mentoring fellow colleagues. It draws together people who teach, research and use information technologies to inform clients (regardless of academic discipline) to share their knowledge with others. Dr Cohen’s background is multi-disciplinary. He holds degrees in and has published research in Management Information Systems, Psychology, Statistics, Mathematics, and Education. He has taught in Poland, Slovenia, South Africa, Australia and the USA. In addition, he has conducted seminars in Fiji, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and Cyprus. Eli Cohen attended (and taught at) Purdue University Calumet many, many years ago. His talk deals with the megatrend of transdisciplinary work and of work teams.

Mark Ciampa is the Director of Academic Computing and Associate Professor of Computer Information Systems at Volunteer State Community College in Gallatin, Tennessee. He has authored several textbooks for Thomson Course Technology, including Network Administrator: Netware 4.1, Networking Basics, and A Guide to Designing and Implementing Wireless LANs. Mark received his Master’s degree in Computer Information Systems from Middle Tennessee State University. He has served as a computer consultant for several state organizations and businesses in computer applications and networking, such as the US Postal Service, the University of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service. He is a frequent speaker at national and regional technology conferences