WORLDCOMP'12 Keynote Lectures, Invited Talks, & Panel Discussions
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2013-01-07 12:15
These talks are in addition to the focused keynotes/invited talks that appear in
the individual conference schedules. The talks are open to all attendees and are
scheduled in a way that various targeted attendees can attend/participate in them.
  Keynote Lectures |
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Teaching Software Engineering for Software as a Service using Massive Open
Online Courses
Professor David A. Patterson, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, California, USA Member, National Academy of Engineering Member, National of Academy of Sciences Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS Shared (with John Hennessy) the IEEE John von Neumann Medal ![]() |
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Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence Professor Haym Hirsh, Ph.D. Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Former Director (2006-2010) of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA + Visiting Scholar (2010-2011) at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, USA. Prof. Hirsh received his PhD in 1989 from Stanford University ![]() |
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ECL and Distributed Machine Learning with the HPCC Systems Platform Dr. Flavio Villanustre, MD. Vice-President of Technology Architecture and Product, HPCC Systems (Dr. Villanustre's previous profession was a neurosurgeon) ![]() |
  Invited Talks & Panel Discussions |
- Market Your e-Learning with Flair: 100% Staff Participation Rocks!
Dr. Derek Cunard
Dean of American Heart University, USA
Date and Time: July 16, 2012 (Monday), 1:00pm - 1:40pm
(LOCATION: Platinum Room)
- Future Internet Infrastructure and its Hardware Support Technology for Smart Grid
Prof. Hiroaki Nishi
Department of System Design, Keio University, Japan
Date and Time: July 16, 2012 (Monday), 02:20pm - 03:00pm
(LOCATION: Gold Room)
- Mining Social Media: The Importance of Combining Network and Content
Prof. Sofus A. Macskassy
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA
Date and Time: July 16, 2012 (Monday), 3:20pm - 4:20pm
(LOCATION: Ballroom 1)
- PROVISIONAL: PANEL DISCUSSION - TOPIC: HEALTH CARE
Moderator: Professor Andy Marsh
Director HoIP; Director HoIP Telecom, UK; Secretary-General WABT;
Vice-president ICET; Visiting Professor, University of Westminster, UK
Date and Time: July 16, 2012 (Monday), 3:20pm - 4:20pm
(LOCATION: Gold Room)
- A General Taxonomy For Visualization Of Predictive Social Media Analytics
Dr. Stacey Franklin Jones
Senior Vice President of Corporate Development, Protech Global Solutions, USA
Date: July 17, 2012
Time: 06:00pm - 07:00pm
Location: Ballroom 2
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- Getting the Most Bang for Your Buck: The Efficient Use of Human Labor for
Data Annotation
Professor Haym Hirsh
Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA
Former Director (2006-2010) of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems,
National Science Foundation, USA + Visiting Scholar (2010-2011) at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, USA. Prof. Hirsh received his PhD in 1989 from Stanford University.
Date and Time: July 17, 2012 (Tuesday), 4:40pm - 5:40pm
(LOCATION: Ballroom 1)
- Data Mining in Organizations, Quo Vadis?
Dr. Peter Geczy
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST),
Japan (Formerly at RIKEN)
Date and Time: July 18, 2012 (Wednesday), 3:20pm - 4:20pm
(LOCATION: Ballroom 1)
- Distributed Approaches for Self-Adaptive Embedded Systems
Dr. Pascal Benoit
University of Montpellier, France
Date and Time: July 17, 2012 (Tuesday), 09:40am - 10:20am
(LOCATION: Gold Room)
- Tackling the Security Issues of FPGA Partial Reconfiguration with Physical
Unclonable Function
Dr. Yohei Hori
National Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, Japan
Date and Time: July 17, 2012 (Tuesday), 10:40am - 11:20am
(LOCATION: Gold Room)
- Ensuring Design Integrity Through Analysis of FPGA Bitstreams and IP Cores
Jonathan P. Graf
Director, Secure Computing and Communications Technologies at Luna Innovations,
Luna Innovations Inc., Virginia, USA
Date and Time: July 17, 2012 (Tuesday), 11:20am - 12:20pm
(LOCATION: Gold Room)
- PANEL DISCUSSION & SHORT STATEMENTS: (Planned)
Hardware Security and Trust in Reconfigurable Heterogeneous Systems
Participating Companies:
Jonathan P. Graf, Director, Secure Computing and Communications;
John Leon, Vice President at Irvine Sensors Pico Computing.
Date and Time: July 17, 2012 (Tuesday), 01:40pm - 03:00pm
(LOCATION: Gold Room)