WORLDCOMP'12 Keynote Lectures, Invited Talks, & Panel Discussions

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.

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 Click Here for details

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 Click Here for details

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) Click Here for details

• 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 Click Here for details

  
  
• 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)