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Invited talks at EDOC
2008
Speakers' Profiles
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Dean
Jacobs
Chief Development Architect
SAP AG
Dean Jacobs received his Ph.D. in
Computer Science from Cornell University in 1985. He then served on the
faculty
of the Computer Science Department at the University of Southern
California, where he studied distributed systems, databases, and
programming languages.
When
the Internet began to get widespread commercial use, Dr Jacobs joined
the company WebLogic, which was later purchased by BEA Systems. There,
he developed the clustering and caching infrastructure for WebLogic
Application Server, for which he holds thirteen patents. Dr Jacobs then
joined Salesforce.com, where he helped to develop a highly-scalable,
multi-tenant infrastructure for Software as a Service. Currently, Dr
Jacobs is a Chief Development Architect at SAP, where he is doing
research on SaaS and supporting development of Business ByDesign.
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Andrew
Watson
Vice President & Technical
Director
Object Management Group
Andrew has overall responsibility
for OMG's technology adoption process, and also chairs the Architecture
Board, the group of distinguished technical contributors from OMG
member organisations which oversees the technical consistency of OMG's
specifications.
In previous lives Andrew researched distributed object
type systems, wrote Lisp compilers and helped improve software
engineering practices at large multi-nationals (but not all at the same
time). He spends his spare time skiing down, gliding around or walking
up mountains.
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Dr
Howard Foster
Distributed Software Engineering Group
Department of Computing Imperial
College London
Howard Foster is currently a Research Fellow
with the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research
interests include services, compositions, choreography and model-based
verification and validation techniques. He is also actively working in
the area of software self-management and behavioural synthesis of
software components. He obtained his PhD in 2006 at Imperial College
London and has over 10 years industrial experience as an IT consultant
for leading Business and IT Professional Service organizations.
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Pradeep
Ray
Director, Asia-Pacific ubiquitous Healthcare research Centre (APuHC),
University of New South Wales, Sydney (Australia)
Pradeep Ray is a Senior Member of the
Academic staff at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He has
been the Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Enterprise Networking
(EntNet) for 2002-2004 (currently a member of the Advisory Committee of
EntNet) and the founder of IEEE Healthcom that is now the forum of
discussions for the IEEE/ITU-D/WHO initiatives on E-Health and M-Health
(see www.ehealthcom.org). Pradeep is now the Vice Chair of eHealth
Subcommittee at IEEE Communication Society. The President of IEEE
Communication Society has nominated Pradeep as an IEEE global
spokesperson on Telemedicine and Healthcare Informatics as part of the
IEEE International Visibility Initiative from 2008. As a member of
EntNet executive between 1998-2004, Pradeep helped launch a number of
multidisciplinary, international events, such as EntNet@SUPERCOMM,
Financecom and Healthcom. He has been leading a number of collaborative
research projects with reputed international Research and Industrial
Organizations in Europe, North America and Asia. More details are
available at Pradeep’s home page (www.apuhc.org/pradeep).
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Prof.
Dr. Gregor Engels, University Paderborn and sd&m Research,
Munich
Gregor Engels holds the chair for
information systems at the University of Paderborn (Germany) since
1997. He heads the s-lab (Software Quality Lab), a
public-private-partnership institute with 8 industrial partners at the
University of Paderborn. Since 2005, he is scientific director of the
research department of sd&m AG, Munich (Germany), a software
and system house with 1,600 employed software engineers. His interests
are object-oriented modelling techniques, software architectures,
quality assurance techniques, as well as technology transfer approaches
bridging the gap between conceptual scientific results and industrial
requirements. He has published more than 150 scientific contributions.
Recently, he has published together with several co-authors a book on
Quasar Enterprise, the sd&m approach towards service-oriented
architectures for application landscapes.
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