University of Campinas (Brazil)

 

Semiconductor Research and Development Center, IBM Microelectronics (USA)

 

Dr. Guarin is a Senior Engineer/Scientist at the IBM Microelectronics Semiconductor Research Development Center SRDC in East Fishkill N.Y. He received his BSEE from the “Pontificia Universidad Javeriana”, in Bogotá, Colombia, the M.S.E.E. degree from the University of Arizona, and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University.  His doctoral research studied the Molecular Beam Epitaxial growth of Silicon based alloys for device applications. He has been actively working in microelectronic reliability for 30 years. From 1980 until 1988 he was a member of the Military and Aerospace Operations division of National Semiconductor Corporation where he held positions both in engineering and management. In 1988 he joined the IBM microelectronics division where he has worked in the reliability physics and modeling of Advanced Bipolar, CMOS and Silicon Germanium BiCMOS technologies. He has been the team leader for the qualification of several of IBM’s leading edge CMOS and SiGe technologies.  He holds 8 patents, one trade secret, has published more than 65 papers and given 4 tutorials at the IEEE’s International Reliability Physics Symposium. Dr. Guarín is an IEEE Fellow, Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Electron Device Society, a member of the IEEE EDS Ad.Com and Education Committees.  He is the past Chair for the Electron Devices Society in the IEEE’s MHV Chapter, and past president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers SHPE for the Mid Hudson valley Region.{/slide}

Nelson Luis Saldanha da Fonseca received his Electrical Engineer (1984) and MSc in Computer Science (1987) degrees from The Pontificial Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and the MSc (1993) and Ph.D (1994) degrees in  Computer Engineering from The University of Southern California. He receive the title of  “Livre Docente”  in Computer Networks from the University of Campinas in 1999.
He is a Full Professor at Institute of Computing of The University of Campinas, Campinas - Brazil and has been affiliated to it since 1995. Currently, He is Head of the Computer Systems Department. He was Associate Chair for Graduate Studies. He lectured at Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Trento, Italy (2004 and 2007) and at the University of Pisa (2007). He held Lecturer positions at Pontificial Catholic University (1985 - 1987)  and worked in the Computer Communications group at IBM Rio Scientific Center (1989).
He received the Medal of the Chancelor of the University of Pisa (2007). He is the recipient of the 2003 State University of Campinas Zeferino Vaz award for academic productivity in Computer Science, the Elsevier Computer Network Journal Editor of Year 2001 award, the 1994 University of Southern California International Book award and the Brazilian Computer Society First Thesis and Dissertations award. He is listed in  Marqui's Who is Who in the World, Who's Who in Science and Engineering. His graduate students have received eight awards in Latin America Thesis contests.{/slide}

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HarvardMedical School, Boston (USA).

Monitoring patients in the home and community settings has medical advantages but also potential positive benefits to the environment.  Patients with chronic conditions requiring continuous medical care are no longer bounded to make frequent visits to medical facilities with a potential decrease in pollution due to a decreased use of means of transportation.  Besides, home monitoring diminishes the need for building large clinical facilities, again with a potential decrease in environmental impact.  The aim of this presentation is to present the state of the art in technology suitable remote monitoring of patients in the home and community settings.  The concept of monitoring patients in the home was first proposed more than 50 years ago, when Holter monitoring was introduced (in the late 1940s) and later adopted (in the 1960s) as a clinical tool.  However, technologies to fully enable such vision were lacking and only sporadic and rather obtrusive monitoring techniques were available for several decades.  Over the past decade, we have witnessed a great deal of progress in the field of wearable sensors and systems.  Advances in this field have finally provided the tools to implement and deploy technology with the capabilities required by researchers in the field of patients’ home monitoring.  These technologies provide the tools to achieve early diagnosis of diseases such as congestive heart failure, prevention of chronic conditions such as diabetes, improved clinical management of neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, and the ability to promptly respond to emergency situations such as seizures in patients with epilepsy and cardiac arrest in subjects undergoing cardiovascular monitoring.  Current research efforts are focused on the development of systems enabling clinical applications.  The current focus on developing and deploying wearable systems targeting specific clinical applications has the potential of leading to clinical adoption within the next five to ten years.  Combining home robots and wearable technology is an emerging field of investigation to achieve effective and unobtrusive monitoring of patients in the home.  Merging home robots and wearable technology is expected to enable a new generation of complex systems with the ability of monitoring subjects’ status, facilitate the administration of interventions, and provide an invaluable tool to respond to emergency situations. {/slide}

Paolo Bonato received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy in 1989 and the Ph.D. degree from the Universita` di Roma “La Sapienza” in 1995. He serves as Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA. He is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, HarvardMedical School, Boston, and is a member of the Affiliated Faculty of the Harvard–MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, MA. His current research interests focus on rehabilitation technology with special emphasis on wearable technology and robotics. Dr. Bonato is an Elected Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS) Administrative Committee, and is the Past President of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology. He served as Chair of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems in 2008 and has been a member of this committee since its inception in 2006. Dr. Bonato is the Founding Editor and current Editor in Chief of Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation. He serves as Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. {/slide}

 

Virginia Tech Advanced Res. Inst. (USA)

The concept of the smart grid originated from the desire to make the grid - starting from the power station to the end-use appliance - smarter, safer, reliable and more cost-effective using advanced sensors, communication technologies and distributed computing. A smart grid will look more like the Internet, where information about the state of the grid and its components can be exchanged quickly over large distances. It will also allow integration of new sustainable energy sources, such as wind, solar, off¬shore electricity, etc. There are five attributes of the smart grid that need to work interactively for this concept to be a reality. These are: Technology, Standards, Cyber Security, Policies and Incentives, and Public Awareness. At present there are efforts from various vendors globally to develop technologies which will become building blocks of this grid. At the same time standards are being developed that can make technologies from different vendors interoperable so that many players will be able to participate giving customers a broad choice. At the same time, since much of the data related to the smart grid will reside on the Internet and it will carry personalized information, there are significant concerns about data integrity and privacy. Also, there must be policies and regulations in place that will encourage participation by creating a differential pricing structure for the electricity consumed which will discourage peak load growth. Whether all of these will take root will depend on the end-user finding value in participating in this opportunity. And this will depend on two things – awareness and incentives – which are interrelated. The public must be made aware of the benefits and challenges of participating including up-front investments.{/slide}

Historically, renewable energy sources have been small scale, distributed and close to where people live thus filling the need for on-site sources of electricity. While this market continues to grow in most developing and some industrialized countries, there is now a new market for large-scale non-hydro renewable energy sources in Asia, Europe and North America. In some countries like Denmark, over 10% of the country’s total electricity supply now comes from wind energy. In the US there are proposals to produce 20% of the country’s total electricity needs from wind energy by 2020. In many parts of the United States electricity from wind is cost-competitive with that from coal without any carbon credit. At present, the worldwide generation of electricity from wind exceeds 150,000 MW and countries like Germany, USA, Spain, China and India each has over 10,000 MW of installed wind generation capacity. Due to concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, high cost, lack of availability of cooling water and nuclear spent fuel processing, there is now a serious interest among electric utility planners to consider large-scale (hundreds of megawatts) wind and solar power plants in place of large central station coal and nuclear power plants. Renewable energy sources can fill the need for both stand-alone remote area electricity needs, and large-scale central station power plants. Small scale renewable sources of electricity including solar, wind, biogas and small-scale hydro offer opportunities to provide electricity to the disadvantaged thus allowing them to benefit from electrical lights, televisions, computers, Internet, mobile phones, etc. The commercial, educational, social and healthcare benefits brought in by these technologies to the disadvantaged population in the developing countries is a great hallmark of the late 20th and the early 21st century. On the other hand, due to the investments made and policy support provided in several industrialized countries to reduce carbon emissions from the production of electricity, there is now a robust market for wind and solar energy projects in many countries - both developing and industrialized. This presentation will address such issues and highlight the success stories and future plans for the growth in renewable energy technologies globally.{/slide}

Professor Saifur Rahman is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at Virginia Tech where he is the Joseph R. Loring professor of electrical and computer engineering. He is a Fellow of the IEEE. He is the editor-in-chief of the IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Energy and a member of the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the IEEE.  He is currently serving as the vice president for New Initiatives and Outreach for the IEEE Power and Energy Society (PES). He is a member-at-large of the IEEE-USA Energy Policy Committee. He is a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE PES, and has lectured on smart grid, energy efficient lighting solutions, renewable energy, demand side management, distributed generation and critical infrastructure protection in over 30 countries on all six continents. He received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 1978. His industry and government experience includes work with the Tokyo Electric Power Company in Japan, the Brookhaven National Laboratory in New York, the Carolina Power and Light Company, and consultancy for the World Bank, the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank.{/slide} 

 

IBM Fellow (USA)

During the past few decades the urban population across the world has been growing at an ever increasing accelerated pace.  The growth rate is so large in urban areas that for the first time in history, it now surpasses the rural population.  Although this growth creates enormous challenges to the infrastructure and services that a city must provide, it also provides new opportunities for improvement and economic development. There are technologies today that can fundamentally transform how a city operates and improves the quality of services it provides to its citizens. To keep up with urban growth a city must make smart use of technology to optimize complex systems such as transportation, energy, health, education, etc. Each of these systems must be optimized using real-time sensor data and predictive behavioral models of each of the systems under question.  The ultimate goal for a smarter city is a global optimization at the level of system of systems.  This talk will outline the various ways in which we are taking the first steps in this direction.{/slide}

Cesar Gonzales is an IBM Fellow, IBM’s highest technical honor, and an executive in IBM Research. Until recently he was the executive responsible for all interactions between IBM’s worldwide research labs and its electronics industry clients.  He managed the transfer of hardware and software technology from research laboratories to industry solutions that help solve client business problems. Most significantly he led collaboration projects between IBM Research and IBM clients in many areas of technology and services.  He also served as Chief Technology Officer for the IBM Electronics Industry, having had responsibility for representing IBM in major client events, panels, lectures, and various international events targeting leaders in academia, industry and government.  More recently, he has become involved in developing new business opportunities for the booming wireless communications market using research developed technology. Prior to his executive duties with the electronics industry, Dr. Gonzales participated in the development of the JPEG standard for image compression and was a leader in the development of the ubiquitous MPEG standard for digital video compression.  He is an expert in image and video processing and compression; and his experience spans the development of patented algorithms, chip and system architectures.  He was the leader in the development of several multimedia applications for a number of IBM software and hardware products including: the first commercial implementation of VideoCD software in a personal computer (IBM Aptiva, 1995), the first commercial implementation of MPEG-2 video in a laptop (Thinkpad 760, 1997), semiconductor chips implementing MPEG-2 video decoding and encoding including the first single-chip implementation of MPEG-2 encoding (1998), and full System-On-Chip implementations of full MPEG-2 decoding (transport, video and audio).  The latter products have been sold and deployed in millions of set top boxes for satellite and cable digital TV around the world. In 1995 Gonzales was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology and in 1998 he was designated an IBM Fellow.  He has also been named a Fellow by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and has served as editor of IEEE Transactions for Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. He is currently in the editorial board of ACM’s Computers in Entertainment.  During his participation in the development of MPEG, he served as the US head of delegation to the International Standards Organization MPEG standards committee.  Besides receiving a number of corporate awards from IBM, he has also been recognized with “Outstanding Technical Achievement” awards by the “Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Conference” (HENAAC), the “Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers” (SHPE), and the Bronx Community College in New York.  Recently he received an honorary doctorate from Universidad de Tacna in Peru. Dr. Gonzales is listed as an inventor in more than twenty US patents and has published over 60 technical papers. Dr. Gonzáles received his BS and Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering from Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería en Lima, Perú, and his PhD from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.{/slide}

 

Xun Luo, Ph.D.

FROM AUGMENTED REALITY TO AUGMENTED COMPUTING: A LOOK AT CLOUD-MOBILE CONVERGENCE PARADIGMS

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TRENDS, TECHNOLOGIES AND STANDARDS ACTIVITIES FOR COLLABORATIVE DISPLAYS

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IBM Microelectronics & IEEE GOLD (USA)

We often wonder, who are the engineering and scientific leaders of the 21st century. What technical and leadership skills will they need to develop to innovate creative solutions to solve greater humanitarian challenges? They will be engineers and scientists reflecting the evolution of our professions. “The Engineer of 2020” report says engineers will have a wide range of complementary, nontechnical skills. Society will need them to address “real problems facing mankind”. As engineers and scientists, our future leaders will have to understand the societal impact of their professions, be well-versed in technology and function in global enterprises. They will also have to develop leadership skills to motivate people and organizations to improve the quality of life around the world. {/slide}

Ravi M. Todi received his M.S. degree in Electrical and Mechanical engineering from University of Central Florida in 2004 and 2005 respectively, and his doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering in 2007. His graduate research work was focused on gate stack engineering, with emphasis on binary metal alloys as gate electrode and on high mobility Ge channel devices. His research interest includes semiconductor process integration and device technology for non-conventional CMOS scaling. Since 2007 he is working as Advisory Engineer/Scientist at Semiconductor Research and Development Center at IBM Microelectronics Division focusing on high performance eDRAM integration on 45nm and 22nm SOI logic platforms. Ravi is Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Potentials, an elected member of IEEE-EDS and is an IEEE –EDS Distinguished lecturer.{/slide}

Ken Christensen, Ph.D.

GREEN NETWORKS: THE NEXT STEPS

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A SHORT COURSE ON GREEN NETWORKS: THE STATE OF THE ART

• Energy consumption of ICT and networks (data centers, core, and edge)
• Goal of energy-proportional computing

• Time scales, mechanisms, and policies
• Prediction of idle periods

• Energy Efficient Ethernet (including modeling)
• Power management of switches and routers

• Proxying to enable host sleeping
• Green P2P

• EPA Energy Star
• Climate Savers Computing and others
• Verdiem Surveyor, Cisco Energywise, and others

Ken Christensen is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of South Florida. His work has had direct influence on emerging green networks standards including Energy Efficient Ethernet (IEEE 802.3az) and Proxying Support for Sleep Modes (Ecma TC38-TG4). Ken received his Ph.D. from North Carolina State University in 1991 and was an Advisory Engineer at IBM Research Triangle Park before joining the University of South Florida in 1995. Ken received an NSF CAREER in 1999. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Network Management (Wiley).{/slide}

 

University of Madeira (Portugal) & Carnegie Mellon University (USA).

Moving human-computer interaction off the desktop and into our cities requires new approaches to understanding people and technologies in the built environment. We approach the city as a system, with human, physical and digital components and behaviors. In creating effective and usable urban pervasive computing systems, we need to take into account the patterns of movement and encounter amongst people, locations, and mobile and fixed devices in the city. Advances in mobile and wireless communications have enabled us to detect and record the presence and movement of devices through cities. This paper makes a number of methodological and empirical contributions. We present a toolkit of algorithms and visualization techniques that we have developed to model and make sense of spatial and temporal patterns of mobility, presence and encounter. Applying this toolkit, we provide an analysis of urban Bluetooth data based on a longitudinal dataset containing millions of records associated with more than 70000 unique devices in a city in the UK. Through a novel application of established complex network analysis techniques, we demonstrate a significant finding on the relationship between temporal factors and network structure. Finally, we suggest how our understanding and exploitation of these data may begin to inform the design and use of urban pervasive systems.{/slide}

Vassilis Kostakos is an Assistant Professor in the Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute at the University of Madeira, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Bath. He received an IBM Faculty Award in 2010, and is a Fellow of the Finland Distinguished Professor Programme. His research has been reported by popular media such as the BBC and New Scientist, and he regularly consults on social networking systems. His current projects address security and privacy for the web and situated services, novel sensing techniques for urban transport, sustainability, and modeling of city-scale mobility. His interests include: mobile and pervasive computing, human-computer interaction, social networks, security and privacy, modeling and simulation, epidemics, wireless technologies, and space syntax.{/slide}

 

Arun Somani, Ph.D.

Monitoring the US Power Grid Using Wireless Sensor Networks

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Carlos Andres Peña, Ph.D.

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