Panel on Applications for the Cloud

Panel on Applications for the Cloud

Speaker Details

Paul Watson is Professor of Computer Science at Newcastle University (UK) and Director of the North East Regional e-Science Centre. He graduated in 1983 with a BSc in Computer Engineering from Manchester University, followed by a PhD in 1986. In the 80s, as a Lecturer at Manchester University, he was a designer of the Alvey Flagship and Esprit EDS parallel systems. In 1990 he moved to industry, working for ICL as a system designer of the Goldrush MegaServer parallel database server, which was released as a product in 1994.In August 1995 he moved to Newcastle University, where he is/has been an investigator on research projects worth approximately $20M. His research has been focussed on parallel and distributed systems: in particular on database servers. In recent years his work has focussed on e-science, especially on methods of accessing and integrating large amounts of data held in distributed databases.In total, he has authored over forty refereed publications and three patents. He is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the British Computer Society, and a member of the UK Computing Research Committee.

Dr. Bertrand Meyer is professor of software engineering at ETH Zurich and Chief Architect of Eiffel Software. He is the author of several books including “Object-Oriented Software Construction” and “Introduction to the Theory of Programming Languages.”

Marty A. Humphrey received the Bachelor of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1986 and Master of Science degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1988 from Clarkson University, Potsdam, NY, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Massachusetts in 1996. From 1998 to the present, he has been with the Department of Computer Science at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA where he was first a Research Assistant Professor and is currently (2002-) an Assistant Professor. His areas of research include many aspects of Grid Computing, including security, programming models, performance, Grid testing, and Grid usability. He is active in the Global Grid Forum, where he recently completed a term on the GGF Steering Committee.

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Date:
Speakers:
Paul Watson, Bertrand Meyer, Marty Humphrey, Savas Parastatidis, Roger Barga, and Rob Gillen
Affiliation:
Cloud Futures 2010