Interactive and Fault-tolerant Data Analytics in the Cloud | Cloud Computing for Chemical Property Prediction | Geoinformatics Workflows: Making Cloud Computing an Indispensible Asset

  1. Interactive and Fault-tolerant Data Analytics in the Cloud – Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington
  2. Cloud Computing for Chemical Property Prediction – Paul Watson, Newcastle University
  3. Geoinformatics Workflows: Making Cloud Computing an Indispensible Asset – Beth Plale, Indiana University

Speaker Details

Magdalena Balazinska is an assistant professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the University of Washington. She received a PhD from MIT in February 2006 and was selected as one of five Microsoft New Faculty Fellows in 2007. Magdalena’s research interests are broadly in the fields of databases and distributed systems. She is currently working on Moirae, a system that integrates historical information into continuous monitoring engines, and the RFID Ecosystem, a system for managing RFID data, detecting probabilistic events from that data, and studying building-scale RFID deployments.

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.

Date:
Speakers:
Magdalena Balazinska, Paul Watson, and Sorav Bansal
Affiliation:
Cloud Futures 2010