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Cloud Futures Workshop 2012
May 7–8, 2012 | Berkeley, California, United States

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Monday, May 7, 2012

Time	Event/Topic	Location
8:00	Bus transportation from the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Berkeley Marina to Clark-Kerr Campus
8:30	Registration and pastries/coffee
8:45–9:00	Welcome from conference organizers \| slides	Krutch Theatre
9:00–10:00	Keynote \| Science in the Cloud \| slides \| video Speaker: Joseph Hellerstein, Manager Big Science, Google Chair: Juan Vargas
10:00–10:30	Break
10:30–12:00	Plenary Session \| video Chair: Dennis Gannon 10:30–11:00 Advancing Declarative Query for Data-Intensive Science in the Cloud \| slides Speaker: Bill Howe, University of Washington 11:00–11:30 Programming Paradigms for Technical Computing on Clouds and Supercomputers \| slides Speaker: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Co-author: Dennis Gannon, Microsoft 11:30–12:00 Cloud Computing for Fundamental Spatial Operations on Polygonal GIS Data \| slides Speaker: Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University Co-authors: Dinesh Agarwal, Satish Puri, Xi He, Georgia State University	Krutch Theatre
12:00–2:00	Lunch: Poster Session Managing Cloud-based Photo Albums by Mobile-based Intention Composition Presenter: Winston Hsu, National Taiwan University Co-authors: Yu-Heng Lei, Yan-Ying Chen, Bor-Chun Chen, National Taiwan University Cloud Based Real-Time Collaborative Filtering for Item-Item Recommendations Presenter: Rafael Pereira, Globo.com Co-author: Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio Producing Realistic Earthquake Shake Maps Using Cloud Computing: A Cloud Implementation of a Stochastic Simulation Approach to Compute Expected Ground Motions for Strong Earthquakes Presenter: Andreas Skarlatoudis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Co-authors: Costas Papazachos, George Spyrou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Leveraging the Power of the Cloud to Create a Marketplace for Crowd-Sourcing of Personal Data Presenter: Dominic Price, University of Nottingham	Room 102
2:00–3:30	Session 1A: Education \| video Chair: Arkady Retik 2:00–2:30 InstantLab 2.0 – A Platform for Operating System Experiments on Public Cloud Infrastructure \| slides Speakers: Andreas Polze and Christian Neuhaus, University of Potsdam Co-authors: Rehab Alnemr, Lysann Kessler and Frank Schlegel, University of Potsdam 2:30–3:00 Case Study on Cloud Computing Infusion at a Leading Tertiary Institution in Singapore \| slides Speaker: Choong Wu Gary Lim, Nanyang Polytechnic 3:00–3:30 Teaching Web-Scale Data Management Using Microsoft Azure: POSTECH Experiences \| slides Speaker: Seung-won Hwang, Pohang University of Science and Technology	Krutch Theatre
	Session 1B: Life Sciences \| video Chair: Juan Vargas 2:00–2:30 A-Brain: Using the Cloud to Understand the Impact of Genetic Variability on the Brain \| slides Speaker: Radu Tudoran, INRIA Rennes Co-authors: Alexandru Costan, Benoit Da Mota, Gabriel Antoniu and Bertrand Thirion, INRIA Rennes and Saclay 2:30–3:00 Very Large Scale Operon Predictions via Comparative Genomics \| slides Speaker: Ehsan Tabari, UNC Charlotte Co-author: ZhengChang Su, UNC Charlotte 3:00–3:30 Fast Exploration of the QSAR Model Space with e-Science Central and Windows Azure \| slides Speaker: Simon Woodman, Newcastle University Co-authors: Jacek Cala, Hugo Hiden, Paul Watson, Newcastle University	Room 104
3:30–4:00	Break
4:00–5:30	Session 1C: Interactive Services \| video Chair: Kent Foster 4:00–4:30 3-D Remote Collaboration Framework for Virtual Cultural Heritage \| slides Speaker: Yasuhide Okamoto, University of California, Berkeley Co-authors: Gregorij Kurillo, Ruzena Bajcsy University of California, Berkeley; Takeshi Oishi, Katsushi Ikeuchi, University of Tokyo 4:30–5:00 Interactive 3-D Services Over Windows Azure \| slides Speaker: Lukas Kencl, Czech Technical University, Prague Co-author: Jiri Danihelka, Czech Technical University, Prague 5:00–5:30 Microsoft Azure and the Kinect Join the World of Telemedicine to Save Lives \| slides Speaker: Janet Bailey, University of Arkansas Co-authors: Aaron Rothberg, University of Arkansas; Bradley Jensen, Microsoft	Krutch Theatre
	Session 1D: Environmental Applications \| video Chair: Dennis Gannon 4:00–4:30 Cloud-Based Exploration of Complex Ecosystems for Science, Education and Entertainment \| slides Speaker: Neo Martinez, Pacific Ecoinformatics Lab Co-authors: Ilmi Yoon, Sangyuk Yoon, Gary Ng, Hunvil Rodrigues, Sonal Mahajan, San Francisco State University 4:30–5:00 Cloud Computing as a Cyber-Infrastructure for Mass Customization and Collaboration \| slides Speaker: Kwa-Sur Tam, Virginia Tech 5:00–5:30 Green Prefab: Civil Engineering Hub in Microsoft Windows Azure \| slides Speaker: Furio Barzon, Collaboratorio, Italy	Room 104
6:00–8:00	Dinner	Lawrence Hall of Science

Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Time

Event/Topic

Location

8:00

Bus transportation from the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Berkeley Marina to Clark-Kerr Campus

8:30

Registration and pastries/coffee

9:00–10:00

Keynote | Large Scale Cloud Computing: Opportunities and Challenges | slides | video

Speaker: Yousef Khalidi, Distinguished Engineer, Microsoft Corporation

Chair: Dennis Gannon

Krutch Theatre

10:00–10:30

Break

10:30–12:00

Plenary Session | video

Chair: Dennis Gannon

10:30–11:00 Vision Paper: Towards an Understanding of the Limits of Map-Reduce Computation | slides
Speaker: Semih Salihogluz, Stanford University
Co-authors: Foto Afrati, National Technical University Athens; Anish Das Sarma, Google Research; Jeffrey D. Ullman, Stanford University
11:00–11:30 Twister4Azure: Parallel Data Analytics on Azure | slides
Speaker: Judy Qiu, Indiana University
Co-author: Thilina Gunarathne, Indiana University
11:30–12:00 CumuloNimbo: Parallel-Distributed Transactional Processing | slides
Speaker: Ricardo Jiménez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Co-authors: Marta Patiño-Martínez, Iván Brondino, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid; José Pereira, Rui Oliveira, Ricardo Vilaça, University Minho; Bettina Kemme, Yousuf Ahmad, McGill University

Krutch Theatre

12:00–2:00

Lunch

Room 102

2:00–3:30

Session 2A: Social and Mobile Services | video

Chair: Steve Yamashiro

2:00–2:30 An Efficient Meet-Up Mechanism by Mashing-up Social and Mobile Clouds | slides
Speaker: Li-Chun Wang, National Chiao Tung University
Co-authors: Chia-Yu Lin, Yu-Jia Chen, Yu-Chee Tseng, National Chiao Tung University
2:30–3:00 Scalable, Secure Analysis of Social Sciences Data on the Azure Platform | slides
Speaker: Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California
Co-authors: Litao Den, Alok Kumbhare, Mark Redekopp, Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California
3:00–3:30 Remote Software Service for Mobile Clients Leveraging Cloud Computing | slides
Speaker: Chunming Hu, Beihang University
Co-authors: Jianxin Li, Weiren Yu, Beihang University

Krutch Theatre

Session 2B: Computational Models and Applications | video

Chair: Dennis Gannon

2:00–2:30 Enabling Cloud Interoperability with COMPSs | slides
Speaker: Daniele Lezzi, Barcelona Supercomputer Center
Co-authors: Fabrizio Marozzo, Francesc Lordan, Roger Rafanell, Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputer Center; Domenico Talia, University of Calabria
2:30–3:00 McCloud: Monte Carlo Service in Windows Azure | slides
Speaker: Rafael Nasser, PUC-Rio
Co-authors: Karin Breitman, Rubens Sampaio, Americo Cunha, Helio Vieira, PUC-Rio
3:00–3:30 Experiences Using Windows Azure to Calibrate Watershed Models | slides
Speaker: Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
Co-authors: Norm Beekwilder, University of Virginia; Jon Goodall, Mehmet Ercan, University of South Carolina

Room 104

3:30–4:00

Break

4:00–5:30

Panel Session | Big Data on Campus: Addressing the Challenges and Opportunities Across Domains | video

Speakers: Cathryn Carson, D-lab; AnnaLee Saxenian, UC Berkeley; Arie Shoshani, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory; Dennis Gannon, Microsoft
Chair: Michael Franklin

Krutch Theatre

5:30

Closing