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Cloud Futures Workshop 2011

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Thursday, June 2, 2011

Time	Event/Topic		Location
7:45	Transportation from Bellevue Westin Hotel to Microsoft Conference Center (departing every 15 minutes; last bus departs at 8:30)
8:45	Welcome and Conference Logistics
9:00	Keynote \| video The Cloud Will Change Everything—Jim Larus, Microsoft Research eXtreme Computing Group Chair: Dennis Gannon		Cascade
10:00	Break
10:30	Systems 1 \| video Chair: Roger Barga Cloud, HPC, or Hybrid: A Case Study Involving Satellite Image Processing Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia Classical and Iterative MapReduce on Azure Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Data Semantics Aware Clouds for High-Performance Analytics Systems Jun Wang, the University of Central Florida		Cascade
10:30	Education \| video Chair: Arkady Retik Bringing the Cloud to the Classroom Using the Microsoft Imagine Cup James L. Parrish, Jr., University of Arkansas at Little Rock Introducing Cloud Computing into STEM Undergraduate Curriculum Using Microsoft Azure Bina Ramamurthy, University at Buffalo InstantLab—The Cloud as Operating System Teaching Platform Alexander Schmidt and Andreas Polze, Hasso Plattner Institute at University of Potsdam		St. Helens
12:00	Lunch		Rainier
1:00	Keynote \| video Making Sense at Scale with Algorithms, Machines, and People—Michael J. Franklin, AMPLAB Director, University of California, Berkeley Chair: Jim Larus		Cascade
2:00	Systems 2 \| video Chair: Dennis Gannon Relational Data Markets in the Cloud: Challenges and Opportunities Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington Into the Blue: Streaming Data Processing in the Cloud Stephen Wong, Rice University Stork Data Scheduler for Windows Azure Tevfik Kosar, State University of New York (SUNY) at Buffalo		Cascade
2:00	Windows Azure Tutorial, Part 1 \| slides \| video Krishna Kumar, Windows Azure Academic Lead, Microsoft Corporation Chair: Kent Foster		St. Helens
3:30	Break
4:00	Applications 1 \| video Chair: Randy Guthrie Using the Cloud to Model and Manage Large Watershed Systems Jon Goodall, University of South Carolina; Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia Large Scale Prediction of Transcription Factor Binding Sites for Gene Regulation using Cloud Computing Zhengchang Su, University of North Carolina University of Southern California, Clever Transportation Project (USC2T) Barak Fishbain, University of Southern California		Cascade
4:00	Windows Azure Tutorial, Part 2 \| slides \| video Krishna Kumar, Windows Azure Academic Lead; Wenming Ye, Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Chair: Kent Foster		St. Helens
5:30	Transfer to Hotel
6:30	Dinner at Palomino in Bellevue, Washington		Ground level of the Westin Hotel on Bellevue Way

Friday, June 3, 2011

Time	Event/Topic		Location
7:45	Transportation from Bellevue Westin Hotel to Microsoft Conference Center (departing every 15 minutes; last bus departs at 8:30)
8:30	Breakfast		Rainier
9:00	Keynote \| video Inside Windows Azure, Microsoft’s Cloud OS—Mark Russinovich, Technical Fellow, Windows Azure Fabric, Microsoft Corporation Chair: Arkady Retik		Cascade
10:00	Break
10:30	Systems 3 \| video Chair: Yuxiong He Multi-Cloud and Cloud-Desktop Coordination Made Simplified by GXP on Azure Kenjiro Taura and Ting Chen, University of Tokyo Running Large Workflows in the Cloud Paul Watson, Newcastle University Towards Enabling Mid-Scale Geo-Science Experiments Through Microsoft Trident and Windows Azure Eran Chinthaka Withana and Beth Plale, Indiana University		St. Helens
10:30	Applications 2 \| video Chair: Dennis Gannon Network Display and Sharing System for Large Cultural Heritage Objects via Cloud Computing Environments Yasuhide Okamoto, University of Tokyo Deep Natural Language Processing for Improving a Search Engine Infrastructure using Windows Azure Daisuke Kawahara, Kyoto University A Secure Multi-party Collaboration System for Australian Coal Supply Chains Shiping Chen and Chen Wang, CSIRO ICT Centre		Cascade
12:00	Lunch		Rainier
1:00	Applications 3 \| video Chair: Jared Jackson Beekeeping Enters the Cloud James T. Wilkes, Appalachian State University Scaling Document Clustering on the Cloud Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Microsoft Azure: The Ultimate Flexible Enterprise-Level Solution Janet L. Bailey, University of Arkansas at Little Rock		St. Helens
1:00	Security and Software Development \| video Chair: Dennis Crain Risk Assessment and Cloud Strategy Development Barbara Endicott-Popovsky, University of Washington and Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher, Aberystwyth University, Wales Cloud Forensics: an Overview Keyun Ruan, University College Dublin Cloud Based Product Development Joris Poort, Harvard Business School		Cascade
2:30	Break
3:00	Systems 4 (no video available) Chair: Sameh Elnikety Expanding the Horizons of Cloud Computing Beyond the Data Center Jon Weissman and Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota URSA: Scalable Load Balancing and Power Management in Cluster Storage Systems Seung-won Hwang, Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) Achieving Energy Efficient Computing by Jointly Scheduling Services and Batch Jobs in Virtualized Environments Tajana Simunic Rosing, University of California, San Diego		St. Helens
3:00	Applications 4 \| video Chair: Mohamed Fathalla High Throughput, Low Impedance e-Science on Microsoft Azure David Abramson, Monash University Abstractions for Life-Science Applications on Clouds Shantenu Jha, Andre Luckow, Rutgers University The Parallelization of Geoscience Apps at C3L with Azure Craig Mudge, University of Adelaide		Cascade
4:30	Cloud Research Panel (no video available) Chair: Ed Lazowska		Cascade