K. Mani Chandy California Institute of Technology Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science Tuesday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Sense and Respond Systems Sense and respond systems sense, and then respond, to opportunities and threats. A sense and respond platform can be configured to develop specific sense and respond applications. Sense and respond applications arise in homeland security, healthcare, finance, supply chains, energy, environmental protection, security and - most importantly for this talk - the management of IT infrastructure. The CMG community can make a profound impact on the space of sense and respond applications because this community has expertise in the relevant technologies and mathematics: CMG papers deal with measurement of asynchronous events, statistics, probabilistic models, information fusion, and real time. Sense and respond applications are increasingly important to society, and CMG has a major role to play. This talk will survey the field of sense and respond applications; identify applications spaces that are critical for society; survey the technologies and software architectures used in these applications; describe fundamental problems in experimentation, systems design and theory; explore the rate of growth of this space; show how the CMG community's experience is directly relevant; and discuss experience with developing applications from platforms. Dr. Chandy got his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Electrical Engineering, a Masters from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, and a Bachelors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. Dr. Chandy has worked for Honeywell and IBM. From 1970 to 1987, he was in the Computer Science Department of the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as chair. He has been at Caltech since 1987 where he served as executive officer of the Computer Science Department. He has served as a consultant to a number of companies and is a co-founder of iSpheres Corp. Dr. Chandy is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the IEEE Koji Kobayashi Award for Computers and Communication and the A.A. Michelson Award from the Computer Measurement Group and he was a Sherman Fairchild Fellow. Dr. Chandy's research is on distributed computing. His current work is on building an event-directed architecture as a thin layer on top of service-oriented architectures. He is working on sense and respond applications dealing with managing crises. He has published three books and over a hundred papers on distributed computing, verification of concurrent programs, parallel programming languages and performance models of computing and communication systems.

Amy D. Wohl Wohl Associates President of Wohl Associates, Editor and Publisher of Amy D. Wohl's Opinions Wednesday 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM The China Era China is on the rise. Sometime in this century America will need to recognize it as (at least) an economic Super Power. But what does China’s evolution from an enormous, largely agrarian, economy to an international investor, an educational powerhouse, and a manufacturing giant have to do with the business of information processing? The answers are at once complex, disturbing, and exciting. It is one part scary (we’ll loose jobs, even very skilled jobs to Chinese working remotely from the U.S.); one part challenging (they are educating their students much better in science and engineering than we are); and one part empowering (they are eager investors in the U.S. and excited to partner with U.S. firms on projects in China). Don’t just rerun the Indian Outsourcing tapes. In fact, Western companies are already looking to move some manufacturing work out of China, as increased labor costs (and the overhead of doing business remotely) makes them too expensive. Instead, be prepared to look at the facts. We’ll bring lots of facts, war stories, and challenging questions. The Chinese symbol for crisis includes the notion of both danger and opportunity. This session will look at both what a Chinese Powerhouse might demand and of the partnering and collaboration opportunities it will enable. Amy D. Wohl is President of Wohl Associates, a consulting firm located in Narberth, Pennsylvania which consults on new and emerging technology and new market formation. Wohl Associates' current interests include all types of personal and group software, the Internet, and information appliances. She is well known for her past and on-going interests in office software, groupware, and speech processing. The firm provides services on strategic planning, marketing strategy, marketing research, and training to developers of information systems, hardware, and software. A noted expert on the computer market, its products and dynamics, Mrs. Wohl has served as an expert witness and legal consultant on many occasions. Mrs. Wohl is Editor and Publisher of Amy D. Wohl's Opinions, a weekly electronic newsletter. She previously edited The TrendsLetter and The Wohl Report. She also maintains a weblog at http://amywohl.weblogger.com., is a contributing editor to Spectrum Middleware, and a frequent contributor to the trade and general business press on the Internet, software, computing, computer trends, and technology. Mrs. Wohl is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars in the U.S., Canada, Europe, South America, Africa, Asia, and Australia. She is especially well known for her keynotes on the future. She has served as a board member and advisor to several corporations. Currently, she is a principal and advisor to Interactive Intelligence, an Internet Design firm, and a member of the Board of Advisors of Bachow Investments. She also serves as an advisor to a number of new technology start-ups. Mrs. Wohl was named one of the top 100 Women in Computing in 1994. She was program chairman of the first Office Automation Conference. She is past president of the Office Systems Research Association and served on the board of Women in Information Processing. She was the founding president of the Philadelphia Chapter of IWP. She is a member of OSRA, ACM, SIGOA, and SIGPC. Mrs. Wohl is the recipient of the Augusta Ada Lovelace Award from the Association of Women in Computing. Mrs. Wohl received a B.A. in Economics from LaSalle College and an M.A. in Economics from Temple University, where she was an N.D.E.A. Doctoral Fellow. Mrs. Wohl currently teaches in the Masters program in Organizational Dynamics at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been a guest lecturer at many colleges and universities, including the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, Oklahoma State University, Temple University, and the University of California at Berkeley.