National Grid Distinguished Speaker Series

Dr. Carl Kesselman
USC/Information Sciences Institute

15 May 2006 (Monday)
1600 hours @ Conference Hall 2
School of Accountancy, SMU

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Systems Level Science and the Role of Cyberinfrastructure

Abstract

The emergence of eScience or Cyberinfrastructure can have a profound impact on the scale and breadth of scientific inquiry. By flexibly combining distributed networks, computers, storage, databases, services and instruments, disciplines such as oceanography, geosciences, high-energy physics and biology are starting to take a systems oriented approach to understanding a broad range of phenomena. We see a new mode of science emerging, based on distributed, computationally enabled collaborations: systems level science. Such system level explorations by their nature require a broad range of skill sets, participants and resources.

Dr. Kesselman willl introduce the ideas of systems science and explore the types of information technology infrastructure required to support this type of distributed, collaborative scientific exploration. In particular, he will focus on the mechanisms needed to create and operate distributed virtual communities within the context of our information technology infrastructure.

Biodata

Dr. Carl Kesselman is Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kesselman’s current research interests are all aspects of Grid computing, including basic infrastructure, security, resource management, high-level services and Grid applications. He is the author of many significant papers in the field. Together with Dr. Ian Foster, he co-leads the Globus Project™, one of the leading Grid research projects. The Globus project has developed the Globus Toolkit®, the de facto standard for Grid computing. Dr. Kesselman received the 1997 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Internet award, the 2002 R&D 100 award, the 2002 R&D Editors choice award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the 2002 Ada Lovelace Medal from the British Computing Society for significant contributions to information technology. Along with his colleagues Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke, he was named one of the top 10 innovators of 2002 by InfoWorld Magazine. In 2003, he and Dr. Foster were named by MIT Technology Review as the creators of one of the "10 technologies that will change the world." In 2006 Dr. Kesselman will receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.

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This lecture series is organized by the National Grid Office.

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