| Microsoft Distinguished Lecture | |
"Perspectives on E-Commerce"
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1
2:30 p.m. Reception & refreshments. 3 p.m. Lecture Room 100, Nedderman Hall |
R. Craig Murphy
Sabre Holdings Chief Technology Officer Dr. Murphy is senior vice president and chief technology officer for Sabre Holdings, a global leader in travel commerce that has more than $2 billion in revenue and 6,500 employees worldwide and is headquartered in Southlake, Texas. He is responsible for Sabre's technology direction and strategic architecture, including core applications delivery, technology investments, and research and development. He received his doctorate from the Colorado School of Mines. |
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"The Event Web"
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 15
2:30 p.m. Reception & refreshments. 3 p.m. Lecture Room 100, Nedderman Hall |
Mani Chandy
California Institute of Technology Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science Dr. Chandy is the Simon Ramo Professor of Computer Science at the California Institute of Technology. He heads the Caltech Infospheres Project, which researches compositional systems. Dr. Chandy works on developing the event Web with application to dealing with crises, algorithms and performance analyses of distributed systems. He formerly held the Regents Chair Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also served as department chair. He has served as a consultant to IBM and Bell Labs. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received his doctorate from M.I.T. |
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| Sensorlogic Distinguished Lecture | |
"Pervasive Computing: Vision and Challenges"
WEDNESDAY, NOV. 19
2:30 p.m. Reception & refreshments. 3 p.m. Lecture Room 100, Nedderman Hall |
Mahadev Satyanarayanan
Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University and Director of Intel Research, Pittsburgh. Dr. Satyanarayanan is the Carnegie Group Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University. He is founding director of Intel Research Pittsburgh, which focuses on information storage in ubiquitous computing environments of the future. He has pioneered research in the field of mobile information access, with one outcome being the Coda File System, which has been incorporated by Microsoft into Windows, and he has had earlier research commercialized by IBM. His research at Carnegie Mellon on the Aura Project is focused on building a distraction-free pervasive computing environment. Dr. Satyanarayanan is the founding editor-in-chief of IEEE Pervasive Computing. He received his doctorate from Carnegie Mellon. |
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| Raytheon Distinguished Lecture | |
"Wireless Communications: Frontiers for the Last Mile"
FRIDAY, FEB. 27
1:30 p.m. Reception & refreshments. 2 p.m. Lecture Room 100, Nedderman Hall |
Theodore S. Rappaport
University of Texas at Austin William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering Dr. Rappaport holds the William and Bettye Nowlin Chair in Engineering at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is the founding director of the Wireless Networking and Communications Group. He has 30 patents issued or pending and has authored and co-authored numerous books in the wireless field. He was recipient of the 1999 Stephen O. Rice Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Communications Society. Dr. Rappaport currently serves on the Technological Advisory Council for the Federal Communications Commission and has been appointed to a National Academy of Science panel to study the future of telecommunications research in the United States. He received his doctorate from Purdue University. |