Services Sciences and Engineering - The Intersection of Management and Computing Sciences

Speaker:	Stuart I. Feldman
		Vice President, Computer Science
		IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Title:		"Services Sciences and Engineering - The Intersection
		 of Management and Computing Sciences"

Date:		Wednesday, 7 September 2005

Time:		4:00pm - 5:00pm

Venue:		Lecture Theatre G
		(Chow Tak Sin Lecture Theatre, near lift nos. 25/26)
		HKUST


ABSTRACT:

The economy has shifted radically toward knowledge-based services, yet the
scientific research agenda and university education have not shifted to
match this growth. Sophisticated computing is increasingly having an
impact on the organization and execution of business. Business
opportunities and optimization call for significant computing innovation.
Solutions for significant business problems combine understanding of
business context and process, human capabilities, organizational dynamics,
and hardware and software information technologies. Service-oriented
architectures are an excellent fit to business process models, and to
service-dominated businesses. New unified approaches to modeling software
and business processes are surfacing research problems and important
commercial opportunities.  This talk will address some of these
opportunities and the underlying technical requirements.



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Biography:

Feldman did his academic work (AB, Princeton and PhD, MIT) in astrophysics
and mathematics. He is the Vice President of the ACM (Association for
Computing Machinery) and has been a member of the Board of Directors of
the AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
International) and of the CRA (Computing Research Association). He was
chair of ACM SIGPLAN and founding chair of ACM SIGecom. He has taught
E-Commerce Courses at Yale School of Management and is a Consulting
Professor of Information Technology at Carnegie-Mellon West. Feldman
received the ACM Software System Award in 2003 and the Distinguished
Executive of the Year from the Academy of Management in 2005. He is a
Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM.

He was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager
at Bellcore before joining IBM in mid-1995. He has published research in
software engineering (and was the creator of Make), programming languages,
scientific computing and other areas of computer science. He was also
architect for a large new line of software products at Bellcore.

He is the recipient of the 2003 ACM Software System Award.Feldman joined
IBM in 1995 and is now Vice President, Computer Science in IBM Research.
He is responsible for driving the long term and exploratory worldwide
science strategy in computer science and connected fields such as
mathematics, management sciences, social sciences. He leads programs for
adventurous research and university collaborations, represents computer
science research at senior management levels in Research and in IBM, and
influences national and worldwide computer science policy. He is also the
technical leader of the Research Division solution engineering initiative.
Before that, he was Vice President for On Demand Business Transformation
Strategy in IBM Research, responsible for defining and coordinating
activity in I BM's Research labs worldwide in the areas of business
process integration, management, collaboration, and optimization as well
as for industry-specific knowledge and solutions. His previous IBM
position was Vice President for Internet Technology, responsible for
corporate strategies relating to the future of the Internet, leadership in
new technologies, managing a department that creates experimental
Internet-based applications.