[Colloq] REMINDER: Distinguished Speaker Series, Ian Foster, "Service Oriented Architecture", TODAY, 3pm

[Rachel Kalweit]

College of Computer and Information Science Colloquium
Distinguished Speaker Series
Thursday, January 26, 2006
3:00 pm
Raytheon Amphitheater, Egan Research Center

Speaker:
Ian Foster
Argonne National Laboratory and
University of Chicago

Title:
"Service Oriented Architecture"

Bio:
IAN FOSTER is Associate Division Director in the Mathematics and
Computer Science Division at Argonne National Laboratory, and the Arthur
Holly Compton Distinguished Service Professor at the University of
Chicago. The co-editor with Carl Kesselman of "The Grid: Blueprint for a
New Computing Infrastructure", he is an internationally recognized
researcher and leader in the area of Grid computing. His Distributed
Systems Lab at Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago
is a founding member of the Globus Alliance, the open source community
that develops the Globus Toolkit, the open source software that has
emerged as the de facto standard for Grid computing. Foster is also
Chief Open Source Strategist at Univa Corporation, a company he founded
with other Globus leaders to foster and promote the adoption of Globus
in commercial environments. Foster is a fellow of the British Computer
Society and AAAS. His awards include the GII Next Generation Award, the
Lovelace Medal, and DSc Honoris Causa from the University of Canterbury,
New Zealand.

Host: Gene Cooperman




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