Dr.Ruay-Shiung Chang

Cloud Computing, Social Networks, and Big Data – Trends and Traps

Abstract

    Cloud computing brings a new era of computer and network applications. Information and content creation, management, and dissemination evolve from some elites’ game to the general public. Everyone is now a consumer and also a producer of information and content. One of the significant changes cloud computing brought is social networks. Social networks enable everyone to generate information and to share. The ripple effect is big data! Everyday exabytes of data are generated. To handle such tremendous amount of data is not easy let alone deduce intelligence from it.

    Therefore, cloud computing, social networks and big data are closely related and connected. Related issues are all very complex. Developments in one technology will affect others deeply. In this talk we will discuss the future trends of these three areas and outline some pitfalls to be watched out.

    Ruay-Shiung Chang received his B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1980 and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan in 1988. From 1988 to 1992, Dr. Chang worked for the Chung Shan Institute of Science and Technology (CSIST), the major research body of the Ministry of Defense, Taiwan, as a research scientist.

    After leaving CSIST, Dr. Chang joined the Department of Information Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology (NTUST) as an associate professor. In NTUST, Dr. Chang research focused on the design and development of network management system and on the Internet. At that time, the Internet was on the infant stage. But Dr. Chang saw its potential and wrote three articles to introduce the Internet status in Taiwan, China, and Japan, which were published in IEEE Internet Computing Magazine 1997.

    Dr. Chang also served actively for many volunteer jobs in the academic field. He organized the 14th Workshop for Discrete Math and Computing Theory, held in NTUST. He also served as the program committee many times for the National Computer Symposium and the International Computer Symposium, the two most important annual conferences in Taiwan for the computing field. He published his first review article for ACM Computing Reviews in 1994. Since then, he has published more than 100 review articles in ACM Computing Reviews.

    In 1998, Dr. Chang joined the Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Dong Hwa University (NDHU) and served as the chairperson. In his three years’ tenure, he strengthened the research activities of the department, enriched the faculty lineup, and successfully established the Ph.D. program of the department.

    Due to his excellent performance in the department chair, Dr. Chang was promoted and appointed as the Dean of Academic Affairs (Provost) of NDHU in February 2002. In this position, he successfully promoted the academic standards of the university. With a fine and detailed proposal, Dr. Chang also helped to acquire the Teaching Excellence Project for NDHU from the Ministry of Education, Taiwan. Out of a total of 76 Higher Education Universities, only 13 were granted this project. With this distinguished service, Dr. Chang was appointed as the Vice President of the University in February 2006.

    Because of his excellent academic credentials and contributions, Dr. Chang was selected as the President of Taiwan Hospitality and Tourism College in August, 2012, a 4-year higher education institute specialized in Hospitality and Tourism. In April 2014, Dr. Chang was elected as the President of National Taipei University of Business.

    Besides academic career, Dr. Chang is also very active in serving the academics in particular and other fields in general. He is a founding and permanent member of the Institute of Information and Computing Machinery of Taiwan. From 2004 to 2007, he served on the advisory council of the Public Interest Registry (www.pir.org). From 2005, he serves as the vice chair of ACM Taipei Chapter. He is also on the IASTED technical committee on the web, the Internet, and multimedia and IASTED technical committee on Telecommunications. Furthermore, Dr. Chang serves on the technical program committee for many international conferences, including International Communication Conference, International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing conference, Grid and Pervasive Computing conference, International conference on Pervasive Computing, and so on.

    Dr. Chang supervises more than 50 master students and 10 Ph.D. students to graduation. He also publishes actively in many international journals and conferences. For his contribution, Dr. Chang received the Outstanding Information Technology Elite Award from the Taiwan's Information Month Committee in 2009.

    His research interests include Internet, wireless networks, RFID and cloud computing. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal papers and numerous international conference papers. He has been an editor for European Transactions on Telecommunications, International Journal of Internet Protocol Technology, Journal of Internet Technology, and so on. He also serves in the international advisory board for International Journal of Handheld Computing Research (IJHCR) and International Journal of Computational Science and engineering. Dr. Chang is the general chairs of 2010 International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing and 2010 E-Learning Forum Asia. He also speaks frequently as a plenary speaker in international conferences.

Prof.Dr.Chidchanok Lursinsap

Faculty of Science, Chulalongkorn University

50 Years of Moore’s Law

    In 1965, Gordon Moore made a prediction that would set the pace for our modern digital revolution. From careful observation of an emerging trend, Moore extrapolated that computing would dramatically increase in power, and decrease in relative cost, at an exponential pace.

The insight, known as Moore’s Law, became the golden rule for the electronics industry, and a springboard for innovation. As a intel co-founder, Gordon paved the path for Intel to make the ever faster, smaller, more affordable transistors that drive our modern tools and toys. Even 50 years later, the lasting impact and benefits are felt in many ways.

Minoru Okadap

Graduate School of Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology

In-Body Positioning for Surgery Support System

Abstract

    The positioning system inside the human body is efficient for improving medical treatment.

The current progress in the sophisticated imaging technologies such as computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enable us to find a tumor with a size of less than 10mm. It is, however, sometimes difficult to determine its position during surgery operation due to the deformation of organs. We need a surgical marking system to determine the correct tumor position.

A capsule endoscopy is an another application for in-body positioning systems. Although the capsule endoscopy is capable of diagnosing a disease in the small intestine, we can not point out the position at which it takes the diagnostic image.

We have developed an RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)-based surgical marking system. The miniature RFID tags are implanted near the target tumor during the diagnosis phase. The operator can determine the position of the implanted RFID tags by specially designed sensor antenna. The target RFID tags are moving due to internal organ motion. We have developed a particle filter assisted method for tracking the target RFID tags.

In this speech, I will introduce research and development of in-body positioning techniques for medical application.

Thomas Goh

Principal Cloud Consultant, Hewlett Packard Asia Pacific & Japan

New Style Of Business with Cloud Management, Services and Applications

Biography

    Thomas has been in the IT industry for 15 years working for Start-ups and large MNCs. Prior to joining HP, he co-founded Kibin Labs, which developed its own OpenStack distribution and provided consulting services for OpenStack. He was a principle consultant and engineer for CloudScaling, where he helped build one of Asia’s largest public and private clouds for KT (Korea Telecoms). He is a seasoned engineer with a broad range of skills including cloud architecture, operating systems, software development, automation, configuration management, storage and networking. He has worked many years in the US, Singapore and Korea. He is an avid open source evangelist and runs the Singapore Linux Meetup Group.

Jarut Nakaramaleerat

Cisco Systems (Thailand) Ltd.

Big Data and Cloud in IoE era

   Thinking Big! Big data presents a powerful tool to help enterprises become more aware, predictive, and agile. The competitive environment will become more complex as big data grows. So time-to-market of analytics solutions is of the essence. The emerging Internet of Everything(IoE) market transition is enabling billions of connections between people, processes, and things, and each of these connections will be able to produce data.

Jarut Nakaramaleerat received B.Eng. degree and MSc. IT from King Mongkut’s Univesity of Technology Thonburi in 2004.

Ryan Kuan

Email : ryan.kuan@my.ibm.com
IBM Senior Cloud Advisor

Certified TOGAF9, ITIL V3 Expert, PRINCE2 co-author of Hybrid Cloud

   Ryan Kuan is a passionate IT professional with 23 years of experience in Information Management, Enterprise Application and Infrastructure Management. Ryan joined IBM in 1997 and has worked in a number of architecture roles in Software Group and GTS. He joined us from the recent role as an Infrastructure Architect in GTS ASEAN IT Strategy and Architecture team, working with clients in Banking, Telecommunication and Public industry in Infrastructure Strategy consulting engagements.

Ryan’s involvement with Cloud started in 2009 evangelizing IBM SmartCloud solutions across ASEAN, and since then he progressed to collaborate across IBM globally in various Cloud initiatives such as CCRA Hybrid Cloud, and Solution Architectures for the Cloud studies. His most complex cloud engagement was the Virtual Private Cloud project in which he led the solution design for a multi-tenant service provider cloud solution with automated tenant infrastructure provisioning for Telekom Malaysia.

Asst.Prof.Chintan Bhatt

Internet of Things / Machine Learning in Big Data

U & P U Patel Department of Computer Engineering, Chandubhai S. Patel Institute of Technology, Charotar University of Science And Technology (CHARUSAT), Changa-388421, Gujarat, INDIA.

http://www.charusat.ac.in

https://sites.google.com/a/ecchanga.ac.in/chintan/

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)