"The Future Internet research strategy of the EU ICT Programme"

DR. MAX LEMKE - Deputy Head of Unit: New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities

Date: September 1, 2009
Time: 9:45 - 10:45

About Dr. Max Lemke

Dr. Max Lemke is the Deputy Head of Unit for “New Infrastructure Paradigms and Experimental Facilities” in the Directorate General Information Society and Media of the European Commission. In particular, he is responsible for building the European FIRE Future Internet Research and Experimentation Facility.

Since 1995, Max Lemke has worked as scientific officer for the Commission in the domains “High Performance Computing and Networking” in Esprit 4, and “Communication, Computation, Networking” as well as “Trust and Security” in FP5-IST. From 2002 – 2006, as Deputy Head of Unit he was responsible for building anew strategic objective on "Grid Technologies".

Before joining the Commission, Max Lemke has worked in research and industry in Germany, the US, the UK, and Belgium. With a Doctorate in Natural Sciences from the University of Düsseldorf and a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bonn, he has a scientific background in numerical mathematics, parallel computing, and software engineering.

“A Web Science Perspective on the Future Internet”

PROF. DAVID DE ROURE - Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton

Date: September 2, 2009
Time: 09:00 - 10:00

Abstract

Web Science focuses on understanding, designing and developing the technologies and applications that make up the World Wide Web. Such a challenge requires understanding of both human behaviour and technological design, so the science of the Web is a field that requires the attention of both computer scientists and social scientists. This talk will introduce Web Science and discuss some aspects of Service Oriented Architectures from a Web Science perspective, focusing on the challenges of service composition. On the way it will touch on Web 2.0, Semantic Web, Linked Data, mashups and workflows – always suggesting a social as well as a technological perspective. Examples will include the myExperiment social web site for service-oriented science and the Biocatalogue, a community-curated service registry in the Life Sciences.

About David De Roure

David De Roure is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK. A founding member of the School's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group, he leads the e-Research activities and is Director of the Pervasive Systems Centre. David's work focuses on creating new research methods in and between multiple disciplines, particularly through the codesign of new tools. His projects draw on Web 2.0, Semantic Web, workflow and scripting technologies; he pioneered the Semantic Grid initiative and is an advocate of Science 2.0. He is closely involved in UK e-Science and e-Social Science programmes in projects including myExperiment, CombeChem, myGrid, LifeGuide, e-Research South and the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute. David has worked for many years with distributed information systems and distributed programming languages, with leading roles in the Web, hypertext and Grid communities. He is a Scientific Advisory Council member of the Web Science Research Initiative and a Fellow of the British Computer Society.

"How will the networks of today transform into the Future Internet – View from an Operator’s Perspective"

DR. UDO BUB - Co-director of the Innovation Development Laboratory at Deutsche Telekom Laboratories

Date: September 3, 2009
Time: 09:00 - 10:00

Abstract

All network operators are currently transforming their infrastructures towards all-IP. At the same time new architectures and concepts are being elaborated to overcome the long-term deficiencies of the Internet as we know it today. How do network and service providers face these challenges? We will present a number of R&D activities of Deutsche Telekom in the area of Future Internet which address not only technical issues but also socio-economic questions. Committed to open innovation the collaboration with leading research institutes and key equipment manufactures is the basis for our engagement in this area. The participation in the EU project TRILOGY or the collaboration with Stanford University in the development of OpenFlow are good examples for this strategy.

About Dr. Udo Bub

Udo Bub is member of the executive team of Deutsche Telekom Laboratories (since their inception in 2004), where his areas of responsibility include R&D in Human Computer Interaction, ICT Architectures and ICT Infrastructures as well as ICT Security. He is co-heading the Innovation Development laboratory.
In addition to his tasks at T-Labs he has taken over the CEO position of the European Center for Information and Communication Technologies  (EICT) GmbH in 2007, a public private partnership for innovation with current partners Daimler, Deutsche Telekom, Fraunhofer Society, Opera Software, and Technical University of Berlin.
He received both his master's and doctoral degrees in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Technical University of Munich (Dipl.-Ing., Dr.-Ing.) and had held long term research appointments at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh, PA and at Siemens AG's Corporate Technology in Munich.
His research interests are Information Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, and Human Computer Interaction. He is lecturer of ICT Systems Engineering at TU Berlin.
Before taking up his current positions, he had spent six years as a management and technology consultant in the telecommunications industry.