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IM 2009: Distinguished Expert Panel


Thursday, June 4, 2009, 4:00PM – 6:00PM
Panel Title: Making Management Matters Matter

Abstract: The theme of IM 2009, “Making Management Scalable, Robust, Cost-effective and Revenue Generating”, points to key issues of a technical and business nature that the field has been trying to address for many years, yet continues to struggle with.ففAt the same time, this has not prevented dramatic progress in the technologies they manage.ف Networks continue to grow, communication services are getting ever more pervasive, and innovation in those services continues to grow. فThe question then arises, which impact does progress in management technology really have on the technology that it manages and its supporting businesses?ف Is the impact merely one of incremental improvements in economics, or is it more profound? If management was more scalable, robust, cost-effective, and revenue generating than it is, what would be the impact on the managed technologies and their adoption? Would we see even more rapid progress, would we see different and more powerful services than we do today, or would there be entirely new classes of applications that would suddenly become feasible?ف In other words, is management a bottleneck?ف On the other hand, is management in reality doing just fine and its challenges mostly imagined?ف In which areas does progress in management really matter, and why?

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Alexander Clemm (panel moderator)فis a systems architect with Cisco, where he leads the technical direction of embedded management for Cisco IOS devices. He has provided technical leadership for many commercial leading-edge network management development, architecture, and engineering efforts from original conception to delivery to the customer.ف Alex has published 30 papers, authored the book Network Management Fundamentals, and has 25 patents issued or pending.ف He is also an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University and was Co-Chair of MANWEEK 2007, DSOM 2007 and Technical Program Co-Chair of IM 2005. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Munich, Germany, and an M.S. Degree from Stanford University.ففف

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John Strassnerفis Director of Autonomic Research, Waterford Institute of Technology, Ireland and a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH), Pohang, South Korea. Previously, he was a Motorola Fellow and Vice President of Autonomic Research at Motorola, فwhere he led work in autonomic computing and other forms of knowledge engineering, including policy management, modeling, ontology, and machine learning and reasoning.ففJohn is the Chairman of the Autonomic Communications Forum and the past Chair of the IEEE SCC41 P1900.5 Working Group on Policy Languages and Architectures for Cognitive Radio. He was also the past chair of the Shared Information and Data model, Policy, and Metamodel working groups of the TeleManagement Forum.

John has published over 207 peer-reviewed conference and journal papers, authored two books, authored chapters of four other books, edited four books, co-edited three journals, and is the lead editor of the Birkhࣩuser autonomic engineering series of books and journals. John received the 2005 Daniel A. Stokesbury memorial award from IEEE/IFIP in network management, and was awarded the Albert Einstein award for technical innovation in the field of autonomics in 2005. He also serves on several Boards of Directors.
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Alan Ganekفis the CTO and VP of Strategy and Technology, Software Group, IBM, leading the strategic direction of IBM’s worldwide software organization. His responsibilities include advanced development methodologies, incubation of innovative technologies, the transformation, integration, and usability of IBM’s middleware across all software brands, competitive analysis, and open standards and open source software. In addition, Alan provides thought leadership around key IBM initiatives such as Smarter Planet, Cloud Computing, and Green computing initiatives for IBM. Before becoming CTO of Software Group, Alan was Chief Technology Officer for IBM Tivoli software.ه As CTO of Tivoli, Alan was responsible for the technology; architecture, strategy, and planning for IBM's Tivoli software brand, the market leader in delivering products and services that help customers manage their information technology deployments.


In 2005, Mr. Ganek received the Albert Einstein Innovation Award from Global Capital Associates for his leadership in establishing the field of Autonomic Computing. He also was recognized as the development leader of an IBM project that received a Technical Emmy Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences.ه Previously, IBM awarded him Outstanding Innovation Awards for his work on Enterprise Systems Architecture/370 and System/390 Parallel Sysplex Design.

Prior to joining the IBM Software Group, Mr. Ganek was responsible for the technical strategy and operations of IBM’s Research Division, the largest private research organization in the Information Technology industry that focuses on research leadership in areas related to information technology as well as exploratory work in science and mathematics. This role entailed developing IBM’s technology outlook for the future as well as the Research division’s strategy, in addition to being responsible for key operational processes such as finance, site management, and information services.
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Joseph L. Hellersteinهis a member of the technical staff at Google in Seattle, Washington, where his work focuses on building a large scale distributed operating system and quality of service issues in the Google Infrastructure. Prior to joining Google in 2008, he was a Principal Architect at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington where he contributed to .NET threading and multicore. From 1984-2006, Dr. Hellerstein was a senior manager and researcher and manager at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne, New York, where he founded the Adaptive Systems Department. He has also been an adjunct professor at Columbia University in New York City and the University of Washington in Seattle.

ه Dr.ه Hellerstein received هhis Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles, and has authored or co-authored approximately 100 peer-reviewed articles, an Addison-Wesley book on expert systems, and a Wiley book entitled "Feedback Control of Computing Systems." Most recently, he received the IEEE/IFIP Stokesberry Award for outstanding contributions to network, systems, and service management.
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Larry Bernsteinهis an expert in software engineering and computer networking. Heه teaches graduate and undergraduate Software Engineering at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ. His research interest is in Trustworthy Software.ه He is a sometime software expert witness. He completed consulting assignments for companies in the area of software process improvement and was an expert witness in arbitration and patent infringement cases. He has worked with Coopers-Price Waterhouse's Technology Center for several clients. He is a distinguished speaker on Trustworthy Software (www.computer.org) of the IEEE Computer and Communications Society, a member of the Board of the Center for National Software Studies (www.cnsoftware.org), and Director of the NJ Center for Software Engineering (www.njcse.org).

He had a 35-year career at Bell Laboratories managing large software projects. At Bell Labs, he became a Chief Technical Officer of the Operations Systems Business Unit and an Executive Director. In parallel with these Bell Labs positions, he was the Operations Systems Vice President of AT&T Network Systems from 1992-1996. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE) and a Fellow of the leading software organization, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). He is a member of the Russian Information Academy, and a visiting Associate of University of Southern California's Center for Software Engineering. He is a member of the honor societies Tau Beta Pi and Eta Kappa Nu and was awarded the coveted Bell South “Eagle” for seminal contributions to their automatic service provisioning systems.

Mr. Bernstein has eight software patents, given 53 talks, published two books, and has written 70 articles on software engineering. The IEEE selected two of his articles for inclusion in best paper compendiums.
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George Pavlou holds a Diploma (MEng equivalent) in Electrical & Mechanical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL). Before re-joining University College London - this time as Professor of Communication Networks in the Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering - in the beginning of 2008, he was Professor at Surrey leading research activities in networking and network/service management for ten years. In both Surrey and UCL, he established and led highly successful research teams.فHis research interests focus on networking, network management and service engineering, including aspects such as network dimensioning, traffic engineering, quality of service management, ad hoc/mesh/sensor networks, policy-based systems, autonomic networking, multimedia service control, and object-oriented communications middleware.

فProf. Pavlou is on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, the IEEE Communications, the IEEE Communication Surveys & Tutorials and the Springer Journal of Network and System Management. Seeفhttp://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/G.Pavlou/ for more details and selected publications.
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