Cloud Computing-the New Face of Computing-Promises and Challenges

9th IEEE/NATEA Annual Conference
2008 New Frontiers in Computing

Date: July 19, 2008 (Saturday)
 Location: Cubberley Auditorium at Stanford University
Sponsors:

IEEE Computer Society - Santa Clara Valley Chapter
IEEE Stanford - Student Chapter
North America Taiwanese Engineers' Association

Abstract:

The joint IEEE-NATEA conference on an emerging technology is aimed to provide IEEE and NATEA members with an inexpensive solid overview of a technology that may affect their work and careers in the near future. This annual conference series have been traditionally held at Stanford University on a Saturday.

This year's conference is entitled "Cloud Computing-the New Face of Computing-Promises and Challenges.?

Cloud Computing denotes the latest trend in application development for Internet services, relying on clouds of servers to handle tasks that used to be managed by individual machines. With Cloud Computing, developers take important services, such as email, calendars, and word processing, and host them entirely online, powered by a vast array (or cloud) of interdependent commodity servers. Cloud Computing presents advantages for organizations seeking to centralize the management of software and data storage, with guarantees on reliability and security for their users. Recently, we have seen many efforts of the commercialization of the cloud, such as Amazon's EC2/S3/SimpleDB, Google's App Engine, Microsoft's SQL Server data services and IBM's "Blue Cloud" service. At the same time, open source projects such as Hadoop and ZooKeeper offer various software components that are essential for building a cloud infrastructure. We hope to bring together eminent researchers and practitioners from key research labs, companies, and open source communities to give us a quick overview of cloud computing. In addition, these speakers will present their views on the opportunities and challenges of cloud computing, either from technology aspect or business aspect.

Agenda:

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks, Organizers (IEEE CS, Stanford IEEE and NATEA)

09:15-10:00 Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Almaden Research, Keynote Talk, "Impact of Cloud Computing on Emerging Software System Architecture and Solutions", abstract

10:00-10:45 Jimmy Lin, University of Maryland at College Park, "Scalable Text Processing with MapReduce", abstract slides pdf

10:45-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Jim Rivera, Salesforce.com, "Platform as a Service: Changing the Economics of Innovation", abstract slides pdf

11:30-12:00 Joydeep Sen Sarma and Ashish Thusoo, Facebook, "Hive: Datawarehousing and Analytics on Hadoop," abstract slides pdf

12:00-01:00 Lunch Break (light lunch will be provided by the conference)

01:00-01:30 Hairong Kuang, Yahoo, "Take an internal look at Hadoop", abstract slides pdf

01:30-02:00 Mano Marks, Google, "App Engine: Building a Scalable Web Application on Google's infrastructure", abstract slides pdf

02:00-02:30 Kevin Beyer, IBM Almaden Research, "Jaql: Querying JSON data on Hadoop", abstract slides pdf

02:30-02:45 Coffee Break

02:45-03:15 Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research in Silicon Valley, "DryadLINQ - a language for data-parallel computation on computer clusters", abstract slides pdf

03:15-03:45 Jinesh Varia, Evangelist, Amazon Web Services, "Cloud Architectures - New way to design architectures by building it in the cloud", abstract pdf

Registration:
$65 for regular
$60 for members
$30 for students/unemployed
Registration is closed
Where is Cubberley Auditorium?
Cubberley Auditorium is in Stanford's School of Education building (485 Lasuen Mall). Please note that the the central part of campus is pedestrian and bicycle only. Click here to see the building on a Stanford map.
Where do I park?
It is difficult to find parking on Stanford's campus. We recommend parking in the new Parking Structure 6 (560 Wilbur Way) and walking over to Cubberley Auditorium. Parking is free on weekends. Please park in spaces marked 'A', 'C', or 'Visitor'. General directions are provided below. 
US-101N
1. Head northwest on US-101 N        
2. Take exit 402 to merge onto Oregon Expy        
3. Slight right at Page Mill Rd        
4. Turn right at El Camino Real
5. Turn left at Park Blvd / Serra St
6. Continue on Serra St
7. Turn left at Campus Dr E
8. Turn right at Bowdoin Ln and follow signs for Parking Structure 6
US-101S
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2. Take exit 404B for Willow Rd W        
3. Merge onto Willow Rd        
4. Turn left at Middlefield Rd        
5. Turn right at University Ave        
6. Continue on Palm Dr
7. Turn left at Campus Dr E and continue pass Escondido Rd
8. Turn right at Bowdoin Ln and follow signs for Parking Structure 6
I-280 N
1. Head northwest on I-280 N        
2. Take the exit toward Palo Alto        
3. Merge onto Page Mill Rd        
4. Turn left at CR-G5 W (Junipero Serra Blvd)
5. Turn right at Stanford Ave        
6. Turn left at Bowdoin St        
7. Continue onto Bowdoin Lane and follow signs for Parking Structure 6
I-280 S
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2. Take the Alpine Rd exit toward Portola Valley        
3. Keep left at the fork, follow signs for Palo Alto        
4. Turn left at Alpine Rd        
5. Turn right at Junipero Serra Blvd        
6. Turn left at Campus Dr E
7. Turn left at Wilbur Way then enter Parking Structure 6 on left
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