A Systematic Approach to Infrastructure for Next Generation Health Care

DANIEL J. EPSTEIN DEPARTMENT OF INDUSTRIAL AND SYSTEMS ENGINEERING SEMINAR"A Systematic Approach to Infrastructure for Next Generation Health Care"Dr. Carl KesselmanFellow, USC Information Sciences Institute / Director, Center for Grid Technologies, Information Sciences Institute / Research Professor, USC Computer ScienceABSTRACT: Information technology has obviously made a huge impact on the practice and business of health care. However, exponential advances in networking, computing and storage have the potential to make transformational changes in the practice of medicine far beyond the cost containment issues that so often dominate the current discussion. In my talk, I will discuss the role of a global distributed infrastructure in the health care equation and give examples of how we are currently using such an infrastructure in ongoing clinical trials.THURSDAY, OCTOBER 11, 2007, 10:00 – 11:00 AM, ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING BUILDING (EEB) ROOM 248
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------BIOGRAPHYDr. Carl Kesselman is Fellow in the Information Sciences Institute at the University of Southern California. He is the Director of the Center for Grid Technologies at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California. He received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University at Buffalo. Dr. Kesselman also serves as Chief Scientist of Univa Corporation, a company he founded with Globus co-founders Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke.Dr. Kesselman's current research interests are all aspects of Grid computing, including basic infrastructure, security, resource management, high-level services and Grid applications. He is the author of many significant papers in the field. Together with Dr. Ian Foster, he initiated the Globus Project™, one of the leading Grid research projects. The Globus project has developed the Globus Toolkit®, the de facto standard for Grid computing. Dr. Kesselman received the 1997 Global Information Infrastructure Next Generation Internet award, the 2002 R&D 100 award, the 2002 R&D Editors choice award, the Federal Laboratory Consortium (FLC) Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer and the 2002 Ada Lovelace Medal from the British Computing Society for significant contributions to information technology. Along with his colleagues Ian Foster and Steve Tuecke, he was named one of the top 10 innovators of 2002 by InfoWorld Magazine. In 2003, he and Dr. Foster were named by MIT Technology Review as the creators of one of the "10 technologies that will change the world." In 2006 Dr. Kesselman received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Amsterdam.

Location: Hughes Aircraft Electrical Engineering Center (EEB) - 248

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

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