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IBM Almaden Institute 2002

Almaden Institute Agenda

Day 1 - Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - Almaden Research Center
8:00 Continental Breakfast
8:45 Welcome Robert Morris
9:00 Autonomic Computing Vision Session
  • IBM's Autonomic Computing Vision
  • Future of Systems Research

    • Alan Ganek (IBM)
    John Hennessy (Stanford)
    10:00 BREAK  
    10:30 Database and Storage Systems Anant Jhingran (IBM - Moderator)
  • Continuously Adaptive Processing of Data and Query Streams
    		• Michael Franklin (Berkeley)
  • Self-Tuning Database Systems: The AutoAdmin Experience
    		• Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)
  • Opportunities for Continuous Tuning in a Global Scale File System
    		• John Kubiatowicz (Berkeley)
    Discussion  
    12:30 LUNCH
    1.45 Distributed Computing and Systems Mgmt. Tushar Chandra (IBM - Moderator)
  • Navigating in the Storm: A Distributed Computing Infrastructure for Autonomic Computing   pdf icon Presentation Material
    		• Ken Birman (Cornell)
  • Autonomizing Legacy Systems pdf icon Presentation Material
    		• Gail Kaiser (Columbia)
  • Web Services
    		• Steve Vinoski (IONA)
  • Océano An Autonomic Multi-domain Server Farm
    		• Germán Goldszmidt (IBM)
    Discussion  
    4:15 BREAK
    4:30 Government and Industry Initiatives Kazuo Iwano (IBM - Moderator)
  • Control and Guidance of Autonomous Agents
    		• John Salasin (DARPA)
     
  • NASA Challenges in Autonomic Computing
    		• Daniel J. Clancy (NASA Ames)
     
  • IBM - eLiza
    		• Jeff Nick (IBM)
  • Scaling IT for the Planet
    		• Patrick Scaglia (HP)
    6:30 Cocktails
    7:00 Dinner at the Almaden Research Center
    Speaker: Irving Wladawsky-Berger (IBM)  
    Day 2 - Thursday, April 11, 2002 - Almaden Research Center
    8:00 Continental Breakast
    8:30 Autonomic Systems Moidin Mohiuddin (IBM - Moderator)
      Recovery-Oriented Computing David Patterson (Berkeley)
    Autonomic Storage Systems Jai Menon (IBM)
    9:30 BREAK  
    10:00 Entrepreneurial Perspective   pdf icon Presentation Material Vinod Khosla (Kleiner-Perkins)
    10:30 Entrepreneurial Activities - Presentations by 5 key small companies:
    Arula Systems, ThinkDynamics, Sychron, Intelliden and Inkra     		Jim Spohrer (IBM - Moderator)
    12:30 LUNCH  
    1:45 Breakout Sessions with 4 Tracks:
    • System Architecture
    • Old Wine in New Bottle?
    • Learning from Other Fields
    • User Experience
    		 
    4:00 BREAK
    4:30 Breakout Summaries  
    5:30 Depart for Dinner  
    6:00 Reception and Dinner  
      Speaker: Lloyd Kaufman (NYU) - "Historical Perspectives"
    Day 3 - Friday, April 12, 2002 - Almaden Research Center
    8:00 Breakfast Buffet
    8:30 Related Sciences Session
  • Learning and Approximate Solutions to Partially Observable Markov Games
  • The Complex Genetic Control System Regulating Cell Cycle Progression and Asymmetry in a Bacterial Cell
  • Nature Inspired Systems   pdf icon Presentation Material
    Discussion
    		• James Kaufman (IBM - Moderator)
    Shankar Sastry (Berkeley)
    Harley McAdams (Stanford)

    Mark Shackleton (BTexact, BT)
    10:30 BREAK
    11:00 Software and Systems
  • SMART - A DB2 That Manages Itself
  • Self-Managing Storage: Taming Storage Administration Costs Throughout the Storage Lifecycle  pdf icon Presentation Material
  • Redefining Computing  pdf icon Presentation Material
    		•  William Tetzlaff (IBM - Moderator)
    Guy Lohman (IBM)
    Simon Towers (HP)

    Ron Goldman (SUN)
    12:30 LUNCH
    1:30 Customer Perspectives Jim Spohrer (IBM - Moderator)
     
  • Global Internet Content Delivery pdf icon Presentation Material
    		• Bruce Maggs (Akamai)
     
  • Instances of Self Management in Internet Services
    		•  CJ Stumpf (Cable&Wireless)
    2:30 Rump Session - Participant Presentations  
    4:00 Lab Tours