WORLDCOMP'12 - The 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing
WORLDCOMP'12 Steering Committee's Welcome
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Welcome to 2012 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing (WORLDCOMP'12) website. WORLDCOMP 2012 will be composed of research presentations, keynote lectures, invited presentations, tutorials, panel discussions, and poster presentations. In recent past, keynote/tutorial/panel speakers have included: Prof. David A. Patterson (pioneer, architecture, U. of California, Berkeley), Dr. K. Eric Drexler (known as Father of Nanotechnology), Prof. John H. Holland (known as Father of Genetic Algorithms; U. of Michigan), Prof. Ian Foster (known as Father of Grid Computing; U. of Chicago & ANL), Prof. Ruzena Bajcsy (pioneer, VR, U. of California, Berkeley), Prof. Barry Vercoe (Founding member of MIT Media Lab, MIT), Dr. Jim Gettys (known as X-man, developer of X Window System, xhost; OLPC), Prof. John Koza (known as Father of Genetic Programming, Stanford U.), Prof. Brian D. Athey (NIH Program Director, U. of Michigan), Prof. Viktor K. Prasanna (pioneer, U. of Southern California), Dr. Jose L. Munoz (NSF Program Director and Consultant), Prof. Jun Liu (pioneer, Broad Institute of MIT & Harvard U.), Prof. Lotfi A. Zadeh (Father of Fuzzy Logic), Dr. Firouz Naderi (Head, NASA Mars Exploration Program/2000-2005 and Associate Director, Project Formulation & Strategy, Jet Propulsion Lab, CalTech/NASA; Director, NASA's JPL Solar System Exploration), Prof. David Lorge Parnas (Fellow of IEEE, ACM, RSC, CAE, GI; Dr.h.c.: ETH Zurich, Prof. Emeritus, McMaster U. and U. of Limerick), Prof. Eugene H. Spafford (Executive Director, CERIAS and Professor, Purdue University), Dr. Sandeep Chatterjee (Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, SourceTrace Systems, Inc.), and many other distinguished speakers. To get a feeling about the conferences' atmosphere, see the 2011 delegate photos available at: http://worldcomp.phanfare.com/5408606
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|   Featured Keynote Lectures |
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Teaching Software Engineering for Software as a Service using Massive Open Online Courses
Professor David A. Patterson, Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley, USA Member, National Academy of Engineering Member, National of Academy of Sciences Fellow of IEEE, ACM, and AAAS Shared (with John Hennessy) the IEEE John von Neumann Medal |
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Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence Professor Haym Hirsh, Ph.D. Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Former Director (2006-2010) of Division of Information and Intelligent Systems, National Science Foundation, USA + Visiting Scholar (2010-2011) at MIT's Center for Collective Intelligence, USA |
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Robust Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems Prof. H. J. Siegel Abell Endowed Chair Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Professor of Computer Science; Director, CSU Information Science and Technology Center (ISTeC); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA |
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Hands-on Demonstrations of Some Basic Cybersecurity Tools Professor George Markowsky Professor of Computer Science, University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA; Associate Director, School of Computing and Information Science; Chair International Advisory Board of IEEE IDAACS; Cooperating Professor School of Policy & International Affairs UMaine |
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