Proposed FDIS 2008 Program

Jonsson Conference Center, Woods Hole, MA

Monday, June 30

7:00 pm Dinner and registration

8:00 pm Intros and short talks by attendees

8:20 “New Social Networks Project” Scott Kirkpatrick   - Hebrew University
8:40 “The New Consumer Data Revolution” - Andreas Weigend- Stanford University  

9:00 “Distributed Object Storage and Retrieval” – Josh Alspector - DARPA

Tuesday, July 1

  8:00 am Breakfast

8:45 am Session 1- Frontiers and Challenges in Data Storage

  8:45 am “New Approaches to Personal Data Backup” Cathy Marshall – Microsoft

  9:15 am “Methods for Creating Metadata for Sharable Files” Carlos Maltzahn – U.C. Santa Cruz

  9:45 am “Zero Footprint Web Access With End-to-End Security” Urs Muller – Net-Scale Technologies

10:15 Short Attendee talk - “Digital Object Identifiers” Patrice Lyons

10:35 Break

11:00 am Session 2 – Conformal Computing

11:00 “Optical Lattice Emulators” Jay Lowell – DARPA

11:30 “Programming Bits and Atoms” Neil Gershenfeld– MIT

12:00 Short Attendee talk - “Determining the Structure of Single Biomolecules by Manifold Embedding: Neural Nets Redux” – Abbas Ourmazd – University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

12:20 pm Lunch

  1:30 pm Informal Activities

  5:30 pm Dinner

 6:30pm Session 3 - Where is Telecom heading?

 6:30 pm “Directions in Wired and Wireless Access” Paul Polakos – Alcatel-Lucent

 7:00 pm “6 Billion On-line” Stuart Gannes – Stanford

7:30 pm “On the Technology and Economics of Metro Area Wireless Networks” Dipankar Raychaudhuri – Rutgers Winlab

 8:00 pm Break

8:20 “Lessons from the Early Days of the Internet” Robert Kahn - CNRI

8:50 Short Attendee talk - “The Internet: A Learning from the Prototype” Bob Frankston

9:10 Discussion

Wednesday, July 2

  8:00 am Breakfast

8:45 Short attendee talks:

8:45 “Enabling Autonomous Highway Driving Through Communications Infrastructure” Larry Jackel - North-C Technologies

9:00 “RollCall: Rethinking Radio Tags for Asset Tracking and Remote Sensing” R.E. Howard - Inpoint-Systems, Inc.

9:20 am Session 4 Hot Topics in Distributed Computing

9:20 am “Distributed Security” Rolf Kraemer – IHP

  9:50 am “Planet Lab” Elliot Jaffe – Hebrew University

10:20 am “Massively Parallel Computation in Gravitational Wave Detection” Patrick Brady -Univ. Wisconsin Milwaukee

10:50 am Break

11:15 am Session 5 High Performance Computing

11:15 am “HPC In Industrial Applications” Anton Gunzinger– Supercomputing Systems AG, Zurich, Switzerland

11:45 am "Scaling Monte Carlo Tree Search for Computer Go: An Emerging Application of Blue Gene" Gerry Tesauro – IBM

12:15 pm Lunch

  1:30 pm Adjourn