Keynote speakers
speakers
Abstract:
It has been a decade since the concept of blockchain was invented as the underlying core data structure of the permissionless or public Bitcoin cryptocurrency network. Since then, several cryptocurrencies, and associated concepts like tokens and ICOs have emerged. After much speculation and hype, significant number of them have become problematic or worthless, even though some countries have embraced them! The permissionless blockchain system Ethereum emerged by generalizing the use of blockchains to manage any kind of asset, be it physical or purely digital, with the introduction of the concept of Smart Contracts. Over the years, numerous myths have developed with respect to the purported utility and the need for permissionless blockchains. The adoption and further adaptation of blockchains and smart contracts for use in the permissioned or private environments is what I consider to be useful and of practical consequence. Hence, the technical aspects of only private blockchain systems will be the focus of my ICSOC 2019 keynote. Along the way, I will bust many myths associated with permissionless blockchains. I will also compare traditional database technologies with blockchain systems’ features and identify desirable future research topics. Extensive blockchain related collateral can be found at http://bit.ly/CMbcDB
Bio:
Dr. C. Mohan is currently an IBM Fellow at the IBM Almaden Research Center in Silicon Valley and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University in China. Read more
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“Virtualization has now been standing for long time. It supported earliest cloud infrastructure development and is virtually deployed everywhere. Then the container era began. It grown slowly until Kubernetes gained momentum and became the de-facto standard for containerized workload. The serverless paradigm is now very popular. This talk will discusses several key points including how execution environments shifted from physical servers, to virtual machines then containers and the associated impacts on software engineering. The relationship with the serverless paradigm will also be explored. A prospective closing part will address the post-container era and outline possible future trends
Bio:
Dr. Pierre Rognant currently works for Thales Alenia Space as ground network engineer. Read more
Abstract:
Artificial Intelligence based on Machine Learning, and in particular Deep Learning, is today the fastest growing trend in software development, and literally used in all other research disciplines, with a very high impact on the modern society. However, a wide use of AI in many systems, in particular dependable systems, is still far away of being widely used. On the one hand there is a shortage of expertise, on the other hand the challenges for managing AI-based complex and dependable systems are enormous, though less known, and in general underestimated. Some aspects of these challenges are based on management of resources, including computational, data storage capacity, real-time constraints. Others are related to dependability itself, as the AI has by its nature a probabilistic approach. This talk discusses some of these challenges and identifies new challenge for software engineering – Software Engineering for AI.
Bio:
Dr. Ivica Crnkovic is a professor of software engineering at Chalmers University, Gothenburg, Sweden. He is the director of ICT Area of Advance at Chalmers University, and director of Chalmers AI Research Centre (CHAIR). Read more.
