Summary of Keynote Lectures

 

They keynote lectures were truly the key to the success of this international conference. The conference can be proud to have the veteran international speakers on their subjects. In all there were 9 keynote talks, ranging on very different topics but coming under tha same umbrella of contemporary computing.

 

KL-1: "CyberSecurity, Opportunities and Challenges" by Prof. Pradeep Khosla, Carnegie Mellon University

 

Elaborated on cyber security, its opportunities and challenges therein, and also how great the impact of security is on society. He pointed out in his lecture, that speed storage, bandwidth and price are the prime exponents controlling our life. He also made us all realize the quick journey from the early ARPANET to the present day internet.

Further on, he enlightened the participants about the evolution of threat to IT systems, starting with file virus-> macro virus->email worms->blended threats-> Warhol threat-> flash threat.

He stressed that 100% security is unachievable. RnD, global hub and economic development were highlighted as the mission of CyLab at CMU. He mentioned Education and Awareness as the requirements of future cyber security.

Some of the challenges of DDoS attacks, as he raised were- filter packets with spoofed IP same address(Pi basic filter), link flooding, attack traceback, security, trust and survivability are critical issues for today’s IT systems. Concluded his lecture by the mobiles and pdas of tomorrow are supposed to be Universal Authorization ans authentication access mechanisms with biometrics and stressed the need for better forensic technologies.

 

KL-2: "Changing World of Web Search" by Prabhakar Raghavan, Yahoo! Research

Dr. Prabhakar Raghavan 2 brought out a very important point in the design of a web i.e, web page had got two displays, one the content of the search and the other is advertisement. He clearly proved the economics of haing advertisements search and display on which the entire web technology survives. He elaborated on the search engines’ search strategies s that the design and operation of search engines becomes a business model. He was able to identify the different algorithms one can use in showing advertisements. He also compared the strategies used in design of search engines designed by Google ,Yahoo and Microsoft. While searches are primarily based on keywords, he explained that estimating the intent of the user is moe important to give the desired result to the user. He mentioned the Gaure Theory approach and legal/ethical issues important to web technology. Security was also duly highlighted.

 

Started the lecture with the various intents for which the WWW is being used viz- informational, transactional,navigational, intent based search , legal issues in capturing the profiles of users, suggested internet groups as probable solution.

 

KL3- "A New Class of Computation for Distributed Sensor Networks" by Sitaram Iyengar of Louisiana State University

 

Starting with the increasing role of sensors in the everyday life, he explained the deployment methodologies for the sensors and creating a sensor N/W. he spoke about the sensor n/w as a global eye and pointed out that for urban surveillance, it could be useful. He mentioned about the challenges, complexity, routing problems, and the need for their optimization. He spoke about feature detection, extraction, fault tolerance and recognition requirements. Suggested deployment strategies. Various types of fault tolerance. About sensors.

 

KL-4: "Data structures and algorithms for packet forwarding and classification" by Sartaj Sahni of University of Florida

 

Giving a brief tutorial on the packet forwarding using internal protocols , he brought out the challenges in the design on data structures required for packet forwarding by the routers.His lecture was focusing on design issues and challenges in making a te xt to text-language translator. He described the system which he and his team are building. They have named it DASHBOARD. Various rules followed for implementing the above tool were highlighted. Many software engineering issues and the future enhancement of the system were also highlighted.

 

 

KL-6: "Software Architectures for Natural language Processing" by Rajeev Sangal.

 

Dashboard- reusable tool that could process 10 pairs of language. Semantic/syntactic level of isolation

 

 

KL-6: "The Combinatorics of Sequencing the Corn Genome" by Srinivas Aluru  of Iowa University

 

Low cost, maize genome costing. Dr. Sriniwas Aluru of Iowa University made a powerful presentation about the importance of Bio-Info.. in the fast emerging society, where the food and medicines would be developed genetically. He showed how computer is strongly wedded to bio-technology. Sratting with a primer on Genomes, he showed how sequencing of genomes differ from one entity to another and how are they sequenced efficiently. Even though the computing power of modern day machines is quite large, but the genome sequencing being a very computationally involved problem, the desired solutions are not so easy. He suggested how they have been able to sequence the genomes in corn. He hopes that by following intelligent tricks. It should be possible to reduce the computational complexity in genome sequencing. He displayed some of the results obtained by his group.

 

 

KL-7: "Scheduling for Energy Minimization" by Sanjay Ranka of University of Florida

 

UFL Scheduling framework,Heuristic algorithms, Static and adaptable stack allocation,elaborated on scheduling framework encompassing both static and adaptable allocation and also stack allocation that were energy aware.

He mentioned heuristic algorithms and nash Bargaining solutions as techniques for making the scheduling systems operational

 

KL-8: "Future of Software Engineering" by Pankaj Jalote of IIT Delhi

 

“Future of Software engineering”

-Stressed that the nature of software as SaaS(Software as a Service)

-SOA-discussed the difference between integration technology

-future software systems –systems programming

                                   -coders/application programmers

 

KL-9: "Evolutionary Multi-objective Combinatorial Optimization (EMCO)” by Rajiv Sangal of IIIT Hyderabad

 

Talked of 3 classes of problems

- multi model, analytical

- hand class- knapsack

- harder class

 

-list of optimization problems

-single v/s multi objective problem

            Minimum spanning tree for implementation: minimal-cost, diameter constraint

 

Evolutionary – genetic algorithm search thru stochastic techniques.

Recommended evolutionary algorithm only when nothing else works.

CAD and VLSI case studies were discussed against black-box optimization.

 

Jaypee Institute of Information Technology University
A-10, Sector 62, Noida-201307, Uttar Pradesh, India
Copyright © 2007 All Rights Reserved.

Best viewed in Internet Explorer 5.0 + with 1024 x 768 Resolution