Title of the Talk 

RIA, the Future of Web applications

 Speaker 

 :

Naresh Chand Gupta

Sr. Vice President, Print & Publishing Business Unit,

& Managing Director, Adobe Systems India Pvt. Ltd. 

Dr. Naresh Gupta is a B. Tech in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was named a Gold Medalist. He holds master’s and doctorate degrees in computer science from the University of Maryland, College Park. He has been widely known as a computer science expert in the areas of shape, motion, image understanding, and AI research. His Ph.D. thesis, “Recovering Shape and Motion from a Sequence of Images,” was nominated for the ACM Distinguished Dissertation award.

Dr. Naresh Gupta is Managing Director of Adobe’s India research and development center that he started from concept in 1997 and has since grown to be the second largest Adobe’s R&D campus worldwide. Dr. Gupta is also responsible for the Print and Publishing Business Unit at Adobe. In this role, he oversees           product marketing  and  development for Adobe’s standalone print, Web  publishing  and  e-learning  tools  such as  Adobe®  PostScript®,  Adobe® Contribute™, Adobe Captivate™, Adobe Technical Communications Suite software. His organization serves a broad and established base of customers who are publishing content on paper, electronically or over the Web.

Prior to joining Adobe, Dr. Gupta served as principal scientist and director of the applied artificial intelligence (AI) group at LNK Corp., a company funded by the U.S. Department of Defense to develop solutions for image and pattern recognition, target tracking, data mining, data fusion and compression.

Abstract

 :

Over the last several decades the user experience of software applications have been undergoing rapid transformations. Correspondingly, the programming models also have been evolving to support newer paradigms. The advent of World Wide Web ushered in an era of globally distributed applications providing great reach. However, during the early to mid 90's, these applications had poor interactivity and were highly limited in terms of the user experience. Adobe, with its Flash and Flex technology significantly altered this scenario, pioneering a new landscape of Rich Internet Applications that offers a great user experience combined with the reach of traditional web applications. Today we are witnessing another major inflection point with Adobe AIR redefining the web experience further by integrating the web applications with the desktop. This key note will cover the evolution of the Rich Internet Applications, future directions of this technology and the value that this technology holds to the business enterprises.

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