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MCFC ACC, IIT Chapter of Sigma Xi, and ACM-IIT present Professor Sun's insights into Grid and Pervasive Computing. This event will take place on Thursday, 4 March, 12:30 - 1:30 PM, in
the Auditorium in the MTCC.

From Grid to Pervasive Computing: Where is the breakthrough of next IT boom?

Xian-He Sun

Department of Computer Science

Illinois Institute of Technology

sun@iit.edu

Abstract:

After the recent Information Technology (IT) bubble, what is the trigger point of the next IT boom?  In addition to making computing devices ever smaller and faster, what can the IT industry offer to its users?  Technology advances tell us the so-called IT era is not yet over.  Scientists are accumulating knowledge and building the technical foundations for the next IT boom. New disciplines of computing are emerging. In this talk, we will introduce two new computing concepts: Grid Computing and Pervasive Computing. Grid computing mimics the electrical power grid by bringing remote computing power to the users. Pervasive computing emphasizes anywhere, anytime services and a “human-centered” view of computing. It forms the “smart space” in which IT service is as naturally available as the air we breathe. In addition to a general overview we also will discuss the current technical issues and challenges of both grid and pervasive computing and their implication in providing the next generation “must have” IT services.

Xian-He Sun is a Professor of Computer Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), a Guest Faculty at the Argonne National Laboratory, and the Director of the Scalable Computing Software (SCS) laboratory at IIT.  Before joining IIT, he was a staff scientist at ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center and a professor at the Louisiana State University.  Dr. Sun has published over one hundred research articles in the field of computer science and communication, has seven granted and pending US patents, and his research is well supported by NSF and other US government agencies.  His research in mobility of legacy code is one of the first nine projects supported by the National Science Foundation under the Middleware Initiative program. His memory-bounded (the so-called Sun-Ni’s law) and memory access delay performance model are introduced in many modern textbooks as a “must know” in performance evaluation of scalable computing systems.  The Chicago Sun-Times called his recent work in cross-network service as turning “POTS (plain Old Telephone service) into PANS (Pretty Amazing New Stuff), moving the landline phone into the Internet loop”.  Dr. Sun is a distinguished speaker of the IEEE CS society. He is an editor or guest editor of five international professional journals. He has served and is serving as the chairman or a member of program committee for numerous international conferences and workshops. He received the ONR and ASEE Certificate of Recognition award in 1999, the Best Paper Award at ICPP in 2001, and the Best Poster Award at the IEEE SC03 in 2003.