[ieeetcsc-discuss] TCSC Chair Election Ballot - Deadline: 28 December, 2007.
Manish Parashar
parashar at caip.rutgers.edu
Wed Dec 12 07:48:04 PST 2007
Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC)
Election for Technical Committee Chair
Ballot: TCSC is holding an election for the position of TC Chair for the
term of
2008 through 2009 (2 years term).
Position statements from each candidate are enclosed. Please vote for no
more
than one candidate:
Candidates for TC Chair:
______ Mark Baker
______ Laurence T. Yang
OR ______ (write-in a new candidate)
Your Signature (Signature not necessary for email returns.):
Your Name (please print):
Your IEEE CS Membership Number:
Only IEEE CS members are eligible to vote. Your membership number is
required
for a valid ballot.
Please email (highly preferred), fax, or mail your ballot to Stacy Wagner
at:
Email: s.wagner at COMPUTER.ORG
Fax: +1 202 728 0884
Mail: IEEE Computer Society, Attn: Stacy Wagner, 1730
Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036-1992
Ballots must be received at the IEEE Computer Society no later than 28 Dec.
2007
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Candidate for TCCA Chair: Mark Baker
Biography: Dr. Mark Baker is a Research Professor of Computer Science in
the School of Systems Engineering at the University of Reading, UK, where
he leads the middleware development activities. Mark has been working in
the field of parallel and distributed systems for the last two decades.
His research interests are related to middleware technologies to support
parallel and distributed applications. In particular, he is interested in
message oriented middleware, monitoring systems, Semantic Web technologies,
virtual research environments, wireless sensor networks, and tools to help
programmers and application scientists.
Mark started his career by joining the UK Merchant Navy, where he became a
Navigating Officer. After leaving the sea he gained a BSc (Hons) in Maritime
Technology, and then a PhD, which was related to computer modelling of
ships,
from Cardiff University. After leaving Cardiff, Mark took up a post-doctoral
position at Edinburgh University where he worked on a transputer-based
supercomputer. After Edinburgh he move to ITN in London, where he worked on
optimising parallel graphical applications. He then moved to a post at the
University of Southampton where for five years he ran a group undertaking
research and development of parallel systems. After Southampton, he took up
a post at Syracuse University where he was a senior research scientist
working
on a number of projects. On leaving Syracuse, Mark took a post back in the
UK
at the University of Portsmouth, where he undertook a lot of teaching and
established the Distributed Systems Group. Two years ago Mark took up his
current post as a Research Professor at the University of Reading.
Mark has managed and been involved in a number of UK, EU and US funded
projects.
This includes, more recently, VERA (Virtual Environments for Research in
Archaeology), SORMA (Self-Organizing ICT Resource Management), the Sakai
VRE Demonstrator, the OGSA Testbed project, and the eReSS (eResearch
Standards
and Specifications) project.
Mark is a Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society and is involved in many
of its activities and events. In 1999 he helped form the Task Force on
Cluster
Computer (TFCC) with Rajkumar Buyya, and then co-chaired the TFCC until
November 2005, when it was merged with the Technical Committee on
Supercomputing
Application (TCSA), to form the Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
(TCSC).
Mark co-chaired the TCSC, with Rajkumar Buyya and Marcin Paprzycki, for the
first
year of its existence, in order to help established it and get it
functioning.
During that first year Mark wrote the TCSC's charter and provided support to
establish many of its activities. Mark has been instrumental in forming,
with
Rajkumar Buyya, three International events, Cluster Computing, Grid, and
Cluster
and Grid, conferences. Mark has been the chair of Steering Committee of the
Cluster Computing Conference since 2001. For the last five years Mark has
been
Grid Computing section editor of DS Online. He is Assistant Editor in Chief
of
Computing Online, a new electronic collaborative system being set up by the
IEEE Computer Society.
Position Statement: I am keen to be elected Chair of the IEEE Technical
Committee
on Scalable Computing (TCSC) for a number of reasons. I believe that as the
chair
I can provide strong leadership and take the TCSC to the next level. I have
a clear
view of how to strengthen and stimulate the TCSC in order to make it a more
vital
entity that is worth joining and participating in. I want to activate the
current
membership and cultivate new members by providing a dynamic and interactive
forum
that meets the needs and aspirations of its members, and overall makes it
more
vibrant entity.
The first step towards this goal will be to enlist a new cadre of
researchers and
practitioners who are willing to volunteer their time and effort to help
empower
TCSC. These volunteers will help with recruitment, representation within the
IEEE
CS, finances, supporting new and existing sponsored events, collaborating
with
other societies, providing resources for members, helping students,
nurturing new
ideas, and engaging industrial users. Experience working with volunteers
from the
TFCC and TCSC in the recent past has helped me understand how to interact
and work
productively with them. It is clear that everyone is busily undertaking
work-based
tasks; so new volunteers will be recruited on the bases of their commitment
to
the TCSC.
The TCSC needs to ensure that it represents the community from what it was
originally derived: cluster computing, the Grid, wide-area distributed
computing,
and supercomputing applications. Currently, in my view, each of these areas
is
under-represented, and I believe we need to encourage greater engagement
from these
groups. We can do this by direct participation in their activities and
meetings, and
by making sure that these communities are aware of the TCSC and know about
the help
that it can provide. I also will reinvigorate the efforts to help students
and younger
members, and would like to see strong emphasis on creating the appropriate
educational
and training material to help those new to the area of Scalable Computing.
Obviously, individual members will have different needs from the overall
TCSC, but
it is essential that a collaborative online community should be provided
that allows
members interact, cooperate, and undertake shared tasks in order to both
help and
benefit from the TCSC. I believe that we need to set up and provide a
collaborative
Web space for the TCSC community, which has facilities like social Web
sites, such
as FaceBook or MySpace, as well as other tools like blogs, Wikis, RSS feeds
and
utilities that encourage interaction and engender debate and discussions on
all
areas that the TCSC represents. The aim of creating on online community is
not to
force technologies on members, but rather provide support for the needs of
members.
I will strengthen links with established TCSC sponsored events, and look for
opportunities to create new events in emerging areas. It is important that
the
events sponsored by the TCSC are worthy and held in esteem by the
international
community, just like the International SC'XX conference.
I will ensure that there is better interaction and cooperation with the
volunteer
parts of the IEEE CS, especially the Technical Committees and Task Forces.
Effort
in this area will reinforce the standing of the TCSC and ensure that it has
a say
in matters. Being Assistant Editor in Chief of Computing Online will make
certain
that I am aware of all ongoing IEEE CS actions, and I will make sure the
TCSC takes
an active part in its activities.
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Candidate for TCCA Chair: Laurence T. Yang
Biography: Dr. Laurence T. Yang is a professor in computer science at St
Francis Xavier University, Canada. His research includes high performance
computing, embedded systems, ubiquitous/pervasive computing and
intelligence.
He has published more than 200 papers in refereed journals, conference
proceedings and book chapters in these areas. He has been involved in more
than 100 conferences and workshops as a program/general conference chair and
more than 200 conference and workshops as a program committee member. He
served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing
Applications (TCSA) until 2004, currently is in the executive committee of
IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC), and of IEEE Technical
Committee of Self-Organization and Cybernetics for Informatics, and of IFIP
Working Group 10.2 on Embedded Systems, and of IEEE Technical Committee of
Granular Computing.
In addition, he is the editors-in-chief of several international journals
and few book series. He is serving as an editor for around 20 international
journals. He has been acting as an author/co-author or an editor/co-editor
of 30 books from Kluwer, Springer, Nova Science, American Scientific
Publishers and John Wiley & Sons. He has won four Best Paper Awards; one
IEEE Best Paper Award, 2007; one IEEE Outstanding Paper Award, 2007; three
Best Paper Nominations; Distinguished Achievement Award, 2005; Distinguished
Contribution Award, 2004; Outstanding Achievement Award, 2002; Canada
Foundation for Innovation Award, 2003; University
Research/Publication/Teaching Award 00-02/02-04/04-06.
Position Statement: I would like to take this chance to run for the
position of TC Chair of TCSC from Jan 2008 to Dec 2009. I sincerely ask for
your kind vote and continued support.
I served as the vice-chair of IEEE Technical Committee of Supercomputing
Applications (TCSA) until 2004. Since the merger of TCSA and TFCC as the
current TCSC technical committee, I have been serving as the conference
coordinator in the executive committee mainly in charge of conference
activities. I have extensive experiences on conference organizations by
involving in more than 100 conferences/workshops, including many IEEE CS
conferences, as a program/general conference chair. I also have been invited
for more than 200 conferences/workshops, including many IEEE CS conferences,
as a program committee member. Due to the position of conference
coordinator, I have supported and involved all TCSC activities for
conferences from 2004-2007, had many contacts with IEEE CS Volunteer
Services Coordinator, TC chair and conference organizers, this makes me
quite familiar with all rules and regulations of IEEE CS, not only in
conference activities, but also in other aspects.
As the Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) has already emerged
as one of the most successful TCs within the IEEE Computer Society, it is
important to maintain that leadership and at the same time create new
innovative programs to further enhance for the benefit of its members and
the overall community. I am fully committed myself in next two years as the
TCSC chair, if elected, with the executive committee to realize the
following objectives effectively, and to assist our members more friendly to
maintain their competitive edge, and to bring in some fresh perspectives and
out-of-the-box solutions.
The following key program and initiatives are my plan for our general
members:
1. continue to support the existing premier conferences. To minimize
duplication of effort or proliferation of unsustainable conferences to
ensure the quality and vitality of each of our sponsored TCSC conferences.
Additionally establish the IEEE TCSC best paper and best student awards at
each sponsored conference and the overall TCSC Outstanding Contribution
award to attract the top research work presented and exchanged at the
conferences and within TCSC community.
2. negotiate with IEEE CS to initiate an annual CD/DVD Super Compendium of
the TCSC sponsored proceedings to all TCSC members. Initiate a TCSC
Multimedia Series for all TCSC members comprises of a set of electronic
media publications focusing on key talks/presentations given at various TCSC
(likely including sister committees) sponsored conferences over the last few
years. Each volume of the series focuses on some technical topic area and
contains relevant presentations by key researchers from academia and
industry.
3. continue to establish an effective, convenient and state-of-the-art TCSC
Web portal to let our community members feel this is one of most
important/comprehensive resource center for their careers and for all
technical aspects of scalable computing and allied technologies as well as
for their applications to relevant interdisciplinary domains.
4. initiate a weekly digest to its members, namely ScalCom digest, a weekly
collection of articles, CFP, funding opportunities and job advertisements on
topics related to Scalable Computing. Index of all archived issues of the
Digest can be browsed via the TCSC web portal as well.
5. promote industry forums to be hosted at TCSC conferences to develop
better links between industry and academia. Focus on substantially
increasing the involvement level of industrial and governmental members into
various activities related to conferences, resources, news and the
sponsorships.
6. actively participate in the Society's Technical Activities Board
(TAB) and ensure that the needs of our members are recognized and met.
To explore with other sister/related technical committees to upgrade to a
joint IEEE technical council resulting in a much higher level of clout and
synergy for our community.
7. initiate a job/career/visiting forum (hosted at TCSC web portal and
included in the weekly digest) to assist members in transition (specially
for fresh graduates and emerging researchers) looking for faculty positions
and industrial jobs, to help established members looking for mutual visits
and collaborations.
8. expand further the regional TCSC forums to develop stronger links within
and between regional communities.
9. encourage the technical area coordinators to further elaborate the
Technical Resource Center, which is basically a website providing
introductory information on the topic, various challenges in that area,
links to major R&D projects around the world in that area.
10. actively seek more and more new and energetic volunteers (either younger
and senior) to involve in the technical committee to contribute their new
ideas and fresh perspectives. Recognize their contributions by nominating
them for various IEEE TCSC service awards.
In particularly, I want to emphasize and promote the following key program
and initiatives for our young and emerging members:
1. in the spirit of the long-running ACM programming contest, the TCSC's HPC
Programming Contest challenges students in their HPC knowledge, and their
problem solving, programming, and teamwork skills. It serves as an
innovative initiative to assist in the development of top students in the
HPC field. The contest will provide a platform for TCSC, academia, and
industry to focus attention on the best and brightest of next generation HPC
professionals. The host conference is to be determined.
2. through the grants, scholarships and the travel supports from industry,
government and IEEE, treat students as first class participants and offer
the similar services to those full-fee paying attendees.
3. enhance the mentor program for young researchers by establishing a body
of international experts who are willing to volunteer their time and energy
for guiding or commenting on research proposals and projects.
4. further develop the Ph.D. Forum and Young Researcher Forum to provide a
means for PostDoc researchers, PhD students and other student researchers to
share valuable information and pointers that help in creating valuable
research contributions.
It is planned that the Young Researcher forum organizes an annual workshop
in conjunction with a TCSC conference to provide a means for young
researchers to present their thoughts and ideas on the workshop topic,
network with peers.
The Ph.D forum at one of our premier conferences (to be decided) is poster
session for Ph.D. students to present and discuss their dissertation
research with people in the TCSC community. The Forum is open to all members
of the scalable computing community and is free-of-charge. It is co-located
with one premier conference to attract the large TCSC audience, but
conference registration is not required in order to attend this event.
The above forums will also distribute student travel funding allocations for
TCSC conferences in the future.
5. continue the educational programs by encouraging the sharing of thoughts
on teaching and teaching material, by establishing an active book donation
program and by exploring the inclusion of emerging topics within SC in
IEEE-CS/ACM Curriculum guidelines.
6. attract more student members into the TCSC community through my
connections in the China and others Asian countries such as Korea, India
etc. due to their large and still fast going CS student populations.
Although this seems like a long list of objectives to be achieved, I am
confident of realizing them with your kind support and trust.
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Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engr. Phone: (732) 445-5388
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