Date : 28 May 2012
Time : 11:00 am - 12:00 noon
Venue : Room PQ703, 7/Floor, PQ core, Mong Man Wai Building
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Abstract:

Information technology is the acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and dissemination of information by a combination of computing and telecommunications. In this talk, we present some recent developments in combining Internet, computing and information processing with data networking and telecommunication. These advances introduce disruptive changes to the landscape of communication and data networking which are traditionally dominated by dedicated service dependent hardware and special equipments. In addition, these advances make communication and data networking friendly for Cloud computing. Their IT based software-defined architecture provides unprecedented flexibilities that allow applying sophisticated decision and intelligence at various levels to make application “smart”. Most importantly, new services capabilities and business opportunities can be enabled, and many of them may not even be possible in a dedicated hardware driven setting.

The Speaker:

Dr. Wu Chou is VP, Chief IT Scientist, and Head of Huawei Shannon (IT) Lab, USA. He is an IEEE Fellow, a renowned expert in the field of IT, Web/Internet, communication, Cloud, and enterprise services. He has over 20+ years of successful professional career in leading R&D organizations. Before joining Huawei, he was Director of R&D at Avaya. He graduated from Stanford University in 1990 with four advanced degrees in science and engineering. He joined AT&T Bell Labs after graduated from Stanford, and continued his career in Lucent Bell Labs and Avaya Labs before joining Huawei. In his role at Huawei, he leads the global Huawei Shannon Lab for its research and innovation in the fast moving IT area. He has extensive experience and knowledge in cutting-edge technology research, incubating ground breaking products, visionary technical leadership, and agile execution in product development. He served as an editor for multiple standards at W3C, ECMA, ISO, ETSI, etc. He is an editor of IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC), IEEE TSC Special Issue on Cloud Computing, and Journal of Web Services Research. He published over 140 journal and conference papers, holds 24 US and international patents with many additional patent applications pending. He received Bell Laboratories President’s Gold Award for his achievement in 1997 and Avaya Leadership Award in 2005.

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