[Colloquium] Reminder: Wednesday's talk by Carl Kesselman

[Margery Ishmael]

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - TALK

Date:  Wednesday, May 31st, 2006
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 251

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Speaker:  Carl Kesselman, Director, Center for Grid Technologies,  
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Url: http://www.isi.edu/~carl/

Title:  Virtual Communities and Science in the Large

Abstract:

Increasingly, significant activities in science, business and society  
at large take place within the context of distributed,  
computationally enabled collaborations.  Large-scale science  
collaborations such as those found in astrophysics, astronomy,  
geophysics, and particle physics are typical of this new type of  
collaboration. Driven by requirements for a broad range of skill  
sets, participants and resources, the concept of community becomes  
central organizing principal for these emerging computationally  
empowered explorations.  However, unlike traditional communities,  
which tend to have well defined members and boundaries, today's  
scientific communities are dynamic, distributed, and span  
institutional boundaries.  This has lead to the description of these  
structures as virtual organizations.

Virtual organizations more then just the people, but encompasses the  
services, resources and capabilities that are shared to achieve the  
goals of the shared endeavor. This leads to the inevitable question  
of how these distributed are communities formed, how are they  
maintained, how to they create new services and capabilities for  
their members, how do they get work done. Technologies such as  
service oriented architectures and Grids provide underlying  
foundation, but now need have mechanisms for identifying, creating  
and operating distributed virtual communities. In this talk, I will  
explore the question of how to create and empower virtual communities  
and how we can support community formation within the context of our  
information technology infrastructure.

***The talk will be followed by refreshments in Ryerson 255***

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Host:  Ridgway Scott

People in need of assistance should call 773-834-8977 in advance.

For information on future CS talks: http://www.cs.uchicago.edu/events



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