Speaker: Dr. Manish Parashar When: Tuesday, April 15th, 2008 Time: 2:00pm Where: ECS 243

Abstract:
Pervasive services and information environments are enabling a new generation of knowledge-based, data-driven scientific applications, which symbiotically and opportunistically combine computations, data services, and sensors/instruments to provide dramatic insights into complex phenomenon. However the scale, dynamism and uncertainty of these environments and applications present many challenges. In this talk I will introduce the opportunities, requirements and challenges of information driven scientific investigation, and will present research efforts and application scenarios. I will then introduce solutions being developed at TASSL, Rutgers University as part of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing.

Biography:
Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University, where he also is director of the NSF Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) and the Applied Software Systems Laboratory (TASSL). He received a BE degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University. He has received the Rutgers Board of Trustees Award for Excellence in Research (2004-2005), NSF CAREER Award (1999) and the Enrico Fermi Scholarship from Argonne National Laboratory (1996). His research is in the broad area of computational science and applied parallel & distributed computing, and specifically on solving science and engineering problems on very large systems. For more information please visit http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/~parashar/.