[CSEE-colloq] Farnam Jahanian of NSF on Innovating for Society, 10:30am Thur 2/9, ITE456 UMBC

[Tim Finin]

                 INNOVATING FOR SOCIETY: REALIZING THE
                   PROMISE AND POTENTIAL OF COMPUTING

                          Dr. Farnam Jahanian
                      National Science Foundation
    Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

            10:30am Thursday 9 February 2012, ITE 456, UMBC

The computing discipline is at the center of an ongoing societal
transformation.  The explosive growth of scientific and social data,
wireless connectivity at broadband speeds for billions of mobile
endpoints, and seamless access to computational resources in the
“cloud” are transforming the way we work, learn, play, and
communicate.  Advances in computation and data-enabled techniques will
continue to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and
engineering innovation, with the impact becoming more pervasive
throughout society for decades to come.

Dr. Jahanian will focus his talk on some of the technological and
societal trends that are shaping our future and providing new
opportunities for foundational research and education.  He will
describe how these advances influence the portfolio of the Computer
and Information Science and Engineering Directorate at NSF and,
therefore, also serve as key drivers of economic competitiveness and
are crucial to achieving national priorities.


Farnam Jahanian serves as the National Science Foundation Assistant
Director for the Computer and Information Science and Engineering
(CISE) Directorate.  He guides CISE, with a budget of over $635
million, in its mission to uphold the nation’s leadership in computer
and information science and engineering through support of fundamental
and transformative advances that are a key driver of economic
competitiveness and that are crucial to achieving national
priorities. Dr. Jahanian is also co-chair of the Networking and
Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Subcommittee
of the National Science and Technology Council Committee on
Technology, providing overall coordination for the activities of 15
government agencies.

Dr. Jahanian is on leave from the University of Michigan, where he
holds the Edward S. Davidson Collegiate Professorship and served as
Chair for Computer Science and Engineering from 2007 – 2011 and as
Director of the Software Systems Laboratory from 1997 – 2000.  His
research on Internet infrastructure security formed the basis for the
Internet security company Arbor Networks, which he co-founded in 2001.
He served as Chairman of Arbor Networks until its acquisition by
Tektronix Communication in 2010.  Dr. Jahanian holds a master's degree
and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at
Austin.  He is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM), the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE),
and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

For more information see http://csee.umbc.edu/talks