Date/Time
Date(s) - 18 Apr 2012
6:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Location
Kingston University
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Annual Industrial Lecture Title: The Challenges in ICT: Debunking the Hype
Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing. School of Computing and Information Systems.
Speaker: Prof. Keith Jeffery
Date: Wednesday, 18th April 2012
Time: 6:30pm until 7:30pm and then followed by drinks and a food buffet until 8:30pm
Location: Penrhyn Road
Registration is required at this Lecture: To reserve a space at this Annual Lecture, then please send an email to: secevents@kingston.ac.uk by Wednesday, 4th April 2012.
Any question call: 020 8417 2242
Overview of Annual Lecture
The CIS Industrial Lecture is a public lecture that aims to inform on trends and new ideas in computing. It is targeted at a broad audience, including industry and commerce, public sector organisations, alumni and the general public. It promotes a greater understanding of the contribution of computing and technology to 
modern society, and facilitates networking and the exchange of ideas across discipline boundaries. Recent past speakers have included Sir David Brown (Chairman of Motorola UK), Dr Ed Parsons (Google) and Prof. Brian Collins (Chief Scientific Advisor to the Government Department of Transport and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills).
This year the Lecture will centre around the topical subject of GRID and Cloud computing and its impact on modern business. The lecture will be given by Prof Keith Jeffery, currently President of the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) and Director of International Relations at the Science and Technologies Facilities Council (STFC), UK.
Abstract
ICT has – in the last 50 years – changed the world of business, learning and leisure more than any other technology or influence. Imagine if we took computers out of the world. It would take every man, woman and child in UK working 24/7/365 to manage the banking transactions. Transport would stop. Communications would stop. TV and radio would stop. Financial services would stop. Hospitals could not operate effectively. Manufacturing would stop. Retail would stop.
Even your car, fridge, washing machine, home TV, central heating system would stop.
The management of ICT and gaining the best cost-benefit (by hiding complexity using autonomic techniques) is a perpetual challenge. The newest concept is CLOUD Computing. It follows (and to some extent incorporates) many previous concepts such as GRID computing, Cluster Computing, Distributed Computing, Client-Server computing, Service-oriented architecture, Model-driven software development and many more.
We shall explore what CLOUD computing is and what it means for us all in the context of the modern ICT environment. We shall also consider whether or not it provides a solution to the major underlying challenges in ICT. We shall also look forward to what is coming next.
Bio
Keith Jeffery is currently Director International Relations at STFC (Science and Technology Facilities Council) based at Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. Keith previously had strategic and operational responsibility for ICT with 360,000 users,1100 servers and 140 staff. Keith holds 3 honorary visiting professorships, is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London and the British Computer Society, is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional and an Honorary Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. Keith is currently President of ERCIM and President of euroCRIS, and serves on international expert groups, conference boards and assessment panels. He had advised government on security and green computing. He chaired the EC Expert Groups on GRIDs and on CLOUD Computing.
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