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Important dates
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August 20, 2006 - 2:00 PM - 7:00 PM |
HP Workshops at WCC 2006 Santiago Chile will be of one (1) day duration:
* Women in Technology Workshop
* HP Technologies Workshop
HP Workshops 2006 will take place in:
Crowne Plaza Hotel
Av. Libertador Bernardo O Higgins 136, Santiago, CHILE
Women in the Information Society: A Global Context and Tools for Ensuring Full Participation of Women in Latin America
Las Mujeres en la Sociedad de la Informacin: Un contexto global y herramientas para garantizar su plena participacin en Amrica Latina
| August 20, Sunday - Room Atacama - Crowne Plaza |
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| 14:00 - 16:00 |
The Context, Issues and Trends
Moderator:
Barbara Waugh, Ph.D., Hewlett-Packard Company
Leadership in Latin America:
Chiles Commitment to Gender Equity
Laura Albornoz
Ministra del Servicio Nacional de la Mujer
SERNAM-Chile
Women and IT in Latin America:
Crafting a Culture of Collaborative Innovation:
Gloria Bonder
UNESCO Regional Chairwoman, Science & Technology
in Latin America
Why Do Corporations Care?
Marcela Perez-de-Alonso
EVP of HR, Hewlett-Packard
Women in the Information Society:
Rising Waters Don’t Lift All Boats
Nancy Hafkin
Director, Knowledge Working
Former Coordinator,
African Information Society Initiative,
United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
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Part I: The Context, Issues and Trends
- El Contexto, Temas y Tendencias
Explores the situation for girls and women in the information society from a global and regional
perspective: access to, benefits from information and communication technology (ICT); the obstacles and
accelerators to professional women in the field; and implications for capacity building and social justice.
Leadership in Latin America: Chiles Commitment to Gender Equity
The Minister will share the significance of the new presidents commitment to gender equity and the implications for women and ICTs. She will also discuss the importance of gender equity for capacity building in the region and in the world. (20 minutes)
Women and IT in Latin America: Crafting a Culture of Collaborative Innovation
Full participation of women is a crucial component to build an inclusive and democratic Information Society (IS) that reflects the wide range of needs and perspectives. Latin American and Caribbean women have been playing an active role in defining the scope and meaning of the IS, facing up to manifold obstacles and discrimination that still undermine gender equity within this framework with determination, imagination and commitment. Bonder will discuss the experiences of women in Latin American and Caribbean countries, the serious asymmetries that have caused womens exclusion and poverty and the need of the Information Society to be aligned with gender equity principles. In addition, ICTs are global public assets and local, national and international public financial schemes should be geared toward social inclusion and equity in order to foster human development in the region. Finally, Bonder will touch on the tools, resources and organizations that can support women in this important arena. (20 minutes)
Why Do Corporations Care?
Marcela is a native Chilean, and one of only 10 women to be included in recent Hispanic Business Corporate Elite directory, named one of the 50 Most Important Hispanics in Technology and Business by Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine, and named the 2005 Corporate Executive of the Year by Hispanic-Net, a California NGO. She will discuss the significance to the corporate sector of gender equity in order to produce the best skilled workers and ensure full business and market development; and what HP is doing about building global and regional capacity. (20 minutes)
Women in the Information Society: Rising Waters Don't Lift All Boats
Nancy will present an overview of the situation of ICT and women's empowerment globally, with an emphasis on Latin America, examining progress and constraints and attempting to identify critical success factors. Attention will also be given to efforts being made to develop tools to measure the participation of women in information technology, particularly in developing countries- an area in which the lack of evidence has exacerbated the invisibility of women in the information society. (20 minutes)
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C O F F E E B R E A K |
| 16:30 - 18:30 |
Global and Regional Success Stories & Tools
Creating Tools to Support Girls and Womens
Participation in ICTs
Claudia Morrell
Executive Director of the Center for Women and IT
The Internet Golpe in Chilean Science
Rick Duque
Chilean social scientist
Ph.D. Candidate, Louisiana State Univ.
European Initiatives and Tools for Empowering
Girls and Women in the Information Society
Marina Larios
Director, Inova Consultancy ltd. UK.
President of WiTEC
(European Association for Women in
Science, Engineering and Technology)
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Part II: Global and Regional Success Stories & Tools
/ Historias y Herramientas de Buenas Prcticas a Nivel Global y Regional.
Explores in greater depth successes in a few targeted countries, and tools for global and regional development.
Creating Tools to Support Girls and Womens Participation in ICTs
The Center for Women and Information Technology develops well-tested tools that encourage girls and women in ICTs. Tools include an award-winning video, a global declaration of agreement, a how-to guide for Computer Mania Day, and a program to transform mid-career women into technology entrepreneurs. All these tools are available for you to adapt or adopt. Under Claudias leadership, the Centers programs and resources have expanded dramatically, including the development of a CWIT Scholars program which retains 94% of its students; increased funding of $8 million in scholarships, research, and program funding to support girls and womens participation and advancement in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers in education and industry; and the expansion of personnel from two to forty-one staff, students, teachers, and faculty all focused on global change, beginning one girl and one educator at a time. (20-25 minutes)
The Internet Golpe in Chilean Science
Rick will share research on the question, Do women still have more difficulty pursuing research careers than men in the Internet era? Although this question has been extensively investigated in industrialized countries (pre-Internet), research is just now providing comparative evidence from less developed areas such as Africa and India. Based on 30 digital video interviews and a comprehensive survey of 285 scientists in Chile, we initiate an examination of Latin American gender differences on a variety of individual, organizational, and Internet practice dimensions. (20-25 minutes)
European Initiatives and Tools for Empowering Girls and Women in the Information Society
Marina will discuss global Interventions, its impact and outcomes on communities, groups and policy. She will build on the good practice of WiTEC, which has 20 years experience working with EC funded programmes, featuring EQUALITEC, which targets women interested in returning to careers in ICT after time out of the workforce and is funded under the Equal programme of the European Social Fund A variety of findings and tools will be presented. (20-25 minutes)
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Wrap-Up and Next Steps
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Summary
This workshop will address gender equity in the information society from the perspectives of global
participation; Latin American women; success stories, tools and best practices. Speakers will address
women’s access to, benefit from and literacy and leadership in Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT), and the need to educate, recruit, retain and retrain women engineering and ICT
employees to maintain global and regional competitiveness. Finally, the workshop will offer participants
Concrete tools and best practices that have demonstrated success for ensuring girls and women’s full
participation in the knowledge economy.
Purpose
Provide attendees with a global and regional context for women and ICT, success stories and tools for
improving gender equity in ICT for national, regional and global capacity building and social justice.
Objectives
- Increase awareness among attendees about the critical global and regional issues that impact women’s full access, vocational training, qualifications, participation and leadership in ICT.
- Hear of corporate interest in and response to the challenges.
- Present success stories and tools that have demonstrated effectiveness globally and in the region.
- Provide a resource fair and networking event for advocates for girls and women working in technology related areas.
Target Audience
- Educators in ICT
- Career women and men in technology
- Next generation women and men in technology
- Advocates for women exploring solutions to issues for women and ICT
- Public, government and private associations for women’s development.
Hosts/Organizers:
- Centro de Modelamiento Matemtico (CMM-U. de Chile)
Dalia Finkelstein, dfinkels(at)dim(dot)uchile(dot)cl
- IFIP TC6, Polytechnical Univ. of Valencia, Spain
Ana Pont Sanjuan, apont(at)disca(dot)upv(dot)es
- Univ. of Maryland Baltimore County
Claudia Morrell, cmorrell(at)umbc(dot)edu
- HP-University Relations
Barbara Waugh, barbara(dot)waugh(at)hp(dot)com
Lueny Morell, lueny(dot)morell(at)hp(dot)com
Martina Trucco, martina(dot)trucco(at)hp(dot)com
HP Technologies Workshop Description:
Emerging computing trends: utility computing and digital publishing
Presented by University of Chile and HP Labs
| August 20, Sunday - Room Patagonia - Crowne Plaza |
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| 14:00 - 15:45 |
Utility and Grid Computing Trends
Moderator:
Alejandro Jofr, CMM-Universidad de Chile
Re-inventing the Economics of Information Technology:
realizing a global utility computing infrastructure
Richard J. Friedrich
Director, Enterprise Systems and Software Laboratory
HP Laboratories
Emerging Grid Technologies In Multi-Application
Global Grids
Cindy Zheng
PRAGMA Grid Coordinator
Pacific Rim Application and Grid Middleware Assembly
University of California, San Diego
San Diego Supercomputer Center
Digital Publishing - The Third Revolution
Lou Witkin
HP University Relations
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Part I: Utility and Grid Computing Trends
Today, the next generation of computing research is focusing on designing and enabling a utility computing model as one of its primary areas. Utility and Grid computing will support service-centric computing and end-to-end media rich infrastructures, supporting the transformation to digital content, including both business and consumer content. This next generation of computing infrastructure will dynamically adapt to new job types depending on need, with minimal human intervention.
This track will cover the current state of research, including the transition from Grid as an enabler for High-Performance Computing, towards emerging research enabling new applications and services applicable to the academic and business communities alike.
Re-inventing the Economics of Information Technology: realizing a global utility computing infrastructure
In this talk we will discuss the rise of utility computing as an important direction in enterprise computing. We will discuss the technical and economical issues in delivering utility computing on a large scale. We will describe early experiments that include a 1000-processor utility rendering service created for DreamWorks Animation that was used to render the films Shrek II and Madagascar. We will discuss the lessons learned from this experiment and how that has shaped the current research agenda for automating the design, deployment and operations of distributed services executing in a virtualized, shared resource pool. Finally, we will discuss the implications and opportunities of these trends on academic and industrial research.
Emerging Grid Technologies In Multi-Application Global Grids
This presentation introduces the Pacific Rim Applications and Grid Middleware Assembly (PRAGMA), the routine-use experiments in PRAGMA grid testbed and the multi-grid interoperation experiments in Grid Interoperation Now (GIN) testbed. The focus will be on the technologies being tested, adapted, researched and evolved in these efforts. These include technologies in grid security, application middleware and grid infrastructure middleware. This presentation describes the applications we ran to drive the technological development; the application middleware we developed, such as Ninf-G, Nimrod/G and Mpich-Gx; the grid infrastructure middleware we developed, such as grid file system - Gfarm, grid monitoring system - SCMSWeb and grid accounting system - MOGAS; and the various solutions we are working on, such as a GSI credential management system based on GAMA, various portal services and grid meta-schedulers based on 2 different mechanisms.
Digital Publishing - The Third Revolution
During recorded history, the printing process has undergone three major transformations. The first was the development of the printing processing and moveable type press. The second was the advent of the personal computer, low-cost desktop printers, and easy-to-use software for document creation that revolutionized and democratized publishing. The third transformation is taking place now. It brings together the ease, flexibility, and accessibility of desktop printing with the quality, speed, and wide media capabilities of a traditional offset lithographic press. This marriage of technologies combined with seamless access to information stored in databases enables a new realm of printing called custom printing or variable data printing. With custom printing, each succeeding copy from the press can be very different. Whole blocks of text, pictures and graphics, and the page layout can change. In this manner, each copy can be tailored to the needs and interests of the intended recipient of the document. This area of technology is commonly referred to as digital publishing. Digital publishing offers many research challenges in the domains of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, especially to enable work-flow automation for the printing of long runs of customized documents, each of which is different. In this talk, we will review the development of digital publishing, highlight some of the research that is needed with examples of recent work at HP Labs,discuss why HP is interested in digital publishing, and briefly examine the impact that digital publishing can have on teaching and learning in a campus setting, using Purdue University as an example.
Ambient Intelligence
The advent of low cost and low consumption computing devices enables a
world of multiple appliances and devices that will be present at home and
at the office, networked by wireless connections and with a high degree of
mobility. The programming and software development for these environments
will be different from the current languages and processes. This talk will
present tha main challenges and some existing proposals on the subject.
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C O F F E E B R E A K |
| 16:00 - 18:00 |
Artifact recognition, dynamic scheduling,
and dependability assessment for automated
digital publishing workflows
Jan P. Allebach and Wilson Rivera
Jan P. Allebach
Michael J. and Katherine R. Birck Professor of
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Purdue University
School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
Prof. Wilson Rivera
Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Grid Computing Experiences at the
University of Puerto Rico
Prof. Wilson Rivera
Parallel and Distributed Computing Laboratory
Electrical and Computer Engineering Department
University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez
Grid and Utility computing:
Perspectives, challenges, research problems...
Prof. Hugo Scolnik
Computer Sciences Department,
School of Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires
Ambient Intelligence
Jo Piquer
Associate Professor,Computer Science Department,
Physical and Mathematical Sciences Faculty,
University of Chile, PhD cole Polytechnique de Paris
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Part II: The Emergence of Digital Publishing.
An emerging field of imaging and printing technology is currently being forged by researchers developing new and innovative ways to leverage digital printing technologies, automation, image processing and process optimization. From JPEG artifact recognition, through workflow process automation, to customized variable-data printing, there are many exiting research areas to explore in this up-and-coming field.
This track will introduce the concept of Digital Publishing, cover the current state of research, and discuss challenges and opportunities for research and development.
Digital Publishing - The Third Revolution
During recorded history, the printing process has undergone three major transformations. The first was the development of the printing processing and moveable type press. The second was the advent of the personal computer, low-cost desktop printers, and easy-to-use software for document creation that revolutionized and democratized publishing. The third transformation is taking place now. It brings together the ease, flexibility, and accessibility of desktop printing with the quality, speed, and wide media capabilities of a traditional offset lithographic press. This marriage of technologies combined with seamless access to information stored in databases enables a new realm of printing called custom printing or variable data printing. With custom printing, each succeeding copy from the press can be very different. Whole blocks of text, pictures and graphics, and the page layout can change. In this manner, each copy can be tailored to the needs and interests of the intended recipient of the document. This area of technology is commonly referred to as digital publishing. Digital publishing offers many research challenges in the domains of electrical and computer engineering and computer science, especially to enable work-flow automation for the printing of long runs of customized documents, each of which is different. In this talk, we will describe some of these problem areas and the work that is underway to address them. We will discuss autonomous artifact recognition, a knowledge-based system for document verification, a system for optimized scheduling, and a fault prediction methodology.
Grid Computing Experiences at the University of Puerto Rico
The availability of powerful computers and high-speed network technologies as low-cost commodity components has changed the way we solve large scale problems. These technology opportunities have led to the possibility of using geographically distributed computers as a single, unified computing resource. Grid computing enables coordination and networking of resources across geographically dispersed organizations in a transparent way for users.
In the first part of this talk, we overview existing grid computing technologies and describe grid computing and networking challenges. In the second part of this talk, we will dive into the details of WALS-AIP (Wide Area Large Scale Automate Information Processing) project. WALS-AIP aims at developing an infrastructure for the treatment of signal-based information arriving from physical sensors in a wide-area, large scale environment. The proposed model accentuates a distributed space-time processing format. This approach demands efficient data and resource management techniques; therefore, we have developed new concepts in the middleware integration and distributed scheduling to adapt to an ever changing network infrastructure and provide a pathway between a physical world sensory reality, with its associated physical sensors, and a user, with his/her network infrastructure applications. In particular, we discuss the design and development of a grid-based tool to define workflow composition of signal processing operators as a grid service. This tool will allow the composition of operators that may be geographically distributed and provided by diverse administrative domains. Underlying this tool there are existing grid technologies such as GT4 and Gridsphere.
We concludethetalk with a discussion of a number of interesting open questions and opportunities of collaboration.
Grid and Utility computing: Perspectives, challenges, research problems...
This talk will be mainly focused on the security problems related to user authentication, digital signatures, etc, crucial for sharing resources across multiple platforms. Some new attacks will be briefly discussed.
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Utility and Grid Computing Trends
Today, the next generation of computing research is focusing on designing and enabling
a utility computing model as one of its primary areas. Utility and Grid computing will
support service-centric computing and end-to-end media rich infrastructures,
supporting the transformation to digital content, including both business and consumer content.
This next generation of computing infrastructure will dynamically adapt to new job types depending on need,
with minimal human intervention.
This track will cover the current state of research, including the transition from Grid as an
enabler for High-Performance Computing, towards emerging research enabling new applications and
services applicable to the academic and business communities alike.
Speakers include:
- Centro de Modelamiento Matemtico (CMM-U. de Chile)
Alejandro Jofr
- HP Labs
Bernardo Huberman
Rich Friedrich
- U. Puerto Rico
Wilson Rivera
- U. de Chile
Jo Piquer
- U. Federal Campina Grande, Brazil
Walfredo Cirne
- U. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hugo Scolnik
The Emergence of Digital Publishing
An emerging field of imaging and printing technology is currently being forged by researchers
developing new and innovative ways to leverage digital printing technologies, automation,
image processing and process optimization. From JPEG artifact recognition, through workflow process
automation, to customized variable-data printing, there are many exiting research areas to explore in this up-and-coming field.
This track will introduce the concept of Digital Publishing, cover the current state of research, and
discuss challenges and opportunities for research and development.
Speakers include:
- HP Labs
Lou Witkin
- Purdue Univ.
Jan Allebach
Chairs and co-organizers:
- Centro de Modelamiento Matemtico (CMM-U. de Chile)
Alejandro Jofr
- HP Labs
Bernardo Huberman
- HP-University Relations
Lueny Morell, lueny(dot)morell(at)hp(dot)com
Martina Trucco, martina(dot)trucco(at)hp(dot)com
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