Computing Science New Year Lecture 2003

Published: 17 January 2003

The inaugural lecture of this new series will take place on Friday 17 January 2003 at 4.00pm in the Kelvin Gallery - more details follow.

The Department of Computing Science is launching a series of annual New Year lectures by eminent guest speakers on a range of computing science topics.

The first lecture will take place on Friday 17th January 2003 at 4.00pm in the Kelvin Gallery, Hunterian Museum, and will be followed by a small reception.

This will be the inaugural lecture by Professor Joe Sventek of Computing Science.

For more information, contact Jon Ritchie (jon@dcs.gla.ac.uk) or Simon Gay (simon@dcs.gla.ac.uk).

Automated Network Management: The Search for the Holy Grail
Prof. Joseph S Sventek
Abstract:
As individuals in our society become more connected, the communications systems that support that connectedness are becoming increasingly complex. Managing these communications systems to deliver the services that customers expect has correspondingly increased in difficulty, to the point that management by traditional, manual means is becoming less and less tenable.

Typical engineering systems have long utilized closed-loop control mechanisms to automate the management of systems. Automated network management attempts to adapt closed-loop control concepts to communications systems. This talk will focus on the architectural basis for automated network management and describe an example of a novel measurement technique, based upon programmable network technologies, for providing the raw measurements that can drive closed-loop management of traffic engineering within an IP-based network.

Joe Sventek is the Professor of Communication Systems in the Department of Computing Science at the University of Glasgow.

He received a B.A. in Mathematics cum laude from the University of Rochester and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Chemistry from the University of California. Prior to his current position, he led the distributed systems group at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, lectured in the Computer Science department of the University of California, led the ANSAware implementation team in Cambridge, served as the lead architect for HP's Distributed Computing Program, was HP's Laboratory Scientist for Distributed and Object-oriented computing, and, most recently, was director of Agilent Laboratories Scotland and, simultaneously, a research fellow in Agilent Laboratories.

His current research interests include programmable networking techniques for automated network management, architectures for complex distributed systems, and networking over novel communications mechanisms.

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First published: 17 January 2003

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