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Hi everyone, Just a note re. this message on an up-and-coming talk at the School of Computer Science next Thursday. Given that we've been having discussions on how we might be able to offer electronic-commerce support to interested IP members, this may interest some of you. Cheers, Leo ---------- >Subject: FW: Distinguished speaker series at Dalhousie >Title: e-business Opportunities and Software Challenges >Speaker: Stuart Feldman, Director, IBM Institute for Advanced Commerce >Time: Thursday, May 18, 2000, 11:35 >Location: Computer Science Auditorium > >Abstract: >This talk will discuss some of the major trends in electronic commerce and >the practical issues software research challenges they raise. >The explosive growth of electronic commerce and of new business models >presents many opportunities for experimentation and success. New structures >are forming, new ways of interacting are now possible and are likely to be >essential. Complex marketplaces will replace simple web sites, multiparty >negotiations and ad hoc groupings will replace simple catalog sales, >efficient specialists will flourish. Business processes will be more widely >distributed and their associations will be more dynamic. Businesses will >cross borders and time zones routinely, and many more activities will be >automated. >As a result, software will be central to the new enterprise. Even today some >e-commerce companies are little more than software and a web of legal >contracts. Systems will be business-critical, highly distributed, >dynamically configured, requirements will change rapidly and frequently be >poorly understood, yet there will be severe performance and security >demands. In other words, e-business leads us back to a set of previously >unsolved software engineering problems. Practical solutions are being >constructed and repaired as necessary. Our challenge is to extend software >and systems engineering research to attack these problems, and to produce >results that will be useful and used. > >Biography: >Feldman did his academic work (AB, Princeton and PhD, MIT) in astrophysics >and mathematics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. He has >been a member of the Board of the Computing Research Association and chair >of ACM SIGPLAN and is founding chair of the ACM SIG on E-Commerce. >He was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager at >Bellcore before joining IBM in mid-1995. He has published research in >software engineering (and was the creator of Make), programming languages, >scientific computing and other areas of computer science. He was also >architect for a large new line of software products at Bellcore. >At IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Feldman leads a department doing >research in a wide variety of network-related technologies and application >enablers, including electronic commerce, parallel databases, anti-virus >technology, and advanced internet multimedia. He is also the Director of >IBM's Institute for Advanced Commerce, an organization created to increase >IBM's intellectual leadership in e-commerce, and to forge better connections >to the outside research world as well as to accelerate creation of new >technologies for support of e-Business. ___________________________ Leo J. Deveau Executive Director Chebucto Community Net Halifax, N.S. Canada ____________________________________ "Technical ability without moral purpose will not lead to anywhere. Moral purpose without technical ability is incapable of getting anything done." -Greg MacLeod. _____________________________________
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