Dr. Chung-Sheng Li

Hawthorne, NY

Talk Title: Global Collaboration: From Web 2.0 to Community 2.0

Time: April 3 16：00-17：00

Venue: FIT 楼1-312

Abstract:

As part the globalization trend, enterprises are facing a serious challenge of needing to be globally consistent and locally nimble at the same time. Recent rapid evolution of Web 2.0 and real-time event driven architecture served as the catalyst for new paradigms in enterprise information composition, and potentially enable much more flexible real-time global collaboration. This new paradigm will have profound impact on the enterprise IT architectures. The current state-of-the-art approach in enterprise information composition is often based on data federation and information integration. However, many information composition tasks can be much better served through Situational Applications (i.e. applications that are mash-uped for addressing some of the immediate business problems). Meanwhile, a tectonic shift is occurring in the evolution of human societies as traditional communities and relationships are extended, virtualized and globalized via information and communication technology. Historically, humankind has benefited from geographically co-located communities to create a sense of belonging, and facilitate knowledge and resource sharing, and collaboration A growing number of global digital communities are emerging that leverage the Web 2.0 and new tools for collaboration and interaction, which are becoming a more important part of our life, play and work. Digital communities are becoming an important part of Globally Integrated Enterprises and SMBs enabling rapid distributed product development, innovation, and interaction between employees, partners, and customers. Digital communities will represent new business opportunities in the areas of software enablement, infrastructure support and hosting services.

Biography：

Chung-Sheng Li received the BSEE degree from National Taiwan University, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1984, and the MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He has been with the Computer Science Division at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member since Sept. 1991. He is currently DGM for the Security, Privacy, and eXtensible technology department. His research interests include digital library, content-based retrieval of images and image sequence, knowledge discovery and data mining, content adaptation. He has initiated and coinitiated several research programs in IBM on fast tunable receiver for all-optical networks, content-based retrieval in the compressed domain for large image/video databases, federated digital libraries, and biosurveillance. He has authored or coauthored more than 120 journal and conference papers and received the best paper award from IEEE Transactions on Multimedia in 2003. He is a Fellow of the IEEE Circuit and System Society, the IEEE Laser Electro-Optic Society, the IEEE Communication Society, and the IEEE Computer Society.