 Professor
Satyanarayanan is an experimental computer scientist who has
pioneered research in the field of mobile information access.
An outcome of this work is the Coda File System, which provides
application-transparent support for disconnected and weakly-connected
operation. Key ideas from Coda have been incorporated by Microsoft
into a forthcoming release of the Windows NT file system.
More recently, Satyanarayanan and his research group have
been working on application-aware adaptation, a more general
approach to mobile information access. This concept is being
explored in the context of a new platform, Odyssey.
Prior to his work on Coda and Odyssey, Satyanarayanan
was a principal architect and implementor of the Andrew
File System, a location-transparent distributed Unix file
system that addressed issues of scale and security. Later
versions of this system have been commercialized and incorporated
into the Open Software Foundation's DCE offering.
Satyanarayanan is the Carnegie Group
Professor of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.
He received the PhD in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon,
after Bachelor's and Master's degrees from the Indian Institute
of Technology, Madras. He has been a consultant and advisor
to many industrial and governmental organizations. [more]
 Mel
Horwitch is Professor of the Management and Chair of the Department
of Management at Polytechnic University and founding Director
of the Institute for Technology and Enterprise. He is also
Visiting Professor at London Business School. Previously he
was Professor and Founding Dean of Management at Theseus Institute
in Sophia Antipolis, France, serving on the Theseus Board
of Directors and Theseus Scientific Advisory Board.
Professor Horwitch has also served on the
Faculties of the Sloan School at MIT and Harvard Business
School. He was also the John M. Olin Distinguished Fellow
at Templeton College, Oxford University and Visiting Professor
at the University of Paris-Dauphine. Professor Horwitch
was also on the Board of Directors of the International
Association of Macro-Engineering S ocieties and Vice President
and Board member of the American Society for Macro-Engineering.
He is also a member of the Committee on Industrial Economics
of the National Research Council.
Professor Horwitch received his AB
from Princeton University and MBA and Doctorate from Harvard
Business School, and was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Thailand.
He has written extensively on innovation and technology
strategy, particularly with reference to such knowledge-intensive
sectors as services, information technology, and telecommunications.
[more]
Dr.David Chaum is the founder and a member of the Board of
Directors of DigiCash Inc., a company that has pioneered
electronic cash innovations. He received his Ph.D. in Computer
Science, with a minor in Business Administration, from the
University of California at Berkeley and taught at New York
University Graduate School of Business Administration and
at the University of California. He built up a cryptography
research group at the Center for Mathematics and Computer
Science (CWI) in Amsterdam and during this time also founded
DigiCash. In 1993, he left CWI to become CEO of DigiCash,
which had doubled in size since its founding in 1990 with
12 employees.
In
the area of cryptography, Dr. Chaum has published over 45
original technical articles (see list of articles), received
over 17 US patents, and founded the scientific organization,
the International Association for Cryptographic Research
(IACR). Concurrently he created and chaired the Smart Card
2000 conferences and several European Union funded industry
consortia, including CAFE, which focused on electronic-wallets
and the smart cards they hold..
Professional recognition includes
invited articles featured in Scientific American (August
’92) and Communications of the ACM(February ’81),
EU Technology Innovations Award ITEA ’95, DAAD and
UC Regents Fellowships. He has appeared often in popular
and trade media, and is widely consulted on matters of cryptography,
payments policy and overall technology direction. [more]
Mr. Sternhell is the assistant to the
Chairman, President & Chief Executive Officer at Consist
International in New York, the largest vertically integrated
software house in Latin America with over 700 major clients
crossing major industries. Prior to joining Consist, Mr.
Sternhell worked at Hamilton Beach International, in Strategic
Planning and Corporate Development. Mr. Sternhell has various
degrees, including a Master of Business Administration from
The European Institute for IT and Management in France,
a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.
Mr. Sternhell sits on the Board of Directors for Zoteca
and the advisory board at Persys Investments, BFL Capital
and Praxell, Inc.
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