ICCBSS 2005: Conference Keynotes

Biographies

John Kemp, Nokia

John Kemp is a senior technical architect at Nokia Corporation. He has contributed to the development of several web services specifications, including OASIS SAML and the Liberty Alliance Identity Federation (ID-FF) and web services (ID-WSF) frameworks. John is one of the architects working on Nokia's web services software development kit, and is an experienced developer of web- and web service-based software applications.

Mobile Web Services – Bridging fixed and mobile networks with COTS Software(Wednesday 8:45 – 9:45, 9 February)

The traditional fixed Internet has offered a wide variety of services and content to the general web-browsing public. The mobile network has been seen quite differently, offering several challenges to the provision of Internet-based software and services. Web services technologies aim to overcome these challenges, and provide a world of new and exciting software-based services to mobile users. How will COTS software support mobile web services, and what are some of the issues in bringing web services support to COTS software?

Patrice Degoulet, Head of Medical Informatics at Pompidou Hospital

Professor Patrice Degoulet, MD, PhD, currently acts as the chief information officer of the Pompidou university hospital (HEGP) and the director of the SPIM research laboratory in medical informatics of the Broussais Faculty of Medicine of the Paris V University. He is vice-president of the International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA) and members of several scientific journals on medical informatics including JAMIA, Methods of Information in Medicine and the International Journal of Medical Informatics. He is author or co-author of 5 textbooks and more than 250 papers in medical informatics. His main domains of interest concern hospital information systems and the electronic patient record. Directly involved in several European telematics projects, he has endorsed since 1996 the responsibility of the analysis, design and deployment of the COHERENCE, the component-based clinical information system of the HEGP hospital, that was given in 2003 the First eAward for eHealth from the European Commission.

Building a COTS-based Hospital Medical System (Thursday 8:45 – 9:45, 10 February)

Pompidou Hospital is one of the first hospitals to implement an EPR (Electronic Patient Record). This is a not too old medical ideal where everyday operations and record-keeping are carried out and maintained almost exclusively with computers. The idea behind it is to make all patient's medical reports, lab results, and images electronically available to clinicians, instantaneously, wherever they are and only using a laptop. Patrice Degoulet, chose a commercial solution, a collection of the most effective COTS already existing in the market in constructing the entire Pompidou's Medical System. He will present how the new system was designed and how the integration was carried out with so many different commercial components from different COTS vendors.

Tom Glover, President and Chairman of The Web Services Interoperability
Organization and Senior Program Manager - Web Services Standards at IBM

Tom Glover is the Senior Program Manager of Web Services Standards for IBM Software Group. Currently Tom serves as IBM Director, President, and Chairman of the Board within the Web Services-Interoperability (WS-I) Organization [1]. Through his leadership, WS-I is promoting an industry-wide understanding of Web services by articulating the business value this rapidly maturing technology. Working within the growing Web services community, Tom’s vision is to make interoperable Web services a reality.

Prior to working with WS-I, Tom served as general program manager of UDDI.org [2], responsible for guiding the organization as it developed the Universal Description, Discovery and Integration Specification. He was also managing director of the UDDI Business Registry Operators’ Council, which delivered and managed the first UDDI-based Business Registry in production on the Internet.

Tom has held a variety of other technical and managerial positions in his IBM career, including assignments in Application and Integration Middleware Divisions Architecture Group, Application and Integration Middleware Business Development, the IBM Centre for Advanced Studies, and as manager of C/C++ Tool and Compiler development. Tom began his IBM career in Toronto in 1983.

He holds a Master of Mathematics in Computer Science degree from the University of Waterloo and a Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science from Ryerson Polytechnic University.

Evolving COTS and GOTS software into the 21^st Century (Friday 8:45 – 9:45, 11 February)

Throughout the world today the drive towards ubiquitous interoperability has become a critical step towards meeting the need for flexible configuration of software solutions. Web services has emerged as the standards based component model with the potential to deliver this broad interoperability, and the Services Oriented Architecture model is hailed as the architecture within which these services will be deployed. We'll look at the synergies between these emerging technologies and the "off the shelf software" movement and discuss the synergies between the two initiatives which, if exploited, may empower new software users.