Trends in Mobile Computing

Speaker:	Dr. Hui LEI
		IBM T. J. Watson Research Center

Title:		"Trends in Mobile Computing"

Date:		Wednesday, 23 April 2008

Time:		3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:		Room 4619 (New Annex, via lifts 31/32),HKUST

Abstract:

Significant changes are taking place in mobile computing that promise
major impact on how the enterprises do business and how people live their
daily lives. In particular, the emergence and deployment of broadband
wireless networks, new generation of mobile phones, mobile web
technologies and market demands are putting the mobile industry on a
collision course with the Internet and will drive important transformation
of the industry and enable significant new application growth. In this
talk, I will discuss emerging trends in various aspects of mobile
computing, including the infrastructure, enabling technologies,
applications, and the ecosystem. This presentation is partially based on a
recent study conducted by IBM Research on global technology outlook.


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Biography:

Hui LEI is with the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he currently
serves as the Strategy Consultant for IBM's world-wide research in
Distributed Computing and Programming Models and Tools. He is also a past
chair of IBM Research's mobile computing community. He has been working in
the areas of mobile computing, e-business, and service-oriented computing,
with an emphasis on software infrastructure and data management issues.
His work has been incorporated into multiple IBM software products,
recognized as IBM Research Outstanding Accomplishment, and featured in
media such as New Scientist and ACM TechNews. He is a co-inventor of over
30 issued or pending US patents and has received 9 invention achievement
awards from IBM. An active member of the international research community,
he has served as a conference co-chair or program co-chair of WMC 2002,
MDM 2004, ICEBE 2005, Mobiquitous 2007, ICEBE 2007 and MDM 2008. He
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University and holds
a Visiting Professor appointment in Sun Yat-sen University. He is a Senior
Member of IEEE.