Cloud Computing and the Future of Internet Services

Speaker:	Dr. Wei-Ying MA
		Assistant Managing Director
		Microsoft Research Asia
		Beijing, China

Title:		"Cloud Computing and the Future of Internet Services"

Date:		Thursday, 16 April 2009

Time:		3:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue:		Room 3416
		(lifts 17/18)
		HKUST

Abstract:

A principal aspiration of cloud computing is to create an Internet-based
platform that facilitates the development of Web-scale services. By
presenting this platform and infrastructure (including datacenters) as a
service for developers, together with cloud-based software and data as a
service for users, cloud computing promises to "level the playing field"
such that small start-up ventures can directly compete with more established
Internet companies. In this talk, I will share my thoughts on how this
emerging trend could change the landscape of the Internet as we know it, and
discuss the opportunities and technical challenges it raises from the
perspective of Web data management.

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Biography:

Dr. Wei-Ying Ma is an Assistant Managing Director at Microsoft Research Asia
where he oversees multiple research groups including Web Search and Data
Mining, Natural Language Computing, and Human Computer Interaction. Over the
past few years, his team has made numerous key technology transfers to
Microsoft's search and online service business unit, and published a great
number of papers at SIGIR, WWW, and ACM Multimedia. Under his leadership,
his team is now widely recognized as one of the global powerhouses in
research related to web search, data mining, and multimedia information
retrieval. Wei-Ying currently serves on the editorial boards of ACM
Transactions on Information System (TOIS) and ACM/Springer Multimedia
Systems Journal. He was the program co-chair of the 17th International World
Wide Web Conference (WWW) 2008, program co-chair of the Pacific Rim
Conference on Multimedia (PCM) 2007, and general co-chair of the Asia
Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS) 2008. He will be the general co-chair
of SIGIR 2011.