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David Du: A New Era for the Convergence of Network Centric and Data Centric Computing

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2310 CS
Speaker Name: 
David Du
Speaker Institution: 
University of Minnesota
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The Internet today has grown to an enormously large scale. Devices large and small are connected globally from anywhere on the earth. With the rapid advancement of technology, we now also have cheap and small devices with high computing power and large storage capacity. These devices are designed to improve our daily life by monitoring our environment, collecting critical data, and executing special instructions. These devices have gradually become a dominant part of our Internet. Many imaging, audio and video data are converted from analog to digital and digital data are generated at an alarming rate. As a result, unprecedented amount of data are available. How to manage and look for the desired information becomes a great challenge. How to preserve these data becomes a crisis. At the same time, many emerging applications like service-oriented, security and real-time demand much better support than the current Internet can offer. In this talk, we will present a vision of content addressable future Internet. What are the essential changes in data representation, information retrieval, storage systems and networking design will be discussed. We believe an object-oriented intelligent storage is an essential part of the solution to this new computing and communication environment. We will also present a number of research projects that are currently under investigation in our NSF I/UCRC Center on Intelligent Storage. These projects include data deduplication, long-term data preservation, data center power management, and flash memory based solid state drives. Bio: David Hung-Chang Du: Dr. Du is currently the Qwest Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. He has served as a Program Director (IPA) at National Science Foundation (NSF) CISE/CNS Division from 2006 to 2008. At NSF, he was responsible for NeTS (networking research cluster) NOSS (Networks of Sensor Systems) Program and worked on Cyber Trust (Internet Security) Program. He is also the Director of a NSF I/UCRC Center on Intelligent Storage. Dr. Du received a B.S. degree from National Tsing Hua Univeristy in 1974, an M.S. and Ph.D. degree from University of Washington (Seattle) in 1980 and 1981 respectively. He joined University of Minnesota as a faculty since 1981. Dr. Du has a wide range of research expertise including multimedia computing, mass storage systems, high-speed networking, sensor networks, cyber security, high-performance file systems and I/O, database design, and CAD for VLSI circuits. He has authored and co-authored over 230 technical papers including 110 referred journal publications in these research areas. He has graduated 51 Ph.D. and 80 M.S. students in the last 30 years. Dr. Du is an IEEE Fellow (since 1998) and a Fellow of the Minnesota Supercomputer Institute.
Event Date:
Friday, April 20, 2012 - 12:00pm - 1:00pm (ended)