IEEE Reliability Society Newsletter Vol. 56, No. 4. November 2010
Front page:
President's Message
From the Editor
Society News:
Reliability Society Receives IEEE Education Award
RS Engineer of the Year and Lifetime
Achievement Awards
IEEE Technical Field Awards (TFA) Call for Nominations
IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners
held in Monterey, CA
IEEE Transactions on Reliability: Special Issue on PHM
Chapter Activities:
Joint Boston, New
Hampshire, Providence Chapter
Dallas Chapter
Technical Activities:
Annual Technology Report - Call for Contributions
Conference Announcements:
International Conference on System
of Systems Engineering (SoSE 2010)
International Prognostic Health Management Conference (PHM
2011). Deadline for Paper Submission Extended
Safety & Reliability Workshop
IEEE Cloud Forum a Success
The Reliability Society held its first IEEE Cloud Forum for Practitioners on October 12, 2010, hosted by the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, in cooperation with the IEEE Standards Association, Communications Society, Computer Society, and Power and Energy Society. Over one hundred people attended the forum.
Drs. Jeffrey Voas and Bret Michael co-chaired the conference. Dr. Michael is pictured below with Mr. John Shea, Director of Enterprise Services & Integration, Office of the U.S. Department of Defense Office of the Chief Information Officer. Mr. Shea and the other speakers and panelists gave their predictions of how cloud computing will evolve between now and 2013.
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Ms. Mary Lynne Nielsen, Director, Corporate Programs, IEEE Standards Association, along with Dr. Bill Tonti, Director of Future Technology Directions, IEEE, discussed some of the current cloud-related initiatives sponsored by IEEE. The attendees also heard from senior technical leaders from industry, government, and academia. Several of the presentations dealt with the challenges the engineering community will face in providing high levels of reliability, security, privacy, dependability and trust from both the cloud provider and user’s perspectives.
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From left to right: Ms. Angela Yochem of Dell, Jim Young of Google, Mr. Elwood Coslett of Intel, Mr. Chris Hynes of Cisco, and moderator Dr. Joseph Williams of Microsoft.
For those of you who were not able to attend the forum, videos of the presentations will be made available by late November on You Tube (www.youtube.com). You will be able to navigate to the videos via the links on the forum’s website (http://www.ieeereliability.com/CloudForum/).
The Reliability Society plans to hold a follow-on forum in 2011, cooperation with the societies and the Standards Association that co-sponsored the forum in 2010. If you would like to help organize or participate in the next forum, please contact the President of the Reliability Society.