Students prepare for class in the Gicca Atrium at West Village H, the new CCIS facility.
T
he new state-of-the-art College of
Computer and Information Science
(CCIS) building will be officially
inaugurated November 8 with the first in a
continuing series of Tech Forums. The event
is expected to attract high-profile industry
leaders and government officials to celebrate
the college's growing status as a national
leader in computer and information science
research and education.
"We want to create an exciting forum for
the exchange of ideas and draw attention to
our role as a central player in Greater Boston's
high-tech community," says CCIS Dean Larry
Finkelstein. "The program will feature the
best and the brightest from the information
technology industry."
The event will focus on future trends
in information technology (IT) with two
panel discussions: "Digital Protection and
Survival" and "The Future of the Software
Market." Both panels will consider the
economic, technology, and skills impacts
of their respective topics.
"Digital Protection and Survival" will
be moderated by Simson Garfinkel, a well
known security researcher and commentator.
Panelists will include Ed Appel, president of
the Joint Council on Information Age Crime,
Whitfield Diffie, Vice President, Sun Fellow
and Chief Security Officer of Sun Microsystems,
and John Manferdelli, general manager of
Windows security at Microsoft.
"The Future of the Software Market" will
be moderated by Frank Gens, IDC's senior
vice president, research. Panelists will include
Matthias Felleisen, trustee professor at CCIS;
Ian Holland, vice president, architecture and
systems engineering at Kronos; Clemens
Szyperski, software architect at Microsoft
Research; and John Glaser, vice president
and CIO of Partners HealthCare System.
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