Keynote

Keynote Speakers

Dr. Joseph Mariani

Director, Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information, France

After being director of LIMSI, a French CNRS laboratory, from 1989 to 2000, and head of its "Human-Machine Communication” department, covering various modalities (spoken and written language processing, computer vision, computer  graphics, gestual communication, Virtual and Augmented Reality, etc) and various approaches (Computer Science, Signal Processing, Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Human Factors, Social Sciences) from 1987 to 2000, Joseph Mariani became Director of the "Information and Communication Technologies" department at the French Ministry for Research (Technology Directorate) from 2001 to 2006.

He is now director of the Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information (IMMI), which is a joint International Laboratory involving LIMSI, Karlsruhe University (UKA) and RWTH Aachen (RWTH) (Germany), settled in 2008 in the framework of the Quaero national program.

LIMSI also participates in other large scale actions within the Ile-de-France region, such as the Digiteo Cluster of Excellence in Computer Science, and the System@tic and Cap Digital Competitiveness Clusters.

J. Mariani chaired the CNRS "Information Sciences and Technologies” committee, and was a member of the CNRS Scientific Advisory Committee and of the “Engineering Sciences” department Scientific Committee, of the INRIA Evaluation Committee, and of the Information Technologies National Council (CGTI). He is now a member of the CNRS Ethics Committee (COMETS) and of the Scientific Committees of the Telecommunication Engineering Schools (Institut Te´le´com), of the Adonis program and of the National Institute for Research on Safety (INRS); he chairs the 《 Technologies for Information and Telecommunications 》 Scientific Committee at CEA (French Nuclear Agency).

In the framework of his position at the Ministry for Research, he managed several national programs, and in particular the Technological Research and Innovation Networks on Telecommunications, Software Engineering, Audiovisual and Multimedia and Micro and Nanotechnologies. He launched the Techno-Langue and Techno-Vision actions, addressing technology development and assessment in those domains. He seated in the Board of Trustees of several organizations (ANFr, IGN, OST, INRIA…).

On the international scene, he coordinated the FRANCIL Network of the Francophone University Association (AUF), chaired the European Speech Communication Association, now International Speech Communication Association (ISCA) and the European Language Resources Association (ELRA), participated in the Board of the European Language & Speech Network of Excellence (ELSNET) and was the general convenor of the Cocosda committee. He presently participates in FLaReNet (the Fostering Language Resources Network). He is in the Editorial Committees of the “Language Resources and Evaluation” and “Speech Technology” Journals, and of the “Text, speech and language” book series, and participated in the Editorial Committees of the “Speech Communication” Journal and of the "Survey of the State-of-the-Art in Human Language Technology". He recently edited the “Spoken Language Processing” monograph.

His research activities concern Human-Machine Communication and Human Language Technologies.

Dr. Mario Tokoro

President and CEO, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc., Japan

He received Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering in 1975 from Keio University. He taught at Keio University and became Professor of Computer Science in 1991. He was Visiting Assistant Professor at University of Waterloo in 1979, Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980, Visiting Researcher at GMD in 1987, and Visiting Professor at Universite Paris VI in 1992. He founded Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Inc. (Sony CSL in short) in 1988 and led it to one of the world renowned research laboratory in a broader computer science area. He has been the Director of Sony CSL since its foundation and became the President and CEO in 1998.

He resigned Keio University and joined Sony Corporation as Corporate Senior Vice President in 1997. In 2000 he assumed Co-CTO and introduced an architecture-based design and development scheme for Consumer Electronics products. Since 2004, he served as the head of Innovation Strategy Office, and then Technology Policy and Relations Office until he retired SVP of Sony Corporation in 2008. In 2009, he became Adjunct Professor at Keio University.

He served as a member of various Governmental Committees including Information and Communication Council and National Research Institute for Information and Communication (NICT). He served as a member of Information Telecommunication Policy and Industrial Technology of Keidanren. He also served as Council of International Telecommunication Union, a member of Board of Governors of EPCglobal, NTT DoCoMo Technology Advisory Board, and British Telecom Group CTO's External Advisory Board. He received Officier de l'Ordre National du Merit from France in 2005. Since 2006, he is serving as the supervisor of a $50M Governmental Project on Dependable Embedded Operating System (JST/CREST).

He engaged in research on Computer Architecture, Computer Networks, Operating Systems, Concurrent Object Oriented Programming, and Multi-Agent Systems. He invented the Acknowledging Ethernet scheme and developed the first campus-wide network in Japan. He developed Concurrent Object-Oriented Programming Languages such as ConcurrentSmalltalk and ORIENT84/K. He directed the development of the world first operating system based on the notion of concurrent objects, Aperios, which was used in AIBO entertainment robots and satellite set-top boxes. He also conducted the development of mobile internet protocol called VIP and real-time protocol RtP. He invented the concept of Computational Field Model which is an abstract model of distributed computing. He has been interested in the methodologies of science, and he is advocating Open Systems Science as a new scientific methodology toward the future.

He served as Program Committee Chair for ACM/IEEE Computer Architecture Symposium in 1986, Program Co-Chair for European Conference on Object Oriented Programming in 1991 and in 1994. He served as a board member of Japan Software Science and Technology (1990-1995) and Vice President of Association Internationale Technologies Objets (1991-1997).

He authored many technical literatures. He authored and edited a few books including "Concurrent Object-Oriented Computing" (MIT Press 1987), "Introduction to Computing Systems" (Iwanami 1988, in Japanese), "The Future of Learning "(IOS Press 2003), "Learning Zone of One's Own" (IOS Press 2004), "Creativity and the Brain" (World Scientific) 2006, and "Open Systems Science" (NTT Publishing Co., 2009, in Japanese; the English version is under preparation).

Prof. Randy H. Katz

Professor, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Randy Howard Katz received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley.
He joined the Berkeley faculty in 1983, where since 1996 he has been the United Microelectronics Corporation Distinguished Professor in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He is a Fellow of the ACM and the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Helsinki.
He has published over 250 refereed technical papers, book chapters, and books. His textbook, Contemporary Logic Design, has sold over 100,000 copies in two editions, and has been used at over 200 colleges and universities. He has supervised 45 M.S. theses and 39 Ph.D. dissertations (including one ACM Dissertation Award winner and ten women). His recognitions include thirteen best paper awards (including one "test of time" paper award and one selected for a 50 year retrospective on IEEE Communications publications), three best presentation awards, the Outstanding Alumni Award of the Computer Science Division, the CRA Outstanding Service Award, the Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award, the CS Division's Diane S. McEntyre Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Air Force Exceptional Civilian Service Decoration, the IEEE Reynolds Johnson Information Storage Award, the ASEE Frederic E. Terman Award, the ACM Karl V. Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award, and the ACM Sigmobile Outstanding Contributor Award. In the late 1980s, with colleagues at Berkeley, he developed Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID), a $15 billion per year industry sector. While on leave for government service in 1993-1994, he established whitehouse.gov and connected the White House to the Internet. His BARWAN Project of the mid-1990s introduced vertical handoffs and efficient transport protocols for mobile wireless networks. His current research interest is the architecture of Internet Datacenters, particularly frameworks for datacenter-scale instrumentation and resource management. Prior research interests have included: database management, VLSI CAD, high performance multiprocessor (Snoop cache coherency protocols) and storage (RAID) architectures, transport (Snoop TCP) and mobility protocols spanning heterogeneous wireless networks, and converged data and telephony network and service architectures.