IDPT(SDPS) 2008 Asia University

KEYNOTE PANEL-III21st CenturyTransdisciplinarians9:00 am - 12:30 pm Wednesday June 4, 2008Room: A101Organizers: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh, SDPS LifetimeHonorary MemberCo-Chairs: Dr. Raymond T. Yeh and Dr. Sumit GhoshThe goal of this keynote panel is to envision what kinds of peopleare needed in a Flat World, a la’ Thomas Friedman, emerging inthe 21st century. How do we architect the enfoldment of this century’shistory in the new context? We believe that a new generation ofwhole person/whole mind people will emerge who are “integralthinkers” in that they are trans-culture transdisciplinarians whoexperience the world as a gift, joyfully engaged in its co-creationwith a mind set of abundance, wholeness, and interdependencefor shared prosperity. We invited panelists who are alreadytransdisciplinarians to share and to envision.PANEL-III KEYNOTE SPEAKERWednesday, June 4, 9:00-9:30 amRoom: A101Dr. C.V. RamamoorthyUniversity of California, Berkeley, CAProfessor Ramamoorthy’s distinguished career tracks back to the1960s. In 1961, while working as a scientist for Honeywell,Ramamoorthy developed the entire microcode to handle instructionsequencing and control for the H290, Honeywell’s first transistorizedsystem. The H290 was a general-purpose, stored-programdigital computer designed for process monitoring and control. Inthe late 1960s, Ramamoorthy joined the University of Texas, Austin,as a professor of electrical engineering and computer science,later becoming chair of the computer science department. At UCBerkeley, where he joined the faculty in 1972, Ramamoorthy is anemeritus professor of Electrical Engineering and computer science.Most recently, his research investigations have focused onservice industries-functions, features, and control-and the relationshipsbetween software and service engineering. IEEE Society hashonored Ramamoorthy’s achievements with the Taylor L. BoothEducation Award in 1989, the Richard E. Merwin DistinguishedService Award in 1993, Golden Core recognition in 1966, andTsutomu Kanai Award in 2000. He also received the IEEE CentennialMedal and the IEEE Third Millennium Medal. He has been anIEEE Fellow since 1978 and is a Fellow of the Society for Designand Process Science, from which he received the R.T. Yeh DistinguishedAchievement Award in 1997. A longtime Computer Societyvolunteer, Ramamoorthy was founding editor in chief of IEEE Transactionson Knowledge and Data Engineering and served as editorin chief of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering. He haspublished more than 150 papers, coedited three books, and holdspatents in computer architecture, software engineering, computertesting and diagnosis and databases.He holds two undergraduatedegrees in Physics from India. He obtained two graduate de-grees in Mechanical Engineering from University of California atBerkeley, and two graduate degrees in Applied mathematics andComputer Sciences from Harvard.PANEL-IIIDISTINGUISHED PANELISTSWednesday June 4, 9:30 am-12:30 pmRoom: A101Professor Gabriele BammerNational Centre for Epidemiology andPopulation Health, ANU College ofMedicine and Health Sciences,The Australian National UniversityDr. W.T. ChenPresident ofNational Tsing Hua University, TaiwanWT Chen is the president of the National Tsing Hua University inTaiwan. He has been with the National Tsing Hua University since1976 and is currently a Chair Professor of the Department of ComputerScience. He has served as Department Chairman, Dean ofCollege of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and Directorof Science & Technology Advisory Office, Ministry of Education.He has consulted in various levels of Taiwan Government andserved as a member of many planning and technical review boards.For 15 years, Professor Chen has served as Co-Chairman andChairman of the Technical Evaluation Board of the Ministry of EconomicAffairs for Promoting High-Tech Products and Technologies,which is recognized as most pivotal in promoting industrial technologiesin Taiwan.Professor Chen pioneered the design of computer networks andparallel systems in early 1980s. He is currently leading a projectfor design and applications of advanced information networks. Hehas received numerous awards for his achievements incomputer networking and parallel processing, including OutstandingResearch Awards of the National Science Council,National Chair of the Ministry of Education, and Technical AchievementAward of the IEEE Computer Society. ProfessorChen was the General Chair of the 2000 IEEE International Conferenceon Distributed Computing Systems and the Founding GeneralChair of the IEEE International Conference on Parallel andDistributed Systems. He is an IEEE Fellow.Professor Jong-Tsun HuangPresident ofChina Medical UniversityProfessor Jong-Tsun Huang received his Ph.D. from National TaiwanUniversity in 1976. His research interests include human perception,cognitive science, and education studies. He is currentlythe President of China Medical University. He was a Visiting Scholar