FCRC Plenary Speaker Schedule

Short Biographies

2002 Turing Award Lecture – Sunday

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the 2002 A.M. Turing Award, considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing," to Leonard M. Adleman, Ronald L. Rivest and Adi Shamir for their role in the creation of the world's most widely used public-key cryptography system, which has become known by their initials, RSA.

Foils for Leonard Adleman's talk
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Foils for Adi Shami's talk

Michael Rabin (Harvard) – Monday

Michael Rabin is T.J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University. His research interests include complexity of computations, efficient algorithms, randomized algorithms, DNA computing, parallel and distributed computations, and computer security.  He is also interested in bringing traditional mathematical tools to bear on computer science problems of foundational as well as of practical significance. Recently he, with Y. Aumann and Y.Z. Ding, has invented a provably unbreakable code.

He received his M.Sc. in Mathematics from the Hebrew University and his Ph.D. from Princeton University. His honors include the A.M. Turing Award, the Israel Prize in Computer Science and election to several academies.

Michael Flynn (Stanford) – Tuesday

Michael Flynn began his engineering career at IBM as a designer of mainframe computers. He became Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 1975 where he set up the Stanford Architecture and Arithmetic group.

In the early 1970s Prof. Flynn founded both of the specialist organization on Computer Architecture: the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and the ACM's SIGARCH.

Michael J Flynn received his BS from Manhattan College, MS from Syracuse University, PhD from Purdue University and DSc (h.c.) from the University of Dublin. Prof. Flynn was the 1992 recipient of the ACM/IEEE Eckert--Mauchly Award. He was the 1995 winner of the IEEE Computer Society's Harry Goode Memorial Award. He is a fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.

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Barbara Liskov (MIT) – Wednesday

Barbara Liskov is the Ford Professor of Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the associate department head for Computer Science within the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department.  Her research interests lie in the areas of programming methodology, programming languages, and programming systems and she has done research on data abstraction, program specifications, object-oriented programming, concurrency control, fault tolerance, parallel and distributed programs, and algorithms for distributed systems.  Her projects include the design and implementation of CLU, the first programming language to support data abstraction; the design and implementation of Argus, the first high-level language to support implementation of distributed programs; and the Thor object-oriented database system, which provides transactional access to persistent, highly-available objects in a wide-scale distributed environment.

Professor Liskov is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  She received the 1996 Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers. She is a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery and a member of the IEEE and has served in various capacities within these organizations. She has served on advisory committees for the NSF, the ONR, and the NAS, and as a member of the Computer Science visiting committees for Princeton University, Carnegie Mellon University, and the University of Chicago.  She has published more than 100 technical papers, and has supervised 21 PhD Students and over 50 MS students.

Foils for Barbara Liskov's talk

Hector Garcia-Molina (Stanford) – Thursday

Hector Garcia-Molina is the Leonard Bosack and Sandra Lerner Professor in the Departments of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, Stanford, California.  He is the chairman of the Computer Science Department since January 1, 2001.  From 1997 to 2001 he was a member the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).  From August 1994 to December 1997 he was the Director of the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford.  From 1979 to 1991 he was on the faculty of the Computer Science Department at Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. His research interests include distributed computing systems, digital libraries and database systems. 

He received a BS in electrical engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey, Mexico, in 1974.  From Stanford University, Stanford, California, he received in 1975 a MS in electrical engineering and a PhD in computer science in 1979.  Garcia-Molina is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery; is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; received the 1999 ACM SIGMOD Innovations Award; is on the Technical Advisory Board of eGuanxi, Enosys Markets, Kintera, Metreo Markets, Morhsoft, TimesTen, Verity; and is a member of the Oracle Board of Directors.

Foils for Hector Garcia-Molina's talk

James Kurose (U Massachusetts) – Friday

Jim Kurose is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Massachusetts/Amherst. He has been a Visiting Scientist at IBM Research, Intitut Eurecom, and INRIA.

His research interests include network protocols and architecture; modeling, measurement, and performance evaluation, and network and operating system support for multimedia servers. Dr. Kurose is the past Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Communications and was the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking. He has been active in the program committees for IEEE Infocom, ACM SIGCOMM, and ACM SIGMETRICS conferences for a number of years, and has served as Technical Program Co-Chair for these conferences.

Jim Kurose received a B.A. degree in physics from Wesleyan University and a Ph.D. degree in computer science from Columbia University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and the ACM. He has received a number of awards for his teaching, and with Keith Ross is the author of the textbook, Computer Networking: a Top-Down Approach Featuring the Internet.

Foils for Jim Kurose's talk

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