Prof. Frank Wang

Chair, IEEE Computer Society, UKRI Chapter
Head of School of Computing
University of Kent
Canterbury
CT2 7NF
United Kingdom

Abstract
Towards 2020 Computing targets the next generation computing paradigms and their applications. We have been working on Grid/Cloud Computing, Internet II, Virtual Computing, and biologically-inspired computing, etc, for many years. A developed Grid/Cloud Computing platform conforms to the Internet standard and can universally accelerate Office/Database/Web/Media applications by a factor up to ten. This work won an ACM/IEEE Super Computing Finalist Award. Another important work is on environment-friendly Green Computing through utilizing a revolutionary element - memristor. Most recently, we have discovered that memristor has a peculiar effect (we named it "delayed switching" in an IEEE paper). It is demonstrated that power-saving memristors can be packed at least twice as densely as semiconductors, achieving a significant breakthrough in computer storage density.

Biography
Professor Frank Wang is pioneering Grid Computing education. Professor Frank Wang and his colleagues at Centre for Grid Computing have been developing a Grid Computing platform that can universally accelerate Office/Database/Web/Media applications by a factor up to ten. Professor Wang's research interest includes Future Computing, Green Computing (via memristor), Grid/Cloud Computing, Biologically-inspired Computing, Quantum Computing/Communication, Data Storage & Data Communication, and Data Mining and Data Warehousing, etc. His publications include a book, 68 journal papers, 53 conference papers, and 4 book chapters.

Prof. Frank Wang is Head of School, School of Computing (formerly known as Computing Laboratory), University of Kent, UK. He was elected as the Chairman (UK & Republic of Ireland Chapter) of the IEEE Computer Society in 2005. He is Fellow of British Computer Society. He serves the High End Computing Panel for Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) and the UK Government EPSRC e-Science Panel. Frank has attracted a number of EC/EPSRC/DTI/Industrial grants, totaling a few million euros.

Prof. David Crawford

Research & Enterprise Office
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester
CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom

Biography
In the 1980's, David was Head of the Advanced TV Systems at British Telecom Research Labs. During this time, he completed his PhD in image coding, and then worked for two years in the United States with Bell Labs and Bellcore on new digital transmission systems. After his return to the UK, he continued to work at British Telecom on High Definition TV transmission systems, but left in 1990 to pursue interests in the Broadcast Industry. After working in several high technology companies, he joined Harris Corporation, becoming Managing Director of their European Broadcast operations in 2003.

In 2005 David left Harris to become Director of Business Development for the French digital modulation company TeamCast, and to spend more time at the University of Essex UK - where he is helping to gain funding for new research projects. He divides his time between working in industry in France and in academia in the UK.

David is a Fellow of the IET and a member of the Royal Television Society. Having chaired the Technical Papers Committee for the annual International Broadcasting Convention (IBC) for many years, he is now Chairman of the overall IBC Conference Committee. He has been active in various Standards and Industrial Forums, and is Chairman of the ETSI Group ERM TG17 WG2 and has led the European DVB Technical Project Groups on digital broadcast services to mobile terminals and spectrum issues.