The Computer Science Colloquium

Seraphin Calo
(IBM Research)

"Research at IBM"

This talk will give a brief introduction to IBM Research, touching on job opportunities. It will then describe a major research initiative with which CUNY is involved - the International Technology Alliance in Network and Information Sciences. The ITA consists of twenty four organizations, with IBM being the consortium lead. It was formed to conduct fundamental research in areas of importance to the governments of the United States and the United Kingdom. It will go into detail on one of the projects in the security area, viz. Policy Based Security Management. This project covers a number of challenging research issues including: the formal definition and specification of policies as a basis to reason about policy analysis and refinement; the refinement of policies specified in constrained natural language into sets of enforceable policies through transformations that preserve their semantic intent; and, the development of methodologiesfor using policy technologies to meet the requirements of dynamic ad hoc systems.


Bio:
Dr. Calo is a Research Staff Member at IBM Research and currently manages the Policy Technologies group within that organization. He received the M.S., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey. He has worked, published, and managed research projects in a number of technical areas, including: queueing theory, data communications networks, multi-access protocols, expert systems, and policy based management. He has been very active in international conferences, particularly in the systems management and policy areas. Dr. Calo has several United States patents, two IBM Research Division awards, and three IBM Invention Achievement awards.

The Colloquium is supported by generous contributions from the Bloomberg, Information Builders, Inc., and Netlogic, Inc.