A Few Recent Talks by Ian Foster
Reverse order by date
2007
Technology for Distributed Collaboration
Symposium on Digital Fabrication, University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, August 23, 2007 [PDF] [Powerpoint]
System Level Science and System Level Models
Energy Modeling Forum, Snowmass, Colorado
August 1, 2007 [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Swift:
Fast, Reliable, Loosely Coupled Parallel Computation
IEEE New Zealand Workshop in
High Performance and Grid Computing,
Auckland, New Zealand, July 5, 2007 [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Looking to the Future
Kiwi Advanced Research and Education Network (KAREN) Workshop
Auckland, New Zealand, July 3, 2007 [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Enabling Distributed Petascale Science
Plenary talk at Scientific Discovery through Advanced Computing Conference
Boston, Massachusetts, June 28, 2007 [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Grid: Enabling Open Science
Keynote, Nature Conference on Asia Pacific Networks Promoting Excellence in Research
June 6, 200, Tokyo, Japan [PDF] PowerPoint]
Scaling eScience Impact
1st Iberian Cyberinfrastructure Conference, Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain (May 15, 2007). [Earlier versions presented at the German eScience Conference, Baden Baden, Germany (May 2, 2007), and elsewhere.] [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Swift: Fast, Reliable, Loosely Coupled Parallel Computation
Lecture at Leibniz-Rechenzentrum M�nchen, April 30, Munich, Germany [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Why Computer Science is Fundamental to (Almost) Everything
Keynote Talk, New Zealand Computer Science Students Research Conference, April 11, Hamilton, New Zealand; Arthur Schoffstall Lecture, Renssellaer Polytechnic Institute, April 19, Troy, NY. [PDF] [Powerpoint]
Grid Tutorial, 4th IFIP Summer School
Gordons Bay, South Africa, March 28, 2007 [PDF] [Powerpoint].
2006
Grid Technology and Multidisciplinary Science
Invited Talk at Virtual Observatories Conference, International Astronomical
Union, August 21,
Prague,
(27.5MB) [Powerpoint]
The GriPhyN Virtual Data System
Talk at Conference in High Performance Computing and Grids,
July 4, Cetraro,
Italy
(3MB) [Powerpoint]
Education in the Science 2.0 Era
Invited Talk at
Workshop on SC Education Program, July 27, Argonne, Illinois
(5.5MB) [Powerpoint]
The Global Storage Grid -- Or, Managing Data for "Science 2.0"
Keynote at 14th NASA Goddard - 23rd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems
and Technologies, May 16, College Park, Maryland
(12MB) [Powerpoint]
Global Data Services: Developing Data-Intensive Applications Using Globus
Software
Tutorial at 14th NASA Goddard - 23rd IEEE Conference on Mass Storage Systems
and Technologies, May 15, College Park, Maryland
(13MB) [Powerpoint]
Cyberinfrastructure and the Role of Grid Computing -- Or, "Science 2.0"
Keynote Talk, Geoinformatics 2006, May 12, Reston VA,
(10.0MB) [Powerpoint]
The
Computation Institute
Presentation to Board of Trustees, University of Chicago, April 6, Chicago
(9.0MB) [Powerpoint,
Video
for Slide 2,
Video for Slide 3,
Video for Slide 16]
Grid
Dynamics
Keynote Talk, Global Grid Forum 16, February 14,
Athens, Greece
(4.6MB) [Powerpoint]
Service Oriented Science:
Scaling eScience Application & Impact
Distinguished Lecture, Northeastern University,
Boston, January 26, and at Purdue,
February 6
(11.6MB) [Powerpoint]
[Breeze:
recorded at Purdue]
[Earlier version presented as Keynote, 1st Intl. Conf. on
e-Science and Grid Computing, Melbourne, December 13, 2005]
2005
Globus
Toolkit version 4
Tutorial, 1st Intl. Conf. on e-Science and Grid Computing,
Melbourne, Australia,
December 12 [and many other places]
(5.8MB) [Powerpoint]
Grid: Why,
What, How
Chicago Technology Forum, Chicago, October 28
(25MB) [Powerpoint]
Grid
Services Overview and Introduction
Keynote Talk, OOSTech, Baltimore, October 26 (1.7MB) [Powerpoint]
A New Era
in Computing: Moving Enterprise Services onto Grid
VIP Grid Summit, Chicago, July
(4MB) [Powerpoint]
Enabling eScience: Grid
Technologies Today & Tomorrow
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Annual Meeting, Washington,
DC, February 21
(9.8MB) [Powerpoint]
Globus:
Bridging the Gap
Keynote Talk, GlobusWORLD,
Boston, Mass., February 8
(11.0MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid: Reality, Technologies, Applications
Distinguished Lecture, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada, January 21
(10.3MB) [Powerpoint]
2004
Empowering Distributed Science
DOE National Collaboratories Meeting, NCAR, Boulder, Colorado, December 2, 2004
(12.2MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid: Beyond the
Hype
Keynote Talk, 3rd International Conference on Grid & Cooperative Computing, Wuhan, China,
October 21, 2004 (9.9MB) [Powerpoint]
Enabling eScience: Open
Software, Standards, Infrastructure
Keynote Talk, UK eScience All Hands Meeting, Nottingham, September 2, 2004 (14.9MB) [Powerpoint]
Brain Meets Brawn: Why Grid and Agents Need Each
Other
Keynote talk, 3rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent
Systems, New York USA, July 22, 2004 (5.5MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid: Essential Infrastructure for DOE Science
Keynote Talk, SciDAC PI Meeting, Charleston, North Carolina USA, March 22, 2004 (8.1 MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid and its Implications for Science (and Industry)
Royal Society of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand, March 18, 2004 (10.9 MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid: Opportunities, Achievements, and Challenges
for (Computer) Science
University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 17, 2004 (4.2 MB) [Powerpoint]
Grid Physics Network & International Virtual Data Grid
Lab
NSF Scalable Cyberinfrastructure Division PI Meeting, February 18, 2004 (12
MB) [Powerpoint]
2003
Introduction to the Grid
COMDEX 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada USA, November 18, 2003 (11.45 MB) [Powerpoint]
OGSA Tutorial
APAC'03, Queensland, Australia, September 29, 2003 (13 MB) [Powerpoint]
How the Linux and Grid
Communities can Build the Next Generation Internet Platform
Ottawa Linux Symposium, Ottawa, Canada, July 24, 2003 (7 MB) [Powerpoint]
Data and the Grid: From
Databases to Global Knowledge Communities
Keynote Talk, 15th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical
Database Management (SSDBM 2003), Cambridge, MA, USA, July 11, 2003 (5.0 MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid: The First 50 years
British Computer Society, Lovelace Medal Award Presentation, May, 2003 (4 MB)
[Powerpoint]
Security and Certification
Issues in Grid Computing
Keynote at International Workshop on Certification and Security in E-Services (CSES 2002), Montreal, Canada, August 28,
2002 (7 MB) [Powerpoint]
Future Scientific
Infrastructure
Keynote at DAS-2 Conference, Amsterdam, June 6, 2002; and QUESTnet, Gold Coast,
Australia, July 4, 2002 (9 MB) [Powerpoint]
Virtual Data and the Chimera
System
HPC 2002 Conference, Cetraro, Italy, June 25, 2002 (1.7 MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid and the Future of
Business
Keynote at Delphi Web Services Conference, San Jose, May 22, 2002 (5 MB) [Powerpoint]
The Grid: Enabling Resource
Sharing within Virtual Organizations
Keynote at World Wide Web Conference 2002, Honolulu, May 9, 2002 (2.5 MB) [Powerpoint]
Grid
Computing: Concepts, Applications, and Technologies
Tutorial at Grid Computing in Canada Workshop, Edmonton, May 1, 2002 (~200 slides,
14 MB)
[Powerpoint]
Data Grids and Data Intensive
Science
Keynote at Research Library Group Annual Conference, Amsterdam, April 22, 2002
(5 MB) [Powerpoint]
[Transcript]