HICSS-37 January 5-8, 2004 Hilton Waikoloa Village Island of Hawaii (Big Island)

Ian Foster

The 2004 HICSS Distinguished Lecturer is Ian Foster, Professor of Computer Science The University of Chicago, and Associate Division Director, Senior Scientist, and Head, Distributed Systems Lab, Mathematics & Computer Science, at the Argonne National Laboratory.

Dr. Foster, dubbed by October 2002 issue of Red Herring magazine as “ the Gridfather,” will speak to conference attendees and their guests, Wednesday afternoon, 5pm, January 7, 2004, in the Monarchy Ballroom, Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort.

The DSL group at University of Chicago's Computer Science Department conducts research in various areas of distributed systems with an emphasis on designing, implementing, and evaluating systems, protocols, and applications. Their mission is to prepare the next-generation of researchers and developers in these areas by investigating challenging, high-impact research projects. These projects span many areas, including Grid middleware; Grid applications; and data-intensive scientific computing.

The British Computer Society presented the 2002 Lovelace Medal to Foster and Carl Kesselman of the University of Southern California’s Information Sciences Institute for their work with the Globus Project and grid computing.

The Globus Project is a research and software development project led by Foster and Kesselman. The project delivers the research advances and open source software required to make grid computing successful in science, engineering, business, and other collaborative situations. Grid computing is the high-speed networking equivalent to the electric power grid, providing computer power on demand, much the way a power grid provides electricity.

The Lovelace Medal is presented to individuals who have made contributions of major significance in the advancement of information systems, or that adds significantly to the understanding of the development of information systems. Previous recipients of the medal include Doug Engelbart, developer of the computer mouse and computer windows; and Linus Torvalds, developer of the Linux operating system.  Dr Engelbart was the 1993 HICSS Distinguished Lecturer.

For more information about the work of Ian Foster, please go http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/~foster/ or http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~foster/  among 415,000 other sites.

H. C. "Hank"  Stackpole

H. C. "Hank"  Stackpole, USMC (ret), the 2004 HICSS Plenary Speaker, will present “The Role of Information Technology in National Security” on Tuesday, January 6, 1pm in the Monarchy Ballroom, Hilton Waikoloa Village Resort. 

General Stackpole is president of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS). He has extensive military and private sector experience in Asia as Commander of Marine Forces Pacific, and president of Loral Asia-Pacific, a space and telecommunications company based in Tokyo.  He holds degrees from Princeton, George Washington University, and Stanford, and is a graduate of the National War College and the Naval Command and Staff College.   

General Stackpole joined the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (APCSS) in 1998. The Center, located in Honolulu, was established in September 1995 as a Department of Defense research, conference, and studies center.  While APCSS is a direct reporting unit to the U. S. Pacific Command, it is strictly a non-war fighting academic organization focused at the national policy level.

Prior to that time, General Stackpole served in the U.S. Marine Corps for 36 years, retiring as a Lieutenant General in 1994.   While serving as the Commander of Marine Forces Pacific, the single largest U. S. Marine Field Command in the world, he concurrently planned and supervised the establishment of the U.S.-Republic of Korea Combined Marine Forces Command.  This command formed the U.S. Marine component in Korea comprising a force of more than 150,000 military personnel from two nations and five services. 

Previous military service was as Director of Plans, Policies, and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington, D.C., and as the Marine Corps Operations Deputy to the Joint Chiefs of Staff.  He commanded Joint Task Force Sea Angel in Bangladesh during disaster relief operations in 1991, and led the seven-nation ad hoc task force providing humanitarian assistance following the devastation from super-typhoon Marion.  Other general officer assignments included: Commander, III Marine Amphibious Force and Commanding General, 3rd Marine Division, Okinawa, Japan.  He also served as Director, Plans and Policy Directorate (J-5), Atlantic Command, Norfolk, Va. 

The Japanese government has presented General Stackpole  with its Japanese Order of the Rising Sun, 3rd Order, for furthering the Japanese-American partnership, and aiding mutual understanding between the two countries.  He was assigned to Asia for 11 years of his military service and has traveled extensively throughout the region.   He also has been recognized by the Republic of Korea, and cited by the government of Bangladesh for Disaster Relief and Humanitarian Support.  Other honors include the Distinguished Service Medal, Silver Star, Legion of Merit, two Purple Hearts, and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry. 

For more information about General Stackpole, or the Asia Pacific Defense Center for Security Studies please visit http://archives.charleston.net/news/citadel/stackpole.html

Or http://www.apcss.org/Welcome/preswel.html

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