Autonomics 2007

Keynote Speakers

Rachid Guerroui

Rachid Guerraoui has been professor of computer science since 1999. At EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), he leads the distributed programming laboratory. He has also been affiliated with Ecole des Mines of Paris, the Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique, HP Labs in Palo Alto and MIT. The research interests of professor Rachid Guerraoui includes distributed algorithms and distributed programming languages.

Ozalp Babaoglu

Ozalp Babaoglu is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna, Italy. He received a Ph.D. in 1981 from the University of California at Berkeley where he was a principal designer of BSD Unix. He is the recipient of 1982 Sakrison Memorial Award, 1989 UNIX International Recognition Award and 1993 USENIX Association Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the UNIX system community and to Open Industry Standards. Before moving to Bologna in 1988, Babaoglu was an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University. He is active in several European research projects in distributed computing and complex adaptive systems. Babaoglu is an ACM Fellow, a resident fellow of the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Bologna and serves on the editorial boards for ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems and Springer-Verlag Distributed Computing.