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Open Source Software is now present in nearly every large institution in business, academia, and government. To create and maintain a coherent open source strategy, decision makers must be educated on its issues, costs/benefits, and best practices. This panel will discuss the key aspects of such an education and how to provide it.
Panel Moderator: Daniel D. Frye, Vice President - IBM Open Systems Development, is the head of IBM’s Linux development team - the IBM Linux Technology Center (LTC) - and is responsible for overseeing IBM’s Linux technical strategy and IBM’s participation in the open source Linux development community.
The mission of the LTC is to help the global open source Linux community make Linux better, to ensure Enterprise-level Linux support for IBM’s Hardware, Software, and Services brands, and to help expand the reach of Linux into new markets. LTC engineers are trusted, valued members of dozens of open source communities and contribute broadly to open source in many respects.
Prior to his current responsibilities, Dr. Frye was a member of IBM’s Emerging Technologies and Business Opportunities team where he worked on company-wide technical strategies that predicted future trends and transitions in the IT industry. It was during this time that Dr. Frye co-authored the original IBM corporate strategies for Linux and open source. Since then, Dr. Frye has been a key participant in both the IBM-wide Linux and open source core teams that have overseen the adoption of Linux and open source as key strategic initiatives for IBM.
Dr. Frye has an M.A. in Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1982) and a B.A. in Physics from the University of Idaho (1979). He also received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Atomic Physics from The Johns Hopkins University (1985). Dr. Frye is a member of multiple Linux and open source industry groups including being a founding Board Member of The Linux Foundation.
Panelist: Dr. Ron Adams has been Dean of the College of Engineering at Oregon State University since 1998. He been a key leader and board member in the launch of Oregon’s first collaborative signature research center on nanoscience and micro technologies (ONAMI).
Prior to Oregon State he was Vice President of R&D and senior Tektronix Fellow for the Color Printing and Imaging Division of Tektronix. During his 14 years at Tektronix, Dr. Adams led the start up of the company’s solid ink printing business and then led subsequent solid ink technology advancements and their commercialization.
Prior to Tektronix, Dr. Adams was an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering at OSU, a research staff member at MIT Lincoln Laboratories, and a Lieutenant and R&D Program Manager at the USAF Space and Missile Systems Organization. He holds a BSME from Oregon State, a SM in Aeronautics & Astronautics from MIT, and a Ph.D. ME from Oregon State. Dr. Adams’ contributions to technology advancement range from hypersonic aerodynamics of aerospace vehicles to the micro fluidics of ink jets. He is a Fellow of the Society for Imaging Science and Technology.
Panelist: Peter Kronowitt is a Software Strategist in the Software and Solutions Group at Intel Corporation. The Software and Solutions Group (SSG) is responsible for enabling the Intel Architecture products through operating system, Software Vendor, solutions, and core system software technology enabling. SSG provides leading-edge products such as compilers, libraries, and tools that allow customers to get the full performance benefit of Intel architectures. Pete is responsible for developing and managing the worldwide program for Linux operating system vendors at Intel. He consults with Linux distributors, industry and community for enhancement of Linux for Itanium and IA-32 processors architectures and strategic platforms.
Pete also directs alignment of key relationships with Linux-based and open source software companies to align Intel’s product and technology development to improve product introductions into the market place. Peter has 20 years in the high-tech sector, with IBM, Xircom and more than ten years with Intel, leading global teams for market and platform roadmap development in the worldwide channel, directing software ecosystem relationships for new Intel platforms. He has been evangelizing Linux and Open Source within Intel and the industry since 2000, and regularly contributes to Intel's corporate Open Source strategy. Pete has formerly held positions as board observer in JBoss as part of an Intel Capital equity investment, a founding and Steering Committee member of the Open Business Readiness Rating announced in 2005, and Steering Committee Vice Chair for the Open Source Development Lab Desktop Linux Working Group.
Panelist: Jeff R. Wright is founding Dean of Engineering at the University of California, Merced (since September, 2001), Director of the UC Merced Energy Institute, and the Campus Director of the Center for Computer and Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS). He was formerly Associate Dean for Research, Professor of Civil Engineering, and Director of the Indiana Water Resources Research Center, at Purdue University. Dean Wright holds undergraduate degrees in social psychology and in Civil Engineering from the University of Washington, an MSE in Environmental Engineering also from the University of Washington, and a Doctorate from The Johns Hopkins University through the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering. Professor Wright is a noted authority on the design and implementation of decision support systems for public-sector engineering planning and management, particularly spatial analysis and distributed decision support modeling for natural resources and environmental engineering.
Dr. Wright is a member of the Action Forum on Diversity of the National Academy of Engineering, and served for 10 years as founding Editor-in-Chief of the American Society of Civil Engineer's Journal of Infrastructure Systems. He is co-author of a leading textbook entitled Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (Prentice Hall).