DISTINGUISHED EXPERTS PANEL

Jamie Erbes leads the Chief Technology Office for HP Software & Solutions as its Chief Technology Officer, driving the company-wide, software strategy for various businesses, with offerings in ICT, communications, media and entertainment industry. She brings innovative thought leadership into HP Software products and services. Previously, Jamie worked at EDS, where she was the chief technology officer, EDS fellow, and director for the Enterprise Service Management Portfolio. Before that, she served as the chief technology officer of the EDS Infrastructure portfolio. Prior to joining EDS, she held numerous leadership roles at LoudCloud, Inc. where she led the first releases of Opsware and other web-hosting automation solutions. Jamie began her career in the telecom industry, leading OSS development teams at Wiltel, WorldCom and @Home. She earned her computer science degree at East Central University in Oklahoma. (PDF)

Dr. Yuan-Kuang Tu is the President of Chunghwa Telecommunication Laboratories (TL) of Chunghwa Telecom (CHT), the largest telecom operator in Taiwan. Previously, he was the Senior Managing Director of the Corporate Planning Department of CHT, the Vice President of TL, and other key positions. Dr. Tu oversees CHT strategic technology development, including broadband services and infrastructure technologies planning. His areas of technical expertise cover photonics, optical communications, broadband networks, and network evolution architectures. Dr. Tu received the Distinguished Youth Award of Electronic Devices and Materials Association Taiwan (EDMA) in 1995, and received the Distinguished Electrical Engineer Award of Chinese Institute of Electrical Engineering (CIEE) in 2002. He is a member of IEEE Photonics Soc., IEEE COM Soc., and Chinese Institute of Engineers. He served as Board Member of CIEE and EDMA, as well as other capacities, such as convener of Taiwan Charter of Commission C of International Union of Radio Science.ف (PDF)

Dr. Alva Couch is a Professor of Computer Science at Tufts University, where he and his students study the theory and practice of network and system administration. With Mark Burgess and Eric Anderson, he co-edited the landmark book "Selected Papers in Network and System Administration" that defined the discipline and serves as a history of its early years. Prof. Couch and his students have contributed many papers to the Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, and have received two best paper awards (1996 and 2005) and one best student paper award (2000). His research interests focus on enabling technologies for system and network administration as well as applying autonomic computing to administration, and also includes policy-based languages for system and network administration. He served as Program Chair of LISA 2002 and was a recipient of the 2003 System Administrators' Guild Professional Contribution Award for contributions to the theory of system administration. He currently serves as Secretary of the USENIX Board of Directors and chair of the LISA steering committee. (PDF)