Please join us for this week's IIC Colloquium:
XAM, Digital Curation and e-Science
Wednesday, September 23, 4:00pm
Room G115, Maxwell Dworkin, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge (**NOTE
LOCATION**)
Stephen Todd, Software Architect, EMC
and
Rob Masson, Director, EMC Research US
Abstract
The eXtensible Access Method (XAM) is a new, industry-standard
application programming interface for storing reference information
(fixed content) onto heterogeneous storage systems. It is also a focus
of research under way at EMC’s new Cambridge lab and a project,
DataSpace, proposed by MIT and EMC for uniting multiple archives of
scientific data. A brief introduction and overview of XAM will be
provided by Steve Todd, who will describe XAM’s applicability to the
digital preservation of both cultural artifacts and scientific
information. Rob Masson will introduce the collaborative research
agenda of EMC's new lab and the associated Virtual Team.
About the speakers
Stephen Todd is an "intrapreneur" at EMC and the author of the high-
tech book Innovate With Influence. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in
computer science from the University of New Hampshire. Steve has spent
his career working on as many storage products and technologies as he
could get his hands on. Products include CLARiiON, Navisphere, Storage
Scope, PowerPath and Centera. Technologies include RAID, failover,
caching, management technologies, databases, device drivers and CAS.
He enjoys the creative process and came in 3rd out of 410 entries in
EMC's inaugural world-wide innovation contest one year and 2nd out of
984 entries the subsequent year. He is named on more than 140 patent
applications. He blogs at
stevetodd.typepad.com.
Rob Masson has been with EMC for over 5 years as an developer,
architect, technologist and Director of Research. Robert joined EMC as
part of the product management team of eRoom as a solutions architect
working with partners and customers on novel ways to use and integrate
EMC technologies. After three years in that role, Rob joined the EMC
CTO Office as a senior technologist and manages a team of developers
based in Shanghai that does advanced proof-of-concept work in a
variety of solution spaces. Working closely with many different groups
at EMC, he and his team identify opportunities to leverage and enhance
EMC’s product offerings into emerging and disruptive markets.
Most recently Rob has been appointed as Director of EMC Research
Cambridge, managing EMC’s relationships with the academic community in
this area. Serving as a liaison between researchers and technologists
within EMC, he aims to accelerate the adoption of technology and
innovation within the organization and enhance ongoing research with
insight from the companies varied product groups.
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