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SUMMARY:Cloud computing for research - Fabrizio Gagliardi (Microsoft Resea
 rch)
DTSTART:20100702T083000Z
DTEND:20100702T093000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Fabien Petitcolas
DESCRIPTION:*Abstract*: In this talk I will give a general overview of Clo
 ud Computing and show how it is revolutionising the way we can do scientif
 ic research. As an example I will present Venus-C\, a European project dev
 eloping a Cloud Computing service for the research community.\n\n*Biograph
 y*: Fabrizio Gagliardi is Europe\, Middle East and Africa Director for Ext
 ernal Research at Microsoft Research. He joined Microsoft in November 2005
  after a long career at CERN\, the world leading laboratory for particle p
 hysics in Geneva\, Switzerland. There he held several technical and manage
 rial positions since 1975: Director of the EU Grid project EGEE (2004-2005
 )\; Director of the EU Data-Grid project (2001-2004)\; head of mass storag
 e services (1997-2000)\; Leader of the EU project GPMIMD2 (1993-1996).\n\n
 Fabrizio has a Doctor degree in Computer Science\, granted by the Universi
 ty of Pisa in 1974. He has been consulting on computing and computing poli
 cy matters with the Commission of the European Union\, several government 
 and international bodies (among them NSF\, DoE in the US\, CNRS and other 
 research bodies in France\, EPSRC in the UK\, CNR and INFN in Italy\, OECD
 \, UN agencies).\n\nFabrizio is chair of the ACM Europe Council.
LOCATION:Large public lecture room\, Microsoft Research\, Roger Needham Bu
 ilding\, 7 J J Thomson Avenue\, Cambridge CB3 0FB
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