Guest lectures on standardization theory and practice (e.g. cloud computing and next generation wireless) by Ken Krechmer will be held on 27th and 29th of May at the Faculty of business informatics

27th of May, 18:10, Kirpichnaya street 33, room 529.
29th of May, 18:10, Kirpichnaya street 33, room 504.

Short description

Ken Krechmer will present two lectures.  

The first lecture will develop the theory of interfaces, open interfaces and standards. 

The second lecture will apply this theory to 5G and cloud computing interfaces. 
Time will be available for Q&A.

Language: English

Time&Venue: 

27th of May: 18:10, Kirpichnaya street 33, room 529.

29th of May:18:10, Kirpichnaya street 33, room 504.

Description

Interfaces are everywhere: user interfaces, programming interfaces, binary interfaces, communications protocols, physical interfaces (e.g., wireless radios) and many more. Developing, deploying and maintaining key interfaces is crucial to the long-term success of a company, its products, product lines and even itself. For users, using a new interface is an investment in the product, the product's ecosystem and how to use the product. For developers, a set of interfaces is their connection to an ecosystem (which defines a market). When a product and its interfaces change (e.g., changes to Microsoft Word or XP, migration from Apple's Carbon API) their users and developers may feel disenfranchised. Yet companies need to change interfaces to accommodate new functions, architectures, and to address new markets. On the other hand, maintaining interfaces has reaped enormous rewards for companies, such as IBM (SNA), Intel (x86), and Microsoft (APIs). More recent interfaces such as Google OpenSocial, Apple's Cocoa API, Facebook Platform, and Twitter’s API are the technical basis for very high stock market evaluations.

These two lectures present the different successions of interfaces and how a balance between changing and maintaining interfaces can be accomplished using adaptable interfaces. Adaptable interfaces are presented as another succession of standards with historic, legal, technical, and economic precedents. These concepts offers a theory that identifies future directions: new ways of creating interfaces that sidestep the negative issues of proprietary control and still allow commercial advantage. Perhaps more interestingly, adaptable interfaces also support new ways to maintain proprietary operation while supporting open interfaces.  The possibility of adaptable interfaces in both cloud computing and next generation wireless/cellular will be developed and discussed.

Biography

Ken Krechmer (krechmer@csrstds.com) received first prize in the 2012 IEC Challenge paper competition. In 2009 he taught a three credit unit graduate engineering course on the theory of standards at the University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, USA . He was Program Chair of the Standards and Innovation in Information Technology (SIIT) conference in 2001 (Boulder, CO), 2003 (Delft, Netherlands) and 2007 (Calgary, Canada) and co-Program Chair of SIIT 2009 (Tokyo, Japan) and 2011 (Berlin, Germany). In 2006 he received a joint second prize in the IEC Centenary Challenge paper competition. In 1995 and 2000 he won first prize at the World Standards Day paper competition. From 1990 to 2002 he was the founding technical editor of Communications Standards Review, technical journals reporting on standards work-in-progress in the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA), the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). He has also been secretary of TIA TR-29 (facsimile standards) 1990-1995, and a US delegate to ITU-T Study Group 8 (fax), 14 (previous modem standards), 15 (xDSL), and 16 (modem, video, conferencing) meetings. He consulted on standardization strategies 1980 - 2000 for clients including: France Telecom, British Telecom, NEC, Dialogic, Intel, Ascend Communications and Pacific Telesis. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Member of The Society for Standards Professionals.  Krechmer's papers can be found at http://www.isology.com

If you would like to attend guest lecture, please, send e-mail with the topic : "Ken Krechmers lecture" to Mikhail Komarov (deputy dean for international relations at the Faculty of business informatics) mkomarov@hse.ru