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Raouf Boutaba
rboutaba@bcr2.uwaterloo.ca
Dr. Raouf Boutaba is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science of the University of Waterloo. Before that he was with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Toronto. Before joining academia, he founded and was the director of the telecommunications and distributed systems division of the Computer Science Research Institute of Montreal (CRIM). Dr. Boutaba conducts research in the areas of network and distributed systems management and resource management in multimedia wired and wireless networks. He has published more than 140 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. He is the recipient of the Premier's Research Excellence Award, the NORTEL Networks research excellence Award and several Best Paper awards. He is a fellow of the faculty of mathematics of the University of Waterloo and a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Computer Society. Dr. Boutaba is the Chairman of the IFIP Working Group on Networks and Distributed Systems, the Vice Chair of the IEEE Communications Society Technical Committee on Information Infrastructure, and the Director of standards board of the IEEE Communications Society. He is the founder and acting editor in Chief of the IEEE eTransactions on Network and Service Management, on the advisory editorial board of the Journal of Network and Systems Management, on the editorial board of the KIKS/IEEE Journal of Communications and Networks, the editorial board of the Journal of Computer Networks and the Journal of Computer Communications. He acted as the program chair for the IFIP Networking conference and the IEEE CCNC conference, and a program co-chair for the IEEE/IFIP NOMS, IFIP/IEEE MMNS, IEEE FIW, IEEE ACC and IEEE ICC symposia. Dr. Boutaba teaches computer networks and distributed systems and conducts research in the area of resource management in wired and wireless networks. |
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Marius von Wielligh
mvonwielligh@debswana.bw
Marius W. von Wielligh, Gaborone, Botswana is Head of IT for the largest diamond mining company in the world, Debswana Diamond Company. He obtained a BEng Electrical (Hons) from the University of Pretoria (RSA) and an MBL from the University of South Africa (UNISA). He is also a registered Professional Engineer (PrEng). As Head of IT for Debswana, he has huge influence over the establishment and use of ICT within the mining sector in Debswana and in Botswana. |
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Dorothy Gordon
Director-general@aiti-kace.com.gh
Dorothy K. Gordon, is the founding Director-General of Ghana’s first Advanced Information Technology Institute (AITI), the Ghana-India Kofi Annan Centre of Excellence in ICT (www.aiti-kace.com.gh). She is a specialist in international development with an M.Phil. from the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK. As Director-General she has the responsibility of ensuring that AITI fulfills its mandate of stimulating growth of the ICT sector and the use of ICT to accelerate development in the ECOWAS subregion. AITI provides globally benchmarked IT training; works to create the right environment to stimulate high-level context-responsive ICT research and development and provides high-end consulting services to achieve global quality standards for clients. |
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