• July 29, 2008, Tuesday
  Joint COMPSAC/SAINT Keynote: "Leveraging Distributed Computing Concepts in Mobile", Mr. Lee Williams (Nokia, Finland)
• July 30, 2008, Wednesday
  SAINT Opening Keynote: "Future Internet for The Other Billions - Research Opportunity", Prof. Kilnam Chon (Keio University)
• July 31, 2008, Thursday
  Joint COMPSAC/SAINT Keynote: "Generation Y: Understanding the Trend and Planning for the Impact", Ms. Jean Holley (Tellabs, Inc. USA)

For detailed biography of Mr. Williams and the abstract of keynote speech, please refer to the COMPSAC website.

Prof. Kilnam Chon

Professor at Keio University
Visiting Professor at Tsinghua Unviersity
Professor Emeritus, KAIST

Brief Summary:

Future Internet research has started around the world. Much of the research is focused on the current Internet users of the developed countries. Complimentary effort on the research for people without the Internet access, in particular among developing countries is also very important. This could provide good research opportunity, too.

Biography:

Ph.D in Computer Science, UCLA, 1974
Fellow of Institute of Electrical Engineers, 2000
Fellow of World Technology Forum, 2003
Honorary Member of World Innovation Foundation, 2005
Founding Steering Group Chair, Asia Future Internet Forum, 2008-Present
Advisory Board Member, Communications of ACM,1996-Present
Board Member, Information Retrieval Facility, 2006-Present
Presidential Advisory Board, Asia Institute of Technology, 2003-2006
Governor, International Council of Computer Communication, 1995-2005
Founding Chair, Asia Pacific Advanced Network, 1997-2004
Editorial Board Member, British Computer Society, 1994-2002

For detailed biography of Ms. Holley and the abstract of keynote speech, please refer to the COMPSAC website.