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Farshid
Alizadeh-Shabdiz D.Sc.George Washington University
Dr.Alizadeh-Shabdiz has ten years industrial experience in design
and implementation of satellite and wireless networks.
He also gained valuable teaching experience during three years working with accelerated master program in the George Washington University. |
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Adam Arakelian Masters in Computer Information Systems with a Concentration in Computer Security |
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| Saeed Asgari B.S., M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1989 and 1991
From June 1997 to June 1999 he was with the research and development group as a member of technical staff of Western Digital Corporation responsible for design and modeling of next generation of read/write channels. From July 1999 to July 2004 he was with Quantum and Maxtor Corporations being a technical staff member responsible for advanced design and read/write channel product development. He is currently with Ansoft Corporation in Burlington Massachusetts since September 2004 as a senior scientist performing distributed model development and electromagnetic modeling of distributed devices. His research interests are in statistical and adaptive signal processing and its applications to communication systems. He is also interested in non-linear signal processing and the application of wavelets and fractals to data and image compression. He is the holder of two patents by introducing and developing robust algorithms as well as data processing modeling tools to improve the manufacturing yield and reliability of disk drives. Dr. Asgari has received numerous teaching awards during his teaching experience at University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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M.S. Boston University, USA
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Embedded Systems, Data Communications, Real Time Programming, Operating Systems, Hardware/Software Interfaces. |
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James Burrell Ph.D. (ABD) Nova Southeastern University |
Computer and Network Security, |
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Ellis Cohen is the director of OpenLine Consulting, www.openlineconsult.com, a Boston-based training and consulting company with areas of expertise in IT Strategy and Relational Database Design. He has extensive computer industry experience leading research and advanced development projects, and has been the CTO of two internet startup companies. As cofounder of Hubnet.com, he developed the first online restaurant guide for the web. |
IT Strategy, Innovation and IT, Databases, User Interface Toolkits, UI Design, Collaborative Development Environments 617-686-1951
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Dr. Covino is a full-time faculty member at Bridgewater State College (BSC). Prior to joining BSC he was the MBA, Department Chair for Information Technology at Kaplan University. He has taught a variety of Information Technology and Business Management courses during his adjunct and full time teaching career. In addition to his full time responsibilities he teaches in the MBA and Executive MBA programs at Suffolk University and Master of Business program at Cambridge College. He brings over twenty years of teaching experience to Boston University. He has over twenty-five years of Information Technology experience, having consulted and held a number of high-level positions in various corporations. His career spans from the early days of the industry when it was referred to as “Data Processing”, to his last consulting assignment where he was responsible for establishing Infrastructure Policies and Procedures for a global Web Hosting Operations Company. He has held many positions in the industry, as divest as managing multiple datacenters for a state government agency to Information Technology Director for a global financial company. Ralph’s combination of business skills acquired through years of industry experience combined with an M.B.A. brings a solid understanding of business in today’s global environment. When combined with his Ph.D. in Information Systems, the result is a well-balanced approach to material covered in the classroom. This combination of skills allows issues to be evaluated for their technical merit as well as for the potential impact they would have on a corporation. |
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M.S. Boston University, USA |
Unix,
C++, Software Engineering, Software Management. |
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John Day
BSEE Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois, 1970. John Day has been involved in research and development of computer networks since 1970 (his original network address was 12) when he was involved in the design of transport and upper layer protocols for the ARPANet as well as the Internet. Mr. Day has developed and designed protocols for everything from the data link layer to the application layer. Mr. Day has made fundamental contributions to research on distributed databases developing one of two fundamental algorithms in the updating of multiple copies. He also did work on the early development of supercomputers and was a member of a team in developing 3 operating systems. Mr. Day was an early advocate of the use of Formal Description Techniques for protocols and shepherded the development the three international standard FDTs: Estelle, Lotos, and SDL. Mr. Day was in charge of the development of the OSI Reference Model, Naming and Addressing and a major contributor to the upper layer architecture and was a member of the Internet Research Task Force’s Name Space Research Group. He has been a major contributor to the development of Network Management Architecture, working in the area since 1984 defining the fundamental architecture currently prevalent and designing high performance implementations, and fielded a network management system in the mid-80’s that was 10 years ahead of comparable systems. Mr. Day was also involved in the development of the Utilities Communication Architecture for electric, gas, and water utilities; and in the design and deployment of field trials for various utilities. Recently Mr. Day has been turning his attention to radically new network architectures that scale indefinitely and described in his book Patterns in Network Architecture: A Return to Fundamentals. Mr. Day is also a recognized scholar in the History of Cartography having published on topics relating to Neolithic Korea and to the Jesuits in 17thC China. Most recently, Mr. Day has contributed to an exhibit, Encompassing the Globe, at the Smithsonian Institution, summer 2007 and a chapter in Matteo Ricci Cartographia in Italian. (Last updated 8/9/07) |
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Zoran
Djordjevic Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology After a brief period as a design engineer at a biotech company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he returned to Belgrade where he worked as a senior scientist in the Institute in Vinca. In Vincha, he pursued studies of random structures and networks. In the early 1990's, Zoran moved to the Catholic University of America in Washington D.C. where he designed a large database containing properties of radioactive streams from all DOE sites and multi-component glasses for safe storage of nuclear wastes. Ever since, Zoran remained interested and involved in the design of large database and in particular data warehouse applications. More recently, his interest is centered on techniques for processing, searching, storing and retrieving of natural language samples. He taught various computer science, physics and mathematics courses at Boston University's Metropolitan College, Harvard University's Extension School, Clark University, University of Massachusetts Boston and Catholic University of America. |
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Dragan Grebovich
Dragan Grebovich has been with Nortel Networks since 1994. Currently he is an architect with the Converged Data Networks. Prior to that, he has held a range of senior positions in both Carrier and Enterprise Lines of Business in R&D, Product Management, Verification, System Engineering, s/w and h/w development and field support. He has over 20 years of hands-on experience in security products and networks design and applications in Canada, US and Europe. He has been actively involved in ISO, ITU/CCITT and IETF Security and Network Management Areas. He has extensive teaching and presentation experience. He holds MS and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering. |
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Angelo Guadagno MBA,
Babson College Mr. Guadagno has over 30 years of experience in the electronics industry and has served in executive management, senior sale and marketing, and engineering positions. He has been involved in a variety of consulting assignments both for venture capital groups and with small and medium size companies. His BOD experience includes Savior Technology, Finale Inc, Ezworkplace Inc, Asic Alliance and Site Technology. His corporate experience includes Data General Corp, Apollo Computer and Digital Equipment Corp. He holds an MBA from Babson College, a M.S. in Math from Villanova University, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering also from Villanova University and is currently the President and CEO of Assertive Design Inc, an EDA software company supplying software tools to design engineers of large, complex ASICS. |
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M.S. Boston University, USA B.S. Lowell Technology, USA Mike Hadavi has been active in the computer industry for more than 25 years. Over the years he has developed, implemented, and supported a number of software systems on various platforms using many different programming languages. Currently, he is involved in architecting and implementing object oriented systems utilizing the latest paradigm in software development. Concurrently, for the past 18 years, he has been developing and teaching computer science courses in software development, computer programming, and web-based applications. |
C, C++, Java, Data Structures, Operating Systems; Software Development. |
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Ph.D. Boston University M.S. Boston University B.S. Boston University Youssef A. Hawili holds a doctorate degree in computer science and bachelors and masters degrees in biomedical engineering from Boston University. Youssef has over 12 years of experience architecting, designing, and developing innovative software solutions in the clinical and medical instrumentation industry, and has over 8 years of experience teaching computer science courses at the Metropolitan College at Boston University. Youssef specializes in object-oriented distributed design patterns, n-tier distributed architectures, smart client applications, and database solutions using Microsoft technologies. He is currently a system's architect at Philips Medical Systems providing technical expertise and leadership to R&D engineering staff, business level managers and directors for research and development of new products and process strategies. |
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Dave Hendrickson has written firmware and low-level software in embedded systems for 25 years, most notably in Input/Output Controllers, medical devices, and parallel architectures. He has contributed to the design of state-of-the-art general purpose systems as well as highly-specialized platforms. While experienced in C++ and Object Oriented methodologies, he's also proficient in over a dozen assembly languages. He has taught part-time at Boston University since 1987 in the areas of Computer Architecture, Assembly Language Programming and C++ Programming. He is also an award-winning writer whose work spans from sports to humor to fiction. |
Computer Architecture, Assembly Language Programming. |
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M.S. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fl Daniel J. Hebert is a Principle Information Systems Engineer at the MITRE Corporation. He holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from Florida State University. With over 25 years of experience in the field, he has contributed to a broad range of programs including the Space Shuttle, the IRS Modernization program, and the Air Force Weather program. Primary areas of expertise include database technologies, software architectures, computer graphics, and geographic information systems. |
Database/Data Warehousing/Data Mining, Software Architectures, Computer Graphics, and Geographic Information Systems |
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Dino Konstantopoulos |
Web Services and Service Oriented Software Architectures, Web and Cloud Computing, Mathematical Logic and Functional Languages, Simulations and Computer Gaming, Geographical Information Systems, Mission Planning in the Air Force. 781-266-9526
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George
Maiewski M.S. University of Massachusetts, USA B.A. University of Massachusetts, USA George Maiewski specializes in database and graphics. He worked in Technical Support at Mass Mutual Life supporting a database management system then did systems software development at Data General and Digital Equipment Corp where he worked on developing database management systems. At Digital he also did software development for realtime systems, diagnostics, and network printers. His most recent assignments have been working on a transaction processing system and porting the OpenVMS operating system from Alpha to Intel's IA64 architecture. He has been teaching courses at B.U. since 1983. |
Database and Computer Languages. 781-487-1383
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John
Maslanka Ph.D.Boston College, USA M.A. Boston College, USA B.S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Dr Maslanka received his BS degree from MIT in 1961 and his Ph.D. degree from Boston College in 1975. For most of his career, he has been a software engineer and computer programmer, having spent a total of twenty years as a computer language compiler engineer at Digital / Compaq / Hewlett Packard Company before his retirement in June of 2002. Dr. Maslanka has taught part-time in the Computer Science Department of Metropolitan College since 1972. His academic areas of concentration are instruction in computer languages and data structures and programming for websites. |
Computer Languages, Compilers, Run-time Systems, Systems Tools, Data Structures and Design Patterns. |
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M.S. Boston University, USA Robert Montminy, a recipient of the Boston University Metropolitan College Outstanding Part-time Faculty Award, has been an adjunct lecturer in the MET Computer Science Department since 1984. He specializes in teaching computer programming languages to students with little or no programming experience. At MET, he has taught programming courses in Pascal, C, and C++, as well as the Discrete Mathematics course. Robert served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, West Africa where he taught mathematics at the St. John Bosco Teacher Training College in Navrongo. A lifelong educator, he was instrumental in creating one of the first local area networks in a south shore secondary school and introduced Advanced Placement Computer Science courses in Pascal, C++, and Java at Marshfield High School, before retiring in 2006. In addition to teaching, he enjoys theater, biking, and kayaking. |
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Ph.D. Boston University, USA |
Mathematics Specialized in Discrete Mathematics and Concentrating in the fields of Coding Theory; Fault-Tolerant Computing and Algorithm Design and Analysis; Mathematical Modeling for Communication Systems and for Investment Strategies.
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George
Newton B.B.A. University of Massachusetts, USA |
Software Engineering, Business Information Systems, Business Management. |
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M.S. Boston University, USA Larry Robertie has more than 22 years of diverse experience in the Mutual Fund industry. Prior to joining Pioneer he was a key executive in the Transfer Agent operations of Colonial Management Associates where he held responsibility for Control, Operations, Special Projects, and finally Director of Marketing for Transfer Agent Services.At Pioneer, Larry's original responsibilities included running the operations division of the Transfer Agent, with offices in both Boston and Omaha. Currently Larry's focus is on corporate-wide technology efforts. Reporting to the CIO, he is responsible for Pioneer's Database Administration, Intranet Operations, and Custom Software Development.Larry is also a part time instructor at Boston University, where he conducts a course in C++ programming. He holds an MBA from Suffolk University. |
Computer Programming, Software Project Management. |
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M.Sc. in Computer Science/Security, Boston University
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Linux, digital forensics, network security and information warfare |
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