Peer to Peer Computing

MONDAY 12 DECEMBER 2005
APTN/P2P Universal Computing Consortium: One Day Conference

updated on 6 Decemberr 2005

Location: International Institute of Strategic Studies, Arundel House, 13-15 Arundel Street, London, WC2R 3DX
Nearest Tube Stations: Temple
Time: 9am - 5.30 pm
Prices and How To Register: please click here

Background to the Conference

This will be a one-day conference introducing the work of the P2P Universal Computing Consortium to a London-based audience. The programme will involve both Japanese- and European-based speakers. Its goal is to deepen relationships between each other's Peer-to-Peer communities.

This Consortium, which is based round a group working within Keio University, involves a number of key players in the Japanese ICT community. The relevant laboratory is funded by NTT DoCoMo and involves Nobuo Saito, who was previously the Vice-President of Keio University and Vice-Chairman of the World Wide Web Consortium alongside Tim Berners-Lee.

The P2P Universal Computing Consortium (PUCC) will conduct R&D work on P2P computing and communication. The aim of PUCC is to develop and build new service/computing/communication platforms for various digital devices (e.g., printers, mobile phones, digital TVs, digital VTR, appliances) over P2P commutations. Today, current architecture mainly considers PC centric solutions, with devices linked to PCs, which act as digital hubs which establish communications among small devices and create complex services using them.

The PUCC will develop new P2P computing/communication technologies that will allow digital hub/PC-less computing and create a truly dynamic autonomous network computing environment. To achieve these goals, PUCC has started 5 Working Groups.

The Consortium's members currently include NTT DoCoMo, HP, Ericsson, Mitsubishi and EPSON, with other world famous companies due to join imminently.

Co-Chairs Kazuhiro Kitagawa, Vice-Chair, P2P Universal Computing Consortium and Associate Professor, Keio University
Professor Ian Angell, Professor of Information Systems, London School of Economics

Speakers: Professor Nobuo Saito, Chairperson of P2P Universal Computing Consortium , Professor at Keio University and Associate Chairman, World Wide Web Consortium "Introduction to PUCC"

Simon Broad, Senior Distribution Mgr, Strategy & Distribution, BBC "Challenges facing the BBC in a Beyond-Broadcasting world"

Johan Hjelm , Senior Specialist, Ericsson Research ""P2P beyond file sharing: New trends in Europe"

Dr .Norihiro Ishikawa, Senior Manager, Network Management Development Department, NTT DoCoMo, Inc. "PUCC: Peer-to-Peer Networking Architecture and Protocol"

Dr. Masao Isshiki, Senior Manager, Home IT Business Promotion Div. Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corpration "The TOSHIBA home network system "FEMINITY(TM) series"

Hirofumi Sukeda, Smart Identification Solutions Division, Hitachi, Ltd. "SAFIA Content Protection Technologies for iVDR." (Security Architecture For Intelligent Attachment device: information Versatile Disk for Removable usage)

Teruyasu Murakami, Chief Counselor of Nomura Research Institute ""The Ubiquitous Network Paradigm and u-Japan Policy"

Andrew Parker, Chief Technology Officer, CacheLogic ""P2P Present and Futures - a review of the current P2P environment and the potential future strategies for Commercial, Legal P2P Content Distribution"

Ashutosh.Khanna, Department of Information Systems, London School of Economics "Peer-to-peer systems and new commercial architectures" (working title)

Severin de Wit, Partner, Simmons & Simmons (Rotterdam) ""Legal stuff: how is Peer-to-Peer doing in Europe"

Speakers' Backgrounds

BBC: Simon Broad
Simon Broad is Head of Service Development for the BBC Strategy Group.
His responsibilities include exploring with internal and external partners new ways to make BBC public services accessible to UK licence fee payers. For the last 4 years he has led third party platform relationships for the BBC, including negotiating distribution contracts and sponsoring new service trials. His background is in new media where he launched the BBC's first interactive TV services on digital terrestrial and digital satellite platforms, and developed the first BBC TV Navigator. Prior to that he was a radio producer for 10 years.

The BBC was created in 1922 and currently produces eight TV networks, about 60 radio services, and the most popular content website in Europe
- all funded by the Licence Fee. The BBC also broadcasts TV and radio across the world in 43 languages. Currently the BBC is undertaking a significant strategy project looking at how the future media landscape might develop and what the BBC needs to do to respond; Simon is involved in the distribution and rights workstreams.

CacheLogic: Andrew Parker
Andrew Parker is Founder & CTO of CacheLogic, a UK based technology development organization focussed on the delivery of network intelligence and traffic management products for service providers. Andrew was formerly VP of Strategy and Chief Consultant for Zeus Technology. In this role Andrew architected and deployed many of the largest ISP and content sites in existence. Andrew has been actively involved in the fields of network design and computer security for the last 15 years and has acted as an advisor to fortune-500 companies and governments in these fields.

CacheLogic is a technology company that provides a suite of complimentary products that deliver traffic management and network intelligence solutions for the Internet Service Provider and Telecommunications sectors. CacheLogic’s core products provide carrier grade solutions that enable ISPs to make significant cost savings through the intelligent management of Peer-to-Peer traffic across their networks, whilst maintaining the end-user experience.

DoCoMo: Norhiro Ishikawa
Norihiro Ishikawa: received the B.E., M.E. and ph.D.degree in information engineering from Kyoto Unniversity, Kyoto, Japan, in 1978, 1980 and 2003, respectively. From 1980 to 1999, he was with NTT. Since 1999 he has been with NTT DoCoMo, Inc. working on mobile Internet technologies and ubiquitous computing.

NTT DoCoMo is the world's leading mobile communication company with more than 50 million customers. The company provides a wide variety of leading-edge mobile multimedia services. These include i-mode, the world most popular mobile Internet service, which provides e-mail and Internet access to over 45 million subscribers and FOMA, launched in 2001 as the world's first 3G mobile service based on W-CDMA.

Hitachi: Hirofumi Sukeda
Hirofumi Sukeda, Center Manager of Contents Access Business Center, Smart Identification Solutions Division, Hitachi, Ltd. He chairs Steering Committee of SAFIA License Group. He has been a secretary of Japanese Committee of ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 23 (Digital Storage Media for information interchange) for nine years, and he is a former secretary of WG5 (DVD-RAM) of DVD Forum. He has been actively involved in the standardization framework of digital storage media for 15 years and also has acted as a researcher of high-density recording technologies. He formerly chaired ODS 2002, Optical Data Storage topical conference in US

The Hitachi Group is a "lifestyle" conglomerate - with over 350,000 employees working to make people's lives better every day. Behind the scenes, Hitachi electrical and industrial machineries, building systems, transportation systems and data communication systems are key components in infrastructures worldwide. For consumers, Hitachi offers a comprehensive lineup of electronics components and materials, digital and other electrical home appliances. Within the Hitachi Group, the Smart Identification Solutions Division has access to the newest devices and technologies such as HDD, IC-Chip, finger vein authentication, electronic tally, password security technologies, and to various system integration resources.

Keio University: Nobuo Saito
Professor Nobuo Saito, Faculty of Environmental Information Keio University1
1964, BEng, University of Tokyo
1966 MEng, University of Tokyo
1974 Ph. D. University of Tokyo
Electro Technical Laboratory, Japanese Government University of Tsukuba, Institute of Computer Science and Electronics Keio University, Faculty of Engineering Keio University, Faculty of Environmental Information Dean, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University Dean, Graduate School of Media and Governance,Keio University Vice President,Keio University
Associate Chair, W3C(World WIde Web Consortium) Vice President, Japanese University Computer Education Association President, Japanese Association of SOHO
Academic Interest: Operating System, Distributed Processing, Netrwork System, Multimedia Application, Web Engineering

Nomura Research Institute: Dr Teruyasu Murakami
Dr Teruyasu Murakami, Chief Corporate Counselor Nomura Research Institute, Ltd . Dr. Murakami joined Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (NRI) in 1968 and engaged in numerous research and consulting projects. After acting as Director of Social and Economic Systems Department and Technology Strategy Department in Research and Consulting Sector and Executive Fellow, he became member of the Board of Directors of NRI in 1996. After holding various positions, including director in charge of Internet Business Development and Knowledge Solutions, he became Representative Director and Executive Managing Director in 2001, to oversee the Consulting Sector, International Division and Corporate Research & Development.

He assumed the present post of Chief Corporate Counselor of NRI in April 2002. NRI is now a total solution provider, listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, of approximately 3,500 employees and 2.1 billion US Dollars sales turnover.Recently Dr. Murakami chaired the committee to establish the next generation ICT policies for Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, "u-Japan(Ubiquitous Net Japan) Policy" and actively participated the formulation process of "UNS(Ubiquitous Network Society) Strategy Program" which is a long term ICT R&D vision and program to realize u-Japan.He serves as a member of various governmental committees, including the Information and Telecommunication Council and the Industrial Structure Council. He is Executive Steering Committee member of Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce (GBDe) and is also chairman of the IT Governance Working Group of Nippon Keidanren.

Dr. Murakami earned a B.A. in Economics degree from Kyoto University, a Master of Public and International Affairs from University of Pittsburgh and a Doctor of Informatics from Kyoto University. Among other publications in English, he has authored (or co-authored) "Establishing the Ubiquitous Network Environment in Japan", "Ubiquitous Networks: The New IT Paradigm," "Strategy for Creation"(also in Japanese, Spanish and Korean), "Global Insecurity," etc. He has also written and edited numerous books and papers in Japanese.?

PUCC: Kazuhiro Kitegawa
Kazuhiro Kitagawa is associate professor of graduate school of media & governance, Keio University, Japan. He is one of the founders of the PUCC and its vice-chairperson. He joined Keio University, April 2000. From April 2000 to March 2005, he also worked for W3C (World Wide Web Consortium). He was chair W3C’s Mobile Access Interests Group and launched W3C’s Device Independence Activity and Working Group to achieve universal Web access from various types of devices. His research interests are digital media and document dissemination and processing, information filtering and computer network, particularly P2P network for small devices.

Simmons & Simmons: Severin de Wit
Severin de Wit, attorney since 1978, is a partner at Simmons & Simmons Netherlands specialising in patents and technology.

Toshiba: Dr Masao Isshiki
I joined Toshiba in 1982. At first, I was engaged in development of noise and vibration reduction technology. Especially, the result was in the reduction of transfer power from the compressor vibration by the inverter air-conditioner, and reduction of the fluid noise by the fan. Then, I was engaged in development and research of air-conditioning control. I took charge of research on the home network from 2000. I took charge of new business development division and business plan promotion of home network electric appliances and development has been promoted like the Feminty series. Now, the development range is extended and construction of a business model is advanced. I thought that creation of a new life scene and a life style could be aimed at by using a cellular phone as an interface for household-electric-appliances apparatus which will seemingly be new. The method of apparatus inclusion was designed, the middleware adapter system was devised, and it was adopted by the ECHONET standard. Now I am the promotion committee member of ECHONET consortium.

Toshiba, a world leader in high technology, is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of advanced electronic and electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and materials, power systems, industrial and social infrastructure systems, and household appliances. Under its mid term business plan, Toshiba is working for enhanced recognition as a highly profitable group of companies, active in both high growth and stable growth businesses.#Established: 1875 by Hisashige Tanaka President and CEO: Atsutoshi Nishida
Employees: 165,000 Total Assets: US$42,723 million
Business Domains 1. Digital Products 2. Electronic Devices & Components3. Social Infrastructure Systems 4. Home Appliances and Others

Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation
Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation's high-value-added refrigerators, washing machines, small household appliances and primary batteries address daily needs and add to quality of life. The company also handles sales of audio-visual equipment and other consumer digital products in Japan, and is bringing strengths developed there to the promotion of overseas expansion through strategic alliances with international partners. Toshiba Consumer Marketing Corporation also rationalizes and supports the activities of three businesses and affiliates handling lighting fixtures, air-conditioners and after-sales service.http://www.toshiba.co.jp/worldwide/about/company/tcm.htm

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