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Conference Update:
754 Submissions
456
Acceptances
33 Workshops, Panels, Tutorials
6 Vendor Presentations 5 Publication
Track Panels Conference RFID Tag Prototype
Total Attendance: 970 Institutions:
350 Countries: 35
As plenary session speakers, AMCIS 2007
offered 2 highly regarded industry experts who represented
our Platinum sponsors.
Dr.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger,
Chairman Emeritus, IBM Academy of
Technology and Visiting Professor of Engineering
Systems, MIT

"IT Enabled
Transformation of Organizations and Institutions"
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(Office 2003)
Dr.
Irving Wladawsky-Berger is responsible for identifying
emerging technologies and marketplace developments
critical to the future of the IT industry. In February
2006 Dr. Wladawsky-Berger was appointed Visiting
Professor of Engineering Systems at MIT’s
interdisciplinary Engineering Systems Division. He is
a member of the Board of Governors of the University of
Chicago-based Argonne National Laboratories and BP
International. He was co-chair of the President’s
Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a
founding member of the Computer Sciences and
Telecommunications Board of the National Research
Council. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001
Hispanic Engineer of the Year.
Dr. Jose A. Blakeley,
Microsoft Software Architect, SQL Server Division.
"Rethinking Information Systems
to Accommodate an
Abundance
of Riches"
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(Office 2003)
Dr. José Blakeley is a software architect in the SQL Server
Division at Microsoft Corporation. He is currently lead
architect in the Data Programmability group in SQL
Server building the Entity Framework in ADO.NET. José
has contributed to numerous programmability and
extensibility features in the SQL Server products.
Before joining Microsoft in 1994, José was a Member of
the Technical Staff at the Computer Science Laboratory
at Texas Instruments where he was a principal
investigator in the development of DARPA Open-OODB, an
object-oriented database system. He over 20 granted or
pending patents. José received a computer systems
engineering degree from ITESM, Monterrey, Mexico, and M.Math and
a Ph.D. degree in computer science from the
University of Waterloo, Canada.
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