Date: November 17, 2006
Time: 3:00 p.m.
Location: Centergy One 5186
Speaker(s): Dr. Wu Chou
Title: Web Services for Multimedia and Voice Communication over IP
Abstract:
Multimedia and voice communication over IP is an active research area, and various approaches have been developed in the past decade, e.g. SIP, XMPP, H.323, Skype, GoogleTalk, etc. In this talk, I will overview some recent advances with a focus on Service-Oriented Communication (SOC), which is a new development in the industry to enable communication through web services and service oriented architecture (SOA). In particular, I will discuss the development of Web Service Initiation Protocol (WIP). WIP is a full web service and SOA based communication protocol for multimedia and voice communication over IP. The generic web service approach of WIP overcomes many limitations which would be otherwise difficult to achieve in non-web service based communication methods used today. In addition, I will briefly discuss the service composition and orchestration framework for communication based on WS-BPEL, and illustrate the application of this approach through some real use cases.
Bio:
Dr. Wu Chou is Director and Avaya Labs Fellow at Avaya Labs Research, Avaya. He joined AT&T Bell Labs Research at Murray Hill, New Jersey in 1990 after completing his study at Stanford University. Since then, he has been working on a wide spectrum of R&D activities in communication and information systems, covering areas from signal processing, communication, speech recognition, dialogue systems, etc. to Web services, SOA, multimodal interaction, XML, CSTA, etc.

Dr. Chou is an IEEE Fellow. He received a Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, a MS degree in Mathematics, a MS degree in Electrical Engineering and a MS degree in Statistics, all from Stanford University, California. He has served on many program and conference committees, editors and editorial board members, standard committees, etc. He received Bell Labs President's Gold Award in 1997, Avaya Leadership Award in 2005, authored/co-authored nearly 100 technical papers, and holds 20 US and International patents.