Mr. Khalid Hammoud

Senior Demonstrator, University of Bahrain, Bahrain

 Master Student in IT & Computer  Science,

Ahlia University

Biography:

Mr. Hammoud is a Senior Demonstrator at University of Bahrain since 2007. He is currently a Master Student in IT & Computer Science Program at Ahlia University. Mr Hammoud received his B.Sc. in 2000 in International Trade, Banking, and Assurance. He has many professional certificates including Oracle Certified Professional, Oracle Certified Associate, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE), Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator (MCSA), and Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP). He worked in the field of Information Technology, Management and as Entrepreneur in many companies such as Hisham Abdulrahman Jaffer (HAJ) – Bahrain, Water Authority of North Lebanon, Marblo International - Qatar, Ondeo Liban S.A.L. (Suez Environnement) – Lebanon, Oriental Touch – Lebanon, and Technomania LB (Creator and Owner) – Lebanon. Mr Hammoud is a Co-founder and a member of the Lebanese IT Association since 2005.

Title:

E-Learning through Social Networking Sites: Case Study - Facebook

Date & Time:

Monday May 20^th, 2013 at 3:00 pm

Venue:

Ahlia University, Conference Room

Description:

Online learning has been acknowledged as a successful and useful pedagogical technique and tool. Thus, it is widely incorporated into a wide variety of teaching and learning methods in higher education. The use of Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) in higher education has become an essential method for good education. This field, however, has not been the topic of thorough research when it comes to online learning, delivery and evaluation. This research tackles education from an online learning point of view, mainly through the focus on social networking channels and integrated applications. It puts forward an integrated outline over the most employed and spread social network – Facebook – with three key components for online learning via VLE. A social network has a fundamental perspective: it is mainly employed to give a shape or model to the structure of a group of people involved. It also points to the way this structure affects other variables, or how structures change over time. The study of these structures resorts to methods in social network analysis to spot influential nodes, local and global structures, and network dynamics.

Ms. Susan Sabra

Ph.D. Student and Lecturer at Oakland University, USA

Lecturer at Lawrence Technological University, Michigan, USA

Biography:

Ms. Sabra currently holds a part-time lecturer position at Oakland University and Lawrence Technological University in Michigan USA for over a year now. Susan teaches a variety of graduate and undergraduate computer science courses. After graduation with her master’s degree, she worked for two years as an IT system analyst for Saudi Aramco in Saudi Arabia then moved to academia where she became a lecturer for six years at Ahlia University in the kingdom of Bahrain. She was born and raised in Lebanon but completed her studies in the USA where she received a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science in 1998 from Lawrence Technological University followed by a Master’s degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Oakland University in 2001. Susan is a certified professional with ITIL, Balanced Scorecard and HITPro (Healthcare IT workflow redesign practitioner).  She delivered many IT management training sessions. Beside her work, Susan is also a full-time PhD student in the CSE department at Oakland University working with her advisor Dr. Chingseh (Mike) Wu in the research area of healthcare services in the cloud focusing on the performance measures to improve QoS (Quality of Service) in the cloud services delivery.

Title:

 Future SDP through Cloud Architectures

Date & Time:

Wednesday June 5^th, 2013 at 11:00 am

Venue:

Ahlia University, Conference Room

Description:

In this talk we propose a new service delivery platform (SDP), named Future SDP that incorporates principles of cloud computing and service oriented architecture (SOA). Future SDP allows resources, services and middleware infrastructure deployed in diverse clouds to be delivered to users through a common cloud Broker. This cloud Broker is enhanced with policy, management, security and mediation functionalities that ensure proper use of development tools, resources and services only to certified participants of the federated clouds. This work focuses on solving interoperability problems both into infrastructure and middleware layer of the conventional SDPs. Finally, the operational attributes of Future SDP are depicted through a delivery scenario of healthcare telemonitoring services.