3rd Annual SAP Sponsored Academic Research Conference 2009

Event Overview

In today's fast paced, high-tech market, the challenge to increase the pace and impact of innovation is ever increasing. As a result, corporations are realizing the critical and leverageable role that academia can play in research and development organizations, especially during tough economic times.

The SAP Sponsored Academic Research Conference featured two special executive keynotes Hasso Plattner, Chairman and Founder of SAP and Ike Nassi, SAP Chief Scientist, but also included:

• David Patterson - American computer pioneer, co-inventor of the SPARC chip, and professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Winner of over 30 awards for his research, teaching and service.
• Erik Brynjolfsson - Professor at MIT Sloan School and author of the book, Wired for Innovation: How Information Technology is Reshaping the Economy. Widely recognized as one of the "most influential academics of business technology."
• Peter Jackson - Professor at Cornell University and world-renowned researcher in the field of operations research.

The theme of this year's conference was "Enterprise - The Next Generation" and covered topics such as the future of the enterprise, multicore, security, sustainability, computational logic, IT productivity and supply-chain risk.

The conference, held on 21 August 2009 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California,  provided an excellent opportunity to collaborate with top academic and industry experts from software and economics as well as to preview the latest trends in enterprise software and services. The symposium consisted of one full-day agenda including lunch, followed by an evening reception and poster session.

All presentations from the day's speakers can be found below.

Presentations

KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS: 

Enterprise Applications - OLTP and OLAP - Share One Database Architecture
Hasso Plattner, Co-Founder and Chairman of the Board, SAP and Hasso Plattner-Institute

Enterprise - The Next Generation
Ike Nassi, Chief Scientist, SAP

PRESENTATIONS:

When Software is Not Enough: Synergies between Human Resource Practices and Human Capital Management Software
Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management

Next Generation Software Systems for Smart Grid and Smart City
John Williams, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Auto-ID Labs

Cloud Computing and the RAD Lab
Dave Patterson, University of California at Berkeley

IT Strategies for Increased Rail Employee Satisfaction
Peter Jackson, Cornell University

It's an Uncertain World, but Our Planning Capabilities are Deterministic: Making the Transition to Range (Stochastic) Planning
Blake Johnson, Stanford University

API Usability for Web Services
Jeff Stylos, Carnegie Mellon University

Toward an Analytic Framework for Understanding and Fostering Peer-Support Communities in Using and Evolving Software Products
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado at Boulder

Collaborative Data Management in Open Information Systems
Mike Genesereth, Stanford University