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                          MONDAY, APRIL 24, 2000
                     SCAIFE HALL AUDITORIUM, ROOM 125
              4:00 PM
                       Refreshments start at 3:30 PM
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                          Dr. Stuart I. Feldman
               Director, IBM Institute for Advanced  Commerce
               Director, Networked Computing Software Research
                      IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
                            Hawthorne, NY 10532
                         E-Mail: sif@watson.ibm.com


           ``E-BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND SOFTWARE CHALLENGES''

                                  BIO

Feldman did his academic work (AB, Princeton and PhD, MIT) in astrophysics
and mathematics. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the ACM. He has
been a member of the Board of the Computing Research Association and chair
of ACM SIGPLAN and is founding chair of the new ACM SIG on E-Commerce.

He was a computer science researcher at Bell Labs and a research manager at
Bellcore before joining IBM in mid-1995. He has published research in
software engineering, programming languages, scientific computing and other
areas of computer science. He was also architect for a large new line of
software products at Bellcore.

At IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center, Feldman leads a department doing
research in a wide variety of network-related technologies and application
enablers, including parallel databases, e-commerce, anti-virus, and
advanced multimedia. He is also the Director of IBM's Institute for
Advanced Commerce, an organization created to increase IBM's connections to
the outside research world as well as to accelerate creation of new
technologies for support of e-Business.


                                ABSTRACT

This talk will discuss some of the major trends in electronic commerce and
the practical issues software research challenges they raise.

The explosive growth of electronic commerce and of new business models
presents many opportunities for experimentation and success.
New structures are forming, new ways of interacting are now possible
and are likely to be essential. Complex marketplaces will replace simple
web sites, multiparty negotiations and ad hoc groupings will replace
simple catalog sales, efficient specialists will flourish. Business
processes will be more widely distributed and their associations
will be more dynamic. Businesses will cross borders and time zones
routinely, and many more activities will be automated.

As a result, software will be central to the new enterprise. Even today
some e-commerce companies are little more than software and a web of
legal contracts. Systems will be business-critical, highly distributed,
dynamically configured, requirements will change rapidly  and frequently
be poorly understood, yet there will be severe performance and security
demands. In other words, e-business leads us back to a set of previously
unsolved software engineering problems.

Practical solutions are being constructed and repaired as necessary.
Our challenge is to extend software and systems engineering research to
attack these problems, and to produce results that will be useful and used.



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