2012 MAX Spring All Hands Meeting

MAX hosted its 2012 Spring All Hands Meeting on Tuesday, May 22nd. The meeting was held at MAX’s new offices located at M-Square, the University of Maryland’s Research Park complex. MAX’s Executive Director, Abdella Battou, gave company updates on current activities and MAX’s new Director of Services, Jarda Flidr, discussed future services to be offered by MAX. There were also two guest presenters. Dr. Tracey Wilen-Daugenti, Vice President and Managing Director of the Apollo Research Institute, presented ideas from her book Society 3.0: How Technology is Reshaping Education, Work, and Society which explores how educators and industry leaders can recognize trends that are revolutionizing 21st century households, learning environments, and workplaces. Dr. Casimer DeCusatis, Chief Technology Officer for IBM Systems Networking Strategic Alliances, joined the meeting via remote video and discussed the advantages of optical networking for highly virtualized data centers including lower power, improved scalability and port density, and tighter I/O integration with processors.