Washington, DC Chapter
Next Meeting: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Jidé B. Odubiyi
Building Survivable Systems in Engineering and Business Systems
A survivable system is one that will deliver essential services on time; even when significant elements of the system become disabled. A survivable system’s quality attributes include fault tolerance, performance, availability, reliability, security, and affordability. One of the most effective means for building these systems is to employ tools that aid in investigating a variety of design and operational scenarios and selecting the most viable option. Organizations may fail to meet their mission objectives due to their inability to successfully innovate three critical change drivers essential to their survival – product, process, and business systems. Unless an organization innovates, it cannot adapt to changes in its environment and consequently, it cannot survive.
Dr. Odubiyi will present technological approaches for using these change drivers to achieve an organization’s mission objectives. He will discuss the principles and applications of finite element modeling for product innovation; modeling and simulation science for process innovation; and complex and nonlinear systems theory and multi-agent technology for business process innovation. Employing real life examples, he will present measures of system survivability for engineering structures (automobile and airplanes); telecommunication networks, computer and network security; and software engineering.
About Our Speaker
Jidé Odubiyi is President and CTO of SEGMA, LLC. He has over 30 years of industrial and research experience in researching and generating products from concepts to market with a current focus on developing business intelligence software for corporate governance, computer and network security, and intelligent tutoring systems. He serves as a research consultant on intelligent systems engineering and Grid computing for NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. He has served as an associate professor of computer science at Bowie State University; Principal AI Researcher and R&D Manager, British Telecom North America/Concert Global Communications (USA); Principal Engineer and AI Technologist, Lockheed Martin Space Mission Systems; Product Design Engineer, the Boeing Company and Ford Motor Company; and Member of the Technical Staff at The MITRE Corporation and Battelle Columbus Laboratories. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington, and Ph.D. degree in Applied Management and Decision Sciences from Walden University. Dr. Odubiyi has authored over 40 articles and two books: Blueprint for a Crooked House (on mergers and acquisitions) and Building Survivable Systems. Membership of AAAI, ACM, and IEEE.
Date: Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Time: 6:30 PM Refreshments/Networking; 7:00 PM Meeting
Location: MITRE, Building 2, 7515 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA (via VTC) or FDA, Bldg. 22, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD (Speaker Location) or Comtech Mobile Datacom*, 20430 Century Blvd., Germantown, MD (via VTC)
Who: All are invited. SSQ Membership is not required for attendance.
RSVP: Please register online via the link: http://www.asq509.org/ht/d/DoSurvey/i/26913 by noon on Monday, March 23rd. For registration problems, contact Scott Ankrum at ankrums@mitre.org or 703-983-6127.
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