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DOUGLAS N. ZUCKERMAN
An active volunteer for
more than 30 years,
Douglas N. Zuckerman is a past IEEE
Division III (Communications Technology)
director, 2008-2009
Douglas N.
president of the IEEE
Zuckerman
Communications Society, and previously held leadership positions in conferences, publications, and
membership development. He earned his
B.S., M.S., and Eng.Sc.D. degrees
from Columbia University, New York.
His professional experience, mainly at
Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey,
and Telcordia Technologies in Piscataway, New Jersey, spans the operations, man agement, and engineering
of emerging communications technologies, networks, and applications.
His work heavily influenced early
standards for management of telecommunications networks. Presently semiretired,
Zuckerman is still active in standards as a
representative to the OpenFog Consortium as a board member. He is also a
consulting employee for Vencore Labs,
Basking Ridge, New Jersey. He currently
serves on the IEEE Communications
Society's Board of Governors and the
IEEE Future Directions Committee. He is
an IEEE Life Fellow.

KATHY GRISE
Kathy Grise is senior
program director of the
IEEE Future Directions Committee; supports new technology
initiatives; is the IEEE
staff program director
Kathy Grise
for the Big Data Initiative, Smart Materials Initiative, and the
IEEE Technology Navigator; and manages the digital presence team for the committee. Prior to joining IEEE staff, Grise
held numerous positions at the International Business Machines (IBM) Corporation, Armonk, New York, and most
recently was a senior engineering manager for process design kit enablement in
the IBM Semiconductor Research and
Development Center. She led the overall
information technology infrastructure

implementation and software development in support of semiconductor-devicemodeling verification, packaging, and
delivery; device measurement and characterization data collection and management; and automation for device-modeling
engineers. She is a graduate of Washington and Jefferson College. She is an
IEEE Senior Member.

MUNG CHIANG
WHY FOG IS A NECESSITY
Is fog essential to the
IoT, 5G, and embedded
artificial intelligence
(AI)? We explored four
dimensions of unique
advantages offered by
fog: cognition, efficienMung Chiang
cy, agility, and latency,
using examples from recent research
from Princeton EDGE Lab, New Jersey.
Mung Chiang is the Arthur LeGrand
Doty professor of electrical engineering
at Princeton University. His research on
networking received the 2013 Alan T.
Waterman Award, the highest honor for
young U.S. scientists and engineers. His
textbook, Networks: Friends, Money
and Bytes, and online course has
reached 250,000 students since 2012.
He founded the Princeton EDGE
Lab in 2009, which bridges the theory-
p r a c t i c e ga p i n e d g e n e t wo r k i n g
research by spanning from proofs to
prototypes. He cofounded a few startups in mobile, IoT, and big-data areas
and cofounded the OpenFog Consortium. He is the director of the Keller
Center for Innovations in Engineering
Education at Princeton University and
the inaugural chair of the Princeton
Entrepreneurship Council.

TAO ZHANG
ROLE OF FOG COMPUTING

Tao Zhang

Moving computing,
control, and storage
into the cloud has been
a key trend in the past
decade. However, the
cloud alone is encountering growing limitations in supporting

many new systems and applications,
such as the IoT, 5G wireless systems,
distributed data analytics, embedded AI,
and more. Addressing the growing need
for distributed computing requires a new
paradigm-fog, which can dynamically
distribute computing, storage, communication, and control services closer to the
users, to the network edge, or anywhere
along the cloud-to-thing continuum that
can best meet user requirements.
Many new challenges arise in
enabling fog computing and services,
creating a fertile ground for innovation.
What fog architectures make the most
sense? How should fog interact with the
cloud? How should we enable scalable,
manageable, and reliable distributed fog
systems and services? How should we
secure such fog systems and services?
The list continues.
Addressing these challenges necessitates rethinking of end-to-end computing,
networking, and control architectures. In
this talk, Tao Zhang discussed what fog
is, how it complements and differs from
other related technologies and initiatives,
how it can help address some critical
challenges we face, and what the global
industry-academia consortium-the
OpenFog Consortium-is doing to accelerate fog development and adoption.
Tao Zhang joined Cisco, San Jose,
California, in 2012 as the chief scientist
for smart connected vehicles and also
leads the creation of strategies, technology, and ecosystems for IoT and fog
computing. Prior to Cisco, he was chief
scientist and director of vehicular networking and director of mobile networks at Telcordia Technologies
(formerly Bell Communic a t i o n s
Research or Bellcore), Piscataway,
New Jersey. For more than 25 years,
he has been in various technical and
executive positions, directing research
and product development in areas
including vehicular networks, all-Internet Protocol cellular networks (third generation/fourth generation), and fiberoptic networks.
Zhang cofounded and is a board
director for the OpenFog Consortium.
He is the chief information officer and
a board governor of the IEEE Communications Society. He cofounded and
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