Auteur: Krishna Sankar

Krishna Sankar is a Distinguished Engineer with the Software Group at Cisco. He is currently focusing on different forms of the emerging collaborative social networks (as opposed to current functional coordination networks) and other strategic Web 2.0 mechanics inside and outside Cisco. His external work includes the OpenAJAX Alliance, OpenSocial, next generation infrastructure projects such as Ruby on Rails, OAuth, ZooKeeper and Vertebra, as well as the Advisory Board of San Jose Education Foundation. His interests lie in Cloud Computing, highly scalable web architectures, social and knowledge graphs, intelligent inference mechanisms, iPhone programming, and Lego Robotics. Occasionally he writes about them at doubleclix.wordpress.com. Susan A. Bouchard is a senior manager, Business Development with US-Canada Sales Planning and Operations at Cisco. She focuses on Web 2.0 technology as part of the USCanada Collaboration initiative. Susan »s presentations include ¿ Cisco Systems Case Study: Collaboration, Innovation and Mobility–The Productivity Triple Play on behalf of Dow Jones at the Gartner Customer Relationship Management Summit, September 2008 ¿ Cisco Systems Case Study: EA Foundation Delivers Mobile Service Value at Shared Insights » Enterprise Architectures Conference, March 2007 ¿ Cisco Systems Case Study: Architecture Review Process–Improving the IT Portfolio at DCI »s Enterprise Architectures Conference, October 2005 Susan joined Cisco in 2000, and as a Member of Technical Staff helped to establish the Sales IT Partner Architecture Team and led the Cisco Enterprise Architecture Standards & Governance program for five years. Prior to joining Cisco, she was a Computer Scientist with the Department of the Navy, managing the Navy »s e-commerce website for IT products and services. Susan led other software development and support programs for the Navy and Marine Corps in the areas of database administration, artificial intelligence and robotics.