Dr. Michael L. Brodie works on large-scale strategic Information Technology (IT) opportunities and challenges for Verizon Communications senior executives. His primary interest is in delivering business value from advanced and emerging technologies and practices to enable business objectives while optimizing and transforming IT. In addition to Computer Science he addresses business and economic issues such as computing-communications-entertainment-business convergence and the economic impact of IT. His research focus is on advanced computational models and architectures and the large-scale information systems that they must support. He is concerned with the Big Picture, business and technical contexts, core technologies, and integration within a large scale, operational telecommunications environment.

Dr. Michael L. Brodie holds a PhD in Databases from the University of Toronto. Dr. Michael L. Brodie has an active interest in the Semantic Web, Service-Oriented Computing, information security, interoperability, information systems, databases, infrastructure and application architectures, legacy systems, business processes, and the evaluation and deployment of advanced IT solutions. Dr. Michael L. Brodie has authored over 150 books, chapters, journal articles, and conference papers. He has presented keynote talks, invited lectures, and short courses in over thirty countries. Dr. Michael L. Brodie is a member of the United States of America National Academies Committee on Technical and Privacy Dimensions of Information for Terrorism Prevention and other National Goals, co-chaired by Dr. Charles Vest, president emeritus of MIT and Dr. William Perry, former Secretary of Defense, and commissioned by the Department of Homeland Security and the National Science Foundation. He is an Adjunct Professor, National University of Ireland, Galway (2006-present). He is on several research and industrial advisory boards: The European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (2007 – present), Semantic Technology Institutes International (2007-present), School of Computer and Communication Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland (2001 – present); Digital Enterprise Research Institute, National University of Ireland (2003-present); European Union's Information Society Technologies 5^th, 6^th, and 7^th Framework Programmes (2003-present); Forrester Research, Inc. (2006-present); VLDB (Very Large Databases) Endowment (1992 - 2004); editorial boards of several research journals; advisory boards of several European and Asian research projects. Dr. Michael L. Brodie is Assistant Scout Master in Troop63 Sudbury, MA (Boy Scouts of America) and on the Advisory Board of the Chamberlain Art Studios, Marshfield, MA.

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