Networking Events
March 15, 2007 Monthly Meeting & Networking Luncheon
- Date
- March 15, 2007, 11:30AM to 1:00PM
- Price Per Attendee
- Members
- $25.00
- Non-members
- $30.00
- Address
- 355 110th Avenue NE
Bellevue, WA 98004
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Data Communications Limitations and Opportunities for the Electric Power Grid
Presenter: Dave Bakken, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University
Join us for the Electric League's Monthly Luncheon Meeting and Networking Event, Thursday, March 15, 2007, at Puget Sound Energy's Auditorium in the Conference Center Building, 355 110th Avenue NE, Bellevue, 98004. Be sure to park on levels P5-P7 of the parking garage. Check-in begins at 11:30 with buffet beginning at 11:45, followed by announcements and the speaker. The meeting adjourns in the vicinity of 1:00.
Advance registration and payment is required, and is being accepted now. Please assist in our planning by registering early. A late fee applies for registrations received after March 13. Please see online registration on this page, or contact the League Office at 425-646-4727 or lindah@electricleague.net.
Topic Description and Bio for Dave Bakken:
Do you recall the blackouts in the Eastern United States? Our recent storm experience in the Puget Sound Region left all of us realizing just how serious a major power outage in the future could be. Come hear Dave Bakken, Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University, tell about his work with power grids and how this information applies to you. People who work in power engineering or utility IT departments will find this very applicable, and all of us who use power everyday will find this talk interesting and informative!
The communications technology for the electric power grid was developed in the 1960's and has had little development since. This has been a contributor to all major blackouts in recent decades. This seminar will overview the limitations and their consequences from a computer science point of view. Professor Bakken will then overview GridStat, a research middleware framework tailored for communications for electric power grids. GridStat provides flexible data delivery with management of redundant paths and delivery quality of service (QoS), and has been under development since 2001. It has been deployed in a trial demonstration with regional electric utility Avista in the USA since 2003. For further information, see www.gridstat.net.
Dave Bakken is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Washington State University. His research interests include distributed computing, middleware, and fault-tolerant computing. He has worked at Boeing and BBN, and has consulted to Amazon.com and others. Professor Bakken has led the GridStat project since its inception and has been working closely with power researchers at WSU since 1999 on understanding and improving grid communications. For more information, see www.eecs.wsu.edu/~bakken.
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