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ABOUT THE CSC GRANTS
PROGRAM
Throughout CSC’s history, our people have been known for their ability to see new uses
and applications of technology. Our scientists and technologists have often gone
beyond their jobs to explore new ideas, developing breakthrough innovations that have
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Recognizing the benefits of “greenfield” research for the marketplace, the individual
and the company, the Leading Edge Forum (LEF) created a formal program in 2000 to
build on our culture of innovation by giving employees a structured opportunity to ex-
plore a technology topic or solution that is gaining momentum in the market but does
not yet have broad exposure within CSC.

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and services provider, the CSC Grants program encompasses industry specific applica-
tions, business process services, consulting and next-generation infrastructure that pro-
mote innovation and value for our clients.

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CONTENTS

Recipients Android as an Army Platform
2012 CSC Grants Robert Donnelly �� 4

Architecture Guide for Selecting and Deploying Data Grids
Paul Colmer �� 5

Dematerialized Digipass on Cross-Mobile Devices
Thibaut de Sany�� 6

Enabling Mobile Money through Technical Innovation
Erica Salinas �� 7

Exploding Trends in Business Intelligence
Craig Guinn �� 8

HTML5: The Quiet Revolution
Daniel Munyan�� 9

Improving Patient Outcomes by Applying Integrative Genomics Techniques to
Electronic Health Records
Pavan Gupta��10

Investigation of Open Source Augmented Reality (AR) for Real Applications
Richard Brown�� 11

A New Paradigm for Developing, Delivering and Consuming IT Services in a Mobile
Enterprise
Erika Olimpiew �� 12

Personalized Medicine: Merging Bio-IT and Informatics with Next Generation
Healthcare Technologies
Venkat Rao��13

Social Media Analytics: An Emerging New Age of Advanced Business Intelligence
Jeremy Ceulemans ��14

Past CSC Grants��15

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Android as an Army Platform

Robert Donnelly
About the Grant Recipient

Dr. Bob Donnelly is a Systems Engineer in CSC’s Defense Group’s Ground Division, supporting U.S. Army customers. He has
applied knowledge of systems engineering to integration frameworks and field experimentation, enabling interoperability
of command, control, communications, computers, Iintelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. His most
recent assignment is for Program Executive Office Command Control Communications – Tactical (PEO C3T) in its support of
the Army’s Network Integrated Evaluation (NIE), part of an agile systems engineering process that assesses capabilities in an
operational environment and reduces risk in controlled laboratory tests.

This is Bob’s second LEF grant. The first evaluated embedded Linux as a mobile platform and provided the basis for CSC’s
role as software lead for Land Warrior, a wearable system for the soldier. The current grant work enables comparisons of such
special-purpose systems and Android-based devices.

Bob started with CSC in support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing middleware for NASA’s Deep Space Network.
This triggered Bob’s interest in application performance over satellite and tactical radios, which continues in his Army sup-
port. The Defense Group Fellows Program enabled Bob to present this work at industry conferences the last three years.

Smartphones are being used for mobile IT needs, These translate into handling Android within the en-
social networking and entertainment. While iPhones terprise. If C++ libraries are extensively needed, they
and Androids handle the horizontal needs, there’s a should be tested. An Android database can handle
growing interest in applying this technology to verti- slow-changing configuration data but not fast-chang-
cal needs such as Army mission command and intelli- ing status data for many items. The result is not just
gence. Instead of specialized systems (from hardware answering if an app can be used, but how it needs to
through all the software layers), various industries are be implemented.
asking: “Why isn’t there an app for that?”
Identity and system configuration data is a common
The answer requires understanding the mobile plat- need, be it Army units and systems, network devices,
form and its role within the larger vertical enterprise. package tracking, product and customer lists, email
Beyond being web-enabled, a smartphone can run and phone contacts, etc. Handling concerns such
a local database, serve and receive multimedia and as keeping local caches and updates are examined.
handle specialized transactions. Processing power Interacting with a typical enterprise service such as
and memory increases provide extensive functional- LDAP is tested. Again, limits are understood: The
ity, but the platform has limits in both software and Android Contact List is useful for storing typical
hardware. This grant seeks to understand what An- personnel-related data but not for specialized Army
droid can do as part of a vertical market enterprise. or network data.

Capabilities like situational awareness map to imple- Most vertical markets are best understood via a holis-
mentations (e.g., position/status reports, geographic tic systems engineering approach. Mobility and cloud
mapping, organization/identity data) and to mecha- are modern implementation methods. As an open
nisms (e.g., transport, storage, map engines with local platform, Android eases adaptations including spe-
caching, databases). Capabilities vary by vertical mar- cialized hardware support and adding market-specific
ket, but mechanisms are shared. The use of develop- libraries. The results of this grant work enable an
ment methods, software libraries and data stores are implementer to understand Android’s capabilities and
explored with specific results: C libraries should work, limits so a resulting app provides mobile functionality
but C++ libraries have limits like in-use exceptions. In that is an integral part of the enterprise.
addition, database commits shouldn’t exceed one per
second because of flash write speeds.


Architecture Guide for Selecting and
Deploying Data Grids

Paul colmer

Paul Colmer is a Lead Technology Consultant, Solution Architect and Film Music Composer in Brisbane, Australia. His
areas of expertise include system transformation and integration, solution architecture and design, business analysis, IT
strategy and roadmapping and business process analysis exemplified through cross-industry client engagements.

Paul joined CSC in 2005, after previously working for Santander. He joined the Textron transformation program in EMEA
and migrated to Australia in 2006. His work has encompassed a wide range of technologies including virtualized operat-
ing systems, storage solutions, WAN/LAN solutions, messaging integration, business continuity, service management,
mining applications, financial applications and cloud/grid/utility computing. In addition, he is an active contributor to CSC
Catalyst, a member of the local health and safety committee and CSC Brisbane’s Chief First Aid Officer.

In his spare time, Paul is a lead assessor for the British Computer Society, an active volunteer for the Queensland State
Emergency Service, Director of Music4Film (www.music4film.net) and plays for the over 35’s Mitchelton Soccer Team. As a
film music composer he has been a finalist in two international competitions and has written music for film, tv, radio, gam-
ing, concerts and exhibitions. His music is available on iTunes, Amazon and YouTube and he is currently signed to Bluepie.
Paul holds a 2:1 Music degree, is a fellow of the London College of Music and a Chartered IT Professional with the British
Computer Society. Past skills include becoming an advanced motorcycle instructor, 25 years as a martial arts coach and
ring-side mentor, and even a stint in Portugal as a barman.

The IT outsourcing industry is experiencing a new The In-Memory Data Grid is small but important to
wave of business-driven change. CEOs and business this change. It underpins the Information-as-a-Service
leaders struggle to comprehend increasing IT costs to movement, able to provide a reliable, scalable, high-
refresh, upgrade and maintain systems. Often, these performance fabric that can be leveraged across
IT transformations do not provide significant business business services and potentially separate businesses
advantages. via the use of an application development platform.
It allows data to be modeled to make sense for the
Business owners and business visionaries are de-
business problem, and clears the way for new types
manding change: a world where IT services are easier
of architectures to be defined to support the innova-
and more effectively consumed, with significant
tive ways in which business processes will be mea-
added business value through business process en-
sured and the new maturity wave in IT outsourcing.
hancement, rather than through business process
At last we have a way of providing IT that maximizes
support. They envision a world where email, network-
and demonstrates clear business value aligned to
ing, data protection and data archiving functions
changing business needs.
happen with a low price point using commodity com-
ponents. CEOs are demanding services automatically Imagine an Apple App Store equivalent that allows
in tune with business needs; where IT services change mining clients to select the business applications re-
instantly with business change, and where (in the fu- quired by their mobile device of choice and access
ture) IT changes happen predictively, just before the the back-end services via a cloud. Now imagine an IT
business does. service that directly enables a global mining business
to mine an extra 10 million tons per mine, per year.
This period of change that IT outsourcing will un-
Lastly, imagine a client like NASA being able to offer
dergo for the next 3-5 years is beyond cloud; it’s
all its data collected over the past 30 years in space
about providing IT as an integral part of the business
exploration “as a service” to scientists who need in-
service, shaped by operational technology (OT)/IT
formation to help solve problems.
convergence (e.g., SCADA (OT) converging with IaaS
(IT) for utilities and mining and PACS (OT) converg- Well imagine no more. It’s coming. And an in-memory
ing with SaaS (IT) for health clients). data grid is a key piece of the puzzle.
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Dematerialized Digipass on Cross-Mobile
Devices

THIBAUT DE SANY

Thibaut de Sany is the Mobility Manager for CSC Belgium. He joined CSC in 2008, created a highly-skilled team of 70 peo-
ple (in 2012) and has been involved in a variety of mobile technologies since. Prior to this, he worked as Mobile, J2EE Ar-
chitect and 3D Medical Engine Developer. Thibaut has more than 10 years of experience implementing mobile solutions on
past, present and future mobile platforms. He is an international conference speaker and driven by innovation engineering.
Thibaut is also developing the interface brain2machine for CSC later this year (http://www.emotiv.com). Find details about
his latest initiatives here: http://thibaut.desany.eu

People want to interact with their banks on the move This grant was investigated within CSC Belgium’s
using personal mobile devices. Securing interactions Mobility Center of Excellence, which is actively
in such an environment, without introducing studying, experimenting and delivering mobile
constraints, is a challenge. Today, several options offer solutions. CSC Belgium has deep native and mobile
dematerialized authentication, enabling availablity on web and hybrid technologies expertise and believes
a wide range of mobile platforms. The global market that HTML5 and solutions like Cordova-Phonegap,
for mobile authentication products and services is which connects custom native development with
estimated to rise from $153 million (2010) to almost HTML-JavaScript front-end, will provide the best
$760 million in 2014. toolbox for future mobile applications, deployable on
a variety of platforms.
The financial services sector aims to offer mobile
access to its services without compromising security Strong authentication on mobile devices is in early-
This grant looks at how to: stage development, where many actors compete
•• Build and deliver a mobile interaction channel ac- to impose technical solutions and business models
cessible from as many mobile devices and plat- provide different control and financial options.
forms as possible. This, combined with constantly evolving IT security
needs to protect against new threats, means that no
•• Provide strong and convenient authentication for solution can be considered the reference today.
the mobile channel.
Special thanks to Daniel Frauman for his knowledge
These objectives are a subset of the broader “mobile sharing and research about eID v2 (http://eid.belgium.
payment solutions” scope being addressed in a very be/en/) and Vincent Van Mol. I’m proud of the
competitive way, aiming to make the smartphone the accomplishments of the entire Belgian Mobile team,
modern person’s “Swiss army knife.” recognized by CSC globally as strong, innovative
partners.


Enabling Mobile Money through Technical
Innovation

erica salinas

Erica Salinas is a strategy consultant in the Federal Consulting Practice of CSC’s North American Public Sector. She is cur-
rently a Project Manager working on mobility solutions for the US Department of Homeland Security. While her roles at
CSC have varied, Erica continually strives to bridge the gap between the business and technical worlds. Outside of the
federal space, she has a passion for leveraging technology to drive change across the developing world.

Prior to joining CSC, Erica worked as a research engineer for a series of prestigious government-funded laboratories, in-
cluding Lawrence Livermore National Labs, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Southwest Research Institute. Erica holds a
Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Arts
degree in Development Economics from American University.

Mobile money is a disruptive innovation that first While mobile money services emerged from a series
gained international recognition with the introduction of unknown first movers, it is clear that now is the
of M-PESA, a short message service (SMS)-based time for those companies with years of IT, financial
money transfer system initially launched in Kenya. and mobile expertise to start playing a more signifi-
The system allows individuals to deposit money with cant role. If large financial institutions, experienced
an agent, who then transfers the credit to the cus- IT integrators and international payment service
tomer’s cell phone. Subsequently, customers can pay providers start working together, they can transform
bills, send remittances, buy goods, cash out at an national mobile money systems into a unified inter-
agent or access a variety of other financial services national mobile money ecosystem. This ecosystem
-- all with basic SMS text messaging. M-PESA revolu- will need to support universal standards established
tionized financial services in Kenya and spurred the by leaders with the expertise, reputation, and market
development and launch of similar services across power necessary to shape the market.
Africa and the world.
A mature and agile mobile money ecosystem will
Mobile money is a burgeoning industry, predicted to finally bring cost-effective financial services to bil-
become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the next 3 lions of low-income people who have been excluded
to 5 years. However, the current market is filled with from their local economies and connect them to
disparate proprietary systems that lock users into life-changing financial services. This will impact devel-
a single service. If mobile money is to continue its oped and developing markets alike, as we integrate
exponential growth, the market will require an open into an ever-growing global marketplace.
platform that supports interoperability between mo-
bile money systems and established international
payment networks.

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Exploding Trends in Business Intelligence

craig guinn

Craig Guinn is a Senior Partner, Distinguished Architect and leads CSC’s Analytic Insights and Information Management
practice in our Global Business Solutions North America group. He is responsible for delivery of AIIM business, techni-
cal and analytic solutions across the United States. Mr. Guinn has over 25 years of broad-based experience in information
systems, project management and technology selection and deployment. Mr. Guinn’s background includes a blend of
professional consulting and Fortune 50-based technical evolution that has exposed him to a broad spectrum of systems,
processes and customer relationship issues. He has specialized in directing complex, large-scale consulting engagements
that deploy technical solutions to meet a client’s vision and achieve the organization’s growth objectives.

Business intelligence (BI) is a broad area covering This paper covers the data view on the following
many competencies and capabilities, second only to trends:
the application space. With enterprise resource plan-
•• Emerging data techniques (MapReduce)
ning organizations holding much of the application
space and now reaching maturity, the BI space is •• Data governance (metadata integration)
exploding with innovation. Over the past 20 years or
•• Data visualization (Cognos, Microstrategy)
so, the discipline was relatively stable (data modeling,
warehouses, OLAP tools etc.) Now we see an on- •• Purpose-built data hardware (Teradata, Netezza,
slaught of tools, techniques, infrastructure and instru- ExaData)
mentation that will fundamentally change the data
•• Performance engineering (data In memory, solid
discipline going forward.
state hierarchies, columnar databases)
For organizations to remain competitive, a compre-
•• High performance analytics (Linux based MPP)
hensive top-line Point Of View (POV) needs to be
created around these emerging trends. This POV is •• Unstructured-to-structured data flow processes
used externally for market-facing collateral support- (MapReduce, Hadoop, XML)
ing pursuits, as well as internally for BI and analytic
•• Data design (data model integration, business in-
practice areas to help in product positioning and
formation models)
competency development.
•• Wireless device integration:(phone and tablet)
Given that we are seeing these emerging components
find their way into client requests, it is imperative that Taken together, these trends represent a true para-
we are able to understand and properly place them digm shift in the data discipline. They need to be
within our BI and analytic vision and reference archi- understood individually and collectively to provide
tectures. the best value to our clients. This paper describes
With CSC’s publication of the LEF report “Data rEvo- these new capabilities, how to differentiate between
lution”, a clear call to action was created to describe products and how to match technology to specific
the new “big” data and the concept of connecting data assets to enable better, more effective business
the dots. This Grant paper, entitled “Exploding Trends decisions.
in Business Intelligence,” looks to fill in the gaps, ad-
dressing fundamentals of the nature of data and
technologies allowing the data to be used in new and
fundamentally different ways.


HTML 5: The Quiet Revolution

daniel munyan

Daniel Munyan is Director, Senior Business Solutions Architect and Technology Evangelist for CSC’s Machine-to-Machine
Center of Excellence. He coordinates the work of a group of engineers and software developers to create cross-industry
and industry-specific applications in this relatively new and interesting M2M space. Daniel works with clients and the CoE
for tracking location and condition of assets through their life cycle; locating people when they are needed, in transit, in
danger, or requiring assistance; monitoring and interfacing with industry operations remotely; or visualizing infrastructure
that is complex, remote or extended beyond typical human perceptibility, in 2D or 3D.

Daniel joined CSC in 2001 as a Project Management Officer. He has served as the Chief Scientist for CSC’s Biometric Tech-
nology Fusion Center (2004-2008) and Director of the CSC Logistics Center of Excellence (2008-2012). Daniel is a patent
and copyright holder in both hardware and software, and a published author in biometric hygiene. He received the CSC
President’s Award for Excellence in Technology (2004), Business Process Improvement (2006), and Excellence in Busi-
ness Initiative (2007).

Previously, Daniel was the CEO of Everybook, Inc., an ebook startup from 1995-2001, and Director of MIS for the Pennsyl-
vania Credit Union Association from 1986-1995. He received a bachelors degree in Geology from Millersville University of
Pennsylvania, an MBA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and an invaluable education from the 3/4 Cavalry of
the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division.

Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, is the lingua into the market share of both horizontal and verti-
franca of the World Wide Web. In 1997, HTML4 be- cal competitors. All of these companies also saw in
came the recommended specification and ushered in HTML5 a threat that their competitors could exploit
much of the web functionality fueling Internet growth unless they stopped relying on the majority of their
in the last 15 years. But along the way, things like proprietary HTML4 enhancements. What began in
YouTube, NetFlix, iPhones, App Stores, GPS, Twitter, 2007 as a technological issue to improve the web
Facebook, Google Maps/Earth, Latitude, Pandora and experience on PC’s, known as Web 2.0, became, by
FaceTime have come along and stretched the fabric 2010, a competitive differentiator on the Post-PC de-
of HTML4 beyond its capability. Third party vendors vices of the smartphone and tablet.
arrived with proprietary applications to get around
The author makes clear how CSC can play multiple,
structural problems with the web, but the basic
important and profitable roles in the HTML5 revolu-
problems of searching and scaling complex graphics,
tion. He sees the monopolies of device, network, ap-
streaming video and advanced communications did
plication and content reforming into open alliances,
not go away.
while the need for industry expert, technology savvy
The grant paper discusses how HTML5, a nascent integrators becomes more vital. HTML5 is opening
web language specification with no money, no in- new opportunities for cloud orchestration, cyber-
dustry support, no government intervention and no security and systems provisioning. It is enabling the
well known advocates, has become a key competitive Bring-Your-Own-Device movement and creating op-
weapon in the arsenal of Apple, Microsoft, Google portunities for CSC’s device-independent solutions
and Facebook. The author also addresses the impact and services. HTML5 is opening new opportunities in
of this quiet revolution for CSC. the M2M space, especially where M2M meets people
through mobile devices (M2M2P). HTML5 is also al-
The author contends that HTML5 went from obscu-
lowing applications to grow into enterprise-scale mo-
rity to near total adoption because every provider of
bility, where CSC is well-positioned to exploit mobile
hardware, middleware (browsers), application soft-
business.
ware and content found a way to use HTML5 to cut

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Improving Patient Outcomes by Applying
Integrative Genomics Techniques
to Electronic Health Records

pavan gupta

Pavan Gupta is a Senior Consultant and architectural expert within CSC’s Federal Consulting Practice and is currently
working on a special projects team in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Visitor and Immi-
grant Status Indicator Technology. Previously, he worked as a part of the Core Technology team at Bridgewater Associates
in Westport, Connecticut and as an engineer for USAID’s mission in Iraq.

Pavan’s primary interest lies in the application of machine learning techniques and high performance computing to cum-
bersome problems both in bioinformatics and computer vision. His experience spans many different technologies from
AWK to VHDL, with an increasing focus on the use of GPGPU and FPGA solutions to address complex data-oriented prob-
lems. Pavan holds a Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Systems holding and using electronic health These higher order questions require available data
records (EHR) are increasingly falling behind from both EHR systems and other publically available
the pace of translation bioinformatics. This gap data (e.g., National Institutes of Health data, World
between deployed, active EHR technologies Health Organization data, etc.) and, by definition,
and computational cutting-edge technologies is compute answers through the lens of multiple
particularly wide when human genome data is variables. Intelligently processing this data using
introduced and assessed. As a result, a competitive supervised and increasingly unsupervised machine
edge exists for EHR implementers who apply learning can begin to predict clinical outcomes,
intelligent integrative genomics to their EHR systems. potential treatment problems and fundamentally
Leveraging clinical, academic and genomic data can a more effective use of the healthcare dollar. And
provide significant long-term diagnostic advantages implementers who incubate this knowledge stand
for patients using EHR systems with integrative to benefit as there will be a continuous need to
genomics methods built in. improve and adjust the performance of these kinds
of intelligence engines as the informatics space
While this project’s review and application of
changes.
integrative genomics techniques demonstrates an
increasingly complex and significant computational Through this grant, Pavan demonstrated the use
power requirement, it also demonstrates the of a series of modern machine learning algorithms
possibility for these techniques to yield key answers to intelligently identify genetic sequences for both
about medical effectiveness and efficiency. Indeed, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease from
the entire spectrum of healthcare participants can whole genome sequences and microarray data. These
benefit from intelligent data integration through disease characteristics were then used as a template
machine learning, from patients knowing in advance to flag new patient data as having or not having
about their breast cancer to the Food and Drug the identifying genes for these diseases. Although
Administration recognizing deadly drugs more this work is certainly a prototype, it represents the
quickly. possibility that a real diagnostic revolution is on the
horizon, and integrative genomics may be one of the
cutting-edge knowledge sets required to lead the
charge.


Investigation of Open Source Augmented
Reality (AR) for Real Applications

RICHARD BROWN

Richard Brown is a CSC Senior Scientist/Visualization Lead working at the John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC). He has
extensive experience in 3D visualization, especially in a geospatial context, with a remote sensing and realtime terrain
modeling background. He has worked at SSC for over 30 years and led visualization projects ranging from Meteor Cra-
ter, Arizona to Lewis and Clark’s FT Clatsop site in Oregon to Shackleton Crater on the south pole of the moon. He has
also developed several stereo immersive visualization applications for NASA including a forensic launch system foam
fragments viewer, for which he won a space flight awareness award. He founded, developed and passed on his own mul-
timedia company in the late 1980s. Richard holds a degree in mechanical engineering technology from the University of
Southern Mississippi.

Today augmented reality (AR) technology and ap- possible applications. Determining that “need” and
plications are rapidly increasing in everyday use. AR the best application and platform for the end user is
involves blending the real world with simulated ele- currently being explored by many developers, with
ments; the technology is already employed in niche updated toolsets and enhanced mobile platforms
areas such as flight simulations and surgical training. rapidly being released.
Now applications are being developed and woven
AR software development tools are now released in
into everyday use in the form of AR tags/image
open source fashion to see what advancements from
recognition triggers in advertising placement, hard-
application developers will gain traction. Real applica-
ware/equipment demos and auto-trigger website
tions used in value-added ways that can enhance op-
launches from AR tag recognition via AR-enabled
erational models are the grail being sought. It needs
smartphones. It holds great promise for “point of
to be worth it to hold your smartphone up and point
application” data and information overlay via either
it at an augmented scene, or to have your “glasses
handheld tablet AR platforms or hands-free wearable
on’” — sometime in the future perhaps.
head-mounted Heads-Up Display type usage. There
are great rumblings now that the major smartphone This grant paper documents the investigation and
innovators are close to releasing AR glasses to bring lessons learned from exercising the most recent open
a hands free augmented lifestyle one step closer to source AR software/service toolsets to test prototype
reality. To be able to move in an AR-enabled environ- applications on an Android tablet in three areas at
ment and get immediate data retrieval at the point of Stennis Space Center: facilities, operations, and his-
need is an extremely powerful concept with unending torical recreation/archiving.

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A New Paradigm for Developing, Delivering
and Consuming IT Services in a Mobile
Enterprise

erika Olimpiew

Erika Mir Olimpiew is an Application Designer Leader in Chantilly, Virginia and is also a part-time Adjunct Professor at
George Mason University (GMU). Erika’s research interests are in the areas of enterprise mobility, cloud computing, soft-
ware design, software testing and software reuse. In 2010 she presented the results of a research grant on “A reference
architecture model for cloud service lifecycle management” at CSC’s Technology and Business Solutions Conference and
wrote a paper based on this grant. She is currently researching enterprise mobility ecosystems.

She received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from GMU in May 2008 with the dissertation “Model-Based Testing for
Software Product Lines,” and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997 with
the thesis “An investigation of the software testing coupling effect using perturbation analysis.” Previously, she was a
teaching assistant at GMU and worked for 6 years developing software for a satellite communications company. Outside of
work, she enjoys nature watching, art and music.

Recent technology advances in more powerful, This research addresses the challenge of how to de-
feature-rich and low cost consumer handheld devices sign, develop, host and manage mobile applications
are enabling the development of new and innovative for an enterprise by describing a mobile application
mobile applications that support enterprise IT ser- development process model, and then applying this
vices. However, developing mobile applications for an model to two examples: an asset inventory and track-
enterprise is challenging given the variety of devices ing IT mobile application for a field worker, and a con-
and platforms, expensive test devices and unique in- ference exhibit application. The process model covers
teraction patterns between devices, mobile users and requirements, analysis, design, implementation, test-
the environment. ing and deployment activities, emphasizing aspects
unique to mobile application development. The paper
concludes with lessons learned, recommendations
and future study.


Personalized Medicine: Merging Bio-IT and
Informatics with Next Generation
Healthcare Technologies

Venkat Rao

Dr. Venkat Rao is a Senior Fellow and Chief Scientist for the CSC Defense Group’s National and Defense Programs. Dr.
Rao is a recognized subject matter expert in biochemical pharmacology, toxicoinformatics and decision support systems
related to biodefense medical countermeasure and pharmaceutical products development. He has over 20 years of expe-
rience working on public health, infectious agent risks assessment, biodefense vaccine biosafety practices, chemical and
carcinogenic agents risk assessment, and toxicoinformatics. He is the CSC senior subject matter expert supporting several
federal initiatives including U.S. Defense Advance Research Programs Agency (DARPA) projects on the biological-inspired
neuromorphic computing architectures. Dr. Rao was program director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s
global tuberculosis laboratory performance evaluation program.

Dr. Rao holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry, two Master’s degrees (pharmacology and toxicology), and is Board-cer-
tified by the American Board of Toxicology. He has authored over 100 articles and publications, serves on expert panels in
national and international forums, and is frequently invited to speak on emerging topics in biomedical sciences.

In recognition of his technical qualifications and leadership, Dr. Rao was inducted, in 2008, as a Senior Fellow by the CSC
Defense Group. Dr. Rao was accepted, in 2008, as a visiting scholar of the Hastings Center, to study bioethical issues re-
lated to biosecurity research and development programs.

Personalized medicine is about making medical treat- of competing diagnostic and therapeutic interven-
ment as individualized as one’s disease by systemati- tions. Such a cost-benefit analysis would help payers
cally including genomic and clinical information in the make healthcare coverage decisions and the industry
diagnosis and treatment. Personalized medicine em- make investment decisions on the new generation of
phasizes disease prevention by enhancing our ability pharmacogenomics drugs. A key requirement is the
to predict an individual’s predisposition to a disease availability of clinical evidence to demonstrate the
such as cancer, project the course of disease devel- economic benefits of a nascent healthcare delivery
opment, and identify potentials for adverse effects. system such as personalized medicine.

The healthcare community is on track to adopt per- Currently, healthcare IT focuses mainly on automat-
sonalized medicine, as early results indicate better ing healthcare delivery as practiced today and is
efficacy, better outcomes and safer treatment op- not designed for new healthcare paradigms like per-
tions. However, in order to fully realize the benefits, sonalized medicine. IT platforms need to support a
the discipline of pharmacogenomics needs more de- seamless flow of digital information at an individual
velopment. Pharmacogenomics is a rapidly emerging patient level on clinical, laboratory, genetic, disease
specialty where genetic variability in drug response monitoring, medical claims and health outcomes. The
is used as the basis for drug development. Genetic system should facilitate connectivity, integration and
variation is combined with biochemistry and pharma- medical informatics on healthcare outcomes across
cology to offer better, safer drugs. subgroups.

Related to this, successful adoption of personalized This grant focused on these two critical forces, which
medicine depends largely on two broader forces: are likely to have a significant impact on the research
cost-benefit and information technology (IT). Person- and development of core technologies and enablers
alized medicine provides healthcare decision makers of personalized medicine.
with a unique tool to make key decisions about re-
source allocations based on the cost-benefit analysis

13

Social Media Analytics: An Emerging New
Age of Advanced Business Intelligence

JÉRÉMY CEULEMANS

Jérémy joined CSC Belgium in 2011 as a Change Manager. Previously, he worked in the healthcare insurance sector. At
CSC, he is responsible for the initiation phase of the change management on a five-year program.

Before joining CSC, Jérémy worked in Rome for an agency of the United Nations, the World Food Programme, and was in
charge of various projects in the logistic units.

Jérémy holds two Master’s degrees: one in Business Engineering from the Louvain School of Management in Belgium and
a second one from the CEMS in International Management. During his studies he specialized in the management of infor-
mation and business opportunities of Web 2.0. He is a Certified Associated in Project Management (CAPM) from the Proj-
ect Management Institute (PMI).

With the advent of Web 2.0 and the growth of so- and spurring innovation. Now, it requires some ex-
cial media and networks, customers who used to be pertise to identify, for each business objective, the
isolated and passive actors have started moving to a perfect set of key performance indicators (KPI) that
more central position in business. Now they can share should be tracked. When it comes to deciding which
their experiences and express their opinions quickly software solution to use to track the identified KPI, it
and loudly. becomes complex. A framework linking the business
objectives, the functionalities and the metrics can
This grant work is not about social media itself. It
be used to assess the match between the business
is about the business intelligence that goes along
needs and the solution to be used. It is important to
with social media and the business opportunities in
understand this end-to-end process since it enables
this domain. Today most of our clients are present
us to approach clients, offer advice in selecting,
in social media, but few are measuring the ROI or
implementing and fine-tuning the right software, and
even monitoring what is said about them on the web.
possibly integrate the solution alongside legacy sys-
These clients are showing a growing interest in social
tems.
media analytics and they are coming to us with ques-
tions. A long-term objective of this research is to develop
expertise in the integration of these social media ana-
One can easily identify the business objectives that
lytics with other performance indicators in order to
stand as the reason why social media activities are
expand our integration capabilities and service offer-
undertaken: raising awareness, fostering dialogue,
ing in performance management.
promoting advocacy, facilitating customer support


PAST CSC
GRANTS
2011 2010 Bleeding Edge — Nanotechnological
Applications in Quantum Cryptography
Agent Technology Applied Cloud Computing — Roadmap
Kelly Koenig
James Odell for Success in the Public Sector
Juan Diego Suarez Gonzalez Document and Content Management
Augmenting Reality with CAD data
with Open Source Solutions
John Stubbs Artificial Intelligence, Semantic and
Pablo de la Hera
Knowledge — A Way from 2.0 to 3.0
Augmented Reality with CSC OmniLoca-
Pablo Castaño Iglesias Enterprise Performance Management:
tion for the Mobile Worker
Trends, Tools and Opportunities
Albert Tang Developing Financial Services for the
Dieter Decuypere
Public Cloud
Being an Effective Entrepreneur on a
Bill Ohnemus and Ryan Savage Integrating Agile Methods into Catalyst
Cloud Ecosystem
Jim Tremlett
Bill Ohnemus Intelligent Systems for Disease Detection
and Surveillance Semantic Business Process Management
Distributed Databases in the Cloud using
Venkat Rao Simon Stokes
NoSQL
Sidney Shek Mobile Application Security Testing SOA Testing Framework
Sundar Varanasi Manoharan Daniel
Enhancing Enterprise Communication
Through Social Networking Next Generation Location Based Services Virtualization with Xen
Antonio Tedesco for Mobile Devices Andrew Levy
Sidney Shek
Enterprise Architecture Simulation: A
Methodology for Managing the Failure in Open Source System Configuration
2008
Transitioning to Future Enterprises Management with Puppet
Thomas McDonald Jesús Couto Fandiño X3D for Web 2.0 Enterprise Applications
William Glascoe
Hadoop for CYBER Reference Implementation and
Les Klein Architecture for Cloud Lifecycle Adaptive Techniques Empowering
Management Personalized Marketing for Mobile
SAP Federal FMLOB configured Template
Erika Olimpiew Devices
in a Cloud Environment
Jan-Erik Tapp
Peter Gibb Smart Integration — ERP for All Through
Microsoft Technologies Minding the Miner — Tracking Miners
DIRECTED GRANTS Using RFID
Chris Delaney
Hadoop for Climate Change Data Daniel Munyan
Testing Applications in the Cloud
Sa’ad Masri
Hariharan Kothandaraman Tagless Tracking Using UWB Radar
InterRupt Rick Tomredle
Chris Wiesinger
Flight Plan Optimization in the Presence
2009 of Inadmissable Airspace
Bioinformatics and the Future of Medical Vincent Kuo
Resarch and Clinical Practice
Dr. Robert House

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Next-Generation Knowledge Enterprise Digital Dashboards as Rich Open Source MySQL Evaluation
Management with Web 2.0 Internet Applications Philip Czachorowski
Pablo O Bermejo Garcia Sidney Shek
RFID Security
Applications of Advanced Analytics in Collaborative Document Review Peter Rehäußer
Mining Geoffrey Grabow
The XQuery Revolution
Jarrod Bassan
Progress Mtshali
Software-Defined Radio 2006
Edward Criscuolo
Continuous Warfighter Identification 2004
Ubiquitous Web Application Availability Daniel Munyan
David J. Macluskie Adding Meaning to the Web
Pricing and Revenue Optimization Edward Luczak
Leveraging the Emerging IMS Intelligence
Architecture Patricia Marthi Applications of Web Mining
Richard Kaczmarek Laurence Lock Lee
Creating Targeted Security Environments
Trusted Data Centers/Trusted Data Mary Walker Automating High Integrity Security
Services (TDC/TDS) Configuration Management and Control
Ronald Sherwin Multimedia Mining Aleks Lubiejewski
Doron Shalvi
Second Life Disconnected Wireless Database —
Ben Machin and Deb O’Grady Supply Chain RFID for ERP Working Outside the Bubble
Jonathan Gregory David Dossett
Ruby on Rails Exploring Identity Management
2007 Marcus Vorwaller David Lewis
Emerging SOA Security Technologies, Infrastructure and the Future Enterprise mCard Concept
Standards and Challenges for the Federal Kenneth Betts Michael Kinder
Sector
Andrew Wilson Wi-Max Web Acceleration and Network Delivery
Carl Wu David Stringfellow
Architecture Blueprint for Leveraging
Identity Federation Innovation Frameworks
Søren Thygesen Gjesse Pascal Gambardella
2003
Distributed Development Solutions Embedded Linux as a Mobile Interactive
Henry Liang 2005 Platform
An Evaluation of SOA Frameworks DORIAN — Detail-Oriented Rules Robert Donnelly
Ramakrishna Raju Identification and Analysis Network Enabling Collaborative Product Design
RIA Flex and J2EE George Marvin Via Agent Technology
David Lowe Mapping the Information Landscape — Michael Bauer

Using the ESB with e4 Topic Map Technology Integrated Reasoning Engine
Enrique Riesgo Canal Paul Lerke Robert Hickman
Open Source Exploitation
John Hancock


PAST CSC
Reducing the Cost of Software
GRANTS
Internet Electronic Data Interchange Internet Electronic Data Interchange
Maintenance Through Self-Healing (EDI) (EDI)
Software Systems Patricia Humphris Felipe Puerto
Jed Higgins
Investigation of Web-Based Collective IP Version 6: The New Internet Protocol
Using Enterprise JavaBeans in Training System Technologies Claude Doom
Engineering Environments David MacLuskie
Linux and SAP R/3
James Bosco
J2EE Integration Blueprint Dan McDaniel
Web Services Security Andrew Boyd
Make WAP Work
Michael Mosher
Mass Deployment of Linux in the Eddy Quintelier
Enterprise
Network Management Research
2002 Robert Romero
Evan Pfeiffer
Electronic Currency? Show Me the Mixed Initiative Agent-Based Systems
Object Relational Database Management
e-Money James Skinner
System (ORDBMS)
Will Tremain Practical Application of Distributed Paul Palaniappan
LDAPExplorer Processing
Real-Time Data Rendering on
Dieter Gerdemann Andi Thomas
the Internet
Technologies for Personal and Peer-to- Sheela Belur
Peer Knowledge Management 2000 Remote Computing — Mobile Users of
Eric Tsui VPN and PGP from Standard ISP Services
BRAINWARE — Artificial Intelligence-
Based Search Engine Tony Reeves

2001 Jacques Auberson The Inclusion of Information Portals
Developing Robust Applications Using into an Enterprise Data Warehouse
A Thin-Client Distributed Architecture Architecture
Using XML and SOAP PHP3
Blake Patterson Tony Bruno
Rin Saunders
Evaluation of Freeware Development Utopia80
Bluetooth Wireless Technology David MacLuskie
John Johnson Environment for the Linux Operating
System Web-Based Customer Care Support and
Digital Pulse Wireless Kevin Hassett Customer Self-Healing Technologies with
John Angell Silknet and Motive
Increasing Speed of Development for
Encryption Algorithms and Practical Windows CE Applications Katy Morrison
Business Application Rick Nornholm Wireless Remote Secure Extranet Access
John Kahanek for e-Commerce
Information Dialtone
Enterprise Personnel Meta-Directory Richard Stillman Dan Giacomelli
William Nunes
Intelligent Agent Technology Survey
Evaluation of CYC Charisse Sary
Roland Sanguino

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