Guest Speaker

Beyond Core Web Services Standards for Routing, Security, Policy, and Trust

Furrukh Khan
Dept. of Electrical Engineering, OSU

3:30, Thurs., Dec. 6th;
Dreese Labs 480
Refreshments will be served at 3:18 in the lecture room.
All interested parties are invited..

ABSTRACT:
SOAP based web services constitute a powerful framework for end-to-end secure distributed computing over the Internet. These web services are designed to be platform, transport protocol, language, and security policy agnostic, and are therefore based on a myriad of standards (W3C XML standards). This talk is a tutorial to clarify the standards that form the basis of the core Web Services (SOAP, WSDL, UDDI), as well as the new standards that enhance core web services by adding routing, security, policy and trust (WS-routing, WS-referral, WS-security, WS-policy, and WS-trust). The talk also mentions how Prof. Khan is using these “enhanced” web services in his health care projects at the OSU Medical Center.

Biography
Prof. Khan is an associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering at the Ohio State University. He is a co-director of the Collaborative for Applied Software Technologies at OSU, a group formed in the CSE department to facilitate networking and technology/knowledge transfer within the OSU IT community, as well as central Ohio companies. His current interests include Applied Software Engineering and Enterprise Mission Critical Secure Distributed Computing. Prof. Khan is the co-founder of a four course Applied Software Engineering sequence taught jointly by the ECE and CSE departments. He has lectured extensively on enterprise distributed computing and security in the USA, Europe and Asia. He has strong ties with the Colleges of Engineering, Medicine and Business, as well as technology companies in the central Ohio area. His projects have been funded by the National Science Foundation, Naval Research Laboratory, Office of Naval Research, Air Force, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Cray Research., Lucent Technologies, and Microsoft Research.

Host: Bruce Weide