The 5th International Conference on Web-based Learning (2006)

Directions for Web-Based Learning

Dr. Won Kim

Senior Advisor (Software), Samsung Electronics, Korea

Date: July 20, 2006

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Abstract:

In this talk, on the basis of the current status and trends in Web-based learning, directions are suggested on several aspects of Web-based learning. These include renewed focus on learning, creating great contents, training online education professionals, government's roles, strategic approaches to be taken by organizations (that educate and train their people), and technology development.

Biography:

Dr. Kim is a Senior Advisor with Samsung Electronics, Suwon, Korea, since November 2004. He is also a Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Sung- Kyun-Kwan University, Suwon, Korea since September 2005. He received a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. He received both a BS and an MS degree from MIT. He has published 5 books and 153 research and technical papers in international journals and conferences on the area of database, data mining and Internet technologies.

Dr. Kim was the Founder and CEO of Cyber Database Solutions, Inc. in Austin, Texas from 1996 to 2004. He was, at the same time, a Dean and Distinguished Professor of Computer Science at Ewha Women's University in Seoul, S. Korea from 1999 to 2004. From 1990 to 1996, he was the Founder and CEO of UniSQL, Inc. that created the world's first commercial object-relational database system. From 1984 to 1990, he was the Director at Microelectronics and Computer Corporation that created one of the world's first object-oriented database systems. He was a Research Staff Member at IBM Almaden Research Center from 1980 to1984.

Dr. Kim is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Internet Technology since 2000. He has been elected an ACM Fellow in 1995. He was the Founder and Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining from 1998 to 2005. He was the Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data from 1989 to1997. He served as the Editor-in-Chief for ACM Transactions on Database Systems from 1992 to 2001.

Dr. Kim received the ACM 2001 Distinguished Services Award for his contributions in computing research. In 2002, he received the ACM SIGMOD "Test of Time" Award for the most influential research paper in 1992. In 1998, he received the ACM SIGMOD Contributions Award for his outstanding contributions to ACM SIGMOD and the database management research community. In 1995, he received the VLDB "10-Year Paper Award" in 1995 for the most influential research paper in 1985.