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InfoSquare360 is the town square for the whole information technology ecosystem. It is where all corners of how we communicate, process, store information, and the consequences of it for society come together. No corner is left out.
Like the town square of old, this is where truth can be told. And sometimes, truth only becomes apparent when information from apparently divergent information streams is connected. There is no commercial, or political filter. It is curated to make sure that only material with important, and possibly broad, implications is included - a single place where we can stay on top of the waves of change.
InfoSquare 360 is an accompaniment – an enhancer - to the detailed, focused, and filtered information streams we get, each in our little corners. Join us as readers, and contributors.
|Mark Cummings
Mark Cummings Ph.D. has been lucky enough to be involved in every technical revolution in the last 45 years – both the successes and the failures. His goal for the next ten years is to help navigate through these challenging times - helping people avoid past mistakes and achieve the full promise of our rapidly evolving technology/business/social landscape.
He has the ability to find the way forward, otherwise often obscured by seas of data. Combined with his reliance on fundamental principles this has made him a successful scientist, visionary, and engineer. He has worked in a broad range of roles in industry, academia, standards groups, and journalism. He has held roles as individual contributor, mid-level, and C level manager. He has worked in large established organizations, and in start-ups he has founded a number of successful venture backed companies. Mark’s functional experience has spanned product development, marketing, management, finance, academic faculty and administration. Mark’s technical work has spanned semiconductors, software, very small, medium sized, and large-scale computing/communications systems, Telco networks, Cybersecurity, and Content. He has generated a number of fundamental patents. As a writer he has been a thought leader in each of these areas with over 300 publications.
He is currently involved in a number of projects including Orchestral Networks, where he is the inventor of the patented technology behind the company’s products, and Bace Cybersecurity Institute where he is a Founding Member.
Mark’s Information Security background includes the system to secure the links between the US Federal Reserve and the Federal Reserve Member Banks; the first security architecture for Chemical Bank; security for the first Shared ATM (Automatic Teller Machine) Network PLUS; and top secret US security clearance while working on the commercial portion of TDRSS (Tracking and Data Relay Satellite System). In the cellular network space, he was the technical lead for NGMN’s (industry association of the 20 largest Telco’s in the world) public demo of the UIM (Umbrella Information Model) developed by 3GPP SA5 (dominant international cellular standards group) and TMF (Communications Service Provider Industry Association). Mark was the principal inventor on the first patent granted on SDR, and created fabless semiconductor, antenna, and RF frontend SDR start-ups. At Stanford Research Institute he started the Pocket Intelligence Program that was the first to identify the move to what became Smart Phones, etc. Earlier, he played a key role in: the creation of the first Pay Cable Satellite Network HBO, the creation of X.25, the architecture of the first international packet switched network SWIFT, the first PC User Groups, the creation of IEEE 802, PC mainframe integration, and the first use of PC’s and LAN’s in banking. His academic work includes seminars at Stanford University, Research Professor of Computer and Information Sciences & Special Assistant to the Vice President for Research & Dean of the Graduate College Kennesaw State University in Atlanta, Assistant Professor Computer Mediated Communications San Francisco State University.
Mark holds a Ph.D. in Information Systems from Tohoku Imperial University in Japan, an MBA in Communications Management from Wharton, and a BA, in Broadcast Communications Arts from San Francisco State University. Mark is based in Silicon Valley.
Vinay Devadatta
Vinay Devadatta has extensive experience in the telecom industry, working with equipment vendors, communication service providers, OSS product vendors, OSS solution providers and telco management standards bodies like TMF, ETSI NFV, NGMN NGCOR and more. He is responsible for leveraging external and internal innovation and creating new service lines at a premium software services company. He holds a master's of technology in Computer Science and Technology from IIT Roorkee.
