Research and Education Challenges in the New Global Economy Borko Furht Computer Science and Engineering Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida borko@cse. fau. edu IPSI Spain - 2005
New Trends in Computer Industry and Their Impact on Computer Education n n n Globalization of science including software and hardware development The emergence of integration of computing and life sciences Interdisciplinary trends Demands of future computer scientists and engineers to possess technical, communication, process and organizational skills Critical need for making systems easy to use, on time and budget, and with adequate performance These trends are permanent – we either leverage them or become victims of it
Vision, Vision … n n n Right Place Right Time With the Right Idea
Apple’s Success Story
i. Pod and Vision of Steve Jobs
Insert i. Pod New Bose Sound. Dock digital music system n n Get more out of your i. Pod Slip your i. Pod into the Bose Sound. Dock digital music system and something wonderful happens!
Napster Response n How much will it cost you to fill up your player?
The King of Thrones n n n The turbo-flush, handsfree toilet is here! A precisely targeted bidet controlled by well -mounted wireless remote Will Smith (actor): “Its is deadly accurate; it always hits the bull’seye perfectly”.
The Next Royal Flush
The King of Thrones Toto Neorest 600 n n n Toto launched the Neorest 600 in 2002 – price $5000 16 -bit processor, 512 KB RAM, wireless remote Sold 250, 000 units in Japan – Revenues $1. 25 billion “Enthusiastically” received in USA US consumers routinely say the notion of an electronic-powered toilet strikes them “dangerous” Culture gap: Americans are mostly immune to the charms of bidets.
Blades Computers A Quite Revolution in the Server Room n n A mass of blades – Mare. Nostrum Computer cluster built with 2282 blade servers The most powerful computer in Europe Housed in a glass box (inside what was once a church in Barcelona)
Promise of Blades Computers n n n Superslim machines, based on Intel or AMD and Windows or Linux, but consume a lot less power and take up a lot less room. Blades are much easier to install, manage, and repair than conventional servers The biggest suppliers of blades computers: Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, and Sun
Blades Servers - Forecast
New 3 -D Displays n n n Volumetric displays render images in 3 D space rather than on a flat screen Market prediction: $1 B by 2006 Companies: Felix 3 DDisplay (Germany), Genex Technologies, Actuality Systems. Light Space (USA)
3 D Display Technologies n n n A high definition projector behind a stack of 20 liquid-crystal screens to create one solid image from a rapidly projected series of images An array of lasers to bounce images off a screen that rotates so fast that human eye perceives only a 3 D image floating in space Will open the door to institutional and consumer markets: education, home shopping, games
Security at the Touch of a Finger Biometrics n n Fingerprint as a master password to log into your computer and Web sites, music services, and other services that need passwords Microsoft’s fingerprint reader for Windows XP ($104)
RFID Technology RFID Chip Implanted in Mexico Judicial Workers Applied Digital Solutions Delray Beach
Solution in Education: Interdisciplinary Programs FAU Case n n n n n Computing in Life Sciences Global Software Engineering Digital Media and Vision Systems Secure Systems Internet and Web Technologies Data Mining and Databases Forensic and Counter-Terrorist Technologies Wireless Systems Integrated Embedded Systems Parallel and Cluster Computing
The Profile of the Modern Engineer n Breakthrough Technologies n Biotechnology Nanotechnology Material Science and Photonics Information and Communication Technology n n n
Our Vision and Research Results CSE @ FAU n At present time: About 30 funded projects. n See our Research Brochure at www. cse. fau. edu n Key projects: ¡ ¡ ¡ Center for Coastline Security Technologies, Federal Earmark Project (Dept. of Navy), $4. 25 M Secure Telecommunications, Federal Earmark Project (Department of Defense), $2 M One Pass to Production, funded by Motorola (Plantation), $2 M+
Center for Coastline Security Technologies n n n Right Place: South Florida, (part of FAU campus on the Atlantic Ocean) Right Time: 9/11, Security Right Idea: Ocean Engineering technologies+ Quad HDTV camera + sophisticated video and image processing algorithms
Center for Coastline Security ($4. 25 M for the first two years)
High Speed Automated Surveillance Systems HDTV Camera Data Mining Wireless Communications Sensor Fusion Image Analysis
Video and Image Analysis and Mining HDTV Camera Remote Video Processing Units Sensors GUI Receive video and images Image and Video Mining Displays Visualization tools Video and Image Processing Detection of moving objects Object tracking Object classification Object recognition Object matching Incident log Database of objects Control Room
Remote Cameras on Underwater Vehicles
Digital Images from HDTV Camera Westin Diplomat Hotel (Hallandale, FL) – North/South beach view Pt. Everglades South view from Renaissance Towers (near Sea-Tech) FAU - Sea. Tech Hallanda le
Goals and Challenges n n GOALS: To provide semi-automatic tools to monitor marine traffic at key locations, analyzing the contents of incoming video streams, detecting potential threats, and triggering the corresponding actions. CHALLENGES: ¡ ¡ ¡ Enormous volume of raw data produced by the HDTV camera (in Gbps) Need to provide all-weather 24/7 coverage Compromise between local processing (at the output of the video camera) and remote/central processing
Solution n Development of video and image analysis algorithms embedded in the HDTV camera, which will perform: ¡ ¡ Detection of moving objects of interest Identify their location Tracking of moving objects Object classification and creation of databases
Mobile Phone Technology n n G 3 phone is a business organizer and entertainment center Includes Web browser, two-way video conferencing, an organizer, MP 3 player, Java games, … Complex SW/HW (10 M lines of code) Challenge: Time to market
One Pass to Production funded by Motorola ($2 M+ for 3 years) n n n Right Place: Motorola’s plant in Plantatation (FL) developing latest mobile devices Right Time: Competition in 3 G phones and applications is tremendous (Nokia, Erickson, LG, Samsung, . . ) Right Idea: Research and develop new tools and technologies to reduce the development life cycle (from 24 months to 24 hours) G 3 Concept Phones
Development Life Cycle Diagram
Vision of a “Home Computer” 1954, Scientists from RAND Corporation have created this model to illustrate how a "home computer" could look in the year 2004
“Interesting Vision”, but…. n n The color picture above was taken in 2000 at the Smithsonian Institution exhibit "Fast Attacks and Boomers: Submarines in the Cold War" and depicts: A full-scale display of a typical nuclear-powered submarine's maneuvering room in which the ship's engineers control the power plant and electrical and steam systems http: //www. snopes. com/inboxer/hoaxes/computer. asp
Vision, Vision ….
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