The Last Lecture Perspectives Past Present Allen Schmidt

The Last Lecture Perspectives Past Present Allen Schmidt Future

Beginnings 1966 n First MATC D. P. graduates n First programming course at Whitewater u FORTRAN language u Punched cards, typewriter n Average Cost of new house $14, 200. 00 Average Income per year $6, 900. 00 Gas per Gallon 32 cents Average Cost of a new car $2, 650. 00

Perspective 31 years later, bought a first digital camera u $499. 99 (under capital budget) u 20 shots u 640 X 480 resolution u Within 10 years, cameras better than film u Film disappearing u More memory than the mainframe!

MATC Beginnings n Fall, 1979 (31 years ago) 1979 Average Cost of new house $58, 100. 00 Average Income per year $17, 500. 00 Gas per Gallon. 86 Average Monthly Rent $ 280. 00 Sony Walkman $ 200. 00 1966 $14, 200. 00 $6, 900. 32

2010 Cars - $ 25, 000 on average n Google is 11 years old ($550 per share) n Twitter is 4 years old n Facebook has had more hits than Google (March, 2010) n

1979: Downtown MATC n n n Room 421 of what is now space No cell phones, personal technology Shared telephone Room 422 had ceiling debris falling into it Hot, blacktop roof (held a class outside) Advantage: State Street (lunch at Rennebohm's)

IT Instructor Office: Room 421 (Currently does not exist)

Room 421 Coding Listings Convenient Handout Storage (ladder needed) Paper Based Coding Sheets?

Room 421 First dollar Professor Walski Whiteout “Bookcase” Project 5

Technology Overhead projector n Card punch n UNIVAC mainframe n 2 MB memory n 8 hour turnaround time for students n Focus on “desk checking” n n Now: Spring 2010: All apps from the mainframe have been removed

Compared to… n n Punched cards will travel At Colorado Mountain College (1974 - 1979) u Once a week turnaround u Put card deck and keypunch instructions on a bus to Glenwood Spring, got a listing back Second year: System 3 t Taught RPG

Systems Analysis Now: Currently object-oriented UML, Ajax and other advanced topics n Then: n Taught how to use a card sorting machine n Batch processing n

Courses n Then u Assembler u COBOL u Fortran (DP Math Analysis 2 – Statistics) u Basic (DP Math Analysis 2 – Statistics) u Computer Concepts u Principles of DP (taught to non-majors) t COBOL and RPG in one course u Computer concepts

Courses n Now u Object-Oriented Web languages t Java t. Net t PHP u HTML u XML u O-O Analysis and design u Oracle u AJAX u i. Phone App Development

DPMA & Social Events n n Very active chapter Students (under the leadership of Mary Burns) held a beer party in the downtown student union, Scanlon Hall n Spring Picnic was held at Vilas Park u Packed with students u Volunteers received T-shirts n Now: Campus Cookout (the world is safer…)

Lectures Used overhead projectors n Evening classes went until 8 PM u No in-class labs u Systems analysis course did not have labs n Taught in the Esplanade building across the street n

Economic troubles Now n Difficult economic times n High unemployment n People need new skills n Re-training older workers n

Economic troubles: Farming Then First floor of the old MATC Downtown (now space) (If video does not play, click Farming Video link on Web site)

Grading System n n n Now Blackboard provides scores and grades on the Web Then We had a automated computer grading system u Produced sorted reports Feedback for students u Grades were taped on the wall outside the office u For “security” they omitted the name but were in name order sequence u Identified students by posted social security number

Distractions n Students in 2010 are distracted by the Web u Playing games u Surfing the Web u They get lower grades, or drop the course n Tech-enabled multitasking: A time waste? u About 28 percent of an office worker's time is lost u 65 million U. S. knowledge workers u Average knowledge worker's salary: $21+/hour u Interruptions cost the U. S. about $900 billion per year u Out of a gross domestic product of about $14. 5 trillion

Distractions Then n In the 1980 s there were also distractions… u Room 386 windows faced the Highway 51 drive-in movie theater u During breaks, watch the movies

Personal Computers n n n IBM PCs created in 1980 MATC got them in 1984 or so Advanced: Had dual 5 ¼ inch floppies No hard drive Later… u Hard drives u Zip drives u IBM’s OS/2 t Virtualization: OS/2 ran Windows 3. 1 The impact of all this technological change…

Cyber Waste 3 billion units of consumer electronics will potentially become scrap between 2003 -2010 n 300 million computers discarded by 2008 u Have enough mercury to poison the Great Lakes 8 times over n Pile of obsolete computers would make a 22 story mountain that covers the city of Los Angeles n

Main Lecture: Data Warehouse n n Data is from multiple sources Must have “data hygiene” getting the data to conform to the warehouse u The data is usually obtained from many different sources u Needs to be made uniform Covers a large span of time It is organized for queries : u For efficient data retrieval u Around subjects u Data mining software searches for patterns and trends that are not normally seen

Student Grade Data Warehouse Personal Project: All students in my classes n Data is from multiple sources u Copied from mainframe u Prior to 1986, scanned, keyed in u After 2002, from Peoplesoft n Data hygiene u Sorted, check for multiple name spelling u Change of name due to marriage, etc. u Added gender n Time span: 1979 - 2010 n

Results Number of students taught n Number of class-students n Number of classes taught n Number passing with a specific grade n Number of male/female n Trends by year n

Quiz: How many total student in classes (each student in a class)? A. 3127 B. 3241 C. 3926 D. 4289 E. 6085

Number of Students n Total class students (one student in one class) u 6085 n Unique students u 3733 n Most classes taken by a single student u 15 (Randall)

Courses Without Labs Computer Lab Courses Impact of Y 2 K Start of Advising and other activities

Courses Taught Course Name Systems Analysis CICS Programming 3 Advanced Website Development Systems Design DP Math 1 Programming 2 Access, Database Computer Concepts Principles of DP Programming 1 Assembler Website Development DP Math 2 - Statistics Online Java. Script Job Search Project Management Count 1601 773 772 598 464 358 340 318 243 178 134 133 110 28 26 9

Quiz: Overall, what percent of the students have been women? A. 23% B. 28% C. 32% D. 38% E. 44%

By Gender n. F n. M n Total n Count 2560 3310 5870 Percent 43. 6 56. 4

Low Number of IT Jobs

Results:

Results: Time n Time spent correcting projects u Assume 5 projects per class u 6085 X 5 = 30, 425 projects corrected Assume 12 minutes average per project u 6085 Students u u 6085 X 12 = 365, 100 minutes 6085 hours 761 8 hour days 4 academic years (190 days/year)

Results: Time spend lecturing n 31 Years n 16 weeks of lecture n Average of 15 hours per week of lecture n 31 X 16 X 15 = 7440 hours 930 8 hour days n

Perspective However, the focus is on students, each one as a unique individual n Each one with unique abilities and needs u Watermelon u Mom returning to college u Cornrows u Responsibilities of adult life u Overwhelming at times u Sacrificing a grade u Jobs n

The future What will things nay be like 31 years from now…

Change… n The change of change is changing u Health care u Technology u Education u New devices u New ways of doing things

Change n n n It is said that 80% of jobs that current kindergarten children will hold have not yet be invented New social media degree at MATC 14 years ago, were these jobs available? u u u u Chief Evangelist Virtual World Bureau Chief Brand Champion Senior Interface Hacker Blogger Online Audience Development Manager Social Media Strategists User Experience Analyst

Change n Would these headlines make sense 5 -10 years ago? “Hackers silence tweets of devoted Twitter users” “Twitter Execs Assuage Developer Fears at Chirp Conference” “How Twitter's Promoted Tweets Will Work” “The 25 Best i. Pad Apps” “Facebook Launches Revamped Safety Center”

Change Amount of information is expected to double every 72 hours in 2010 n Where will it go from here… n It’s impossible to know all the available information n With more information, we become more specialized n Spend more time learning n What we teach is more specialized n

Change n Pattern of change u Starts with “Wow, that’s amazing” u Becomes a state-of-the-art feature u Becomes an extra feature u Becomes a ordinary feature u Is commonplace

Change and Disruption With our technology, disruption occurs n Some beneficial, some not so beneficial n Half of Americans expect newspapers to become extinct n Who is challenging who… n IBM →Microsoft →Google →Facebook → n What has Netflix done to video rental stores? n GPS systems, location aware Web apps n How will our world change in the next 31 years? n

Change 85% of Americans have high-speed internet n Nearly 50% of Americans 12+ years have a social networking profile (double that of 2 years ago) n 80% of 18 -24 year old, have online profiles n For the first time, Americans say that the Internet is the most important medium n Google considers Facebook the only serious competition n

Change: Health Care Prosthetic arms and legs under control of a person’s brain n Nanobots: tiny robotic devices that work internally u May eliminate many serious diseases in 10 -15 years n

Health Care Researchers have developed a cocktail of ingredients that forestalls major aspects of the aging process n Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic code of two of the most common cancers n Could revolutionize cancer care n

Health Care The Methuselah Foundation has launched a new prize to advance life extension and regenerative medicine n The New. Organ Prize will be given for successfully constructing a whole new organ – heart, kidney, lung, pancreas or liver - from a patient's own cells n Their goal is to achieve this medical breakthrough within the next 10 years n

Health Care Smart Pills Could Help Save 218, 000 Lives Each Year n Seeking a way to confirm that patients have taken their medication n Added a tiny microchip and digestible antenna to a standard pill capsule n

Health Care New ORNL carbon composite, close to Synthetic Human Nervous System n Mimicking the human nervous system for bionic applications n Method developed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory to process carbon nanotubes n Ultimately, the goal is to duplicate the function of a living system n

Improved health care: longer lives n n n n Current Cause of Death Cumulatively Eliminated Expected Age None (death rate same at year 2000 80 10% of medically prevented conditions eliminated 88 50% of medically prevented conditions eliminated 151 90% of medically prevented conditions eliminated 512 99% of medically prevented conditions eliminated 1, 110 99% of vehicular accidents eliminated 1, 490 99% of violent deaths eliminated (homicide. . . ) 2, 420 99% of non-vehicular accidents eliminated 8, 000

Technology n n n Computer chip that can store an unprecedented amount of data - enough to hold an entire library u Magnetic nanodots that store one bit of information on each nanodot u Store over one billion pages of information in a chip that is one square inch By 2013 a supercomputer’s computation capabilities will exceed that of the human brain By 2049 (estimated), a $1, 000 computer will exceed the computing capabilities of the human race

Brain controlled computing The headset as both a gaming device and as an aid for the disabled n $4 million grant from the US Army to study synthetic telepathy n Involves translating brain waves into instructions for a computer n

Invisibility Cloak? German scientists created a threedimensional "invisibility cloak" that can hide objects by bending light waves n Used photonic crystals to make an invisibility device, or cloak n Uses a class of materials called metamaterials n Not very big yet: used the cloak to conceal a small bump on a gold surface n

Brain Backup n Copy your brain to a computer? n Swiss scientists and PIT Solution Working on the Blue Brain Project World's first comprehensive attempt to reverseengineer the mammalian brain The $3 billion project is expected to be completed by 2018 International project u Swiss Federal Institute u Involves several countries u Ethics monitoring by UN bodies n n

Brain Backup – Questions to Ask Who will write the code for the backup? n With backup, need a restore program n

Brain Backup – Questions to Ask CRUD CURD All stored data has basic operations n Create, Read, Update, Delete n Creating the backup n What about update? ? ? n Will you be able to “tweak” the backup? n

Summary Thoughts How do we manage all this change? n Need for a balance in life u Gives greater happiness u Too much change, not enough time for the things that matter most n Mind has tremendous power u Develop your mental capacity u Think positively n

Summary Thoughts Students have always been our focus at MATC n Treated as individuals with many demands on their time n They are treated as we and our loved ones would like to be treated n

Summary Thoughts We teach what is called agile development n Focus is on some core concepts, one of them being humility n As a teacher, always learning u From family u From other faculty u From graduates u From students n

Closing: Regrets Sunshine committee n State called conference n India sister college n

Closing: Suggestions For MATC Faculty need time to upgrade curriculum n Time to learn a new course n Time to development new curriculum n

In Conclusion Great colleagues n A great place to work n Always learning n Great support staff n

Live fully Live n Love what you do, do what you love n Take time to enjoy life n