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From Supercomputers to 3D Game Programming: The Impact of

CyberInfrastructure on our YouthKris Stewart

Professor, Computer ScienceSan Diego State Univeristy

http://cyberday.unm.edu/

Please see myhandout for detailsabout me

Disney, model Railroads and Kris?

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Title image of Kris, as volunteer at Walt’s Barn in Griffith Park, Los Angeles

Walt = Walt Disney

As Marine Corps brat, Stewart was born at Camp Pendleton http://www.cpp.usmc.mil/ Zip:92055 Annual Camp Pendleton night at Disneyland, when stationed there, and a visit on each duty change, along with “visit the relatives”.

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How does the fiber map relate to us today?(Qwest’s High Speed Fiber located on the Railroad Right of Way)

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NSF Celebrates 50 years 23March2009

www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/

statesman Vint Cerf

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1960s 1960s

Note: 4 computersSpeed 4000 baud

young Vint Cerf

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1970s

188 computers4800 baud

1977, K Stewart builds Z80/Imsai kit computer numerical software for Masters at SDSU in CS

1978 Stewart ABQSandia Labs Intern

1979 Stewart JPL

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1980s

159,000 computers1,400,000 baud

1985 NSF assisted Supercomputer Centers start

1984 Stewart hired SDSUas numerical analyst

1987 Stewart earns UNM PhDnumerical analysis

1981 Stewartstarts PhD UNM

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1990sfor Stewart

248,000,000 computers10,000,000 baud

1993-96 STEPhigh school comp’l sci1994 Mosaic added

1990-2 SUEUndergrad HPC

1997-2006 ECCSE NPACI for CSUlab in Library/neutralturf on SDSU campus

SDSC Steering Committee1992-97

1993 Stewart Tenure

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2000s

1.2 G computers20,000,000,000 baud

1997-2004 ECCSENPACI for CSU atSDSU

2005 EPIC3D Game Prog’m’n

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NSFNet 1985-1995

http://www.merit.edu/networkresearch/projecthistory/nsfnet/nsfnet_article.php

Retiring the NSFNET Backbone Service: Chronicling the End of an EraBy Susan R. Harris, Ph.D., and Elise Gerich

Reprinted with permission from "ConneXions", Vol. 10, No. 4, April 1996.

As member of SDSC Steering Committee ‘92-’97, Stewart had front row seat for muchof the squabbling over Congress dictate to NSF to “privitize” NSFNet

Overtime, its been great to watch technology enhance

• Processor speeds increasing & multicores

• Memory speed increasing

• Cost decreasing

• Computer Screen resolution and fidelity improve

• GPUs as well as CPUs

• Mobile computing convenient and powerful

What an exciting time “the kids” can have11

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Calculate Transmit Time for your 1GB ThumbDrive vs. Network Speed

http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu/eccse/Calc_TransTimes/

1 GB in 74 Hrs33.6Kpbs modem

WPA at SDSU

• SDSU was founded in 1897

• Oct 1929 start construction “on the mesa”

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Hepner Hall 1930 Hepner Hall now

WPA Murals found during renovations

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http://soap.sdsu.edu/Volume1/WPAmurals/WPAmurals.htm

1959 Photos takencolor murals captured on black/white film

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Sailors Going to Hell

16San Diego is a military town/county

SDSU Library is New Home

17http://youtu.be/Y3TT9xJchds Seth Mallios, chair of the SDSU anthropology department

Constrasts

• Beautiful color murals showcasing big tuna industry in San Diego that no longer exists

• Black/white photos only record of sections of former murals

• Archeaological dig on our own campus

• InfoDome of Library houses the partial reconstruction http://youtu.be/Y3TT9xJchds

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Life at SDSU

SDSC (San Diego State College) hosts JFK 06June1963 for

fascinating speech

19http://scua.sdsu.edu/exhibits/online/2010/03/JFKMovie/JFKMovie.shtml

Marine Corps brat Kriswas in Kansas City June1963, but Quantico VA Nov 63

Combining Interests through CI

• Network everywhere (Internet Archive WayBack Machine = archeaological dig today)

• Who gets education, who pays?

• Segregation is illegal in U.S. now, not in 1963

• Women’s suffrage in 1920 in U.S.

• Contrasts – Kris is analog, her students were born digital!

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Outside Wisdom on our StudentsJohn Seely Brown [JSB] – 17Jan05 @ SDSU

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Superbowl Commercials from Tech Companies (over time)

Computerworld choices:Xerox: "Monks" (1976)Apple: "1984" (1984)Intel: "Play That Funky Music" (1997)CompuServe: "Not Busy" (1997)Lotus: "Capitalism" (1997)Iomega: "Bermuda Triangle" (1998)Network Associates: "Missile Silo" (1998)EDS: "Cat Herders" (2000)Computer Associates: "Amnesia" (2002)Garmin: "Napoleon" (2008)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9152078/Top_10_Super_Bowl_tech_ads?taxonomyName=Hardware&taxonomyId=12

My choices are:

Apple Macintosh premier, directed by Ridley Scott), 1984 EDS Cat Herders 2000 and Bridgestone Tires Beaver carma salute 2011

My Favorite 2011 Superbowl Ad

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUcG7xZB-gCopy/paste into browser / Bridgestone beaver carma

http://youtu.be/7Rw-JUuUrZgCarma - salute

Generation ME: Why Today’s Young Americans are more Confident, Assertive and more Miserable than ever before

Jean M. Twenge, PhD, (Psychology Dept SDSU) colleague

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3D Game Programming

• Serious object-oriented programming

• Team Sport

• Interdisciplinary [Artists and Programmers]

• Target of Negative Attitudes from others (especially the “analog” ones)

• Be prepared with 5 minute elevator talk

• Learn your client vernacular

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Gamer Groups Spr 2006Great Studio Class [JSB recommends] – Varying Engagement

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3D Game Programming as Service Learning

Students create 3D video games that serve other disciplines – started 2006 NSF grant

Handouts

Graduate students from CS 583 3D Game Programming want to write thesis with me - must find discipline to serve.

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http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/cos/downloads/cos_fusion2006.pdf 28

How CyberInfrastructure Impacts/Engages our Youth

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Fall 2011 – Stewart teaches course at SDSU for first time. NSF, CSTA recognize we need more programmers.

Stayed tuned!www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu

Students born digital - shrug off “history lessons” on new, innovative, exciting, intrusive …connectivity

Internet is dynamic – keep a log (or web page record, find what works for you since resource may move – HtTrack and YouTube Downloader)

Internet never goes away, so watch out what you post – Bill Gates mug shot from Albuquerque PD

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Questions?

President Weber cuts the ribbon

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SDSC 25 year timeline 1985-92 – 1of8

32www.sdsc.edu/Gallery/images/vs_timeline_hi.jpg

Please take one of this timeline handout alsoSDSC Transforming Science & Society throughCyberinfrastructure