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You & the Participation Age: The Big Lesson You Learned in Kindergarten
Robin Goldfarb [email protected] ArchitectSun Microsystems, Inc.
Agenda
• The Future of Computing> The New Education
Reality> Enter the Participation
Age
• Eliminating the Digital Divide> Sun's Mission> Sun's Plan
• Eliminating the Digital Divide (con't)> Chipping Away – Real
Examples Making a Difference
• Sharing> Download> Upload
• Your Ideas
The Future of Computing
• The New Education Reality> What YOU already know & everyone else
is still learning
• The Information Age is History> How YOUR world is changing
• Enter the Participation Age > YOU are already there
The New Education Reality
Student Profile
Hours of Operation
Location
Content
Resources & Budget Limited Really Limited!
TRADITIONAL
5–22 Years 5–105+ Years
M–F: 8:00–5:00 24 x 7
Fixed Anywhere
Limited Limitless
TODAY
Students are Changing
• Mobile phone with integrated video camera
• iPod/MP3 player
• PDA
• USB thumb drive
• Wireless laptop with DVD-R/RW drive
Need Proof? Look No Further Than a Student’s Backpack
Communication Proliferation
Then Now
Education Must Evolve With Students
Digital Immigrants Digital Natives
The World is Evolving
Vast Amounts of Data/KnowledgeInnovation is Accelerating
Networked Economies3 Million More Users/Week
The Access Enabled Planet
Democratization of Information
Enter The Participation Age
Everyone and Everything Participating on the Network
And YOU are a BIG part of it: Social Software
www.Myspace.com www.ryze.com
www.friendster.com www.plaxo.com
Eliminating the Digital Divide• Sun's Mission> Help YOU help the world
• Sun's Plan> Give YOU the tools you & the
world needs
• Chipping Away – Real Examples Making a Difference > Stuff YOU'LL think is cool (I do!)
aka WHY PARTICIPATE
Sun's Mission
To Create the Technologies, Products and Servicesthat Power the Participation Age
Sun's Cause: Eliminate the Digital Divide
While Making the Planet Better Off
Sun's Strategy
Sharing Creates Communities, Communities Create Value
Core Elements
• Cause: Eliminate the Digital Divide, while maintaining Eco-Responsibility.• Vision: The Participation Age• Strategy: Share• Opportunity: Growth, Mindshare,
Democratization of Information• Tagline: The Network is the Computer
Sun's Plan
• The Grid Compute Utility• Collaborate with Educators• Continue to Innovate (SunLabs)• Continue to develop quality products• Encourage SHARING
$$11$1/CPU-hr$1/CPU-hr
Public Sun Grid Compute UtilityThe Ultimate in Sharing
Computing Becomes an Operational Expense
• No surprises• No hidden fees• No minimums• You pay for what
you consume• www.network.com
Sun's Collaboration with Educators
• Curriculum and Training
• Hardware and Software
• Collaborations and Centers of Excellence
• Academic Developers
Sun Technologyand AcademicResources
STARhttp://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/star.html
Sun on Campus Today
• Sun stands for:Stanford University Network
• Software, training to~2,000 institutions worldwide
• StarOffice free to 64 million students
• 500+ ongoing collaborative efforts
• Sun is committed to education
It’s about Participation
● Used Everywhere: Orbitz, eBay, financial apps, web apps, Brazilian healthcare...●Taught Everywhere: Colleges Globally, US AP exam, Elem/Middle/HS, Phones. Taken over from Pascal.●Career Path: Learn Once, Work Anywhere!
● OPEN ACCESS APPLICATIONS● Portal, Directory, Messaging● OpenOffice.org● Dev Tools● More...
Chipping Away
Some real COOL examples of making a difference
Communities CollaborationAccess
Access: Iraqi Virtual Science Library
Communities: NYUHome
Collaboration: TiTech
• 100 TFlops peak capacity
• Access to students and professors the world over
• Solving problems from Chem 101 to curing Avian Flu
• Enables global collaboration
Voltaire InfiniBand NetworkEight 288 Port IB Switches
Sun Storage Servers1 PB in Only 4 Racks!
655 SunFire Galaxy Compute Servers10480 x64 Processor Cores, 21.4 TB Memory
Tokyo Institute of Technology – World’s Largest x64 Cluster
Collaboration: Google Docs & Spreadsheets (Powered By StarOffice)
http://www.google.com/google-d-s/intl/en/tour1.html
Collaboration: Mars Rover
Let’s Visit the Rover
http://www.java.com/en/everywhere/marsrover.jsp powered by Sun
Collaboration: SARS VirusVirus mapped in 48 hours
Access: MIT Open Courseware
Sharing>Download> What Sun can offer YOU> Other places YOU can learn
from
>Upload> How YOU can help Sun> How YOU can Participate!> How YOU can help eliminate the
Digital Divide
You will drivethe next 10 years
of innovation!
Download
• Free Software• Sun Grants• Forums • Sun Student Developer Network • Other Collaboration avenues• Training
• Lowers barriers
• Increases participation
• Creates opportunity
• CD's for you: Sun Java Developer Kit & StarOffice
Free Software
Sun Grants
• Academic Excellence Grant Program (AEG)> Sun grants equipment to eligible organizations who have developed creative
projects that address our investment priorities and create partnerships for success.
• Sun Grid Research Grants> Sun Grid Education Grant awards hours of central processing units (CPUs) on
the Sun Grid Compute Utility. Sun Grid helps educators and researchers derive immediate benefits from an open, grid-based computing infrastructure on a utility basis providing choice and control over how IT is purchased.
• Open Gateway program> Through grants of Sun products and teacher professional development, the Sun
Microsystems Foundation has established educational partnerships with primary and secondary (K-12) schools to bring the power of network computing to teachers and students. http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/comm_invest/ogp/
Forums
• Lots of experts out there. Use them...
Sun Student Developer Network
• The SDN Academic Developer Program offers you ready access to the tools, resources and communities in which to participate and share. http://developers.sun.com/learning/academic/
Collaboration• Center of Excellence (COE)> The Center of Excellence program is the premier showcase demonstrating
partnership between Sun, educational institutions, and a third party.
• External Research Office (ERO)> Sun started in the academic community and has always fostered a close
relationship with researchers in academia. Goal: 1. To define and create the future of computer and information technology. 2. To transform key university research outcomes into future products and competitive advantages for Sun. 3. To recruit and hire the best students; to encourage faculty sabbaticals; and student internships at Sun.
Training – Sun Academic Initiative
• A program designed to create a collaborative relationship between Sun and academic institutions. Courses delivered through this program will introduce students to Sun Microsystems technologies, prepare them for industry-leading certification, and equip them with marketable IT job skills.
• As part of this program, selected colleges and universities become authorized institutions within the Sun Academic Initiative, enabling them to deliver training on Sun technologies to their students. In addition, students can obtain free access to selected online courses through the Sun Web Learning Center.
• http://www.sun.com/products-n-solutions/edu/programs/sai/
Upload
• Blogging• Wiki's• Internships & Volunteering • Sun Campus Evangelist Program• Talk about it • Join & contribute to GELC• Innovate & Share applications (Creator Student
Showcase)
Blogging
• blogs.sun.com/robin/• This preso will be uploaded here as well as my take
on the day. Would love your feedback too!• Lots of free blogging sites out there. See
http://weblogs.about.com/
Wikis vs. Traditional Publishing?
Internships & Volunteering• Student Zone: Links to campus recruiting events, job listings and
internship opportunities.http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/index.html
• Sun Labs Internships: > General info:
http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2004-08-27.interns.html> Year-round internships: http://research.sun.com/internships/> Summer internships:
http://research.sun.com/spotlight/2007-07-22-SIRS.html> Intern profiles:
http://research.sun.com/internships/metamorphosis.html
• Current internship openings across all divisions: http://www.sun.com/corp_emp/zone/search.cgi?coll=KA
Sun Campus Evangelist Program• The Sun Campus Evangelist Program is a new campus initiative designed to
promote Sun technology and development tools to student developers. The program's focus will be on two main Sun technologies - Java and Solaris.
• Objectives:> Join the Sun Developer Network (SDN)> Subscribe to the Student Connection> Learn about Solaris 10> Become part of the OpenSolaris and/or NetBeans community> Get your Sun developer tools> Get trained on Sun technologies
Talk about it
• This one is simple – Like what you heard today, just talk about it. Tell your friends. Tell your teachers. Tell your critics. Hey, if you really want to, go tell Microsoft! :-)
Global Education Learning Communityhttp://www.gelc.org
Innovate & Share
• Join the Java Community Process (JCP)> Driven by the Community> Suggest, Review, Debate!
• Creator Student Showcase> Share code, get featured... Students, Share your Creator
developed web application and portal development projects with us and become a featured student in our Student Showcase. Email [email protected]. http://developers.sun.com/prodtech/javatools/jscreator/community/index.jsp
The Benefits of the Participation Age
Social and Cultural Economic
• New forms of collaboration, education
• Solving complex global problems through networking
• Bigger marketplaces• Lowered barriers to entry• New forms of wealth
and value
What You Can Do Today
• Demand more from the technology industry
• Embrace the Participation Age
• Ask how Sun can help you > Visit Sun’s Executive Briefing Center> Learn about our programs for education> Talk to our Education staffers
Your IdeasRobin Goldfarb [email protected] ArchitectSun Microsystems, Inc.
Prize
• Solve the Puzzle, Pick a prize (1st correct answer wins/session)• What does this mean?01000100 01001001 01010110 01001001 01000100 01000101