Educator BOF - Khronos Group

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Educator BOF

SIGGRAPH ANAHEIM July 22th, 2013


Agenda • Erik Noreke, Khronos VP Business Development

- Enabling collaboration between Industry and Academia

• Dr. Hwanyoung Lee, KNU Korea

- Creating a teaching program using Khronos technologies

• Dr. Cornel Pokorny

- Teaching graphics using WebGL

• Mike Bailey

- Oregon State University – Graphics Department Update


Khronos Connects Software to Silicon • Khronos APIs define processor acceleration capabilities

- Graphics, video, audio, compute, vision and sensor processing

APIs developed today define the functionality of platforms and devices tomorrow


Apple

Board of Promoters

http://www.amd.com/

http://global.mitsubishielectric.com/

http://www.nds.com/

http://www.toshiba.com/

http://www.umu.se/umu/index_eng.html

http://www.antixlabs.com/

http://www.google.com/

http://www.hu1.com/

http://www.fujitsu.com/

http://www.marvell.com/index.jsp


APIs *by* the Industry *for* the Industry • Khronos standards have strong industry momentum

- 100s of man years invested by industry leading experts

- Shipping on billions of devices and multiple operating systems

• Khronos is OPEN for any company to join and participate

- Standards are truly open – one company, one vote

- Solid legal and Intellectual Property framework for industry cooperation

• Khronos APIs define core device acceleration functionality

- Low-level “Foundation” functionality needed on every platform

- Rigorous conformance tests for cross-vendor consistency

• They are FREE

- Members agree to not request royalties


Educators Feel Need for Academic Standards • Khronos on the road

- Sought input from industry and

researchers, academia and students

• For many years heard same comments from educators:

- “It’s hard to keep up with so many

specifications under rapid development”

- “It’s challenging to convert specifications

into courses”

• Those comments became more

frequent and urgent


Industry Feels Need for Academic Standards • Typical comments from industry members

- “We hire 100 young OpenGL ES engineers a year and we spend months re-training

them to consistent standards - our standards - and it costs us time and money.”

- “We contract 50 OpenGL engineering consultants every year and we want

assurances that they are educated and skilled to a measurable benchmark before

we engage them.”

• Industry requesting Proficiency Certification in key industry technologies

- Just like Cisco or Microsoft Certifications

- Complement to full academic qualifications


Connecting Khronos and

the Educational Community

KITE Responds to these Needs Khronos Initiative for Training & Education

• Initiative to increase communication and

cooperation between INDUSTRY and

EDUCATORS

Three Goals:

• Accelerate development of educational

materials for Khronos APIs

• Develop standardized testing methods for

Khronos API proficiency

• Make Khronos certification testing widely

available in the industry

Industry as represented by

Khronos Membership

Educators, institutions and students


Khronos Working Groups

Ratified Specifications

Conformance Tests and Adopters Program

SDKs, Sample, Ref Cards and Man Pages

Adopters Build conformant implementation and products

Developers Develop applications using the APIs

Educators / Certifiers Academic Courses Training and Certification

Educator Guidelines and Courseware

API Working Groups (Industry and Academic)

Members

Wider Community

Certification Materials

KITE encourages academic participation in working groups to produce materials for educators and certification


Getting Involved – Membership Tiers

Promoter Members - Participation and vote in working groups - Board seat for strategy, budget and spec ratification

Contributor Members - Participation and vote in working groups

Academic Members - Participation in working groups

$1K/year

$10K/year

$30K/year

ALL members have full access to ALL Khronos working meetings, discussions, materials, drafts … Anyone with a member email domain can sign up for a Khronos login – no limit to number of participants


Training and Certification • Geographically specific

- Language and culture differences

• Diverse range of certification partners emerging

- Colleges and polytechnics

- Government funded institutes

- Graphics vendors

- Commercial training companies

• Khronos looking to start engaging training partners

- Start focused, learn and build out


Educators and Certifiers

KITE Process

Students and Working

Professionals

Cooperate on developing: - Best Practices - Educator Guidelines - Academic Courseware - Certification materials

Educators and third party certifiers administer Khronos-related courses and certification exams

• Certification helps

students and

professionals prove

their proficiency and

land top jobs in the

industry…

Develop courses and exams using

Khronos materials

Khronos Members (Industry and Academic)


Academia is Responding Positively • Since 2008, Academic Members Joining Frequently

Khronos Academic Member Country

ICT China

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China

Nihon University Japan

University of Bristol Great Britain

ITRI Taiwan

Oregon State University USA

Politecnico di Milano Italy

Universita di Bologna Italy

Universite Claude Bernard Lyon France

Imperial College London Great Britain

University of Toronto Canada

University Western Australia Australia

Kyungpook National University Korea

Seoul National University Korea

UMEÅ Sweden


Next Steps • Please consider joining Khronos as an Academic Member!

- Help drive KITE materials AND be involved in the creation of the specifications

• Khronos is still forming KITE program details

- ANY and ALL feedback welcome!

- Help build the KITE you need

• Key outstanding questions

- How get the right balance between academic courses and training/certification

- How ensure globally consistent certification standards

- Precisely what data should Khronos be generating?

• Seeking partners to administer Khronos training / certifications

- Potential business opportunity

• Resources and these slides:

• http://kite.khronos.org/en

http://kite.khronos.org/en

http://kite.khronos.org/en

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