It Is Not Business as Usual Anymore –

ICT Evolution and Challenging Economic Climate

Prof. Ewe Hong TatDean, Faculty of Information and

Communication Technology (PJ Campus)Universiti Tunku Abdul Tahman

(UTAR)

Outline

• Digital World and Global Economics• Technology Adoption• Learning and Innovation• Emerging ICT Technologies and Applications• Summary

Growth of Digital World

Image from the Network Visualization Gallery by Stephen G. Eick and his colleagues at the Bell Laboratories

Internet Users

Diffusion of ICT into Other Sectors

Information &Communications

Technology

Agriculture

Banking & Finance

Manufacturing

Trade & Commerce

ServicesEntertainment Education

Tourism

Defense

Health

Government

Global Financial Crisis

• What caused this?• ICT influence

Business Has Changed due to ICT

• WHO, WHERE, WHEN• WHAT, HOW, …..

Graduating Student Survey

• Top companies hiring MIT graduates (Class of 2008)– McKinsey 32– MIT 19– Google 18– Booz Allen 15– Boston Consulting Group 15– Oracle 13– Goldman Sachs 10– Morgan Stanley 9– Microsoft 8– United States Air Force 8– Harvard University 7– Jet Propulsion Laboratory 7– J P Morgan 7

WHAT PERCENTAGE OF WORKING GRADUATES TOOK JOBS IN FINANCE AND CONSULTING?Degree Level Finance Consulting TotalUndergraduate 27.2% 12.9% 40.1%Masters 14.3% 19.3% 33.6%Doctoral 2.5% 9.3% 11.8%

Source: MIT Career Development Center

Has Innovation Stopped?

www.nsti.org/Nanotech2007/venue/attractions.html

Technology, Learning, Innovation Cycle

Technology

Innovation

Learning

Technology S Curve

Advances in Technology

TimeIncubation Period

High Growth Period

Mature Period

Innovation Boom

Technology Adoption

Technology Adoption

Source: http://news.bookweb.org/news/6662.html

Time

Percentage of Adoption

Gartner’s Hype Cycle

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies 2009

• On the Rise (3-D Flat-Panel Displays, Quantum Computing, Video Search, Behavioral Economics, Mobile Robots, Augmented Reality, 3-D Printing, etc)

• At the Peak (Internet TV, Wireless Power, Cloud Computing, E-Book Readers, Social Software Suites, Microblogging , etc)

• Sliding Into the Trough (Green IT, Video Telepresence, Mesh Networks: Sensor, Online Video, Home Health Monitoring, Public Virtual Worlds, RFID, Over-the-Air Mobile Phone Payment Systems, Social Network Analysis, Web 2.0, etc)

• Climbing the Slope (Tablet PC, Electronic Paper, Wikis, Corporate Blogging, Location-Aware Applications , Speech Recognition, etc)

Source: www.gartner.com

Gartner’s Hype Cycle for Emerging

Technologies 2009

Learning Hierarchy

Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Intelligence

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Data

Information

Knowledge

Wisdom

Intelligence

Internet Learning Resources

Self Learning: ocw.mit.edu

Innovation?

* source: www.wagnerur.hu/computer_ internet/evolution.jpg

What Will Be

Michael L Dertouzos (Professor, Director of Laboratory Of Computer Science [1974 – 2001],Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Dertouzos, The Unfinished Revolution: Human-Centered Computers and What They Can Do For Us, 2001.Dertouzos, What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives, 1997.

We made a big mistake 300 years ago when we separated technology and humanism. ... It's time to put the two back together.—Michael Dertouzos, Scientific American, July 1997

Hologram

Next Innovation?

3D Display

iPhone

Virtual Reality

Multi core processor

MIT Technology ReviewEmerging Technologies (2008)

• Cellulolytic Enzymes• Reality Mining• Connectomics• Offline Web Applications• Graphene Transistors• Atomic Magnetometers• Wireless Power• NanoRadio• Probabilistic Chips• Modeling Surprise

MIT Technology ReviewEmerging Technologies (2009)

• Biological Machines• Racetrack Memory• $100 Genome• Traveling-Wave Reactor• Paper Diagnostic Tests• Liquid Battery• Intelligent Software Assistant• Nanopiezotronics• HashCache• Software-Defined Networking

Bigger ICT Convergence and Human Centric

Mobile Telecommunications

Network

Internet

Human NetworkICT Convergence Environment

Wireless Sensor and Actuator

Network + RFID

GSM/ pager base station

GISdata

Fixed: ISDN, PSTNInternet

Satellite phoneor cellular phone

access networks

Personal/ Local Area Networking

Internet + information recourses

contact info, etc

Mobile network: GSM, 3G, GPRS, satellite, paging system

Satellite ground station

DECT/ HomeRF/ Bluetooth/ WiFi/ OpenAir, 802.11 base station or access point or PC

Satellite

Relay

Satellite

Satellite dish

Remote sensing

Com puter

Fixed line access point orbase station

Laptop withB luetooth or W LAN

PDA withG SM/ G PRS/Bluetooth, e tc

pagerWireless Access Networks

Personal/ local area networking

Wireless Access Networks

Wireless Sensor Networks

WIMAX

www.smartbridges.com/css/articles.asp?id=491

Remote monitoring of rice fields in Jerilderie, near Wagga in New South Wales (by Rice Research Australia Pty Ltd), to determine the best conditions for commercial rice production.

Rice Monitoring System

Sensor board in Sungai Burung Paddy Field

Cow Monitoring through Sensor Network

• CSIRO, Australia is testing a range of remote sensors on a property near Rockhampton.• Scientists are using mobile sensors on cows to study their behaviour. • The sensors are linked by radio to another network monitoring the local field environment.

• The networks form a group of nodes, each of which measures a variable such as ground moisture, humidity or temperature - or cattle behaviour such as eating and sleeping. • Each node interacts with those nearby, creating a network that passes data to a central database. • It could provide a farmer with detail to assess the most effective irrigation needs for every field, or when to move stock.

Integration of vehicular sensor networks (VSNs) with Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (VANET) by equipping vehicles with onboard sensing devices. (Network Research Lab at UCLA)

Vehicular Sensor Network

MIT CarTel Project

Body Sensor Network / Local Positioning System

Wireless Body Area Network of Intelligent Sensors for Ambulatory Health Monitoring

Electrical and Computer EngineeringThe University of Alabama in Huntsville

www.ece.uah.edu/~jovanov/whrms/

MIT iRoom Project

Intelligent Swarm Robot Networks

Mobile – Intelligent – Sensing Capability – Self Reconfigurable – Energy Conscious

Magic Digital World

RealPhysicalWorld

hongtatewe@gmail.com