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Research & Discovery:
Technologies Today for Solving Problems
Tomorrow
Limsoon WongInstitute for Infocomm
Research
Copyright © 2004 by Limsoon Wong
Plan
• Making Research Exciting– Have long-term vision– Knowing what counts
• Looking for Emerging Opportunities– Misconceptions– Advice for increasing probability of success– Sources of opportunity for innovation
• A role model • Reasons for Optimism in R&D
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Have Long-Term Vision
• By 2010, quality of life will be improved by an ICT technology-based product of ours
• By 2015, at least one Singapore company will become a successful MNC based on our technology-based product
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What Really Counts…10X Impact
• Good (practical) research should have a story like this at the end– produced a technology used by millions– produced a technology earning millions of
dollars– produced a technology that makes a difference
to the Singapore ICT industry – first to identify an important problem and solve
it– first to solve an important existing problem– make a 10x improvement to the solution of an
existing problem
• muvee Technologies’ Automatic Video Production Software Adopted by Sony’s Digital Imaging Devices
• muvee’s pioneering technology will dramatically simplify creative photo and video production for millions of consumers.
• Toppan has developed an original RFID chip, and peripheral devices, including tags and reader/writers, through collaboration with I2R
• Annual sales of the system in Japan will reach 2 billion yen (S$31M) in 2005
• Some speculative tech for transforming sports editorial content production industry
30% 18%
Enhanced Tennis TV
• Vaccines are often the only solution for viral diseases
• Finding & developing effective vaccine targets (epitopes) is slow and expensive process
• Enabled MOM’s Occupational Hazards Dept to automate checking chemical safety info from Material Safety Data Sheets and verifying standards conformance
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Misconceptions
• Innovation must big• Innovations are the works of geniuses• Innovations depend on novel ideas• Innovations occur only in commercial
markets
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Practical Advice to Increase Probability of 10X
• Look for a clear need where– solution is not expected for several years– not at a big disadvantage to arrive before
competition– have or can build strength– partner to move ahead faster in a win-win way
In short, start from our strongest point, target for maximum impact, and attack competitor's weakest point. Also collaborate to gain advantage over "us"-only effort
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Practical Advice to Increase Probability of 10X
• Carry out what we set out to do• Improve quality & rigor of our work• Improve quality & passion of our people• Evangelize our ideas & projects to the
world
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Sources of Opportunity for Innovation
• Unexpected success/failure in our work & outside event
• Gap betw reality & common belief
• Bottleneck in processes• Change of industry
struct---new biz model, distribution channels, modes of business, etc.
• Change in demographics---age, religion, income, etc.
• Change of mood & perception---terrorism, fashion, etc.
• Fringe practices that may solve persistence breakdown in current central practices, ie. value innovation
• New knowledge & scientific advances
• Man-made barriers---legislation & regulation
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Jinyan’s Vision
• No human will fall sick unexpectedly• No machine will fail unexpectedly
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Jinyan’s Aim for 10X
• Diagnosis of diseases and optimization of treatments sufferings are reduced and chance of cure is increased
• Prediction of faults in engineering systems and optimization of industrial systems safety is improved, cost is reduced, and quality is raised
• Analysis of computer and network logs to detect intrusion and other threats cyber struct is strengthened, and assets are guarded
Childhood ALL
• Major subtypes: T-ALL, E2A-PBX, TEL-AML, BCR-ABL, MLL genome rearrangements, Hyperdiploid>50,
• Diff subtypes respond differently to same Tx
• Over-intensive Tx – Development of
secondary cancers– Reduction of IQ
• Under-intensiveTx – Relapse
• The subtypes look similar
• Conventional diagnosis– Immunophenotyping– Cytogenetics– Molecular diagnostics
• Unavailable in most ASEAN countries
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Single-Test Platform ofMicroarray & Knowledge
Discovery
training data collection
feature selection
Image credit: Affymetrix
feature generation
feature integration
Conventional Tx:• intermediate intensity to all 10% suffers relapse 50% suffers side effects costs US$150m/yr
Jinyan’s optimized Tx:• high intensity to 10%• intermediate intensity to 40%• low intensity to 50%• costs US$100m/yr
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•High cure rate of 80%• Less relapse
• Less side effects• Save US$51.6m/yr
Impact
An Important Ingredient in Jinyan’s Success:
Collaborations
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He does the wet expts
He inventsthe algo’s
She implementsthe algo’s
He designs thedry expts &
interprets betwthe dry & wet
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High-Level Drivers• Physical needs
– nourishment, – health, ...
• Security needs– privacy – protection– stability– ownership
• Socializing needs– collaboration– sharing– be understood– be informed
• Entertainment needs– novelty– belonging– communicating– mobility
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Major Trends
The use of info mgmt & techhas become• more complex• more “self-service”• more personalization• more embedded• more distributed• more pervasive
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Major Apps
• “Trans-disciplinary” Apps– Lifestyle & entertainment
• organizing data, narrowing human-digital, virtual gaming, realistic immersive user experience, entertainment on demand, digital rights, asset mgmt, IP protection, ...
– Tech in healthcare• pervasive digital media, adaptive syst,
decision syst, …
– Ubiquitous systems• privacy, security, monitoring of trans, image
processing, lang translation, voice recognition, adaptive syst, decision syst
– Smart sensors & intelligent syst
• signal processing, pattern recognition, security, privacy, adaptive syst, decision syst, ...
– Physical & digital security• privacy, surveillance, authentication, access
control, audit, behaviour analysis, abnormal event diagnostic, multimedia crytographic algo, ...
• “Traditional” Apps– E-learning– E-govt– E-health– E-traffic– EAI– SCM– PDA– Knowledge mgmt, ...
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Engines of Growth
• Business intelligence– ontology & metadata
tech – adaptive tech – human language tech – collaboration tech – decision tech
• Information security– security infrastructure – cyber terrorism – biometrics tech – privacy & identity
mgmt
• Native media processing & analysis– production tech – analysis tech – distribution tech– intuitive user
interfaces
Enabled byInfo Mgmt
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Medicine
Int Syst & SensorNetworks
Env TechIntegrativeManufact
Broad Band
Gridprotect
video, audio, & image
analysis
decisiontech
Energy