cultivation of global competitiveness c.v. ramamoorthy professor emeritus electrical engineering and...

CULTIVATION OF GLOBAL COMPETITIVENESS

C.V. RAMAMOORTHYPROFESSOR EMERITUS

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCESUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY


• TOPICS• MY INTERPRETATION. • CULTIVATION IMPLIES GROWTH, COMPONENTS

OF A SIMPLIFIED GROWTH MODEL• FLAT WORLD—INTELLECTUAL FLATNESS IS THE

PREREQUISITE TO ECONOMIC FLATNESS AND OVERALL GLOBAL PROSPERITY IS NECESSARY FOR OUR SURVIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

TCS CEO – DR. RAMADORAI• Today it is the minds, not the

megahertz or the gigabytes that are scarce.

• Use I.T. to enhance them and use them to deliver sustainable and survivable products to support our developing world


• TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION• WIDENING CHASM/GAP BETWEEN THE

TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES AND THE SNAIL- PACED INCREMENTAL IMPROVEMENTS IN OUR TECHNICAL EDUCATION.

• STATUS OF TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION, ITS GREATEST SHORTCOMINGS IN U.S. AND WHY WE MAY LOSING INTELLECTUAL COMPETITIVENESS

• DEMOGRAPHICS• SKILLS, CLASSIFICATION AND CHARACTERISTICS


• TECHNOLOGICAL SUPPORT FOR OUR DEPRECIATING LEARNING AND CREATIVE SKILLS– AN OVERVIEW OF PROBLEMS AND POSSIBILITIES.

• TRENDS IN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURES LAW OF THE CONSERVATION OF HUMAN PHYSICAL ENERGY LAW OF I.T HUMAN SENSES

LAW OF CONVERGENCE OF I.T SERVICES.

THE CONCEPT OF AN I.T. PRODUCT AS A PLATFORM OF SERVICES.


• SOME OBSERVATIONS

• KNOWLEDGE GROWTH –DOUBLES EVERY THREE YRS ==DEPT OF EDUCATION AND HARVARD STUDIES

• TECHNOLOGY GROWTH – PERFORMANCE AND CAPABILITIES= MOORE’S LAW, DOUBLES EVERY 18 MONTHS—APPLICABLE TO SEMICONDUCTOR AND FIBEROPTIC TECHNOLOGIES.


• TOOL DEVELOPMENT TO SUPPORT SPECILIAZED DESIGN FOR AND MANUFACTURE—SCALING (ANDREW GROVE) –

• EDUCATION---PARTICULARLY OF OUR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ---CREEPS ACCORDING TO THE “INVERSE MOORE’S LAW”=FASTER THAN A SNAIL BUT SLOWER THAN A TURTLE.

• NEWSWEEK MAGAZINE JULY 18, 2010 ---‘AMERICAN CREATIVITY IS DECLINING’IT NEEDS AN UNUSUAL ‘VISUAL PERSPECTIVE’ AND AN ABILITY TO SYNTHESIZE DIVERSE ELEMENTS WITH

MEANINGFUL PRODUCTS.


• PIONEERS• NORMAN BORLAUG—AGRICULTURAL

CULTIVATION• JAIME ESCALANTE—EDUCATIONAL

MENTORSHIP– THE PURPOSE OF LIFE IS TO DISCOVER YOUR GIFT

—TALENT– THE MEANING OF LIFE IS GIVING YOUR GIFT AWAY

—SHARING IT


• U.S. INTELLECTUAL SUPERIORITY• SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION

SUPERIORITY• ECONOMIC, MILITARY AND POLITICAL

SUPERIORITY• CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IS FUNNELED BY

EDUCATION• U.S. EXPORTED IDEAS AND PRODUCTS WERE

MADE OFF SHORE—LOSS IN U.S. EMPLOYMENT


• GROWTH REQUIRES CULTIVATION OF INTELLECTUAL/MANUAL RESOURCES TO SUPPORT OUR SURVIVABILITY AND SUSTAINABULITY

• GROWTH FACTORS– PHYSICAL, NATURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL

RESOURCS– HUMAN BASED MANUAL RESOURCES– INTELECTUAL, MENTAL RESOURCES


• LAWS INVOLVING GROWTH FACTORS• RATES OF GROWTH– KNOWLEDGE– TECHNOLOGY– EDUCATION GAP BETWEEN TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES AND

EDUCATION


• U.S. TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION PROBLEMS• A ‘NEEDS ENGINEERING’ PERSPECTIVE—NO

EMPHASIS ON PROBLEM (NEEDS) DISCOVERY AND FORMULATION—EMPHASIS ON SOLUTION OF STURCTURED PROBLEMS FITTING A THEORETICAL SETTING.

• SILO EFFECT –TOO DEEP SPECIALIZATION• GROVE’S SCALING EFFECT


• DEMOGRAPHIC ISSUES• DIGITAL NATIVES—Y GENERATION• MULTI-TASKING• SHORT ATTENTION SPAN• EXPECT RAPID RESPONSES AND REWARDS• LIKE FAST VIDEO GAMES


• U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION STATISTICS• ALSO ARTICLE BY RUPERT MURDOCH• 53 MILLION STUDENTS ENTERING

UNIVERSITIES THIS YEAR• 22-40% DROP OUT ON THE AVERAGE IN

RECENT YEARS


• IMPROVING THE TECHNICAL EDUCATION—VERY BADELY NEEDED

• SKILLS NEEDED– LEARNING SKILLS– MEMORY SKILLS

• USING TECHNOLOGY FOT EDUCATIONAL IMPROVEMENT AND FOSTERING CREATIVITY


• VIDEO GAMING VIA VIRTUAL 3-D HOLOGRAPHIC TECHNOLOGY AND ANIMATION

• ON-LINE SELF LEARNING• SUZUKI MUSIC EDUCATION TO ROUSE

CURIOSITY AND INCREASE CONCENTRATION• MONTESSORI METHOD OF TEACHING—TALENT

DISCOVERY AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING IN THE STUDENT


• INFRASTRUCTURES TO THE I.T WORLD—VIA $100 LAP TOP– NEGROPONTE M I T—ONE LAP TOP PER CHILD—PROBLEM: WE NEED PROPER TUTORING AND EDUCATION TO THE CHILD WHEN USING THE COMPUTER.


• DEMOGRAPHICS---SENIORS• DR DOWLING HARVARD MED SCHOOL• VIDEO GAMING, VIRTUAL 3 D HOLOGRAPHIC

SCENERIO DEVELOPMENT• EXAMPLES-- TECHNOLOGICAL TRAINERS FOR

AIRLINE PILOTS• NEEDED ---NEW RESEARCH IN SOFTWARE

ENGINEERING AND GRAPHICS EMPHSIZING ANIMATION AND 3-D OBJECTS


• MEMORY SKILLS• SHORT TERM MEMORY DEPRECIATES WITH AGE• SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR SENIORS• SUGGESTIONS• BLACK-BOX PRINCIPLE—LIKE AIRLINE BLACK BOXES• WEARABLE COMPUTERS WITH NANO CAMCODERS• USE GOOGLE’S PAGE RANK METHOD TO FIND WHERE

YOU LEFT YOUR KEYS OR PARKED YOUR CAR


• LONG TERM MEMORY ISSUES• CONCEPT OF THE LIFE BOOK—ALL IMPORTANT

AND EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION IS STORED IN THE WEB AND CAN BE RECALLED AND RETRIEVED ANY TIME ANY WHERE. THE INDIVIDUAL PUTS AWAY INFORMATION THAT HE DOES NOT NEED FREQUENTLY IN THE LIFE BOOK FOR LATER RECALL THROUGH-OUT HIS LIFE. HIS MIND IS FREED FROM REMEMBERING TOO MUCH INFORMATION.


• PATTERN RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY—DOTS AND LINKS, PATTERNS. ABSTRACTION BY PATTERNS—PATTERNS ARE BIG—TOO BIG TO FORGET AND EASY TO RECALL AND SEARCH

• CREATIVITY PROMPTERS—SCIENCE FICTION NOVELS---ISAAC ASIMOV


• SOME OBSERVATIONS• LAW OF I.T. SERVICE CONVERGENCE• I.T. PRODUCT IS A PLATFORM FOR SERVICES,

EXAMPLES, i PHONE, I PAD, ETC.• LAW OF HUMAN I.T. SENSES—THESE ARE

VISION, HEARING, TOUCH –VISION HAS THE HIGHEST BANDWIDTH—BETTER FOR COMMUNICATING WITH THE BRAIN—BETTER FILTERS, PARALLES OPERATIONS, FAST ACCESS.


• CLOSER OUR I.T. PRODUCT IS TO OUR VISION, THE BETTER IT IS IN COMMUNICATING WITH OUR BRAIN.

• TREND--ALL I.T. SERVICES ARE LOCATED ON ONE PRODUCT. THE SERVICE ICONS SHOULD INCLUDE SUPPORT FOR USER’S CONVINIENCES, PREFERENCES, DISABILITIES, SERVICE MINTENANCE.


• I.T. – INFRASTRUCTURES• $100 LAP TOP, ONE LAP TOP PER CHILD—NICK

NEGROPONTE –MIT• PROBLEMS AND STATUS.

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