information technology research trends: the future vision
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Agenda
FCIS in Egypt
IT Industry Mission
Academic Collaboration with Industry
Recommended fields of Research
Conclusions
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FCIS in Egypt
Start Date Faculty Name #
1996 FCIS Cairo University 1
1996 FCIS Ain ShamsUniversity 2
1996 FCIS HelwanUniversity 3
1996 FCIS Mansoura University 4
1997 FCIS Suez Kanal University 5
1998 FCIS Zagazig University 6
2001 FCIS Assiut University 7
2001 FCIS Menofia University 8
2006 FCIS Fayoum University 9
2006 FCIS Banha University 10
2007 FCIS Menofia University 112012 FCIS Beni-Suef University 12
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# Course Name
1Computer Science
2Information Systems
3Information Technology
4Scientific Computing
5Operational Research and Decision Support
6Computer Systems
7Geographical Information systems
National Academic Reference Standard “NARS”
IT Companies in Egypt
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 20100
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
312
482
692
8551008
1374
1571
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1921
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Industry Mission
Access to cutting edge research in science and technology to sustain Technological Excellence
Conduct research and development in support of pilots, prototypes or concepts leading to new products and services for future markets.
Gain competitive edge in the opportunity of working with and hiring talented staff.
Find solutions to short term problems Get results, innovative people and keep the costs
of the internal and external R&D commitments to a minimum
University partnership answers these needs
University-Industry research long term partnerships
These partnerships pair the discovery of knowledge (university) with its application to the creation of technology and services (industry) Benefits to the university:
• student and faculty exposure to real-world problems.
• Covering part of research expenses Benefits to the company:
• the creativity and innovation of academic research
• offer sustained access to trained students Benefits to both:
• Both can benefit from each other’s infrastructures
R&D spending11% to 21% of IT company revenues (2009)
Company Revenue (millions) R&D (millions) % of Revenue
Microsoft $44,282 $6,584 14.9%
SAP $12,543 $1,781 14.2%
Google $10,605 $1,228 11.6%
Symantec $5,199 $867 16.7%
Cadence $1,484 $460 31%
Adobe $2,575 $540 21%
Oracle $14,380 $1,872 13%
Autodesk $1,537 $302 19.6%
BMC Software $1,580 $213 13.5%
Novell $967 $186 19.2%
BEA Systems $1200 $182 15.2%
Sybase $876 $150 17.1%
Citrix $1,134 $153 13.5%
IT Industry and Academia Collaboration in Toronto (Canada)
Institution E-health E-learning Digital Media Other-ICT
University of Toronto 8 14 11 28
Ryerson University 1 2 3 15
York University 0 3 2 6
Total Centers in Universities 9 19 16 49
Total Center in Colleges 2 3 3 5
Total Centers in GTA 11 22 19 54
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ITACInformation Technology
Academia Collaboration
Support
ITAC Programs
Product Development Project
Advanced Research Projects
ITIDA Fellowships
Student Graduation Projects
Summer Training
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ITAC Graduation Projects
2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/20100
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60
80
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120
140
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56 53
130 131
ITAC Technology Areas
Mobile Applications and Computing
Cloud Computing
Business Analytics
Internet of Things
Ubiquitous Computing
Big Data
ITAC Strategic Areas
Electronic Design for ICT Applications
ICT for Transportation
ICT for Health
ICT for Agriculture
ICT for the Disabled
ICT for Education
ICT for Energy
Phases of the partnership
Phase One : Awareness
Phase Two : Involvement
Phase Three : Support
Phase Four : Sponsorship
Phase Five : Strategic Partner
Stronger
It takes around five years for a relationship to reach phase five
Criteria for partnership success
Shared Vision
Good Project Management
Joint Strategy
• Business Plan
• Project Management Responsibilities
• Ownership of Intellectual Property Right
• Communication Plans
IT Sector Fields of Research
Artificial Intelligence Bioinformatics Computational techniques Computer and Communication
Security Computer Arabization Computer Networks Computer Visualization. Data Mining and Data
Warehousing Decision Support Concepts
and Techniques Digital Signal processing E-Business E-Commerce E-Health E-Learning Geographic Information
Systems
Grid Computing High Performance Computing Human Computer Interaction Image Processing Information Security Intelligent Information
Systems Knowledge-Based Systems Mobile Computing Modeling and Simulation Multimedia Systems Natural Language Processing Neural Networks Parallel Processing Performance Analysis Robotics and Motion Planning Robotics and Computer Vision Speech Recognition Web Systems and
Technologies
PageRank: Google
Google search is based on “PageRank” algorithm developed at Stanford university
“PageRank” responds to queries based on two criteria:• Importance• Relevance
Stanford received 1.8 million shares in Google in exchange for use of the patent on “PageRank”; the shares were sold in 2005 for 336 million
Photo Tourism: Microsoft
Software that converts 2D digital photographs into 3D Mosaics
Developed at the university of Washington
Funded partly by Microsoft and licensed to Microsoft after release
Photo Tourism is an important part of Microsoft Live Lab’s technology
Used by NASA to show 3D web views of the space shuttles
Web-Based Routing Software
A Boston university research project
Developed a software that allows each server to act as an individual router, thereby enabling quicker response times to more people
The company CNT developed a A commercial application i-Scaler For distributed routing
Extremely fast computing systems, with both
rapid calculation and rapid data movement,
to conduct scientific research in a variety of
different areas, and to support critical national
interests:
• Research into innovative computing
technologies and architectures.
• R&D on software for improving the
performance of high end computing
High-End Computing
Cloud Computing is an evolution in IT
Merrill Lynch: 2012 = the annual global market of cloud computing will surge to $95 billion
(Microsoft $51 billion, Google $16 billion, Amazon $14 billion, Yahoo $7billion)
Green Computing
Using Computing Resources Efficiently
Algorithmic Efficiency
Computer Virtualization
Power Management
References
“Fund-raising for research by universities from philanthropic sources”, (online) available at URL: http://www.efc.be/ftp/public/eu/efprf/launch_conference/university.pdf
“Guiding Principles for University-Industry Endeavors”, (online) available at URL: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/guirr/Guiding_Principles.pdf
“Industry-University Research Partnerships: What Are the Limits of Intimacy?”, (online) available at URL: http://www7.nationalacademies.org/guirr/Industry_University_Partnerships_Limits.html
Williams Roger L , “ Connecting Alumni Associations With Young Graduates”, The chronicle of higher education