It Is Not Business as Usual Anymore –
ICT Evolution and Challenging
Economic Climate
Prof. Ewe Hong Tat
Dean, Faculty of Information and
Communication Technology (PJ Campus)
Universiti Tunku Abdul Tahman (UTAR)
Outline
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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
Banking &
Finance
Trade &
Commerce
Government
Agriculture
Manufacturing
Defense
Information &
Communications
Technology
Services
Health
Tourism
Entertainment
Education
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)
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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 Total
Undergraduate 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
Learning
Innovation
Technology S Curve
Advances in Technology
Innovation Boom
Mature Period
High Growth Period
Incubation Period
Time
Technology Adoption
Percentage
of Adoption
Technology Adoption
Time
Source: http://news.bookweb.org/news/6662.html
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
Wisdom
Wisdom
Intelligence
Intelligence
Knowledge
Knowledge
Information
Information
Data
Data
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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
Next Innovation?
Hologram
Multi core processor
iPhone
3D Display
Virtual Reality
MIT Technology Review
Emerging Technologies (2008)
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Cellulolytic Enzymes
Reality Mining
Connectomics
Offline Web Applications
Graphene Transistors
Atomic Magnetometers
Wireless Power
NanoRadio
Probabilistic Chips
Modeling Surprise
MIT Technology Review
Emerging Technologies (2009)
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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
Internet
ICT Convergence
Human Network
Mobile
Telecommunications
Network
Wireless Sensor
and Actuator
Network + RFID Environment
Remote sensing
Wireless Sensor
Networks
Satellite
Satellite
PDA with
GSM/ GPRS/
Bluetooth, etc
Relay
Satellite dish
Satellite phone
or cellular phone
Laptop with
Bluetooth or WLAN
Satellite ground station
GIS
data
contact
info, etc
pager
Mobile network: GSM, 3G,
GPRS, satellite, paging system
Personal/ local area
networking
Wireless Access
Networks
WIMAX
GSM/ pager base station
Wireless Access
Networks
Internet
Fixed: ISDN, PSTN
Computer
Fixed line
Internet +
information recourses
access point or
base station
DECT/ HomeRF/ Bluetooth/ WiFi/ OpenAir,
802.11 base station or access point or PC
access networks
Personal/ Local Area Networking
Rice Monitoring System
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.
www.smartbridges.com/css/articles.asp?id=491
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.
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• 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.
Vehicular Sensor Network
Integration of vehicular
sensor networks (VSNs)
with Vehicular Ad-hoc
Networks (VANET) by
equipping vehicles with
onboard sensing devices.
(Network Research Lab at
UCLA)
MIT CarTel Project
Body Sensor Network / Local Positioning System
Electrical and Computer Engineering
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Wireless Body Area
Network of Intelligent
Sensors for Ambulatory
Health Monitoring
MIT iRoom Project
www.ece.uah.edu/~jovanov/whrms/
Intelligent Swarm Robot Networks
Mobile – Intelligent – Sensing Capability – Self Reconfigurable – Energy Conscious
Magic
Digital
World
Real
Physical
World
hongtatewe@gmail.com