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IBM Academic Initiative
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Paul Newton
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Agenda
 WW Technology Challenges
 SOA
 IBM Academic Initiative
 IBM Scholars Program
 Technical Briefings
 developerWorks
 Web Events
 Open Standards Skills Support for Faculty
 Why IBM for your Students
 IBM Ambassador Program
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A Worldwide Technology Challenge
 The need for skilled developers and IT professionals
is greater than ever – in particular open standards skills for on demand business
 The fastest-growing occupation in the next decade is projected to be
computer software engineers (Watson Wyatt, Monster.com)
 In the U.S. alone, 1.5 million additional skilled IT professionals are expected
to be needed by 2006 (U.S. Department of Labor)
 The number of students graduating with science and engineering degrees
in the U.S. has been declining over the last 10 years (National Science Board)
 Other trends are converging as well
 The steady retirement of Baby Boomers
 Tighter immigration policies
 An economy that increasingly demands better-educated, more highly skilled workers
Need – Build student skills and attract students in Computer Science
Provide them with the skills to get great jobs and they will enroll
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Science and Engineering Enrollment
Total Student Population: 88.2 million
Students in Science & Engineering: 23.6 million
China
U.S.
Russia
India
Sout h
Japan
France
Germany
U.K.
Brazil
It aly
Spain
Mexico
Canada Aust ralia
Turkey
Thailand
Poland
Romania
Korea
Higher Education Students
Higher Education Students in Science & Engineering
Source: UNESCO 2000
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Pre Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Access (Process Optimized)
The first stage of business evolution, going back to the mainframe,
was all about automating the back office. We took an enormous
amount of cost out of the back office by automating processes
and enabling access to data within the department. At this
point most of the offices have been automated and they are still
running mainframes.
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Pre Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
Integration (Enterprise Optimized)
The need to automate offices, warehouses and manufacturing gave
rise to the integration era. The client/server technology
revolutionized business design and the information technology
industry. The combination of technologies provide new
opportunities for integrating processes across departments
within the company.
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
On-Demand (Value-net Optimized)
The next generation is going to be about value nets - making
it much easier to integrate and interoperate within an
organization and across a global network of service providers.
We would like to make it so easy that it is dynamic and
adaptable. Companies partner to form a virtual enterprise,
with each company focusing on its core competencies.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
An integration architecture approach based on the concept of a service.
The business and infrastructure functions that are required to build distributed
systems are provided as services that collectively, or individually, deliver
application functionality to either end-user applications or other services.
SOA specifies that within any given architecture, there should be a consistent
mechanism for services to communicate. That mechanism should be loosely
coupled and support the use of explicit interfaces.
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Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)
By adopting an SOA approach and implementing it using supporting
technologies, companies can build flexible systems that implement changing
business processes quickly, and make extensive use of reusable components.
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Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
IBM strategic direction includes use of open standard technologies such as
J2EE as a base for its value-added software products that provide the ability to
plan, build and run Service Oriented Architecture based business applications
in the new On Demand business process model
The need for open standard technical skills will increase
during the next 5 years.
Management skills should include an understanding
of the new On Demand business model
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IBM Academic Initiative
 Partner with colleges and universities to drive open standards
 Better educate millions of students for a more competitive IT
workforce
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IBM Academic Initiative Offerings
 Broad range of offerings for faculty and students
 IBM middleware and tools
 Access to IBM hardware
 Course materials
 Curriculum consultation services
 Training for faculty and IT staff
 Courseware resources available for IBM’s technology portfolio
 WebSphere software
 eServer iSeries
 Rational software
 eServer zSeries
 DB2 Information Management software
 Java and Eclipse
 Lotus software
 Grid computing
 Tivoli software
 On Demand Business
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IBM Offerings for
Scholars
The IBM Scholars
Program
developerWorks
IBM Academic Initiative
and Skills Support for
Universities
Preparing Tomorrow’s
IT Professionals
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University Programs: IBM Scholars Program
 Free membership to faculty and
researchers of accredited
academic institutions worldwide
 Free IBM software for education
and non-commercial research
 IBM middleware and tools available via
download
 Technical support
 Access to IBM eServers and Linux
hubs
 Discounts on eServer iSeries hardware
 Access to zSeries and Linux systems
 Free training for faculty
 Tutorials, articles, white papers and
Redbooks
 Course materials and certification
resources
 Online resources including e-mail
newsletters, newsgroups,
webcasts, case studies and other
tools
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Product downloads and CDs
Faculty training
Curriculum and courseware
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ibm.com/education/students – IBM Student Portal
IBM’s online
resource for
students
Jobs, downloads
and other
technical
information
Contests and
special offers
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Free resources for developers
22 Industry Awards –
including the prestigious Jolt Award
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ibm.com/developerWorks – IBM’s Resource for Developers
Free resources for
developers,
administrators,
architects, designers,
testers
Latest technologies
Online training
Sample code
Q&A forums
Design flowcharts
Newsletters
Product trials
Online enablement
Product communities
Webcasts
Highly ranked web
site for overall
satisfaction and goal
achievement
Summit Strategies
ranks
developerWorks
ahead of MSDN
Downloads
How-to articles
25 industry awards,
including best web
site
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Technical Briefings
Speed-start Web Services
Globalizing your applications
Building applications with the
IBM Software Development Platform
e-Business on demand software:
Build, Run, Manage
Speed-start Linux
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Live and On Demand Web
events
Topics cover the full spectrum of
Information technology
Special events for IBM Scholars
members
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Benefits for Faculty and Students
 Faculty
 Access to leading-edge, open standards-based technology
 Access to world-class curriculum
 Ongoing faculty skills development
 Increase in student placement
 Students
 Access to leading-edge, open standards-based technology
 Highly marketable job skills that will enable them to get good jobs more
quickly
 Industry-leading certifications
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Open Standards Skills Support Specifically for
Professors
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Three Requirements Faculty Consistently Ask For
 Access to Tools and Middleware with no-cost academic licensing
 No-cost training for faculty on Tools, Middleware and Technology
 Consultative assistance with the development of course content.
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Support Offerings in Response to Requirements
 Consultative engagements and conference calls to assess status of
faculty needs, curriculum, or other academic projects
 Faculty training on IBM products, Linux, Eclipse, Java or higher level
training on open standards and e-business concepts
 Assistance with curriculum planning and course content development.
 Products and Technologies
 1. Eclipse, Rational,
WebSphere, DB2, Lotus,
Tivoli
 On-demand Technologies
 Software Dev. Platform
 Open standards
 Java / Web services
 Grid / Autonomic computing
 Onsite support
 Remote support
 2. Faculty
training
 3. Course content and
material updates
 University briefings
 Technical articles
 Guest lectures
 Technical web seminars
 Curriculum
consultation
 Webcasts
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University Support Offering (…continued)
WebSphere
Application
Server
Eclipse
Rational
XDE
Web
Services
Java
DB2 UDB
OGSA
Open
Standards
Linux
WSAD
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IBM Course Content Conversion Projects
 Professional Education is a 5 day course with afternoon labs
 College education is 3 hours per week with homework exercises
 Internship for college students at IBM Austin
 Repurpose brand course material into 12 week / semester format
 Content:
 Java / J2EE
 Eclipse -> Rational XDE
 WebSphere Studio Application Developer
 WebSphere Application Server
 DB2
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University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez
Challenge
 Professors teaching Web application development
courses. Students using a text editor, the javac.exe
Java compiler, and the Apache Tomcat servlet
container for labs.
 Students frustrated by a lack of productivity and
lack of an effective debugging environment.
 Professors spending more time debugging typing
errors than teaching application development
principles.
Value
Solution
 A week-long training was held for the professors:
•
WebSphere Studio Application Developer
•
WebSphere Application Server
•
DB2
•
Rational XDE Developer.
 Professors are now able to find students’
problems/bugs easier and to use the
detection of those bugs, with the WSAD
Debug Perspective, as a teaching element.
 Students spend more time focusing on
Web technologies and less time on typos
and configuration errors.
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Academic Initiative Team Members
Kevin Faughnan, Director
Academic Initiative Team Member
Coverage Area
John Aufhammer/San Diego/IBM
Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada,
Oregon, Utah, Washington, Guam
Sharon McFadden/San Diego/IBM
Phil Farley/Boulder/IBM
Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri,
Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota,
Wyoming
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Oklahoma, Texas
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Connecticut, District of Columbia (DC), Delaware,
Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, West Virginia
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Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico
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Paul Newton
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