Dr. Mohamed Fahmy Tolba6 June 2015

Information Technology Research Trends: The Future Vision

Agenda

FCIS in Egypt

IT Industry Mission

Academic Collaboration with Industry

Recommended fields of Research

Conclusions

FCIS In Egypt

Students and Society

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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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Students 2012

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Faculties Staff 2012

Basic Sciences 30%

Mathematics 15%

Computing Theories 15%

Technology 30%

10% Projects

IT Education

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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 Industry Mission

IT Companies in Egypt

2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 20100

500

1000

1500

2000

2500

3000

312

482

692

8551008

1374

1571

1746

1921

20842237

2410

IT Industry

IT World Wide Employment

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

Research Funding in USA

U.S. Industry-Funded R&D by Sector 2009 expenditures in billions

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

University Research Efforts

University Research Efforts

University Research Efforts

Academic Collaboration with

Industry

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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

20

40

60

80

100

120

140

22

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

Recommended Fields of Research

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)

Internet of Things (IoT)

Green Computing

Using Computing Resources Efficiently

Algorithmic Efficiency

Computer Virtualization

Power Management

Conclusions

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