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IBM Academic Initiative & Scholars Program

Paul Newton


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


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


Science and Engineering Enrollment

China U.S. Russia India South

Korea

J apan France Germany U.K. Brazil Italy Spain Mexico Canada Australia Turkey Thailand Poland Romania

Higher Education Students Higher Education Students in Science & Engineering Source: UNESCO 2000

Total Student Population: 88.2 millionStudents in Science & Engineering: 23.6 million


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 processesand enabling access to data within the department. At this

point most of the offices have been automated and they are still running mainframes.


Pre Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

Integration (Enterprise Optimized)

The need to automate offices, warehouses and manufacturing gaverise to the integration era. The client/server technology

revolutionized business design and the information technologyindustry. The combination of technologies provide new

opportunities for integrating processes across departments within the company.


Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

On-Demand (Value-net Optimized)

The next generation is going to be about value nets - makingit 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.


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 distributedsystems are provided as services that collectively, or individually, deliverapplication functionality to either end-user applications or other services.

SOA specifies that within any given architecture, there should be a consistentmechanism for services to communicate. That mechanism should be loosely

coupled and support the use of explicit interfaces.


Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)

By adopting an SOA approach and implementing it using supportingtechnologies, companies can build flexible systems that implement changing

business processes quickly, and make extensive use of reusable components.


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


IBM Academic Initiative

Partner with colleges and universities to drive open standards

Better educate millions of students for a more competitive IT workforce


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

Rational software

DB2 Information Management software

Lotus software

Tivoli software

IBM Academic Initiative Offerings

eServer iSeries

eServer zSeries

Java and Eclipse

Grid computing

On Demand Business


IBM Offerings for Scholars

developerWorks

IBM Academic Initiative and Skills Support forUniversities

Preparing Tomorrow’sIT Professionals

developerWorks

IBM Academic Initiative and Skills Support forUniversities

Preparing Tomorrow’sIT Professionals

The IBM Scholars ProgramThe IBM Scholars Program


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


Product downloads and CDs

Faculty training

Curriculum and courseware

http://www.ibm.com/university


ibm.com/education/students – IBM Student Portal

IBM’s online resource for

students

Jobs, downloads and other technical

information

Contests and special offers


Free resources for developers

22 Industry Awards – including the prestigious Jolt Award


Free resources for developers,

administrators, architects, designers,

testers

Highly ranked web site for overall

satisfaction and goal achievement

Summit Strategies ranks

developerWorks ahead of MSDN

25 industry awards, including best web

site

ibm.com/developerWorks – IBM’s Resource for Developers

Product communities

Product trials

Online enablement

Design flowcharts

Latest technologies

Sample code

How-to articles

Online training

Q&A forums

Newsletters

Webcasts

Downloads


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


Live and On Demand Webevents

Topics cover the full spectrum ofInformation technology

Special events for IBM Scholarsmembers


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


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.


Support Offerings in Response to Requirements

Remote support

3. Course content and material updates

Technical articles

Technical web seminars

Webcasts

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.

Onsite support

2. Faculty training

University briefings

Guest lectures

Curriculum consultation

Products and Technologies

1. Eclipse, Rational, WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli

On-demand Technologies

Software Dev. Platform

Open standards

Java / Web services

Grid / Autonomic computing


University Support Offering (…continued)

OpenStandards

Eclipse

RationalXDE

WSAD

Java

Linux

OGSA

WebServices

WebSphereApplication

Server

DB2 UDB


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


University of Puerto Rico – MayaguezChallenge

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.

Solution

A week-long training was held for the professors:

• WebSphere Studio Application Developer

• WebSphere Application Server

• DB2

• Rational XDE Developer.

Value

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.


What’s Next?

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Why IBM for your Students?

Because IBM has always aspired to do two things better than any other company in the world:

1. Create innovative technologies

2. Help clients apply technologies to transform what they do and how they do it

● We operate in 164 countries

● We employ ~ 325,000 people

● We have more than 1 billion clients

● We spend more than 6 billion US $ on research annually

● We hold more US patents than HP, Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Oracle, and EMC combined.


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University Ambassador Program


Academic Initiative Team MembersKevin Faughnan, Director

Academic Initiative Team Member Coverage Area

John Aufhammer/San Diego/IBM

Sharon McFadden/San Diego/IBM

Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Guam

Phil Farley/Boulder/IBM Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Wyoming

Steve Southworth/Austin/IBM Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas

Heather McClain/Atlanta/IBM Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Wisconsin

JoAnn Washam Winson/Somers/IBM Connecticut, District of Columbia (DC), Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia

Debra A Raftery/Lexington/IBM Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Vermont, Puerto Rico

Stephen Perelgut/Toronto/IBM@IBMCA Canada


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