ucsc talk:computing: industry, research and inventing the future
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My talk at UCSC research symposium about computing, wso2 and research work we do.TRANSCRIPT
Computing: Industry, Research and inventing the Future
Srinath Perera, Ph.D.Director, Research
Computing is Omnipresent
• It is everywhere – like Math• Do a Ph.D. in any field, 50%
time you will program• 3rd Pillar of science (beside
theory and experimentation) – All science are becoming
computer science– Simulations and analysis– Large data analysis http://www.flickr.com/photos/x1brett/
6665955101/
Backed by very Strong Industry
• High tech companies (profit)– Apple 44B$– Microsoft 16B$– Intel 11B$ – Google 10B$ – Oracle 10B$
• Start up culture and VC funds http://www.flickr.com/photos/stars6/4381851322/
Few Good ideas can change the World
• Google – digitize and search all the data
• Apple – redefine digital experience
• Amazon – redefine retail and cloud computing
• Facebook – connect people
Think Outside the box
• What is the fastest way to get 10 petabytes from here to Jaffna?– Assuming 10Gb
network, 83 days to copy a 1PB
• How can you collect data from sensors in Artic?
Does that work in SL?
WSO2 as a Casestudy
• Opensource • Middleware
Product Company • 350+ Employees • Funded by Intel
Capital, Quest Software and now Cisco
• 30+ doing Ph.D.
Performance
• Message mediation and ESB
• Achieved by simple idea• We were and are the
fastest around
Multi-tenancy
• Idea of virtual servers within physical servers.
• We are one of the few who have real deep multi-tenancy.
• Key to be the platform for a Large Airplane manufacturer
Complex Event Processing• Making Sense of data in
streaming fashion• WSO2 Siddhi, initially final
year project from MRT, written by people just like you.
• Now fastest opensource CEP Engine around, can process millions of events per second.
• Used by top brands
Parting thoughts• One man can take a horse to
water, but ten cannot make it drink.
• Remember the difference between theoretician and an engineer.
• Key to innovation is not the time you said “Euraka” rather when you says “this is fishy”
• Never argue over something you can verify with 10 minutes of coding
It is exiting time to be alive• Go for it, you are the best and
brightest SL has to offer, so if you did not, no one else will.
who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the
triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least
fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with
those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.