Mobile Technology Consortium (MTC): An Industry-University Alliance Presenter ( 3rd author): R. Shankar, Engineering, FAU, Boca Raton, FL shankar@fau.edu, (561) 297-3470 Co-Authors: J. Borras, Motorola Senior Fellow and Former CTO, Motorola iDEN, and President of MTC and Borko Furht, Professor and Chair, CEECS, and Director, NSF I/UCRC Center “Systemness at an Anchor Institution” – Dr. Zimpher, Chancellor, SUNY 11/9/2018 CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ

CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ MTC Tracing the History 2003-2008: Motorola One–to-one OPP R&D Project at FAU iDEN Division (15+) Motorola: $1.1 M CSI (30+). See csi.fau.edu 2009-Present: Professionals as mentors Many –to-many Multi-college App courses Artists, engineers, & entrepreneurs SBA: $130 K Android, Robotics, Sem Web (27 Marketable Apps) 6 joint courses, 589 students Multiple High Tech Businesses MTC Networking Industry R&D Projects Industrial Advisory Board NSF: I/UCRC: $1.4M CAKE: IT, Comm., & Comp. 18 Industry projects 15 faculty & 20 students “Whole is greater than the sum of its parts” “Systemness” 11/9/2018 CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ

Mobile Technology Consortium Sept. 21, 2012 Bridging Industry Demand with University Jewels MTC Collaborate and Innovate Spin-off New Businesses Best Students Match Mobile Technology Consortium Sept. 21, 2012 jamieaborras@bellsouth.com Cell 305-970-3596

Mobile Technology Consortium (MTC) Vision: To bridge the university wisdom with the local entrepreneurial spirit for the growth of mobile technology & user experience Mission: To bring together systems companies, small businesses, universities, and government agencies to evolve next generation mobile technology platforms, applications and automation. Goals: Collaborate and Innovate To identify common needs/topics/projects to help your business. To network & help the needs of local entrepreneurs and businesses. To review “Hot Technology Topics” to enable emerging businesses. To find best students match to your business To provide information and to put you in contact with knowledge sources to help your business grow. 3 and half years ago, I presented WSG business, this month we received our first patent thanks to Joe Fernandez and Zaffer Merchant.

Theme: Mobile Opportunities, Start-Ups and VCs Introductions Welcome from FIU School of Computing & Information Sciences (SCIS)….Drs. Iyenger/Luis The State of the Mobile Industry…………..…………..........................................Mr. Jaime Borras Industry-University Cooperative Research Center Update @ FIU & FAU….Dr. Nathalie Rishe Business Planning and Sources of Capital……….………………………………………..Mr. Dale Gregory Assisting Start-Up Companies..………………..…………………………………….…………Dr. Ankur Agarwal FIU AVCC: Planning the Seeds of Innovation in LatAm…….................……..…Ms. Carla K. Canino FAU: Adams Center for Entrepreneurship…………………………………………………Mr. Phil Viscomi Break…………………………………..Next Start-Ups……………………………………………………………….. EGLA Communications & Start-up Week……………………….Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez - CEO Flomio……………………………………………….……………………….….Mr. Richard Grundy - CEO Mobile in Health Care.…….………………………………………….….Dr. Faiz Fatteh – CEO of SorenTech AgileTest – Test Process & Data Management Platform..Mr. Mike Weir – CEO AdventureTech Mobile Apps on a Budget……………………………………………….Mr. Karl Morris – Co-Founder Colada Game Developers Guild………………………………………………….Mr. Frank Hernandez – Founder Tourism Through Technology (API)…………………………………Mr. R. Williams/B. O’Grady Adjourn 9:00 AM 10:30 AM 1:00 PM

MTC Meetings

Tracing the History MTC 2003-2008: Motorola One–to-one OPP R&D Project at FAU iDEN Division (15+) Motorola: $1.1 M CSI (30+). See csi.fau.edu 2009-Present: Professionals as mentors Many –to-many Multi-college App courses Artists, engineers, & entrepreneurs SBA: $130 K Android, Robotics, Sem Web (27 Marketable Apps) 6 joint courses, 589 students Multiple High Tech Businesses MTC Networking Industry R&D Projects Industrial Advisory Board NSF: I/UCRC: $1.4M CAKE: IT, Comm., & Comp. 18 Industry projects 15 faculty & 20 students 11/9/2018 CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ

New Trend: The Entrepreneurial University Industry trends: research funding drastically reduced – chances for universities Universities can only effectively become incubators of entrepreneurship and innovation if they themselves practice entrepreneurship This “re-conceptualization” involves non-traditional, often radically different university arrangements

Our Research and Innovation Strategy NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Advanced Knowledge Enablement (CAKE) Collaboration with R&D Park at FAU Industry Advisory Boards (College and Department level) Creating joint Industry-University laboratories

Model of the I/UCRC Universities (FIU + FAU) NSF Industry partner 2 Industry partner 4 Industry partner 1 Universities (FIU + FAU) NSF Industry partner 3 Industry partners pay the memberships ($5K to $50K++ per year) NSF sponsors the Center ($60K to $200K per university per year) Industry Advisory Board selects the research projects Industry members select the products for commercialization – no royalties Expectations: $750K from NSF + $7.5M from Industry (5 years) Similar to MIT Media Lab model

NSF-Sponsored I/UCRC Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement FAU SITE with 17 industry members) Hillers Electrical Engineering ($6K) Tecore Wireless Systems ($965 equipment) Soren Technology ($5K +$200K) Mobile Help ($34K) Motorola ($25K + $80K equipment) 18 active research projects funded with total $1.4 M from industry members and $306K from NSF FAU Industry Members (16): LexisNexis ($82K + $300K equipment) ProntoProgress ($35K) Wigime, Inc. ($50K) Relli Technologies ($100K) SmartVCR, LLC ($50K) ILS Technology ($75K software) Avocent/Emerson Corp. ($38K+ $30K) Jansyl Technologies ($5K) Tecore Networks ($100K) Aware Technology ($120K software) Adventure Automation ($15K) LastBestChance, LLC ($300K)

Information, Communication, and Computing, 15 Centers in USA Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC) University of Florida, University of Arizona, Rutgers University Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR) West Virginia University, University of Arizona Center for Information Protection (CIP) Iowa State University, University of California - Davis - Planned Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University Center for Embedded Systems - Planned Arizona State University, University of California - Irvine, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Southern Methodist University, University of North Texas, University of Texas - Dallas, State University of New York - Stony Brook, University of Texas - San Antonio Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS) Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Georgia Tech, University of California - San Diego I/UCRC for Intelligent Storage - Planned University of Minnesota, University of California Santa Cruz High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC) University of Florida, The George Washington University, Virginia Tech University, Brigham Young University Center for Software for Ultra Large Systems - Planned University of Virginia, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University, University of South Dakota Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT) Polytechnic University, University of Virginia, Auburn University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Advanced Space Technologies Research and Engineering Center (ASTREC) University of Florida and North Carolina State University

IAB Meeting

Joint University/Industry Labs “Incubator as part of the Department” Examples – Motorola /OPP (2003-2008): Developing tools and techniques for mobile applications. Now, no lab! Tecore Networks (Jay Salkini) : Research in mobile and wireless systems Pronto Progress (Tim Proksh): Developing Web services for customers LastBestChance,LLC (Mike Levine): $1M for 5 years to work on variety of innovative mobile products PartnerCommunity (John Yin)

Collaboration with Companies in FAU Research Park 27 companies with 850 high-tech jobs Incubator with 18 start-up companies

Algorithms for 3D Image Reconstruction and Segmentation Analyze a large dataset of microscopic imagery and remove structures that are not part of the 3D calyx of Head Challenge of the project is to model the knowledge of the domain expert, who is capable to identify and manually eliminate unwanted structures, into an innovative software image processing algorithm Industry Partner: Max Planck Florida Institute

Hot Areas of Research Mobile Systems and Applications Assistive Technologies Personalized Medicine Cloud Computing Cyber Security Data and Web Mining Medical Informatics & Medical Imaging Social Networks Big Data Analytics Augmented Reality 3D Video Technologies Bioinformatics and Biotechnology High-Performance Computing And more ….

Participants in These Projects Professors: Hari Kalva, Ankur Agarwal, Oge Marques, Dani Raviv, Ionut Cardei Students: Julie Carmignani, Reena Friedel, Oscar Figeuroa, David Jaramillo, Esfandiar Zolghadar, Luis Bradley Companies: LexisNexis, IBM, Max Planck Florida Institute, LastBestChance LLC, ILS Technology, Aware Technology Other Universities: Florida International University, University of Maryland Baltimore County

MTC Summary Teaching: Industrial Research  Teaching Innovation  MTC Member Mentors. Service: Senior Industry Leader  Retirement  Formation of MTC  Business–Academia Networking  IAB  MTC conferences (biannual) Research: IAB  NSF I/UCRC Center (CAKE)  Industry Research at the University My co-authors can help form NSF R&D sites and MTC Chapters at other universities. I can help build an appropriate teaching infrastructure. Thanks!