1 Analytics and Social Software for the Academic Research Project Lifecycle Carl Osipov Chief Architect, IBM Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics William Beroza Software Sales Portal & Collaboration Software Consultant Twitter : #WatsonJun IBM Watson for Higher Education Conference

Agenda Academic Research Context and Trends 1 University of Rhode Island Pilot Case Study 2 Academic Research Collaboration and Analytics Overview 3 Demonstration 4 Analytics to Enable Smarter Collaboration for Higher Education 5

The IBM SmartCloud for Education is a family name for IBM’s cloud offerings for cloud in higher education and K-12: Learning and Accountability Improve student success, teacher effectiveness and value of education investments Take out cost and improve efficiency Finance and Operations Accelerate innovation for a sustainable economy Research and Innovation Analytics and Optimization Collaboration and Communications Technology and Services Educational Systems Performance Individual Performance Infrastructure Performance Decision Management for Education on Cloud Academic Research Collaboration and Analytics (ARCA) IBM Virtual Computing Lab Solutions for Cloud June Announcements

Academic Research Context & Trends Collaboration Over 57% of researchers bring the right expertise to projects through collaboration both inside (60%) and outside of their lab (40%) Big Data Over 51% of data sets used by researchers are on the order of gigabytes to terabytes in size.”…data volumes are doubling every year in most areas of modern science” Analytics "we need increasingly powerful scientific tools...an informatics infrastructure that has built-in flexibility to incorporate new types of data and navigate across tiers and domains of knowledge."

Do more with less ■ More interdisciplinary research projects ■ Greater student participation in research ■ Better human resource utilization ■ More collaboration across disciplines or campuses Public research university focusing on enterprise development resulting from the introduction & implementation of new technologies. The major objective of this focus area is to strengthen the Rhode Island economy by creating new jobs. Optimize project resources per university metrics  Improved staffing of projects with high impact on university reputation  Advancement of untenured faculty  Alignment of student interests and project goals Leverage unstructured data  Research publications  Web pages  Social network content Problem SolutionValue URI Benefits  Improve allocation of resources to research projects  Improve student and faculty research experience  Increase the value of university research portfolio  Strengthen grant proposals  Influence ARCA design & implementation  Joint publications (w/IBM) IBM Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics

Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics (ARCA) Scope 1. Finding and pursuing research funding excessive investment of time and labor Use analytics to discover and recommend funding opportunities (e.g. grants) Improve access to funding opportunities for junior faculty 2. Forming teams to pursue interdisciplinary proposals isolated experts & students Recommend research projects to potential collaborators Optimize assignment of people to projects 3. Collaborating across disciplines and organizations fragmented view of a researcher Use a portal platform for an aggregated, collaborative, social network based researcher profile 4. Enabling experiential learning for students poor participation in mentoring programs Suggest potential mentors to students based on matches of student interests and faculty research

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Agenda Academic Research Context and Trends 1 University of Rhode Island Pilot Case Study 2 Academic Research Collaboration and Analytics Overview 3 Demonstration 4 Analytics to enable Smarter Collaboration for Higher Education 5

Analytics SocialContentPredictive CIO PROVOST FACULTY STAFF ADMINISTRATION STUDENTS RESEARCHERS Collaboration Suggestion Social, Algorithmic, Policy-based Discovery Expertise, Content, Activities Analytics to Enable Smarter Collaboration for Higher Education ALUMNI Metadata Topics, Tags, Ratings Reputation Influence, Social Identity Value, Social Capital Business

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ARCA Value for University Partners Business Value Provide additional interdisciplinary collaboration opportunities to researchers Attract top research talent to collaborative capability Strengthen interdisciplinary grant applications Support intellectual property creation and management Pedagogical Value Provide student with experiential learning on research projects Support student / researcher collaboration Provide social network and Web 2.0 integration Align student interests with research project goals

Why team with IBM? Both sides have distinct strengths  You know the university research process pain points better than anyone and have focused expertise.  IBM brings leading technology, deep industry knowledge and global reach. IBM can deliver unique value  Proven software products and solutions Collaboration Content Analytics Optimization  World-class world-wide research institutes IBM T. J. Watson Research Center 3 in US, China, Haifa, India, Tokyo, Zurich  Proven IT capabilities hardware infrastructure systems management software development  Client references on business-critical, 24x7 readiness Global Fortune 500 companies Olympics / real-time systems Disaster recovery, earthquake readiness

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Professor Office of Sponsored Research Student Vice President of Research Optimization Analytics Customer / Domain-Specific Content Content Acquisition Crawler Indexer User Interface Social Profile Social Network Integration Recommendations “On glass” Data Integration Integration Adapter Dictionary Taxonomy Search Exporter Content Social Business Predictive Objective Scenario Constraint Assignment Business Process & Rule Management Workflow (BPEL) Web Service Workflow Service Service Data Model Business Rule KPI Academic Research Collaboration & Analytics (Tonkawa) ARCA Product Map 17 IBM Connections IBM Content Analytics IBM LanguageWare IBM Connections SaND IBM Business Monitor IBM SPSS IBM ILOG CPLEX IBM Business Process Management (BPM) JEE Adapters UIMA Annotator UIMA Annotators UIMA BPM Artifacts