IT – som værktøj Bent Thomsen Institut for Datalogi Aalborg Universitet

What haven’t we covered? Wireless computing New display technologies Web Services Grid computing

IT today and tommorow

The Mobile Student Register for courses Always available resources –“e-textbooks” –“e-notes” –“e-references” Virtual Classroom

1. Natural Language (Spoken) Command 2. Raw Speech Data 3. Server-Side Processing 4. Processed Data

Natural Computing for Humans

Web Service A Web service is like a Web site without a user interface, that serves programs instead of people. Instead of getting requests from browsers and returning web pages in response, a web service: –receives a request formatted in XML from an application, –performs a task, –and returns an XML-formatted response. Web Services are delivered using open industry standards

Microsoft’s.NET

Sun One Architecture Support major standards initiatives such as SOAP, J2EE[tm], UDDI, LDAP, and ebXML to make it ready for developers who want to take advantage of the Services on Demand vision

Vision for web services Services to be described in WSDL Services to be announced via UDDI Data to be exchanged via XML Protocols are HTTP and SOAP Systems are developed in Java or C#

Beyond the Net, lies the Grid. The Net allows users everywhere to share information. The Grid will allow users to share raw computing power. »It’s under construction.

What is a Grid? persistent networked environments integrating geographically distributed supercomputers, large databases, and high end instruments coordinated resource sharing and problem solving in dynamic virtual organizations

It’s for real. Used to construct: collaborative engineering systems real-time instrument control systems problem solving environments to perform record-setting scientific simulations.

U.S. PIs: Avery, Foster, Gardner, Newman, Szalay International Virtual Data Grid Laboratory Tier0/1 facility Tier2 facility 10 Gbps link 2.5 Gbps link 622 Mbps link Other link Tier3 facility

DOE X-ray grand challenge: ANL, USC/ISI, NIST, U.Chicago tomographic reconstruction real-time collection wide-area dissemination desktop & VR clients with shared controls Advanced Photon Source Online Access to Scientific Instruments archival storage

You don’t have to be a computer scientist…

Building on the Internet, the WWW Uniform naming A seamless, scalable information service A powerful new meta-data language: XML –SOAP - simple object access protocol - Uses XML for message encoding, HTTP for protocol. XML-RPC may become standard mechanism for Grid Services.

Hype Cycle 2002 Copyright © 2002 Trough of Disillusionment Slope of Enlightenment Plateau of Productivity Maturity Technology Trigger Peak of Inflated Expectations Visibility Key: Time to “Plateau” Less than two years Two to five years Five to 10 years Beyond 10 years Wireless LANs/ WAP/ Wireless Web Location Sensing VoIP Bluetooth P2P Personal Fuel Cells Web Services Grid Computing Biometrics Identity Services E-Tags Text-to- Speech Speech Recognition in Call Center PKI Natural Language Search VPN Nanocomputing PDA Phones E-Payments Speech Recognition on Desktop

The future It is hard to predict – especially the future! The easiest way to predict the future – is to invent it.

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