1. Mobile Technology Consortium (MTC): An Industry-University Alliance
Presenter ( 3rd author): R. Shankar, Engineering, FAU, Boca Raton, FL
(561)
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

2. CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ
MTC
Tracing the History :
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) 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 faculty & 20 students
“Whole is greater than the sum of its parts” “Systemness”
11/9/2018
CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ

3. 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
Cell

4. 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.

5. 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 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

6. MTC Meetings

7. 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) 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 faculty & 20 students
11/9/2018
CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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)

12. 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

13. IAB Meeting

14. Joint University/Industry Labs
“Incubator as part of the Department”
Examples – Motorola /OPP ( ): 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)

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

16. 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

17. 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 ….

18. 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

19. 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!