1. Lecture 23: Future of IT Intro to IT COSC1078 Introduction to Information Technology Lecture 23 Future of IT James Harland james.harland@rmit.edu.au

2. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Introduction to IT 1 Introduction 2 Images 3 Audio 4 Video WebLearnTest 1 5 Binary Representation Assignment 1 6 Data Storage 7 Machine Processing 8 Operating Systems WebLearn Test 2 9 Processes Assignment 2 10 Internet 11 Internet Security WebLearn Test 3 12 Future of ITAssignment 3, Peer and Self Assessment

3. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Overview  Questions?  Exam  Assignment 3  Peer and Self Assessment  Future of IT  Questions?

4. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Assignment 3  Reflect Answer reflection questions from tutorials See last lecture for ideas  Research Write about a particular IT topic of your choice (5- 6 paragraphs) electronic voting, information security, 3D user interfaces, digital music, digital video, electronic commerce, natural language processing, DNA computing, quantum computing, cryptography, malware detection and removal, Moore's Law, green computing, …

5. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Exam  2010 exam is available now  2010 exam answers will be available on May 29 th  2011 exam will be available on June 5 th  2011 exam answers will be available on June 12 th  2012 exam available on June 19 th

6. Lecture 23: Future of ITSE Fundamentals Self and Peer Assessment  How well has each person contributed to the group?  Evaluated over the entire semester  Assessed on process, not product  Work out a grade for each person (CR, DI etc)  Then convert this to a mark out of 20  Submit list of marks to tutor with justifications  Repeat previous step until the tutor is satisfied  See guidelines in Blackboard material

7. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT What is IT?

8. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Future of IT RMIT School of CS & IT Four main research areas  Distributed Systems and Networking  Software Engineering  Information Storage, Analysis and Retrieval  Intelligent Systems

9. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Software Engineering  Building and verifying component-based systems  Human Informatics Modelling  Educational Technologies  ENID: Electronic Health System  Grid and cloud architecture and platforms

10. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Software Engineering  Architecture-based processes, methods and tools  Improving quality, trustworthiness productivity and industrial practice  Leveraging mathematical methods and foundations  Concurrent or parallel systems, or systems involving massive data

11. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Software Engineering

12. Summer Projects The Sensor and Actuator Hub (with Flora Salim, SIAL) - for e.g. bioclimatic skin (airflow/shading) / responsive media facade - web services interface aggregating sensor data - evaluate Arduino vs MICA platforms and tools Distributed robotic sorting (Ian Peake) - Lego Mindstorm + Lejos NXJ (Embedded JVM) Service Composition Architecture (Nick May) - behaviour model editing in Eclipse (SCA tools project extension) Enhanced spring graph layout (Amir Aryani) - extend MS nodeXL - applications e.g. in software maintenance

13. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Distributed Systems and Networking  Supply chains, middleware, web servers, load balancing  Service-oriented architectures, web services  SCADA systems (infrastructure)  Security protocols, fingerprint identification  Mobile computing, especially mobile phones

14. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Distributed Systems and Networking

15. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Distributed Systems and Networking

16. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Information Storage, Analysis and Retrieval  Search engines (zettair – google it! )  Genomic databases  Compression  Image retrieval  Music retrieval  Pattern matching  Document management

17. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Information Storage, Analysis and Retrieval

18. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Intelligent Systems  Agent-oriented programming and design  Agent reasoning  Modelling complex systems (climate change)  Reasoning and logics  Evolutionary computation  Machine learning  Data mining  Evolutionary Art

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20. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Robot Mine Clearance in Vietnam  UNICEF: up to 70 million unexploded land mines in the world  42,000 Vietnamese killed in past 35 years  One district: 300 children killed, 58 lost limbs or blinded  RMIT has two campuses in Vietnam (Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City)  What can robots do to help?

21. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Robot Mine Clearance in Vietnam iRobot www.irobot.com  US-based company  Make robot vacuum cleaners  Extensive experience with US military robots  1 Australian employee (based in Sydney)  Reviewing proposal about Vietnam mines

22. Lecture 23: Future of ITIntro to IT Conclusion  Work on Assignment 3  Check out what is out there …