This lecture delivered by Professor Mohamed Fahmy Tolba at the monthly meeting of the Scientific Research Group in Egypt (SRGE) on Saturday 6 June 2015 at DAR ELDEYAFA - Ain Shams university

1. Dr. Mohamed Fahmy Tolba
6 June 2015
Information Technology Research
Trends: The Future Vision

2. Agenda
 FCIS in Egypt
 IT Industry Mission
 Academic Collaboration with Industry
 Recommended fields of Research
 Conclusions

3. FCIS In Egypt

4. Students and Society

5. 6/6/2015 5
FCIS in Egypt
Start DateFaculty Name#
1996FCIS Cairo University1
1996FCIS Ain ShamsUniversity2
1996FCIS HelwanUniversity3
1996FCIS Mansoura University4
1997FCIS Suez Kanal University5
1998FCIS Zagazig University6
2001FCIS Assiut University7
2001FCIS Menofia University8
2006FCIS Fayoum University9
2006FCIS Banha University10
2007FCIS Menofia University11
2012FCIS Beni-Suef University12

6. 6/6/2015 6
Students 2012

7. 6/6/2015 7
Faculties Staff 2012

8. Basic Sciences 30%
Mathematics 15%
Computing Theories 15%
Technology 30%
10%
Projects
IT Education

9. 6/6/2015 9
# Course Name
1
Computer Science
2
Information Systems
3
Information Technology
4
Scientific Computing
5
Operational Research and Decision Support
6
Computer Systems
7
Geographical Information systems
National Academic Reference
Standard “NARS”

10. IT Industry Mission

11. IT Companies in Egypt
312
482
692
855
1008
1374
1571
1746
1921
2084
2237
2410
0
500
1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010

12. IT Industry

13. IT World Wide Employment

14. Industry Mission
 Access to cutting edge research in science and
technology to sustain Technological Excellence
 Conduct research and development in support of
pilots, prototypes or concepts leading to new
products and services for future markets.
 Gain competitive edge in the opportunity of
working with and hiring talented staff.
 Find solutions to short term problems
 Get results, innovative people and keep the costs
of the internal and external R&D commitments
to a minimum
University partnership answers these needs

15. University-Industry research
long term partnerships
These partnerships pair the discovery of knowledge
(university) with its application to the creation of
technology and services (industry)
 Benefits to the university:
• student and faculty exposure to real-world
problems.
• Covering part of research expenses
 Benefits to the company:
• the creativity and innovation of academic
research
• offer sustained access to trained students
 Benefits to both:
• Both can benefit from each other’s
infrastructures

16. Research Funding in USA

17. U.S. Industry-Funded R&D by Sector
2009 expenditures in billions

18. R&D spending11% to 21% of IT
company revenues (2009)
Company Revenue (millions) R&D (millions) % of Revenue
Microsoft $44,282 $6,584 14.9%
SAP $12,543 $1,781 14.2%
Google $10,605 $1,228 11.6%
Symantec $5,199 $867 16.7%
Cadence $1,484 $460 31%
Adobe $2,575 $540 21%
Oracle $14,380 $1,872 13%
Autodesk $1,537 $302 19.6%
BMC Software $1,580 $213 13.5%
Novell $967 $186 19.2%
BEA Systems $1200 $182 15.2%
Sybase $876 $150 17.1%
Citrix $1,134 $153 13.5%

19. IT Industry and Academia
Collaboration in Toronto (Canada)
Institution E-health E-learning Digital Media Other-ICT
University of
Toronto 8 14 11 28
Ryerson
University 1 2 3 15
York University 0 3 2 6
Total Centers in
Universities
9 19 16 49
Total Center in
Colleges
2 3 3 5
Total Centers in
GTA
11 22 19 54

20. University Research Efforts

21. University Research Efforts

22. University Research Efforts

23. Academic
Collaboration with
Industry

24. 6/6/2015 24
ITAC
Information
Technology
Academia
Collaboration
Support
ITAC Programs
Product Development Project
Advanced Research Projects
ITIDA Fellowships
Student Graduation Projects
Summer Training

25. 6/6/2015 25
ITAC Graduation Projects
22
56 53
130 131
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
140
2005/2006 2006/2007 2007/2008 2008/2009 2009/2010

26. ITAC Technology Areas
 Mobile Applications and Computing
 Cloud Computing
 Business Analytics
 Internet of Things
 Ubiquitous Computing
 Big Data

27. ITAC Strategic Areas
 Electronic Design for ICT Applications
 ICT for Transportation
 ICT for Health
 ICT for Agriculture
 ICT for the Disabled
 ICT for Education
 ICT for Energy

28. Phases of the partnership
 Phase One : Awareness
 Phase Two : Involvement
 Phase Three : Support
 Phase Four : Sponsorship
 Phase Five : Strategic Partner
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It takes around five years for a relationship to reach phase five

29. Criteria for partnership success
 Shared Vision
 Good Project Management
 Joint Strategy
• Business Plan
• Project Management Responsibilities
• Ownership of Intellectual Property Right
• Communication Plans

30. Recommended Fields
of Research

31. IT Sector Fields of Research
 Artificial Intelligence
 Bioinformatics
 Computational techniques
 Computer and Communication
Security
 Computer Arabization
 Computer Networks
 Computer Visualization.
 Data Mining and Data
Warehousing
 Decision Support Concepts and
Techniques
 Digital Signal processing
 E-Business
 E-Commerce
 E-Health
 E-Learning
 Geographic Information
Systems
 Grid Computing
 High Performance Computing
 Human Computer Interaction
 Image Processing
 Information Security
 Intelligent Information
Systems
 Knowledge-Based Systems
 Mobile Computing
 Modeling and Simulation
 Multimedia Systems
 Natural Language Processing
 Neural Networks
 Parallel Processing
 Performance Analysis
 Robotics and Motion Planning
 Robotics and Computer Vision
 Speech Recognition
 Web Systems and
Technologies

32. PageRank: Google
 Google search is based on “PageRank”
algorithm developed at Stanford university
 “PageRank” responds to queries based on
two criteria:
• Importance
• Relevance
 Stanford received 1.8 million shares in
Google in exchange for use of the patent on
“PageRank”; the shares were sold in 2005 for
336 million

33. Photo Tourism: Microsoft
 Software that converts 2D digital photographs
into 3D Mosaics
 Developed at the university of Washington
 Funded partly by Microsoft and licensed to
Microsoft after release
 Photo Tourism is an important part of
Microsoft Live Lab’s technology
Used by NASA to show 3D web
views of the space shuttles

34. Web-Based Routing Software
 A Boston university
research project
 Developed a software
that allows each server
to act as an individual
router, thereby
enabling quicker
response times to
more people
 The company CNT
developed a A
commercial application
i-Scaler For
distributed routing

35. Extremely fast computing systems, with both
rapid calculation and rapid data movement,
to conduct scientific research in a variety of
different areas, and to support critical national
interests:
• Research into innovative computing
technologies and architectures.
• R&D on software for improving the
performance of high end computing
High-End Computing

36. Cloud Computing is an evolution in IT
Merrill Lynch: 2012 = the annual global market of cloud computing will surge
to $95 billion
(Microsoft $51 billion, Google $16 billion, Amazon $14 billion, Yahoo $7billion)

37. Internet of Things (IoT)

38. Green Computing
Using Computing Resources Efficiently
 Algorithmic Efficiency
 Computer Virtualization
 Power Management

39. Conclusions

40. References
 “Fund-raising for research by universities from
philanthropic sources”, (online) available at URL:
http://www.efc.be/ftp/public/eu/efprf/launch_conference/
university.pdf
 “Guiding Principles for University-Industry Endeavors”,
(online) available at URL:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/guirr/Guiding_Princi
ples.pdf
 “Industry-University Research Partnerships: What Are the
Limits of Intimacy?”, (online) available at URL:
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/guirr/Industry_Unive
rsity_Partnerships_Limits.html
 Williams Roger L , “ Connecting Alumni Associations With
Young Graduates”, The chronicle of higher education