IEEE Day 2015 - University of Colombo School of Computing

1. Making a Better World
with Technology
Innovations
Imesh Gunaratne, WSO2
IEEE Day 2015, University of Colombo School of Computing

2. About Me
o Senior Technical Lead, WSO2
o Product Lead, WSO2 Private
PaaS
o Committer & PMC Member,
Apache Stratos
o Founder, Monoscape
o https://github.com/monoscape
o Founder, Neerogi
o https://github.com/neerogi

3. Agenda
o Strategic Technology Trends for 2015
o Recent Technology Innovations
o Open Source Culture
o Making a Better World

4. Strategic Technology Trends for 2015

5. Strategic Technology Trends for 2015
1. Computing Everywhere
2. The Internet of Things
3. 3D Printing
4. Advanced, Pervasive & Invisible Analytics
5. Context Rich Systems
6. Smart Machines
7. Cloud/client Computing
8. Software Defined Applications & Infrastructure
9. Web-Scale IT
10. Risk-Based Security & Self Protection
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2015/

6. 1. Computing Everywhere
As mobile devices continue to
increase rapidly, Gartner predicts an
increased emphasis on serving the
needs of the mobile user in diverse
contexts and environments, as
opposed to focusing on devices alone
- Gartner
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2015/

7. Mobile Connections Trend
http://www.gsmamobileeconomy.com/GSMA_Global_Mobile_Economy_Report_2015.pdf

8. Global Mobile Data Traffic Trend
http://www.gsmamobileeconomy.com/GSMA_Global_Mobile_Economy_Report_2015.pdf

9. 2. The Internet of Things
o IOT is the network of physical
objects or "things" embedded with
electronics, software, sensors, and
network connectivity, which enables
these objects to collect and exchange
data - Wikipedia
o The term was coined by British
entrepreneur Kevin Ashton in 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_of_Things
http://apcmag.com/arduino-masterclass-part-4-build-a-mini-robot.htm/

10. An IoT Reference Architecture
http://wso2.com/whitepapers/a-reference-architecture-for-the-internet-of-things/

11. 3. 3D Printing
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2015/
3D printing will reach a tipping point over
the next three years as the market for
relatively low-cost 3D printing devices
continues to grow rapidly and industrial use
expands significantly - Gartner

12. 4. Advanced, Pervasive & Invisible
Analytics
Analytics will take center stage as the
volume of data generated by embedded
systems increases and vast pools of
structured and unstructured data inside
and outside the enterprise are analyzed
with a focus on the answers, not the
data - Gartner
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2015/
https://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/features/mobile.html

13. How Analytics Work?
http://wso2.com/whitepapers/wso2-whitepaper-wso2-big-data-analytics-platform/

14. 5. Context-Rich Systems
Embedded intelligence combined with
pervasive analytics will drive the
development of systems that are
alert to their surroundings and able to
respond appropriately.
Context-aware security is an early
application of this new capability, but
others will emerge - Gartner
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2867917
http://connectedsocialmedia.com/10709/inside-it-context-aware-computing/

15. 6. Smart Machines
Prototype autonomous vehicles, advanced
robots, virtual personal assistants and
smart advisors already exist and will
evolve rapidly, ushering in a new age of
machine helpers. The smart machine era
will be the most disruptive in the
history of IT.
http://www.gartner.com/smarterwithgartner/gartners-top-10-strategic-technology-trends-for-2015/

16. DARPA Robotics Challenge 2015
http://www.theroboticschallenge.org
1. Drive a vehicle
2. Get out of the vehicle
3. Open door and travel
through opening,
4. Move debris or climb over
it
5. Use a tool to cut a hole in
a wall
6. Reach through opening and
open valve
7. Cross over a field of loose
debris and pipes
8. Insert a cylindrical plug
into a receptacle
9. Climb stairs with a rail on
one side
10. Surprise manipulation task

17. DARPA Robotics Challenge 2015
http://www.theroboticschallenge.org/teams

18. 7. Cloud/client Computing
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2867917
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing
http://www.forbes.com/sites/emc/2014/02/03/cloud-computing-for-the-enterprise-its-about-service/
Cloud computing is a disruptive phenomenon,
with the potential to make IT
organizations more responsive than ever.
The convergence of cloud and mobile
computing will continue to promote the
growth of centrally coordinated applications
that can be delivered to any device -
Gartner

19. 8. Software Defined Applications &
Infrastructure
http://www.ericsson.com/news/130221-software-defined-networking-the-service-provider-
perspective_244129229_c
Software-defined networking, storage,
data centers and security are maturing.
Cloud services are software-configurable
through API calls.
To deal with the rapidly changing demands
of digital business and scale systems up or
down rapidly, computing has to move away
from static to dynamic models - Gartner

20. Infrastructure as Code
https://puppetlabs.com/solutions/infrastructure-as-code
By describing your infrastructure as code,
your configurations can be consistently
repeated, tested, shared and promoted
across your entire environment, providing
the building blocks for a continuous delivery
pipeline - Puppet Labs

21. 9. Web-Scale IT
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2867917
Web-scale IT is a pattern of global-class
computing that delivers the capabilities of
large cloud service providers within an
enterprise IT setting.
More organizations will begin thinking,
acting and building applications and
infrastructure like Web giants such as
Amazon, Google and Facebook - Gartner

22. 10. Risk-Based Security & Self
Protection
http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2867917
Security-aware application design, dynamic
and static application security testing, and
runtime application self-protection combined
with active context-aware and adaptive
access controls are all needed in today's
dangerous digital world.
This will lead to new models of building
security directly into applications - Gartner

23. Recent Technology Innovations

24. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526536/agile-robots/
Agile Robots
Breakthrough: Legged machines that
stride over uneven or unsteady
terrain.
Why It Matters: Much of the world is
inaccessible to wheeled machines but
not legged ones.
Key Players
o Boston Dynamics
o Schaft
o Honda

25. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534981/car-to-car-communication/
Car to Car Communication
Breakthrough: Cars that can talk to each
other to avoid crashes.
Why It Matters: More than a ­million people
are killed on roads worldwide every year.
Key Players
o General Motors
o University of Michigan
o National Highway Traffic Safety
Administration

26. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534986/project-loon/
Project Loon
Breakthrough: A reliable and cost-effective
way to beam Internet service from the sky
to places lacking it.
Why It Matters: Internet access could
expand educational and economic opportunities
for the 4.3 billion people who are offline.
Key Players
o Google
o Facebook

27. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526521/microscale-3-d-printing/
Microscale 3D Printing
Breakthrough: 3-D printing that uses multiple
materials to create objects such as biological
tissue with blood vessels.
Why It Matters: Making biological materials
with desired functions could lead to artificial
organs and novel cyborg parts.
Key Players
o Jennifer Lewis, Harvard University
o Michael McAlpine, Princeton University
o Keith Martin, University of Cambridge

28. http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526491/agricultural-drones/
Agricultural Drones
Breakthrough: Easy-to-use ­agricultural
drones equipped with ­cameras, for less than
$1,000.
Why It Matters: Close monitoring of crops
could improve water use and pest
management.
Key Players
o 3D Robotics
o Yamaha
o PrecisionHawk

29. Open Source Culture

30. Why Open Source?
https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source

31. http://open-source.gbdirect.co.uk/migration/benefit.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/robie06/4684027813/
Flexibility & Freedom
In a business context, software flexibility is
about being able to choose solutions suitable
for the needs of the users. As requirements
in the business change, solutions should not be
unreasonably constrained by software.
If the software vendor go out of business
or cease the development of a product Open-
source software allows you to retain not just
the right to use the software you already
have, but the ability to continue to use it as
your needs change.

32. https://www.redhat.com/en/open-source
http://www.techaltair.com/7-best-python-ide-for-pythonist/
More Eyes, More Secure
While it might seem counterintuitive, open
source software is often more secure than
proprietary software.
But when the process is open, bugs, flaws,
back doors, and vulnerabilities are found
sooner, more often, and fixed more quickly.
Would you rather fly in a plane that has been
inspected for safety by 10 inspectors, or 100,
or 1,000 times? When it comes to finding
problems, more eyes are always better -
Redhat

33. http://open-source.gbdirect.co.uk/migration/benefit.html
https://www.flickr.com/photos/68751915@N05/6355840185/
Lower Cost
Purchase cost of software is only one factor;
total cost of ownership (TCO) is what really
matters
Possibly zero purchase price
Near-zero vulnerability to viruses eliminating
need for virus checking, data loss and
downtime
Claimed lower vulnerability to security
breaches and hack attacks reducing systems
administration load

34. The WSO2 Way
WSO2 founders and employees have a long
history in participating in Apache projects.
Right from the get-go they’ve initiated
projects such as Apache Axis2 and the Apache
Synapse along with contributing to over 20
Apache projects relating to Web services and
SOA.

35. WSO2 Products use Apache
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/
http://ws.apache.org/axiom/
http://ws.apache.org/neethi
http://tiles.apache.org
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core/
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/rampart/
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/sandesha/
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-
doc/tribes/introduction.html
http://synapse.apache.org
http://hc.apache.org
http://commons.apache.org/bsf
http://poi.apache.org
http://cassandra.apache.org

36. WSO2 Products use Apache
http://jackrabbit.apache.org/
http://lucene.apache.org/solr/
http://juddi.apache.org/
http://commons.apache.org/scxml/
http://ws.apache.org/wss4j
http://ws.apache.org/neethi/
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/rampart/
http://directory.apache.org/
http://hadoop.apache.org
http://thrift.apache.org
http://cassandra.apache.org
http://shindig.apache.org
http://axis.apache.org/axis2/java/core
http://ode.apache.org
http://openjpa.apache.org/

37. WSO2 Products use Apache
http://qpid.apache.org http://stratos.apache.org

38. Open Source projects by Facebook

39. Open Source projects by Google

40. Open Source projects by Twitter

41. Making a Better World

42. Making a Better World
o Focus on technology trends
o Analyze technology innovations
o Do research & find gaps
o Innovate
o Love what you do
o Keep trying until you find it
o Use your innovations to change the
world to a better place

43. A Final Thought
Your work is going to fill a large part of your
life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is
to do what you believe is great work. And the
only way to do great work is to love what you
do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking.
Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart,
you'll know when you find it - Steve Jobs

44. Thank you!