Drivers for Technology Innovations and Trends

Dr. Kumar B. V.,Director, Altius Inc.,

Bangalore

Agenda

• About Myself

• Drivers for Technology Innovations and Trends

• Summary

About Myself

• Director, Altius Inc.,

• Consultant and Services Provider

• Over 22 years of Industry Experience and Exposure - Infosys, Cognizant & Sun

• Technology Evangelist, Thought-leader and Mentor

• International Speaker - Conferences and Workshops

• Published Many Technology Papers

• Authored International Titles in Web Services, Security, SOA, J2EE etc.

• Two Patents at USPTO

Drivers for Innovation

Drivers for Innovation

• Business

• Political

• Religious

• Personal

• Accidental

Business

• Abacus

• Computers

• Electronics

• Mobiles

• Internet and WWW

Political

• Rockets

• ICBMs

• Ships

• Submarines

• Warfare accessories

Religious

Personal

• Steam Engine

• Telescope

• Air Craft

• Photoelectric Effect

Accidental• X-Ray

• Velcro

• Teflon

• Super Glue

• Microwave

• Coca Cola

Inventions that changed the course of the world

• Gun

• Electricity

• Jet

• Telephone

• Television

• Computers

Source: Jeremy Clarkson

Inventions that Shaped the IT World of today

• Abacus and other systems

• Mainframes

• Super Computers

• Super Minis, and Engineering Work Stations

• Desktop Computers

• Mobile computers

Evolution of Operating Environment

• Z/OS, TOPS10, etc.

• Unix, SVR4, BSD, etc.

• Windows, OSX, Linux, etc.

• iOS, Symbian, Android, WindowsCE, etc.

Evolution of Software

• Assembly Language

• Fortran

• COBOL

• C / C++

• Java

• OpenSource

• XML

Inventors and their DriversInformation Technology

Who is this Person?

Linus Torvalds

• From Helsinki, Finland

• Obtained Commodore

• Loved Mathematics

• Purchased Minix to create Linix on i386

• Corporate announcement of Acceptance of Linux

Do you Know this Guy?

Bill Gates• Harvard Drop out

• Wrote tic-tac-toe in BASIC during school days

• Wrote fastest sorting algorithm of his time

• Started Microsoft in 1976

• One of the richest individual in the world today

Do you know this Guy?

E F Codd

• Professional at IBM

• Invented relational database model

• Constituted 12 rules on RDBMS

• Created OLAP

• Turing Award winner in 1981

Do you know this guy?

Steve Jobs• Business man, Designer and Inventor

• Co-founded Apple in 1970

• Created first GUI based OS

• Created iPod, iPhone and iPAD

• “Stay hungry-Stay Foolish”

Do you know this Guy?

James Gosling

• Ph D in CS from CMU

• Created his own version of EMACS

• Father of Java Programming Language

• Created the first VM

Do you know this Guy?

John Bosak

• Engineer at Sun Microsystem

• Created Extensible Markup Language XML

• Coded the XML Specs for W3C

• Created UBL and still chairs it.

Do you know these Guys?

Google Boys

• Students at Stanford

• Created powerful search engine architecture

• Analyzing links and convert it into a biz idea

• Started Google Inc.

• Created Gmail, Google Earth, Google Map etc

Do you know this Guy?

Bjarne Stroustrup

• Danish Computer Scientist

• Rolled OO into C and created C++

• Headed AT & T’s Research Division

• IEEE CS Computer Entrepreneur Award in 2004

Do you know this Guy?

Dave Winer

• MS in CS at Univ of Wisconsin, Madison

• Creator of VisiText

• Founded Userland Software

• Developed XML-RPC protocol which led to Web Services

Do you know this Guy?

Grady Booch• MS in Electrical Engg, Univ of California

• Created UML with Ivar Jacobson and Rumbagh

• Founded Rational Rose

• Created Booch Method

• IBM Fellow

• IEEE Award Winner

Do you know this Guy?

Tim Berners Lee• Scientist, MIT Professor and Inventor of WWW

• Independent Contracted at CERN

• Created HTTP and contributed to the development of Internet

• Director of W3C

• Knighted by Queen

Do you know this Guy?

Dennis Ritchie

• Designer and developer of C programming Language

• Co-created Unix

• Worked at Bell Labs

• Turing Award Winner in 1983

• Was honored by Bill Clinton in 1999

How’s the Future? - Some Thoughts

How’s the Future? - Some thoughts

• Can we predict the trends?

• How long can we?

• How accurately can we?

• How accurate the predictions have been?

Some Future Predictions - On the lighter side

• 2080 Headlines

• Kasab Dies at 97 in Indian Jail

• Sharad Pawar owns half the world

• A. Raja’s grand son D. Raja is caught in 6G Scam

• A girl in Mumbai travels 60 ft. safely

• Lakshadweep Cats Join IPL as the 76th team

• GolMaal 34 released, Tushar Kapur still unable to talk or act

• FaceBook Declared as a continent

Courtesy: SMS Forward