dcu innovation, marketing and new technology foresight
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This is a lecture given by Steve Flinter of Science Foundation Ireland on Innovation, Marketing and New Technology Foresight to MSc students at the DCU business school.Lecture delivered on November 25, 2009.TRANSCRIPT
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Research for Ireland’s Future
Innovation, Marketing and New Technology Foresight
Dr. Stephen Flinter, Science Foundation Ireland
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About SFIFounded in 2000
Statutory body in 2003
Annual budget ~€170m
Three core areas: ICT Life Sciences Energy
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SFI ProgrammesResearch Frontiers (>500 awards)
€50k-€150k (p.a.)
Principal Investigator (>100 awards) €150-€500k (p.a.)
Strategic Research Cluster (19 awards) €1m-€1.5m (p.a.)
Centres for Science Engineering and Technology (10 awards) €2m-€3.5m (p.a.)
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SFI ProcessOpen calls
Investigator-driven
Bottom-up selection
Expert, international peer review panels
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Watt’s Steam Engine (1775)
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Stephenson’s Rocket (1829)
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Bell’s Telephone (1876)
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Edison’s Light Bulb (1878)
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Benz’s Internal Combustion Engine (1896)
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Marconi’s Transatlantic Transmission (1901)
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Powered Flight (1903)
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Space Flight (1957)
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Platform TechnologiesProcessing
Storage
Display
Communications
Sensing
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Moore’s LawThe number of transistors on an integrated
circuit doubles every 2 years
The processor speed doubles every 18 months
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Moore’s Law
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Multicore Processors
AMD Quadcore Opteron Processor
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Storage
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Reducing Cost of Storage
http://www.mkomo.com/cost-per-gigabyte
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Samsung EcoGreen F2 HD103SI 1TB
€69
www.komplett.ie/k/ki.aspx?sku=479453
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Flash Memory
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iPod Introduced October
2001
5 & 10 GB capacities
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iPod Touch Introduced
September 2007
8, 16, 32GB
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The Innovator’s Dilemma
Clayton M. Christensen (2000)
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Displays: from CRT to LCD
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Touch Sensitive Displays
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Electronic Paper
SFI CRANN Centre & Hewlett PackardAmazon Kindle 2
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Communications7.2mbps wireless (HSDPA)
~7mbps (WiMAX)
20mbps wired broadband
100mbps WiFi (802.11n)
1000mbps LAN
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PhotonicsUsed to support
backbone networks
40 gbps – 1.5 tbps
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Cognative RadioUltra wide band
Multiple frequencies
Software defined radio
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Positional Sensors
GPS Sensor In-car Sat Nav
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Chemical/Environmental Sensors
Microfluidics array & phosphate sensor package – NCSR & Clarity CSET
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Body Sensors
An Post cycle team at being fitted with Foster Miller sensor vest (Clarity Centre)
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Internet & World Wide Web
Web 2.0Web 1.0
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Web 3.0 – Semantic WebAscribing meaning
to data
Linked Data Connecting
disparate data sources
DERI sig.ma semantic search engine
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Internet of ThingsTrillions of
connected devices
Both wired & wireless
Sensor web & semantic web
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Assisted LivingUsing sensor web to
monitor well being
Fall detection
Variations in daily routine
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Medical DevicesAdvanced signal
processing
Real-time data analysis
Connected devices
Neonatal brain monitoring at UCC
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Location AwarenessMobile devices
Multiple sensors
Layer additional information based on location
Layar augmented reality
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Data AnalyticsMeasuring your
website
…personal finances
…business
…warehouse
…retail centre
…
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Data Mining & Visualisation
Enormous growth in volume of data
Growing need to analyse and visualise data
Data visualisation – SFI Clique SRC
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ConclusionsPlatform technologies continue to develop at
exponential pace
New applications emerging to exploit platform technologies
Innovation happening at the integration points
Analyzing the data becoming increasingly harder
Sensor-based technologies next big thing