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Global View of Infocomm in 2015
Dr John Seely Brown
Distinguished Fellow
The Idea Factory;
Former Chief Scientist
Xerox Corporation;
Director Emeritus
Xerox PARC ;
The ubiquitous integration of information and technology into industries and societies over the last century has led to an unprecedented degree of connectivity and influence across the world, in all aspects of life. With this, the value of innovation moves beyond discrete factors and into the creation of an ecology for the generation and development of ideas that span diverse fields and disciplines. John Seely Brown, a visionary on technology in society, will share his perspective on the next phase of evolution in the realm of Infocomm.
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| 10.30am |
Singapore Infocomm Landscape in 2015
Dr Tan Geok Leng
Chief Technology Officer
Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore
Dr Tan will speak on IDA's fifth Infocomm Technology Roadmap (ITR5). This ITR5 will act as the technology roadmap input to IDA's long range strategic planning for crafting our next national infocomm blueprint that goes beyond the present Connected Singapore Master Plan. The presentation includes the identification of prospects arising from the confluence of computing and communications with innovations from nano- and bio-technologies.
Together these technologies herald the arrival of the Sentient Singapore 2015. In this vision, sensors and intelligence riding on the infocomm infrastructure create a world of "Things that Think". This will be the era of people-centric technologies, proactive computing, sensor technologies and Small Software. Besides bringing in new levels of ease and convenience for end-users, a new eco-system of hardware, software, systems-level players that exploit sentient smart spaces will be created. There will be tremendous opportunities for those in our infocomm industry who are prepared to rise up to the challenge.
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| 11.15am |
21st Century Network, The Enabling Infrastructure for Growth
Paul Reynolds
Chief Executive Officer
British Telecoms Global Services
Paul will detail BT's 21st century network (21CN), including the programme's vision, aims and strategy. 21st century network is widely regarded as the most radical and ambitious transformation programme in the communications world today. 21st century network is designed to reinvent BT and to create a world leading business for the future.
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| 1.30pm |
Proactive Computing - A Progress Report
Dr David Tennenhouse
Vice President, Corporate Technology Group
& Director, Research
Intel Corp
For almost 40 years, Computer Science has been dominated by J.C.R. Licklider's powerful vision of Interactive Computing. Although this "Human Centred" line of research has been tremendously productive, the interactive model will not scale as networked computers begin to outnumber people a hundred or thousand-fold.
Intel Research has initiated work on Proactive Computing - working towards environments in which networked computers proactively anticipate our needs and, sometimes, take action on our behalf. This presentation will present the elements of our research agenda and provide a progress report on the work in progress. It will also identify some of the "Larger than Intel" challenges that we hope others in the research community will take on.
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| 2.15pm |
The Future of Sensory Networks
Mike A. Horton
President & Chief Executive Officer
Crossbow Technology
Sensory network technology is changing the face of the IT industry by allowing unprecedented interaction and monitoring of the physical world. Tiny, easily deployed, sensors popularly known as Smart Dust, collect and report information using wireless mesh network technology. These sensory networks provide protection for valuable assets, monitoring of natural resources, and reduction in energy costs.
Mr. Horton will review the state of Smart Dust and sensory networking technology as applied to major applications areas including building automation, industrial automation, supply chain management, and environmental data monitoring.
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| 3.30pm |
Mixed Reality and Human Centred Media for Social and Physical Interactive Computer Entertainment
Dr Adrian David Cheok
Director, Mixed Reality Lab
National University of Singapore
Dr. Cheok will outline new facilities within ubiquitous human media spaces supporting embodied interaction between humans and computation both socially and physically with the aim of novel interactive computer entertainment. Mixed Reality Lab believes that the current approach to developing electronic based entertainment environments is somewhat lacking with regard to support for multi-person multi-modal interactions.
In this presentation, Dr. Cheok will present an alternative ubiquitous computing environment based on an integrated design of real and virtual worlds, and highlight some different research prototype systems: the Virtual Kyoto Garden, Touchy Internet, Tilt-Pad, and the Human Pacman. The functional capabilities implemented in these systems include spatially-aware 3D navigation, tangible interaction, and ubiquitous human media spaces. Some of its details, benefits, and issues regarding design support are discussed.
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| 4.15pm |
Trends in Converging Technologies: When Nano Bio and IT merge
Mr Tim E. Harper
President & Chief Executive Officer
CMP Cientifica
One of the areas that nanotechnology is often quoted as having the potential to disrupt is microelectronics, but is smaller always better? The convergence of nano- bio and IT offers a host of new opportunities, from novel materials to new manufacturing paradigms. Nanotechnologies offer solutions to both tunnel under, and go around the red brick wall marking the limits of current technology.
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| 5.00pm |
Infocomm and its Impact on Biology
Prof Santosh K. Mishra
Executive Director
Bio-informatics Institute
The universe of biological data emanating from a variety of technologies continues to expand at almost alarming rates. Novel technologies addressing views of the complex biological systems in near molecular resolution have emerged with breakthroughs in the ultra-high throughput DNA sequencing, transcript (mRNA) profiling as whole genome biosensors, and protein profiling strategies based in the core technologies of analytical chemistry and mass spectrometry.
The large volumes of data generated through these technologies have necessitated the need to be able to manage, analyze, synthesize, distribute and generate coherent knowledge. This presentation will review the challenges and opportunities in Bioinformatics, including issues with functional annotation of proteins, Systems Biology approaches to mine databases, Biomarker discovery, etc. Some of these challenges and ongoing efforts at addressing these in Singapore will be discussed.
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