The Future Of Computing

The Future Of

Computing

Fall 2013

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I Write

About You and This Talk

„ Professional in Industry, Education,

Government

„ Open minds

„ Envisioning the future & possibilities „ Sharing my thoughts and experiences

„ The Future of Computing

The Future of Computing

„ Anytime/anywhere Computing „ Anytime/anywhere Learning „ Programming

„ Cloud Computing „ Big Data + Smart Apps „ Data Science & Analytics

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Anytime/anywhere Computing

Anytime/anywhere Learning

„ Flows down from anytime/anywhere computing „ Many avenues for online learning

Do you doubt this?

The Future has Programming

„ Not going to show you code today „ But it will be everywhere

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Code.org

Do you doubt this?

„ (What are generally their first courses?)

Start anywhere

„ Many options

„ Scratch/Tynker, Alice „ App Inventor

„ Lego Mindstorms, RaspberryPI „ Python, Ruby

„ Javascript (plus HTML5, CSS3)

„Google Apps Script

„ Java: Minecraft

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Tools

Extends model: mobile, adults

Python

„ Simple & robust... why? „ Python's origin & its creator

„ Programming should be taught to children „ At same time as reading, writing, math

„ Computer Programming for Everybody (CP4E) „ Does not require Computer Science background „ One of Google's official languages

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Javascript & Google Apps Script

Slipped a Mickey

„ Past 2 slides

„ Networking... wait „ How did it get in there?

„ Now we need to talk about the Web

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It's all out there

„ Our lives are online now (better or worse) „ Your bank accounts, travel plans, etc. „ Your Facebook, Twitter mobile apps

„ Think all your data lives on phone? „ Think again. Think different(ly).

Web fundamental shift

„ Desktop software all installed on machine „ On the web, you only have a browser „ All the software lives elsewhere

„ "In the cloud"

Cloud Computing

PaaS Power!!

„ PaaS: most powerful cloud service level „ Takes care of IaaS

„ OS, webserver, database, scaling, ... „ Removes rigidity of SaaS

„ Don't like Hotmail or YouTube?

„ Make your own apps. How? Programming! „ We've come full circle

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Programming. Python. PaaS.

„ App Engine, Azure, Heroku „ Build your app (pick language)

„ Upload it to Google, Microsoft, Salesforce „ They host for you

„ Your app in same datacenters as...

The Cloud

„ You don't need to buy machines „ You don't need to manage equipment „ (Who wants to maintain old equipment?) „ You just create the app

„ In fact, it's a SaaS app(!)

„ Reachable (almost) worldwide! „ (Nearly) armchair production

Big data

Massive explosion of data

„ Phillip Long & George Siemens (EduCause,

2011)

„ Marcia Connor (Fast Company, 2012) „ Tim O'Reilly (2003-2013)

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Long & Siemens

„ Big data is "[a] byproduct of the Internet, computers, mobile devices, and

learning management systems (LMSs)"

„ "Listening to a lecture or reading a book leaves limited trails. A hallway

conversation essentially vaporizes as soon as it is concluded."

„ "[Every] click, every Tweet or Facebook status update, every social

interaction, and every page read online can leave a digital footprint."

„ "Additionally, online learning, digital student records, student cards, sensors,

and mobile devices now capture rich data trails and activity streams."

„ "[Learner-produced] data trails provide valuable insight into what is actually

happening... and suggest ways in which educators can make improvements.

„ educause.edu/ero/article/penetrating-fog-analytics-learning-and-education

Marcia Connor

„ 2012: 2.5 quintillion (10^18) bytes of data created „ 90% of world's data created in the last two years alone „ Producing more data daily than was seen since

beginning of time „ Email: 144.8 billion/day „ Twitter: 340MM+ tweets/day „ YouTube: 100 hours/min

„ Google: 2MM+ search queries/min „ Facebook posts, Instagram photos, etc.

„ j.mp/BigDataMuscles

Tim O'Reilly

„ "Big data is what happened when the cost of storing information

became less than the cost of making the decision to throw it away." [quoting personal email correspondence from George Dyson, 2013]

„ twitter.com/timoreilly/status/314222624756609025

„ "[Companies] that have massive amounts of data without

massive amounts of clue are going to be displaced by startups that have less data but more clue...." [2011]

„ plus.google.com/+TimOReilly/posts/4Xa76AtxYwd

„ "Data is the next Intel Inside." [2005]

„ oreilly.com/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html?page=3

„ "We're entering a new world in which data may be more

important than software." [2003]

„ paradox1x.org/2003/07/tim-oreilly-on

Cloud: big data access

„ Big data needs processing

„ NoSQL/Non-relational databases „ MapReduce, Hadoop, etc.

„ Big data needs analyzing „ Data Science is a major... „ Data Scientist is a job!

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Lots of data requires...

„ Analysis „ Intelligence

Google BigQuery

„ Analyze terabytes of data in seconds „ Not hours, not days

http://bigquery.cloud.google.com

„ Take a tour!

Smart apps

„ Google Prediction

„ Multiple machine learning algorithms „ Helps apps be more intelligent

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How does it work?

Need humans?

Amazon Mechanical Turk

„ Human power marketplace for work „ "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" „ Workers

„ Work from home (home-sourcing) „ Choose your hours, get paid

„ Requesters

„ Create work (tasks/"HITs") „ Global on-demand 24x7 workforce „ Pay when work completed

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Conclusion

„ Desktop software will "PaaS"

„ Cloud computing and the Web == The Future

„ Google Apps just the start

„ Why is Google making Chromebooks? „ Not just Google either!

„ The future

„ Everyone online anytime/anywhere „ Everyone learns anytime/anywhere „ Everyone codes

„ Cloud + Big Data + Smart applications „ Data science, deep data analytics

Thank You! Q&A

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