Transcript FAU Android Group

CSI
(Center for Systems Integration)
Teaching application development,
Building Research Collaborations,
interacting with industry and academia, and
encouraging social entrepreneurship.
Ravi Shankar, PhD, MBA, PE, Fellow (AHA)
Professor, College of Engineering and Computer Science
Francis X McAfee, MFA
Associate Professor, College of Arts and Letters
Don Ploger, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Education
Michael Harris, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Arts and Letters
Ravi S Behara, PhD
Associate Professor, College of Business
Florida Atlantic University, FL
Center for Systems Integration
• Formed in 1993 - with funding from Motorola Paging & NSF
• Funding: from industry and federal sources - $4.3 M
• Recent Grants:
– OPP (One Pass to Production) from iDEN, Motorola, at $1.1 M
– SBA (Small Business Administration) at $123 K
• Recent Submissions:
– NSF - Robotics in Math Education - $450K, 8/12 – 8/14
– NSF – Partnership for Innovation – Semantic Web Research - $600K – 1/13- 12/14
• Planned Submissions: NSF /TUES – May 2012 – Android Projects - $200K
• Current Focus: Mobile, Web, and Complex Systems
• Philosophy: Open Source, Multi-Disciplinary Collaboration, Social
Entrepreneurship, industry alliance, and small business formation by our
students
• See www.csi.fau.edu, android.fau.edu, robotics.fau.edu,
semanticweb.fau.edu
Success Stories (past two years)
• Several Multidisciplinary courses:
– Android Apps– ~325 High school, UG, Grad, Engineers
– (Spring 2012 – Four way collaboration – 65 students)
– Robotics - ~45 UG and Grads; 15 High school (Sp’12)
– Semantic Web - ~40 Grad students
• Steve Jobs’ way: Integrate technology, art,
humanities, business, innovation, research, and
education, as appropriate
• Key Additions: Use all open source tools; leverage
university infrastructure; and
• Market Apps to raise revenue for authors & university
ESP Course for High School Students (Su 2010)
• Provided high school students
chance to learn application
development---promotional,
artistic, and programming.
• Encouraged
entrepreneurship/commerciali
zation.
• 7 Game Apps to be
marketed
http://android.fau.edu/
ESP Course (Su ‘11): 30 students (9 High Schools)
Marketable Applications: 7+
http://vimeo.com/album/1660512
Summer 2011: Falafel Copter
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Physiology and Impact of
Diet on body shape
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Back Exercise Animation
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Methodology ( Past 2 years)
• Driving Factors: NSF Funding Criteria – Broad Impact,
Intellectual Merit, STEM, Integration of Resch & Education,
Diversity, Dissemination, Sustenance, and Assessment, (in
addition to a good scientific/technical proposal).
• Strategic Decision made to address these issues and Apply
OPP principles (to significantly increase design productivity)
developed with Motorola grant. See www.csi.fau.edu
• The experience, however, has been truly rewarding in its own
right!
• Teaching: 425 (High school to Graduate) Students & Business
--- ‘STEM’ Focus
• App Development: Games, Social Impact, Educational
• Others: Chess Robotics, Semantic Web
• ALL Open Source Tools: Code/Designs available; community help & service
Methodology (2 years)….
• Collaborations: with arts & letters, education, business
• Soon others: nursing, urban planning, and science
• Websites (FAU and Student Blog Sites): -- ‘Dissemination’
• android.fau.edu (100K+ hits), robotics.fau.edu, semanticweb.fau.edu
• New – student and team blog sites: free wordpress.com
• Business Ventures: -- ‘Broad Impact’
• 4 Student companies – Engineering & Business Majors; University
relationship (Appstractions, Mobilitude, DroidTroiz, Pathway Media)
• 2nd prize in university business competition; FAU Owl Radio; NSF partner;
and Video Clips
• Commercialization: -- ‘ Sustenance’
• 14 Apps to be marketed (by Su ‘12)
• Goals: Revenue for the authors and self-sustenance
• Proposals submitted: 4 to NSF (not funded); 1990s: 3 funded
• Led to this re-thinking
• Now, better infrastructure and higher probability
Proposal
• Wish to use my sabbatical leave during Fall ‘12-Sp’13 for this
• Build CSI (Consortium for Small Scale Innovations)
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Leverage our experience with mobile systems
Help /contribute to building a different type of infrastructure
multi-college and multi-university collaborations
Involve high schools, enhance STEM and diversity goals
Build and market Apps; and share revenue with authors
Seed research collaboration of these authors/groups; and submit proposals
• Relevant Potential Submissions:
• Large multi-institutional proposals on STEM to NSF/ DoEd - $2M / 5 years
• Healthy Aging Focus : IGERT – Integrative Graduate Education & Research Traineeship
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2011/nsf11533/nsf11533.htm - 5/13, 7/13, $3.3 M/ 5 years.
“Collaborative research that transcends traditional disciplinary boundaries”
• Smart Health and Wellbeing: Empowered Individuals; Sensors, Devices,
and Robotics. 2/13, $200 K to $2 M, 2 to 5 Years
http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2012/nsf12512/nsf12512.pdf -
Other NSF Links
• http://www.nsf.gov/about/budget/fy2013/Pri
nt%20By%20Tab%20PDFs/24-NSFwide_Investments_fy2013.pdf
• http://www.nsf.gov/news/strategicplan/nsfstr
ategicplan_2011_2016.pdf
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2. Social Impact Games: Engineering Undergraduates
Collaboration with Arts & Letters: Anthropology and Fine Arts (Sp’11)
Spring 2012: Four way collaboration, including Business
College, and students from four disciplines (60 Students)
3. Android Chess Robotics: Undergrads and 9-12
Collaborators: Education, Arts & Letters, and High Schools, STEM Focus
Kits and Apps
NSF DRK-12 submitted
Fall 2011: Undergraduate Engineering course on Robotic Art
Spring 2012: Mechatronics for Pre-Engineering high school students
http://truther2faurobotics.wordpress.com/
http://robotics.fau.edu/
4. Smart Web Applications :
Combining Semantic and Intelligent Web concepts
Example from Fall ‘10: Android Off-Road Trail : Using Geonames
Integration of Open Source
Tools & Standards: Jena,
Lucene, Protégé, Nutch,
Jade, RDF, OWL, SWRL,
SPARQL, Solr, etc
Focus of NSF/PFI:
Partnership for Innovation
Fall 2011 Apps: Academic and Medical - Focus on Personal Empowerment
http://semanticweb.fau.edu/
http://fwythedabney.wordpress.com/