Transcript Mobile Technology Consortium (MTC): An Industry

Mobile Technology Consortium (MTC):
An Industry-University Alliance
Presenter ( 3rd author): R. Shankar, Engineering, FAU, Boca Raton,
FL
[email protected], (561) 297-3470
Co-Authors: J. Borras, Motorola Senior Fellow and Former CTO,
Motorola iDEN, and President of MTC
and
Borko Furht, Professor and Chair, CEECS, and Director, NSF I/UCRC
Center
“Systemness at an Anchor Institution” – Dr. Zimpher, Chancellor, SUNY
7/17/2015
CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ
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Tracing the History
MTC
Motorola
iDEN Division (15+)
2003-2008:
One–to-one
Motorola: $1.1 M
OPP R&D Project at FAU
CSI (30+). See csi.fau.edu
2009-Present:
Professionals as mentors
Many –to-many
Artists, engineers, & entrepreneurs SBA: $130 K
(27 Marketable Apps)
Multi-college App courses
Android, Robotics, Sem Web
6 joint courses, 589 students
Multiple High Tech Businesses
MTC Networking
Industrial Advisory Board
NSF: I/UCRC: $1.4M
18 Industry projects
“Whole is greater than the sum of its parts”
Industry R&D Projects
CAKE: IT, Comm., & Comp.
15 faculty & 20 students
“Systemness”
7/17/2015
CIEC Conference, Phoenix, AZ
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Bridging Industry Demand with University Jewels
MTC
• Collaborate and Innovate
• Spin-off New Businesses
• Best Students Match
Mobile Technology Consortium
Sept. 21, 2012
[email protected]
Cell 305-970-3596
Mobile Technology Consortium (MTC)
Vision:
To bridge the university wisdom with the local entrepreneurial
spirit for the growth of mobile technology & user experience
Mission:
To bring together systems companies, small businesses, universities,
and government agencies to evolve next generation mobile technology
platforms, applications and automation.
Goals:
•Collaborate and Innovate
•To identify common needs/topics/projects to help your business.
•To network & help the needs of local entrepreneurs and businesses.
•To review “Hot Technology Topics” to enable emerging businesses.
•To find best students match to your business
Theme: Mobile Opportunities, Start-Ups and VCs
9:00 AM
10:30 AM
1:00 PM
Introductions
Welcome from FIU School of Computing & Information Sciences (SCIS)….Drs. Iyenger/Luis
The State of the Mobile Industry…………..…………..........................................Mr. Jaime Borras
Industry-University Cooperative Research Center Update @ FIU & FAU….Dr. Nathalie Rishe
Business Planning and Sources of Capital……….………………………………………..Mr. Dale Gregory
Assisting Start-Up Companies..………………..…………………………………….…………Dr. Ankur Agarwal
FIU AVCC: Planning the Seeds of Innovation in LatAm…….................……..…Ms. Carla K. Canino
FAU: Adams Center for Entrepreneurship…………………………………………………Mr. Phil Viscomi
Break…………………………………..Next Start-Ups………………………………………………………………..
EGLA Communications & Start-up Week……………………….Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez - CEO
Flomio……………………………………………….……………………….….Mr. Richard Grundy - CEO
Mobile in Health Care.…….………………………………………….….Dr. Faiz Fatteh – CEO of SorenTech
AgileTest – Test Process & Data Management Platform..Mr. Mike Weir – CEO AdventureTech
Mobile Apps on a Budget……………………………………………….Mr. Karl Morris – Co-Founder Colada
Game Developers Guild………………………………………………….Mr. Frank Hernandez – Founder
Tourism Through Technology (API)…………………………………Mr. R. Williams/B. O’Grady
Adjourn
© Mobile Technology Consortium
MTC
MTC Meetings
© Mobile Technology Consortium
MTC
Tracing the History
MTC
Motorola
iDEN Division (15+)
2003-2008:
One–to-one
Motorola: $1.1 M
2009-Present:
Professionals as mentors
Many –to-many
Artists, engineers, & entrepreneurs SBA: $130 K
(27 Marketable Apps)
Multiple High Tech Businesses
Industrial Advisory Board
18 Industry projects
7/17/2015
MTC Networking
NSF: I/UCRC: $1.4M
OPP R&D Project at FAU
CSI (30+). See csi.fau.edu
Multi-college App courses
Android, Robotics, Sem Web
6 joint courses, 589 students
Industry R&D Projects
CAKE: IT, Comm., & Comp.
15 faculty & 20 students
© Mobile Technology Consortium
CIEC Conference, Phoenix,
MTC
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New Trend:
The Entrepreneurial University
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Industry trends: research funding drastically
reduced – chances for universities
Universities can only effectively become
incubators of entrepreneurship and
innovation if they themselves practice
entrepreneurship
This “re-conceptualization” involves nontraditional, often radically different university
arrangements
Our Research and
Innovation Strategy
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NSF Industry/University Cooperative
Research Center (I/UCRC) for Advanced
Knowledge Enablement (CAKE)
Collaboration with R&D Park at FAU
Industry Advisory Boards (College and
Department level)
Creating joint Industry-University
laboratories
Model of the I/UCRC
Industry
partner 1
Industry
partner 3
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Industry
partner 2
Universities
(FIU + FAU)
Industry
partner 4
NSF
Industry partners pay the memberships ($5K to $50K++ per year)
NSF sponsors the Center ($60K to $200K per university per year)
Industry Advisory Board selects the research projects
Industry members select the products for commercialization – no
royalties
Expectations: $750K from NSF + $7.5M from Industry (5 years)
Similar to MIT Media Lab model
NSF-Sponsored I/UCRC Center for
Advanced Knowledge Enablement
FAU SITE with 17 industry members)
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FAU Industry Members (16):
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LexisNexis ($82K + $300K
equipment)
ProntoProgress ($35K)
Wigime, Inc. ($50K)
Relli Technologies ($100K)
SmartVCR, LLC ($50K)
ILS Technology ($75K software)
Avocent/Emerson Corp. ($38K+ 
$30K)
Jansyl Technologies ($5K)
Tecore Networks ($100K)
Aware Technology ($120K software)
Adventure Automation ($15K)
LastBestChance, LLC ($300K)
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Hillers Electrical Engineering ($6K)
Tecore Wireless Systems ($965
equipment)
Soren Technology ($5K +$200K)
Mobile Help ($34K)
Motorola ($25K + $80K equipment)
18 active research projects funded
with total $1.4 M from industry
members and $306K from NSF
Information, Communication, and
Computing, 15 Centers in USA
Center for Autonomic Computing (CAC)
University of Florida, University of Arizona, Rutgers University
Center for Identification Technology Research (CITeR)
West Virginia University, University of Arizona
Center for Information Protection (CIP)
Iowa State University, University of California - Davis - Planned
Center for Advanced Knowledge Enablement
Florida International University, Florida Atlantic University
Center for Embedded Systems - Planned
Arizona State University, University of California - Irvine, Southern Illinois University - Carbondale, Southern Methodist University,
University of North Texas, University of Texas - Dallas, State University of New York - Stony Brook, University of Texas - San Antonio
Center for Experimental Research in Computer Systems (CERCS)
Georgia Institute of Technology, Ohio State University
Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research
University of Maryland - Baltimore County, Georgia Tech, University of California - San Diego
I/UCRC for Intelligent Storage - Planned
University of Minnesota, University of California Santa Cruz
High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing (CHREC)
University of Florida, The George Washington University, Virginia Tech University, Brigham Young University
Center for Software for Ultra Large Systems - Planned
University of Virginia, Michigan State University, Vanderbilt University, University of South Dakota
Wireless Internet Center for Advanced Technology (WICAT)
Polytechnic University, University of Virginia, Auburn University, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Advanced Space Technologies Research and Engineering Center (ASTREC)
University of Florida and North Carolina State University
IAB Meeting
Joint University/Industry Labs
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“Incubator as part of the Department”
Examples – Motorola /OPP (20032008): Developing tools and techniques
for mobile applications. Now, no lab!
Tecore Networks (Jay Salkini) :
Research in mobile and wireless
systems
Pronto Progress (Tim Proksh):
Developing Web services for customers
LastBestChance,LLC (Mike Levine):
$1M for 5 years to work on variety of
innovative mobile products
PartnerCommunity (John Yin)
Collaboration with Companies
in FAU Research Park
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27 companies with
850 high-tech jobs
Incubator with 18
start-up companies
Algorithms for 3D Image
Reconstruction and Segmentation
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Analyze a large dataset of
microscopic imagery and remove
structures that are not part of the
3D calyx of Head
Challenge of the project is to
model the knowledge of the
domain expert, who is capable to
identify and manually eliminate
unwanted structures, into an
innovative software image
processing algorithm
Industry Partner: Max Planck
Florida Institute
Hot Areas of Research
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Mobile Systems and Applications
Assistive Technologies
Personalized Medicine
Cloud Computing
Cyber Security
Data and Web Mining
Medical Informatics & Medical Imaging
Social Networks
Big Data Analytics
Augmented Reality
3D Video Technologies
Bioinformatics and Biotechnology
High-Performance Computing
And more ….
Participants in These Projects
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Professors: Hari Kalva, Ankur Agarwal, Oge
Marques, Dani Raviv, Ionut Cardei
Students: Julie Carmignani, Reena Friedel, Oscar
Figeuroa, David Jaramillo, Esfandiar Zolghadar,
Luis Bradley
Companies: LexisNexis, IBM, Max Planck Florida
Institute, LastBestChance LLC, ILS Technology,
Aware Technology
Other Universities: Florida International University,
University of Maryland Baltimore County
MTC
Summary
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Teaching: Industrial Research  Teaching
Innovation  MTC Member Mentors.
Service: Senior Industry Leader  Retirement 
Formation of MTC  Business–Academia
Networking  IAB  MTC conferences (biannual)
Research: IAB  NSF I/UCRC Center (CAKE) 
Industry Research at the University
My co-authors can help form NSF R&D sites and
MTC Chapters at other universities. I can help
build an appropriate teaching infrastructure.
Thanks!