The Last Lecture - Madison Area Technical College
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The Last Lecture
Perspectives
Past
Present
Allen Schmidt
Future
Beginnings
1966
First MATC D.P. graduates
First programming
course at Whitewater
FORTRAN language
Punched cards, typewriter
Average Cost of new house $14,200.00
Average Income per year $6,900.00
Gas per Gallon
32 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,650.00
Perspective
31 years later, bought a first digital camera
$499.99 (under capital budget)
20 shots
640 X 480 resolution
Within 10 years, cameras better than film
Film disappearing
More memory than the mainframe!
MATC Beginnings
Fall, 1979 (31 years ago)
Average Cost of new house
Average Income per year
Gas per Gallon
Average Monthly Rent
Sony Walkman
1979
$58,100.00
$17,500.00
.86
$ 280.00
$ 200.00
1966
$14,200.00
$6,900.00
.32
2010
Cars - $ 25,000 on average
Google is 11 years old ($550 per share)
Twitter is 4 years old
Facebook has had more hits than Google
(March, 2010)
1979: Downtown MATC
Room 421 of what is now space
No cell phones, personal technology
Shared telephone
Room 422 had ceiling debris falling into it
Hot, blacktop roof
(held a class outside)
Advantage: State Street
(lunch at Rennebohm's)
IT Instructor Office: Room 421 (Currently does not exist)
Room 421
Coding
Listings
Convenient
Handout
Storage
(ladder
needed)
Paper Based
Coding
Sheets?
Room 421
First dollar
Professor
Walski
Whiteout
“Bookcase”
Project 5
Technology
Overhead projector
Card punch
UNIVAC mainframe
2 MB memory
8 hour turnaround time for students
Focus on “desk checking”
Now: Spring 2010: All apps from the
mainframe have been removed
Compared to…
Punched cards
will travel
At Colorado Mountain College (1974 - 1979)
Once a week turnaround
Put card deck and keypunch instructions on a bus
to Glenwood Spring, got a listing back
Second year: System 3
Taught RPG
Systems Analysis
Now: Currently
object-oriented
UML, Ajax and
other advanced
topics
Then:
Taught how to use
a card sorting
machine
Batch processing
Courses
Then
Assembler
COBOL
Fortran (DP Math Analysis 2 – Statistics)
Basic (DP Math Analysis 2 – Statistics)
Computer Concepts
Principles of DP (taught to non-majors)
COBOL and RPG in one course
Computer concepts
Courses
Now
Object-Oriented Web languages
Java
.Net
PHP
HTML
XML
O-O Analysis and design
Oracle
AJAX
iPhone App Development
DPMA & Social Events
Very active chapter
Students (under the leadership of Mary Burns)
held a beer party in the downtown student union,
Scanlon Hall
Spring Picnic was held at Vilas Park
Packed with students
Volunteers received T-shirts
Now: Campus Cookout (the world is safer…)
Lectures
Used overhead projectors
Evening classes went until 8 PM
No in-class labs
Systems analysis course did not have labs
Taught in the Esplanade building across the
street
Economic troubles
Now
Difficult economic times
High unemployment
People need new skills
Re-training older workers
Economic troubles: Farming
Then
First floor of the old MATC Downtown (now space)
(If video does not play, click Farming Video link on Web site)
Grading System
Now
Blackboard provides scores and grades on the Web
Then
We had a automated computer grading system
Produced sorted reports
Feedback for students
Grades were taped on the wall outside the office
For “security” they omitted the name but were in name
order sequence
Identified students by posted social security number
Distractions
Students in 2010 are distracted by the Web
Playing games
Surfing the Web
They get lower grades, or drop the course
Tech-enabled multitasking: A time waste?
About 28 percent of an office worker's time is lost
65 million U.S. knowledge workers
Average knowledge worker's salary: $21+/hour
Interruptions cost the U.S. about $900 billion per year
Out of a gross domestic product of about $14.5 trillion
Distractions
Then
In the 1980s there were also distractions…
Room 386 windows faced the Highway
51 drive-in movie theater
During breaks, watch the movies
Personal Computers
IBM PCs created in 1980
MATC got them in 1984 or so
Advanced: Had dual 5 ¼ inch floppies
No hard drive
Later…
Hard drives
Zip drives
IBM’s OS/2
Virtualization: OS/2 ran Windows 3.1
The impact of all this technological change…
Cyber Waste
3 billion units of consumer electronics will
potentially become scrap between 2003-2010
300 million computers discarded by 2008
Have enough mercury to poison the Great
Lakes 8 times over
Pile of obsolete computers would make a 22
story mountain that covers the city of Los
Angeles
Main Lecture: Data Warehouse
Data is from multiple sources
Must have “data hygiene” getting the data to
conform to the warehouse
The data is usually obtained from many
different sources
Needs to be made uniform
Covers a large span of time
It is organized for queries :
For efficient data retrieval
Around subjects
Data mining software searches for patterns and
trends that are not normally seen
Student Grade Data Warehouse
Personal Project: All students in my classes
Data is from multiple sources
Copied from mainframe
Prior to 1986, scanned, keyed in
After 2002, from Peoplesoft
Data hygiene
Sorted, check for multiple name spelling
Change of name due to marriage, etc.
Added gender
Time span: 1979 - 2010
Results
Number of students taught
Number of class-students
Number of classes taught
Number passing with a specific grade
Number of male/female
Trends by year
Quiz: How many total student in
classes (each student in a class)?
A. 3127
B. 3241
C. 3926
D. 4289
E. 6085
Number of Students
Total class students (one student in one class)
6085
Unique students
3733
Most classes taken by a single student
15 (Randall)
Courses
Without
Labs
Computer
Lab
Courses
Impact
of Y2K
Start of
Advising and
other activities
Courses Taught
Course Name
Systems Analysis
CICS
Programming 3
Advanced Website Development
Systems Design
DP Math 1
Programming 2
Access, Database
Computer Concepts
Principles of DP
Programming 1 Assembler
Website Development
DP Math 2 - Statistics
Online JavaScript
Job Search
Project Management
Count
1601
773
772
598
464
358
340
318
243
178
134
133
110
28
26
9
Quiz: Overall, what percent of
the students have been women?
A. 23%
B. 28%
C. 32%
D. 38%
E. 44%
By Gender
Gender
F
M
Total
Count
2560
3310
5870
Percent
43.6
56.4
Low Number
of IT Jobs
Results:
Results: Time
Time spent correcting projects
Assume 5 projects per class
6085 X 5 =
30,425 projects corrected
Assume 12 minutes average per project
6085 Students
6085 X 5 X 12 =
365,100 minutes
6085
hours
761
8 hour days
4
academic years
(190 days/year)
Results: Time
Time spend lecturing
31 Years
16 weeks of lecture
Average of 15 hours per week of lecture
31 X 16 X 15 = 7440 hours
930 8 hour days
Perspective
However, the focus is on students, each one
as a unique individual
Each one with unique abilities and needs
Watermelon
Mom returning to college
Cornrows
Responsibilities of adult life
Overwhelming at times
Sacrificing a grade
Jobs
The future
What will things nay be like 31 years from now…
Change…
The change of change is changing
Health care
Technology
Education
New devices
New ways of doing things
Change
It is said that 80% of jobs that current kindergarten
children will hold have not yet be invented
New social media degree at MATC
14 years ago, were these jobs available?
Chief Evangelist
Virtual World Bureau Chief
Brand Champion
Senior Interface Hacker
Blogger
Online Audience Development Manager
Social Media Strategists
User Experience Analyst
Change
Would these headlines make sense 5-10 years ago?
“Hackers silence tweets of devoted Twitter users”
“Twitter Execs Assuage Developer Fears at Chirp
Conference”
“How Twitter's Promoted Tweets Will Work”
“The 25 Best iPad Apps”
“Facebook Launches Revamped Safety Center”
Change
Amount of information is expected to double
every 72 hours in 2010
Where will it go from here…
It’s impossible to know all the available
information
With more information, we become more
specialized
Spend more time learning
What we teach is more specialized
Change
Pattern of change
Starts with “Wow, that’s amazing”
Becomes a state-of-the-art feature
Becomes an extra feature
Becomes a ordinary feature
Is commonplace
Change and Disruption
With our technology, disruption occurs
Some beneficial, some not so beneficial
Half of Americans expect newspapers to
become extinct
Who is challenging who…
IBM →Microsoft →Google →Facebook →
What has Netflix done to video rental stores?
GPS systems, location aware Web apps
How will our world change in the next 31
years?
Change
85% of Americans have high-speed internet
Nearly 50% of Americans 12+ years have a
social networking profile (double that of 2
years ago)
80% of 18-24 year old, have online profiles
For the first time, Americans say that the
Internet is the most important medium
Google considers Facebook the only serious
competition
Change: Health Care
Prosthetic arms and legs under control of a
person’s brain
Nanobots: tiny robotic devices that work
internally
May eliminate many serious diseases in
10-15 years
Health Care
Researchers have developed a cocktail of
ingredients that forestalls major aspects of
the aging process
Scientists have unlocked the entire genetic
code of two of the most common cancers
Could revolutionize cancer care
Health Care
The Methuselah Foundation has launched a
new prize to advance life extension and
regenerative medicine
The NewOrgan Prize will be given for
successfully constructing a whole new
organ – heart, kidney, lung, pancreas or
liver - from a patient's own cells
Their goal is to achieve this medical
breakthrough within the next 10 years
Health Care
Smart Pills Could Help Save 218,000 Lives
Each Year
Seeking a way to confirm that patients have
taken their medication
Added a tiny microchip and digestible
antenna to a standard pill capsule
Health Care
New ORNL carbon composite, close to
Synthetic Human Nervous System
Mimicking the human nervous system for
bionic applications
Method developed at Oak Ridge National
Laboratory to process carbon nanotubes
Ultimately, the goal is to duplicate the
function of a living system
Improved health care: longer lives
Current Cause of Death Cumulatively Eliminated Expected Age
None (death rate same at year 2000
80
10% of medically prevented conditions eliminated
88
50% of medically prevented conditions eliminated
151
90% of medically prevented conditions eliminated
512
99% of medically prevented conditions eliminated
1,110
99% of vehicular accidents eliminated
1,490
99% of violent deaths eliminated (homicide. . .)
2,420
99% of non-vehicular accidents eliminated
8,000
Technology
Computer chip that can store an unprecedented
amount of data - enough to hold an entire library
Magnetic nanodots that store one bit of
information on each nanodot
Store over one billion pages of information in a
chip that is one square inch
By 2013 a supercomputer’s computation
capabilities will exceed that of the human brain
By 2049 (estimated), a $1,000 computer will exceed
the computing capabilities of the human race
Brain controlled computing
The headset as both a gaming device and as
an aid for the disabled
$4 million grant from the US Army to study
synthetic telepathy
Involves translating brain waves into
instructions for a computer
Invisibility Cloak?
German scientists created a threedimensional "invisibility cloak" that can
hide objects by bending light waves
Used photonic crystals to make an
invisibility device, or cloak
Uses a class of materials called
metamaterials
Not very big yet: used the cloak to conceal a
small bump on a gold surface
Brain Backup
Copy your brain to a computer?
Swiss scientists and PIT Solution
Working on the Blue Brain Project
World's first comprehensive attempt to reverseengineer the mammalian brain
The $3 billion project is expected to be completed
by 2018
International project
Swiss Federal Institute
Involves several countries
Ethics monitoring by UN bodies
Brain Backup – Questions to Ask
Who will write the code for the backup?
With backup, need a restore program
Brain Backup – Questions to Ask
CRUD
CURD
All stored data has basic operations
Create, Read, Update, Delete
Creating the backup
What about update???
Will you be able to “tweak” the backup?
Summary Thoughts
How do we manage all this change?
Need for a balance in life
Gives greater happiness
Too much change, not enough time for
the things that matter most
Mind has tremendous power
Develop your mental capacity
Think positively
Summary Thoughts
Students have always been our focus at
MATC
Treated as individuals with many demands
on their time
They are treated as we and our loved ones
would like to be treated
Summary Thoughts
We teach what is called agile development
Focus is on some core concepts, one of
them being humility
As a teacher, always learning
From family
From other faculty
From graduates
From students
Closing: Regrets
Sunshine committee
State called conference
India sister college
Closing: Suggestions For MATC
Faculty need time to upgrade curriculum
Time to learn a new course
Time to development new curriculum
In Conclusion
Great colleagues
A great place to work
Always learning
Great support staff
Live fully
Live
Love
Love what you do, do what you love
Take time to enjoy life