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Which industries need IT workers?
• All industry needs web, database, IT infrastructure and social media
• Most industries also need computing innovation for industry-specific design, solutions, and information management
CS / IT careers aren’t just vastly under-subscribed and critical for
the future of everything,
they are also rewarding, interesting, fulfilling, lucrative and pay well
1 Doctor: $100,000 (average starting salary for a GP) 2 Dentist: $90,000 3 Petroleum engineer: $86,220 (or $58,249 depending on source) 4 Data security analyst: $83,250 5 Lawyer, first-year associate, large firm: $81,750-$89,000 6 Web site developer/user experience designer: $80,000 7 Mobile applications developers: $72,500 8 Chemical engineer: $72,407 9 Financial controller: $70,000 10 Lawyer, first-year associate, midsize firm: $64,000-$77,500 11 Lawyer, first-year associate, small/midsize firm: $63,250-$68,500 12 Industrial/mechanical engineer: $61,944 13 Mining engineer: $59,612 14 Accountant: $58,750 15 Nurse: $55,000 16 Banking/finance: 17 Geologist/geophysicist (in the petroleum industry): $53,058 18 Web designer: $49,980 19 Database analyst: $48,056 20 Lawyer, first-year associate, small firm: $48,000-$65,250
2012 starting salaries (source: globe and mail)
2012 starting salaries (source: globe and mail)
1 Doctor: $100,000 (average starting salary for a GP) 2 Dentist: $90,000 3 Petroleum engineer: $86,220 (or $58,249 depending on source) 4 Data security analyst: $83,250 5 Lawyer, first-year associate, large firm: $81,750-$89,000 6 Web site developer/user experience designer: $80,000 7 Mobile applications developers: $72,500 8 Chemical engineer: $72,407 9 Financial controller: $70,000 10 Lawyer, first-year associate, midsize firm: $64,000-$77,500 11 Lawyer, first-year associate, small/midsize firm: $63,250-$68,500 12 Industrial/mechanical engineer: $61,944 13 Mining engineer: $59,612 14 Accountant: $58,750 15 Nurse: $55,000 16 Banking/finance: 17 Geologist/geophysicist (in the petroleum industry): $53,058 18 Web designer: $49,980 19 Database analyst: $48,056 20 Lawyer, first-year associate, small firm: $48,000-$65,250
CS / IT careers benefit society
Student Interests combined with computer science leads to
Innovative Careers
Healthcare + CS / IT
• Medical informatics • Telehealth • Diagnostics • Nursing informatics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqESR7E4b_8
Science + CS / IT• Bioinformatics • Environmental
Monitoring • High-Energy Particle
Physics • Mathematical
Modelling
Criminal Justice + CS / IT• Biometrics • Digital forensics • Information Security • Cyberterrorism,
cyberwar, and cyberespionage
Humanities + CS / IT• Digital art practice • Computer composition
and performance • Deep literature analytics • 3d printing for animation • Video games
Education + CS / IT• Educational technology • Instructional design • Assistive technology • e-learning, online
learning, and distance education
Business + CS / IT• Entrepreneurs and startups • Management information
systems • Database security • Network design and
management • Business Intelligence
Choose-your-own CS/IT career:• Take your interests • Add "digital" or
"informatics" • Invent new career • … • profit
Sports! Cars!
Art! Music!
Digital Art! Music Informatics!
Sports Informatics! Digital Cars!
Computers and Robots are
traditional careers
“Humans need not apply” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
15 minutes. Worth watching
poised to replace
Computers and Robots are
traditional careers
“Humans need not apply” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
15 minutes. Worth watching
already replacing
45% of the workforce is in jobs that could easily be automated by robots with today’s
artificial intelligence
Machine Creativity
• Computers write music for movies, computers write jokes, computers write thousands of pages of sports journalism, business strategy, and legal discovery.
Automated Sports JournalismTuesday was a great day for W. Roberts, as the junior pitcher threw a perfect game to carry Virginia to a 2-0 victory over George Washington at Davenport Field.
Twenty-seven Colonials came to the plate and the Virginia pitcher vanquished them all, pitching a perfect game. He struck out 10 batters while recording his momentous feat. Roberts got Ryan Thomas to ground out for the final out of the game.
Tom Gately came up short on the rubber for the Colonials, recording a loss. He went three innings, walked two, struck out one, and allowed two runs.
The Cavaliers went up for good in the fourth, scoring two runs on a fielder's choice and a balk.
Turing: 9 objections to AI (1950)• Religious: Computers will never have a soul
• Head in the sand: It’s too terrible to think about
• Mathematical: Godel’s incompleteness theorem
• Consciousness: "not until a machine can write a sonnet or compose a concerto because of thoughts and emotions felt…”
• Disabilities: there will never be a computer that can ___
Turing: 9 objections to AI (1950)• Originality: a computer can only do what we program it
to do
• Continuity: computers are digital but brains are analog
• Informality of behaviour: any system governed by laws is predictable
• ESP (we’ll let this one slide…)
Creativity and intelligence“Computers will never be intelligent because they never will be able to be kind, resourceful, beautiful, friendly, have initiative, have a sense of humor, tell right from wrong, make mistakes, fall in love, enjoy strawberries and cream, make someone fall in love with it, learn from experience, use words properly, be the subject of its own thought, have as much diversity of behaviour as a man, do something really new.”
Against the “argument from disability”• a computer can be programmed to make mistakes
• a computer can be programmed to observe its own processes
• a computer can be programmed to learn from experience
• a computer can be programmed to be friendly
The Platform Shift is over
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End of Moore’s Law• RAM speed topped out int 1965, Disk speed
is making a jump to SSD, but it’s also flat.
• Clock speed topped out in 2003
• More processors is only useful if programmers write well-threaded code (which we don’t)
• Latest chip processes are close to heat limits
• improvements will come from software, not hardware
End of Work• As robots and AI displace more jobs,
unemployment may surpass depression-era rates
• Computing jobs will thrive, until they too will be replaced
• What does the world look like when most of us don’t work to make money?
End of Community• Social Media Fragmentation = end of a singular
shared experience
• More and more smaller and smaller networks with specialized content, intent, policy, and agenda
• More confirmation bias and more insulation from the rest of the world
• More polarization of opinions and ideas
End of Privacy
• Ashley Madison hack
• Online sites cannot be trusted with private information
• Millennials are comfortable with limited (or no) privacy, as long as tradeoffs are valuable
End of Advertising • flash advertising hurts website load time
• Many people use ad-blocking on desktop sites
• Mobile platforms now support ad blocking technology
• Sites with invasive ads (eg popups) will lose money and traffic, Sites with targeted and subtle ads (eg Facebook) will succeed
• If ads power the web, ad-blocking = upheaval
• 8 emerging technologies that are becoming popular (as seen at STEMfest)
• What is the role of the programmer
• How will they be seen by the public
Future of tech
3d Printers
• Constructing Commodities, personalization
• Depends on ability to design in 3d
• Copyright,design ownership, supply chain, marketing will change
• many STEM applications
Personal Drones
• Airborne cameras, many STEM applications
• Dichotomy between perceptions
• Laws are keeping up this time
Internet of Things
• Still looking for a killer app / compelling use case
• many STEM applications
• Real-time monitoring of the world
Wearables and Health Technology
• Health data is lower-quality but continuous
• Integrated health tracking with mobile devices
• Datasets in the thousands rather than the tens
• many STEM applications
Virtual Reality
• Getting better, more immersive
• Platform fragmentation, but common formats
• Content is missing
• STEM applications
Virtual Reality Content Creation
• Content creation for VR
• New kinds of selfies, videos, travel photos, training, promotion, etc
• STEM
Self-Driving Cars
• Millions of autonomous miles
• 2 accidents in the last month, caused by human drivers
• Can replace human drivers, are better than human drivers
• Driving won’t go away, but most people won’t drive
Augmented Reality
• Google glass was a problem
• Microsoft Hololens is promising
• Medical, industrial, gaming applications
• STEM