Computing: Industry, Research and inventing the Future

Srinath Perera, Ph.D.Director, Research

Computing is Omnipresent

• It is everywhere – like Math• Do a Ph.D. in any field, 50%

time you will program• 3rd Pillar of science (beside

theory and experimentation) – All science are becoming

computer science– Simulations and analysis– Large data analysis http://www.flickr.com/photos/x1brett/

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Backed by very Strong Industry

• High tech companies (profit)– Apple 44B$– Microsoft 16B$– Intel 11B$ – Google 10B$ – Oracle 10B$

• Start up culture and VC funds http://www.flickr.com/photos/stars6/4381851322/

Few Good ideas can change the World

• Google – digitize and search all the data

• Apple – redefine digital experience

• Amazon – redefine retail and cloud computing

• Facebook – connect people

Think Outside the box

• What is the fastest way to get 10 petabytes from here to Jaffna?– Assuming 10Gb

network, 83 days to copy a 1PB

• How can you collect data from sensors in Artic?

Does that work in SL?

WSO2 as a Casestudy

• Opensource • Middleware

Product Company • 350+ Employees • Funded by Intel

Capital, Quest Software and now Cisco

• 30+ doing Ph.D.

Performance

• Message mediation and ESB

• Achieved by simple idea• We were and are the

fastest around

Multi-tenancy

• Idea of virtual servers within physical servers.

• We are one of the few who have real deep multi-tenancy.

• Key to be the platform for a Large Airplane manufacturer

Complex Event Processing• Making Sense of data in

streaming fashion• WSO2 Siddhi, initially final

year project from MRT, written by people just like you.

• Now fastest opensource CEP Engine around, can process millions of events per second.

• Used by top brands

Parting thoughts• One man can take a horse to

water, but ten cannot make it drink.

• Remember the difference between theoretician and an engineer.

• Key to innovation is not the time you said “Euraka” rather when you says “this is fishy”

• Never argue over something you can verify with 10 minutes of coding

It is exiting time to be alive• Go for it, you are the best and

brightest SL has to offer, so if you did not, no one else will.

who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the

triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least

fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with

those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.