IT Curriculum Development in the Current Chaotic State of Technology

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IT Curriculum Development in the Current Chaotic
State of Technology

• Prof (Dr) RATTAN K. DATTA

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Contents

• Introduction
• Three Laws of Technology
• Convergence of Technology
• Fourth Law
• Philosophy of Dynamic Curriculum Development
• Conclusions

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TECHNOLOGY IN THE SERVICE OF MANKIND

• I keep six Honest Serving Men they taught me all
  I knew their name are What and Why and When and
  How and Where and Who.
• Rudyard Kipling

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SCIENCE
PHYSICS Newton, Archemedese Einstein, De
Broglie, PLANK Neil Bohr
CHEMISTRY
LIFE SCIENCES
CLASSICAL
Contd..(b)
QUANTUM MECHANICS
ELECTRICITY William Gilbert Dufay Frictional
Electricals 1546-1603
1698-1739 Franklin Benjamin (1706 1790) Michael
Faraday (1791 1867) Edison (1882) Light Bulb
Contd.(a)
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Contd. (a)
CHEMISTRY
MORSE Message RADIO Transmission TV
Transmission Heinrieh Hertz (1887) MARCONI
(1897) John Legia Baird (1925)
ELECTRONICS Lee de Fleming (1904) DIODE Forest
TRIODE Transistor (1948) IC (1958)
MICRO ELECTRONICS
COMPUTING
ETE
Contd.(b)
INSTUMENTATION
NANO Technology
TOP DOWN APPROACH
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Introduction

• IT is growing in its application almost in an
  exponential mode
• Besides the increase in the complexity and
  processing power the size is shrinking and price
  is sharply decreasing, making the system
  affordable and easily transportable.
• The rapid expansion of bandwidth and fast
  improvement in connectivity are governed by
  Gilder Metcalfs Law respectively.
• 4th law of technology
• A strategy for dynamic development of curriculum
  to enable the youth entering industry to face
  this chaotic growth.

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Three laws of Technology

• The chaotic state of growth in this technology
  has been often explained through working together
  of three laws of Technology, namely,
• Moores Law
• Gilders Law
• Metcalfes Laws.

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1st Law of Technology

• Moores Law (Gordon Moore of INTEL)
• The processing power of microchip doubles every
  18 months (2 years) Price halves for the same
  level of computing power.

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MOORES LAW IN OPERATION
DENSITY OF TRANSISTERS IN ICs WILL DOUBLE AT
REGULAR INTERVALS OF 2YEARS ACTUAL 18 MONTHS.
PENTIUM
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• THUS SINCE 1945- FIRST COMPUTER ENIAC-1 THE
  PROGRESS HAS BEEN PHENOMENAL.
• INTERESTING
• SPEED OF PROCESSING INCREASES BY A FACTOR OF 10
  EVERY 5 YEARS.
• PRICE DECREASES 40 P.C PER YEAR.

PRICE Rs/K BIT OF MEMORY
PROCESSING POWER
YEARS
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2nd Law of Technology

• Gilders Law by George Gilder
• The total bandwidth of communication system
  triples every 12 months. (Price decreases)
• 1960s bandwidth 25 bauds
• 1970s bandwidth 1000 bps
• 1980s bandwidth 64000 bps
• 1990s bandwidth gt 256,000 bps
• 2008/09 bandwidth gt 2,000,000 bps

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3rd Law of Technology

• Metcalfes Law (Robert Metcalfe)
• Originator of Ethernet founder of 3com.
• The value of a network is proportional to the
  square of the number of nodes so, as a network
  grows, the value of being connected to it grows.
  (Price of getting connected decreases)

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Convergence of the 3 Laws of Technology
Metcalfes LAW (Power of Networking)
MOOREs LAW (Processing Speed)
Gilders LAW (Increasing Bandwidth)
NEW PARADIGM / INITIATIVE
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3 Laws Working Together

• Sooner than later Individuals using 100s of
  Computers/Chips embedded in body through
  insertion, special body wear connected through
  PAN WIFI connection to the internet. Closely
  resembling human neuron connection.
• Personal intelligence likely grow with
  availability of vast knowledge through internet.
• Embedded systems will expand availability of
  entertainment media at any place time on
  demand.
• Industrial business processes automation will
  also significantly expand embedded intelligence
  and connectivity.

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ATTRACTERS OF TECHNOLOGY CONVERGENCE
Commerce
Health Bio-Informatics
Academics
Food
Entertainment Including Edu-Ent
Defense
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4th Law-Our Creation
Technologists and scientists are encouraged to
spend just 10 percent extra resources and time in
planning and envisaging the end result which
should lead to efficient, economically affordable
and green eco-friendly technology. Ethics value
systems are more important in the current global
scenario than a few extra gold coins.
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How to Face This Technological Convergence?

• Areas to Safeguard
• - Fast obsolescence with fast development
• - Security Vs Privacy
• - Value System (ethics) Vs Competition
• - Challenges of Chaotic development Vs
  opportunity for creating better planet
• Our Planet Earth is like proverbial Golden
  Goose which provides all of us golden Eggs in the
  form of resources.
• In this environment of competition, fast
  development greed, let us remember value
  systems to keep nurturing the goose to share the
  gifts.
• 10 extra efforts/resources can help to innovate
  green technology. Let us do that.

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Futurist Points to Ponder

• When looking at future, the What is more
  predictable than When and How will always
  feel different than predicted.
• Thomas Frey
• (Futurist)
• The every house in 2010 will have 100 computers
  embedded in all kinds of appliances and amenities
  and mostly networked to each other and to the
  web.
• Glen Heimstra
• Talking Computers will replace written languages
  by 2050
• William Crossman
• The age of reason has ended and now we must
  organize around chaos.
• Watts Wacker

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Balance between the Development and overall
impact on Ecosystem of 4th Law
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Philosophy of Dynamic Curriculum Development

• Semester 1 2 - Homogeneity
• (Basic
  Science Mathematics)
• Semester 3 4 - Core Papers
• Semester 5 6 - Streams
• Semester 7 - Emerging Areas
• Semester 8 - Major Projects

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Conclusion

• In this presentation a procedure has been
  suggested to develop curriculum to meet the
  challenges of rapid development fast
  obsolescence. Lessons have been derived from the
  three laws of technology, chaotic growth with
  attractors. A 4th law on Ethics has been
  formulated.
• It is believed that this strategy will help
  student community to better face the impact of
  rapid development of technology as well as fast
  obsolescence.

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Thank You
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