CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN WIRELESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

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CENTER FOR EXCELLENCEIN WIRELESS AND
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
2005 AND BEYOND
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The IT Revolution is Ongoing

• From alphabet to printing press
• From world maps to GIS and GPS
• From telephone and radio to wireless and
  cybernetics
• Computer to internet
• Gene research to bioinformatics

• This revolution has reshaped economic,
• social, cultural and political boundaries

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Waves of Technological Progress

• British Industrial Revolution (1760
  1850)Rolling process for making ironCromptons
  mule for spinning cottonWatts steam engine
• Second Industrial Revolution (1890 1930)Use of
  electricityInternal combustion engineChemical
  industry
• Birth of IT The Third Industrial Revolution

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Stock Market Value
Market Value of Firms/GDP
Total Value of Shares
Stock Market Value relative to GDP
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Growth in IT Shares
Share ()
Share of computers and software in real equipment
investment
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Growth in Prosperity

• Over the last decade, IT has accounted for
  one-third of the growth in the US economy
• More than 15,000 jobs on Long Island and more
  than half a million jobs nationally over the last
  few years
• Paychecks 75 larger than average private sector
  jobs

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What is Ahead
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What is Ahead

• Smart Materials
• Continuous body function monitoring
• Targeted non-invasive drug delivery
• Pervasive sensors and display (wearable,
  structural)
• Weather-responsive shelters
• Shape-changing vehicle components
• Seamless virtual reality
• This Will Effect
• Improved life span
• Improved life quality and health
• Increased energy efficiency and reduced
  environmental effects
• Continued growth of entertainment industries

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What is Ahead

• Integrated Microsystems
• Laboratory analysis-on-a-chip
• Pervasive sensors (biological, chemical, optical,
  etc.)
• Micro- and nano-satellites
• Micro-robots
• This Will Effect
• Facilitate drug discovery, genomic research,
  chemical analysis and synthesis
• Chemical and biological weapons detection and
  analysis
• Huge device cost reductions
• Possible proliferation of controlled processing
  capabilities (e.g., nuclear isotope separation)

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What is Ahead

• Information Technology
• Photonics bandwidth, computation
• Universal connectivity
• Ubiquitous computing
• Pervasive sensors
• This Will Effect
• E-commerce dominance
• Creative destruction in industry
• Continued globalization
• New digital divides

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What is Ahead

• IT and Genetics
• Revolution in genetic manipulation
• Plants and animals for food and drug production
• Organs and organic compounds
• Gene therapy
• This Will Effect
• Longer life span
• Improved life quality and health
• Improved crop yields and drought tolerance
• Reduced pesticide and deforestation for farming
• Possible ecosystem changes

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What is Ahead

• Wireless Technology
• Ad hoc wireless networks
• Pervasive computing
• Wireless medical applications
• Neighborhood community networks
• RFID becoming pervasive in transportation and
  logistics and in retail
• This Will Effect
• Mobile self-configuring and secure emergency
  communication systems
• Effective homeland security
• Cost-effective connectivity world-wide
• Sensor systems to improve human health,
  cost-effective medical service and environmental
  monitoring
• Revolution in transportation and logistics and in
  retail industry
• Pervasive computing world-wide

• Location sensitive internet
• Secure systems
• Global roaming

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What is Ahead

• Convergence of Bio, Nano and Wireless
• Major advances at interfaces of different fields
• Major progress in structural and computational
  biology
• Neural networks and neural imaging
• Bio instrumentation
• Bio materials and tissues
• Biological pattern formation
• Nano structured silicon
• Protein docking
• This Will Effect
• Non-invasive diagnostics for osteoporosis
• Bone generation
• Interactive visualization and exploration of
  human organs
• New vaccines
• DNA sequencing

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CEWIT Vision

• To be recognized world-wide as the leader in
  wireless and information technologies and in
  creating new industrial enterprises based on
  these technologies

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Role of CEWIT

• This Center of Excellence is going to help make
  Long Island an international powerhouse in
  high-technology research and economic growth.
  The work performed at SUNY Stony Brook in
  partnership with other academic and industry
  leaders will lead to the development of cutting
  edge technologies and innovative new products,
  while also bringing the new high-tech jobs of the
  21st century right here to Long Island.

• Governor George Patakiat Stony BrookNew York
  State Commitment

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CEWIT Planned Facility

• 100,000 sq. ft. facility
• Wireless home/wireless city
• 22 new laboratoriesHigh throughput
  computingSystems integrationWireless
  multimediaRobotic wireless networksAnechoic
  chamberClean roomPrototype fabricationWireless
  sensorsOptical communicationEmbedded wireless
  communication
• Usability
• RF systems

Wireless virtual realityComputer
visionMassive storageCyber securityNetwork
test bedEmerging softwareBio-informaticsExpress
ive networksMicrowave sensorsHybrid
network/mobile computing
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Progress Report

• Construction to start early 2006
• Presently 10,00 sq. ft. on university campus
• More than 80M in federal and industry research
  grants, equipment, venture capital
• About 326 projects with industry
• Center has created about 2,100 direct and
  indirect jobs
• 38 faculty members, 190 PhD and 180 MS students
• 11 patents issued as of June 30, 2005

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CEWIT Will Lead

• Convergence of bio, nano and wireless

• It will indeed help create economic prosperity
  and raise the standard of living.