Innovation Europe 2005: JRP Townhall Outline
June 14, 2005
- Innovation is alive and well
- This is not new and it is global and is very much European
- Many examples
- Building of Zaragoza by Romans 2,000 years ago
- Scanning Tunneling Microscope
- Dr. Gerd Binnig (German) and Dr. Heinrich Rohrer (Swiss) at IBM Research in 1986
- Nobel prize winners
- Set the stage for nanotechnology
- World Wide Web at CERN in 1989
- Formation of Opera Software in 1994
- The Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
- Being built at CERN near Geneva
- Largest scientific instrument on the planet
- Begins operations in 2007
- Will produce roughly 15 Petabytes (15 million Gigabytes) of data annually
- 5000 scientists in some 500 research institutes and universities worldwide
- Mission of the LHC Computing Project (LCG) is to build and maintain a data storage and analysis infrastructure
- For the entire high energy physics community that will use the LHC.
- CERN openlab
- Collaboration between CERN and industrial partners
- Develop data-intensive Grid solutions
- To be used by the worldwide community of scientists working at the LHC
- Data - several million gigabytes a year
- Computing environment thousands of times more powerful
- The Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) project
- Funded by the European Commission
- Aims to build on recent advances in grid technology
- A service grid infrastructure which is available to scientists 24 hours-a-day
- The Drug Discovery application running on EGEE aims to find potential new drugs to combat malaria
- Healthcare@Home
- e-diamond
- Although not new, we must change the way we innovate
- More open
- Most innovations of the current century were developed in relative isolation
- Age of transparency is here
- First generation of digital children
- Not as many secrets as there used to be
- More openness leads to more competitiveness
- Compete on execution and customer service
- Standards based
- Zebra printer example
- 2 kilo laptop; 5 kilos of phone and power adapters
- Cars with different steering and trains with different sized tracks
- XML Espanol; XML Deutsch
- Proprietary is a thing of the past
- Adopt open standards and compete on execution and customer service
- More collaborative
- Silos need to go away
- The more we share, the more we gain
- Gamers are leading the way: butterfly.net
- Borrow a kid and learn from them
- More global
- The best ideas can come from anywhere
- Key is to act on them; not necessarily to own them
- Chinese idea, Romanian developers, American capital, German company, Scandinavian marketing
- Inside Out instead of Outside in
- Power to the people
- The Internet has transferred power. Walk in their shoes.
- Ever get the feeling that some web sites are designed for the needs of the organization not the user?
- Role of government?
- Can help but can't stop
- Expo 2008 and ZH2O good examples of European governments leading
- LHC and eGee funded by EU
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