Seven IT Ideas To Change our

World
Russell Sutherland
University of Toronto
ITS Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions
russell.sutherland@utoronto.ca

CANHEIT 2015
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What is a University?

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The Academy Exists to (freely):
Collect/Retain/Archive
Develop/Research and
Share/Teach
Knowledge and Ideas

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What is a University?

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Why the topic?

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 Infinite Storage

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 Zero Cost Storage

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Ample & Affordable
Bandwidth

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Ubiquitous Smartphones

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 Cray XMP
2 GFlops

iPhone 5
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The Library Problem

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circa. 1980

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2015

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2015++

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SMS/GPS

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txt the ref. num.

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directions to the library

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directions to the shelf

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Digitize Everything*

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Are we providers or
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Acknowledge and Embrace
the Crowd

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without ignoring the
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Acknowledge and Embrace
the Crowd

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 Crowdsourcing
of this Presentation

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User driven and delegated
network security

Allan Stojanovic, ITS

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Live Resource Availability
Phil Poulos,
Bryan Karney
Fac. of Engineering

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Crowdfunding of
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 Crowd/Peer
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 Build/Purchase a Shared
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Big Data and Meta Data

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Social Media & Geodata

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London

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New York

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Las Vegas

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Intelligent Buildings
and the Internet of
Everything

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