My talk at UCSC research symposium about computing, wso2 and research work we do.

1. Computing: Industry, Research
and inventing the Future
Srinath Perera, Ph.D.
Director, Research

2. 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/66659
55101/

3. 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/

4. 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

5. 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?

6. Does that work in SL?

7. WSO2 as a Casestudy
• Opensource
• Middleware
Product Company
• 350+ Employees
• Funded by Intel
Capital, Quest
Software and now
Cisco
• 30+ doing Ph.D.

8. Performance
• Message mediation and
ESB
• Achieved by simple idea
• We were and are the
fastest around

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. 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.