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Imagination and Innovation in IT
1. Imagination is More Important than
Knowledge
Asst. Prof. Dr. Kanda Runapongsa Saikaew
Computer Engineering
Khon Kaen University
Thailand
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2. Agenda
Imagination is more important than knowledge
The need of imagination in IT
The top 10 innovations of the decade
The birth of some important innovations
Conclusion
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16. Imagine IT without Imagination …
No talk with many friends No knowing news without
without transportation reading newpapers
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17. Origins of the Internet
1957 - Russia launches the first satellite into space -
Sputnik.
The U.S. responds by forming the Advanced
Research Projects Agency (ARPA) designed to give
the U.S. a lead in using science and technology
applicable to the military.
1968 - Larry Roberts wrote the first design plans for
ARPANET
1969 - ARPANET (the Internet) - was designed in
response to the cold war
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21. The Invention of World Wide Web
What drove Tim Berners-Lee to imagine this game-
changing model for information sharing?
Tim Berners-Lee was a software consultant
at CERN in the 1980s when he began writing
Tangle, an application to help him keep track of
CERN's many scientists, projects and
incompatible computers
He thought it would be a whole lot simpler if
the computers could swap their information
directly, even though, at that time, computers
didn't communicate with one another.
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22. The Web
The Web turned out to be the killer app of all time
The three main innovations
HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)
Allows you to click on a link and be brought to that Web page
URLs (Universal Resource Locators)
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23. The Web
HTML (Hypertext Markup Language)
Gives you the ability to put links in documents and
pages so they connect
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24. The Birth of Google
Larry Page noticed that while it was trivial to follow
links from one page to another, it was nontrivial to
discover links back
He thought it would be useful to know who was linking to
whom
Academics build their papers on a carefully constructed
foundation of citation
Each paper reaches a conclusion by citing previously
published papers as proof points that advance the
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25. Project BackRub
Larry Page and Sergey Brin's attempts to reverse
engineer Berners-Lee's World Wide Web that led to
Google
The needle that threads these efforts together is
citation brings us back to the original research Page
did on such backlinks, a project he came to call
BackRub
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26. The Birth of Google
Page came up with the concept of weighted ranking,
while Brin (left) figured out the math
PageRank worked by analyzing links, the bigger the
Web, the better the engine
That fact inspired the founders to name their new
engine Google, after googol, the term for the numeral
1 followed by 100 zeroes
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27. The Revolution of a Phone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone that was
used by virtually every human on earth
You can use a smart phone to record and view events
You can also share your clip video to the whole world’s
population via a phone
You can read emails, play games, and join social network
via a phone
You can also edit and view the documents on a phone
You can share comments and recommendations about
whatever you have seen
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30. The Birth of iPod
Tony Fadell had an idea to take an MP3 player,
build a Napster music sale service to
complement it, and build a company around it
“This is the project that's going to remold Apple
and 10 years from now, it's going to be a music
business, not a computer business," Fadell
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31. The Birth of iPhone by Steve Jobs
We all had cell phones. We just hated them,
they were so awful to use. The software was
terrible. The hardware wasn't very good
It was a great challenge. Let's make a great
phone that we fall in love with
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32. Thank you
krunapon@kku.ac.th
http://twitter.com/krunapon
http://gotoknow.org/blog/krunapon
http://gear.kku.ac.th/~krunapon
kanda.runapongsa@googlewave.com
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