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Emerging Opportunities
in IT & Software
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The information technology industry is one of the main
pillars of today’s global economy. The breathtaking pace at which this
industry is moving makes it an industry to be astonished as well as concerned
about.
For every one involved in this industry, and especially so
for industry business leaders, it is critical to know what the emerging
opportunities are in this industry and how they / their firms can capitalize
on these future opportunities.
That is what this section of Billion Dollar Questions plans
to do. Analyse the emerging opportunities in IT & Software in depth, and
provide a number of resources that can assist the reader in understanding
these opportunities.
This page – like all the other pages at BillDoll.com, The Billion Dollar Questions
Site - is a work-in-progress and stuff will get added regularly.
Billion Dollar Site Highlights
Web References for Emerging IT & Software
Opportunities
- Emerging Opportunities for Digital Manufacturing – A Market
Forecast Report Summary
- Emerging IT Business Opportunities – An IBM White
Paper for its Business Partners (PDF)
- Rethink the Software Industry – Ray Lane – from
Sadagopan’s Weblog (see also: Future of Software in Enterprises – by
Chris Thomas, also Sadagopan’s
Blog Home Page)
- Emerging Software Technologies Drive Shift to Next-Gen
Data Protection in Storage Sector – from Content
Management 365
- Emerging Software Standards & Technology Blog –
from IBM Developer Works
- Emerging Online Technologies – from Discover
- alphaWorks
– Access to info on IBM’s Emerging Technology division and its projects
- Future of Software as a Service (SaaS) – from Content
Technology CTO Blog
- Future of Software Technology – Interview
with Grady Brooch, Rational Software
- Emerging Business Opportunities – from IBM PartnerWorld
Industry Networks
- Carnegie Mellon Software Industry Center
- a Sloan industry center investigating emerging trends in the
economics, technology and management of the global software industry
- The Evolution of Software Opens New Vistas for Business
– from Info
Security Mag
- Future Trends in Software Architectures for Automotive
Systems – A
Research Paper (PDF)
- Biometrics – Best Practices, Future Trends – from Search
Security
- The Bleeding Edge of Computing – News
Factor Network, Mar 2005
- Inventing the Future – from O’Reilly
Network, Apr 2002
- Blogs
- Information Technology’s Next Inflexion Point – from EMC
CTO Horizons
- The Future of Software – Information Week
- The Future of Software – CIO Dec 2003. Two scenarios
foreseen
- The Future of Software – The Reliability of Interaction,
Spinroot
- Diagnosing Java Code – The Future of Software
Development, IBM, Jun
2003 article
- Self Management & the Future of Software Design – a thought
paper presented at FACS 2006 (PDF)
- Supernova
2006 - Knowledge @ Wharton : Connecting in a Complex World - The
2006 Supernova -- a conference on emerging technologies
co-sponsored by Wharton and held in San Francisco -- asked participants
to consider the new "industry ecosystems" and technological
innovations that are emerging in response to an increasingly connected
world. In this special section, Knowledge @ Wharton examines such
developments as the potential encroachment of web-based applications on
the desktop's turf and the privacy issues surrounding Internet-based
computing; the advent of the "videonet" -- the increasing
number of websites that are forming an infrastructure to deliver videos
created by amateurs and professionals alike; and the growing movement to
microformat web information so that users can easily assimilate data in
multiple ways. Also included is an interview with Adobe Systems' chief
software architect, Kevin Lynch, about Adobe's vision for the future of
software applications on the web, the desktop, and mobile handheld
devices.
- The Future of Software is…Software! – says this article
by Joshua Greenbaum @ ZDNet
- The Long Tail – Wired,Oct
2004 - Forget squeezing millions from a few megahits at the top of the charts.
The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the
shallow end of the bitstream, says this article ( see also: The Long
Tail blog)
- Ralf's Sudelbücher – Blog
Tags for “Future of Software Development”
- Open Services is the Future of Software – Network
World, Feb 2006 – The future is new kinds of communities, possibly
connecting software as a service with open source models.
- SAP & the Future of Software – an interview
with Henning Kagermann, CEO of SAP, ZDNet Australia
- Future of Software 2006 – from Information
Age. Discusses the following: Serving up Software (software as a
service), Desktop Discipline (virtualised desktop environment), Looking
for meaning (The semantic web), Made to Pay (service-oriented
architecture(SOA), software-as-a-service (SaaS) and usage-based services),
First Service (Business Service Management)
- Appliances – the Future of Software? – from News.com, July 2005
- Q & A – Meet Your New Office, The Future of Software
– from PC
Mag
- The Future of Software – from Techno Rabble blog
(expects data analysis & statistics to be big in future)
- Is the Future of Software Hardware? – from CNET News, Mar 2005 -
The number of software firms shipping hardware customised for their
applications is on the rise. This article looks at how this will effect
software development as a whole
- Interactive TV - Workshop
on Present and Future of Software Graphics Architectures for Interactive
Television
- The Future of Software & Hacking - An excerpt from
Greg Hoglund and Gary McGraw's 'Exploiting Software: How to Break Code.'
– Tech
Vault @ G4
- The Past & Future of Software Testing – from Testing Education
(PDF)
- The Future of Software – Visualization + Computation
Tools - The marriage of visualization tools with sophisticated analysis
computation will significantly help the usability of software. It can
also help in the process of reducing the complexity of software
development, says this article
from PARC (PDF)
- The Future of Software Development 2010 – Scenario
Thinking
- The Future of Software – from Mike Olson’s Subclock
Blog – discusses mashups, compute cycles, cheap online storage
- Dire Straits – The Evolution of Software Opens New
Vistas for Business…and for Bad Guys – Information Security Magazine, Apr
2004
- Virtual
Machine Monitors – Current Technology & Future Trends (PDF) - Developed
more than 30 years ago to address mainframe computing problems, virtual
machine monitors ( VMM ) have resurfaced on commodity platforms,
offering novel solutions to challenges in security, reliability, and
administration, says this article from Stanford University
- Emerging Technologies for Learning & Education –
from BECTA
ICT Research, UK (PDF)
- Web 2.0 – A New Wave of Innovation for Teaching &
Learning? Educause Review,
Mar/Apr 2006
- Emerging
Challenges – Mobile Networking for Smart Dust (PDF) - Large-scale
networks of wireless sensors are becoming increasingly tractable.
Advances in hardware technology and engineering design have led to
dramatic reductions in size, power consumption and cost for digital
circuitry, wireless communications and Micro ElectroMechanical Systems
(MEMS). This has enabled very compact, autonomous and mobile nodes, each
containing one or more sensors, computation and communication
capabilities, and a power supply. The missing ingredient is the
networking and applications layers needed to harness this revolutionary
capability into a complete system. This Stanford University research
paper reviews the key elements of the emergent technology of “Smart
Dust” and outlines the research challenges they present to the mobile
networking and systems community, which must provide coherent
connectivity to large numbers of mobile network nodes co-located within
a small volume.
- 2020: Future of Computing – from Nature
Magazine
- Mainframe at Forty – The Future Never Looked So Bright –
a Mar 2004 article from Enterprise
System Journal
- The Future of Mainframes is Now – from Trainer’s Friend
Inc. – 2002 article (PDF)
- Dr. Dobbs Portal – 64-Bit; see also from Dr Dobbs
Portal – The Future of Computing – July 2006
- Gartner IT Cool Vendors – a
2005 report. In this report, Gartner has identified more than 100
"cool vendors," small companies that just may produce the next
"big thing" in IT. Gartner defines a cool vendor as one that
is innovative, interesting, and has or will have a business impact on
the future of IT.
- The
super-fast future of computing - By Jo Twist - BBC News Online
science and technology - One of the scientists who helped pioneer Star
Trek-style teleporting in a ground-breaking experiment says he hopes we
will see a ultra-fast quantum computer in action by 2035. Key Phrases:
Sub-atomic and atomic scale, Quantum computation, quantum physics,
Quantum cryptography
- Quantum
leap - Brain prosthetics. Telepathy. Punctual flights. A futurist's
vision of where quantum computers will take us - By Peter Schwartz,
Chris Taylor and Rita Koselka, Aug 2006, CNN
- Technology Special Report from Business Week analyzing
the future of computing – Jun 2004
- Beyond the
Internet: Predicting the Future of Computing Technology - A Seminar
- Imagine the prospects and potential of a second wave of connectivity,
where interconnected "intelligence" is embedded in the objects
and materials of our daily lives - appliances, automobiles, homes and
even clothing. It sounds like a science fiction novel, but according to
top scientists, researchers and technological thinkers, we have already
begun creating products and designs that, if scaled to ubiquitous
proportions, could lead to a world where household objects can be
fabricated; where "smart dust" can monitor climate and
pollution changes and where autonomous e-markets can control the trade
of environmental commodities. How would these future technologies work?
And what are the societal ramifications of such ubiquitous computing? In
this seminar, leading scientists, professors and technological experts
predict possible technological revolutions in the marketplace,
consumerism, environmental controls and satellite sensing. They also
examine the fears of the downside of such advances: loss of privacy,
security and humanity.
- See a map of some
emerging markets in Eastern Europe
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A List of Emerging Tech Areas (this list will
continue growing)
- Data Mining, Data Warehousing & Business
Intelligence
- Predictive Analytics – see articles: Predictive
Analytics is data mining’s future – a Bio-IT World article,
The future of Data Mining is Predictive Analytics – a DM Review article
- Integration of text mining & data mining – see
article The Future of Data Mining – from IT
Director
- Knowledge Discovery in Databases – KDD
- Bioinformatics
- How will text mining, querying & performance
management analytics evolve?
- What will be future evolutions in core analytics &
predictive analytics; the expectation is that predictive analytics
market will surge with new applications in BPM [business performance
management], CRM or operations management
- Use of both predictive & core analytics in
marketing will increase
- Lean Operating Systems
- Operating System issues in future end user systems – an
invited paper @ PIMRC
2005 (PDF)
- Evolution of Components and Objects
- Rise of Mobile Code
- Distributed Computation – Grid Computing
- Mass Adoption of Wireless Networks
- Change in Payment Models
- Optical Computers
- Biometrics
- Ultra-broadband
- Wi-max
- Intelligent Device Integration
- Intelligent Device Integration showcase and articles
from Accenture
- A study of the pervasive computing & intelligent
device networking opportunity from Material
Handling Management magazine - aspects mentioned are supply chain
integration, asset optimization, security, home automation, pervasive
Internet…
- Human Computer Interface
- The future of human-computer interaction – by John
Canny, University of California @ ACM
Queue, Aug 2006
- Considering the next generation / generations of
human-computer interface – a conceptual
framework by Fred Welter (PDF)
- Identity Management Technology
- Distance Education
- Embedded Systems
- Embedded systems end-use
- Embedded memory technology
- Embedded java technology
- Embedded processing
- Embedded technologies in automotives
- Embedded intelligence
- Embedded hardware
- VLSI
- Quantum Computing
- Biocomputing
- DNA Computing
- Self-healing or autonomous computing
- David Shaw: No Hedging on
Future of Computer Simulations - By Kevin Davies - May , 2006 - The
computational scientist who founded the world’s largest hedge fund says
he is two years away from building a new breed of computer that could
solve the Holy Grail of structural biology – simulating the process of
protein folding and protein-drug interactions - from Bio IT World
- Smart Chips
- Future of Computer Storage
- Storage Solutions of the Future – BBC
report, Feb 2005
- Breakthrough Nanotechnology Will Bring 100 Terabyte
3.5-inch Digital Data Storage Disks – Aug 2004, PhysOrg
- Terabytes, Petabytes and Metadata - Speculations on the
Future of Computing By Barry Briggs - September 2003 - Disk capacities
double every year, and thus within a decade or so we will be seeing
commodity 200 terabyte disks in home PC's, says Barry Briggs in this Sep 2003
blog entry
- Hybrid:
Is This the Future of Storage? - January, 2007 blog entry by Tom
Keating - In a move to give the growing number of notebook PC users
faster, more durable systems that run longer on a battery charge, Hitachi,
Samsung, Seagate and Toshiba have formed a new organization called the
Hybrid Storage Alliance, says this blog article. Read on
- Tech
World Storage Interviews – Data storage, computer storage &
storage solutions forecasts…
- Storage Area Networks (SAN)
- The Future of Optical Storage – from
Plasmon (PDF)
- Computing, 2016: What Won’t Be Possible? - A New
York Times Essay - Oct 2006
- Turner Entertainment turns
to holographic storage - The network plans to roll out the
cutting-edge storage medium for fast restore, Computer World - Nov 2005
- The
Future of Data Storage - By Alan S. Horowitz, E-Commerce Times -
Oct 2003
- IBM
Details Next Generation of Storage Innovation - IBM Outlines
Intelligent Storage Devices and Storage-Class Memory - Sep 2006
- The Future of Storage 7 Years Ahead – Storage Search, Sep
2005
- Future of the Laptop
- ThinkPad founder details
future laptop tech - By Asher Moses, July 2006 - On his recent trip
to Sydney, Arimasa Naitoh, the father of the ThinkPad and Lenovo's
worldwide VP of Development, provided some useful insights into the
future of laptop; Key words: Tags: battery | fuel-cell | future | ibm |
laptop | lenovo | notebook | technology | thinkpad
- Longer life
ahead for laptops - By Mark Ward, BBC News Online technology
correspondent - The days when you curse your laptop for running out of
power before you had chance to save a vital document could soon be
over, says this Feb 2003 article
- Future
laptops to be cooled with oil, magnets - Or so say the lab guys at University
of Tokyo - J. Eric Smith, Mar 2005, Geek.com News
- Fuels
Cells To Power Laptops In The Future - May 2004 - By Ian Bell,
Digital Trends News - ABI Research says some Japanese companies are
pumping millions into R&D, and that by 2012, as many as 15% of
laptops could use fuel cells for power. (see also this)
- Lithium
polymer to power future laptops? - Michael Kanellos - CNET
News.com, Dec 2006
- Fashion
Laptops for the Future - Intel just announced that they are
developing new laptops that are more fashionable, going beyond the
typical black or grays that we find today. In their press release from
yesterday, they talk about a new concept laptop that is designed with a
whole new style and look using Ultrasuede® fabric, a micro-fiber that
is integrated directly into the casing of the laptop. See the press
release here
- Supercomputers
- Virtual Reality
- Intelligent Networks
- Fiber Optics
- Mobile Commerce
- Mobile Advertising/Marketing
- Open Source & Collaborative Software Development
- Molecular Computing
- DNA Computing
- Future of IT Security
- The Future
of Security - [Scenario One] - After the Storm, Reform - In 2010,
information security will be much better than it is today. But between
then and now, everything will get inconceivably worse. BY SCOTT
BERINATO, CIO.com - Dec 2003 (well, also contains a Scenario 2)
- Where
We're Headed — New Developments and Trends in the Law of Information
Security - By Thomas J. Smedinghoff, Jan 2007 - from Wildman
Harrold web site. Three legal trends are rapidly shaping the
information security landscape for most companies. They are: Continuing
expansion of the duty to provide security, Emergence of a legal
standard for compliance, Imposition of a duty to warn. Read the article
for more
- Future-proof
your IT security - Small, targeted incursions are the next wave of
attacks compromising enterprise networks. Know the enemy - By
Paul F. Roberts, October, 2006 - Info World
- The future of IT security is fewer walls, not more -
Apr 2005 - Improving IT security is all about tearing down walls rather
than building them up, says Jericho Forum founder and ICI global
information security director Paul Simmonds - read the ZD
Net article here
- Future IT security threats lie in more focussed attacks
- October 2005 - CITEC’s partner in the provision of IT
security-related services, Symantec, has issued a dire warning about
future IT security threats, noting that those perpetrating security
breaches are moving away from large multi-purpose attacks on network
perimeters towards more focussed attacks on client-side targets. Read the
article here
- Predicting the
future of cybercrime and security - Alan Paller, SANS Institute - Twenty
respected leaders in cyber security have predicted the future of
cybercrime focusing on the top 10 security developments for 2007. Alan
Paller, director of research at the SANS Institute, reports on their
discussions – from BCS.org
- The Future of IT in Large Corporations - Dec 2005 - By
THINKstrategies - This whitepaper demonstrates how large corporations
such as Iomega, MasterCard, BT and Xerox are experiencing significantly
reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and increased return on
investment (ROI) with their software applications by adopting SaaS
solutions and focusing more on business process improvement than IT
infrastructure maintenance. Read
this white paper (PDF)
- Future of Middleware
- Integration and the Future
of Middleware - Andrew Watson - VP & Technical Director, Object
Management Group (PDF)
- Next Generation Middleware
Group @ Lancaster University
- Future Net: Expanding the Web from Pages to Data
Sources - By Darryl K. Taft - eWeek, Dec 7, 2006 - IBM Research is working on delivering
a middleware system that will enable users to tap into the data on
mobile devices to create a virtually unlimited pool of data and provide
essentially infinite access to the Internet, the company said
- The Future Of Middleware & Tools - Q & A with
the 5 General Managers of IBM's Software Group - By: Jeremy Geelan @ Java Developer's Journal
(JDJ)
- IEEE
Network Special Issue on Middleware Technologies for Future
Communication Networks – Jan / Feb 2004
- New Initiative will Define Future of Device Middleware
– Mar
2004 Report (PDF)
- RFID Middleware Change is Certain, Direction is Not -
August, 2006 - By John Burnell - RFID Update
- Future of IT in Education
- Shaping IT Strategy in Future – Alignment of IT in
Higher Education – Educause,
2004 article (PDF)
- Future of Multimedia
- Developments in linear modulation and video compression
will enable the development of next generation, spectrum-efficient
multimedia radio systems.
- Multimedia on Mobile
- The Future of Multimedia on Devices – Lauren Gibbons
Paul, Adobe
Systems, Jun 2002 paper
- Future of Multimedia Conferencing
- IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) are three letters that
symbolize the future of multimedia solutions. If the 3G’s opened the
door to video, IMS will go above and beyond multimedia communications.
In future it will be possible to open several sessions simultaneously,
using your PC or your mobile telephone…says this article
from Secured Communications Solutions (PDF)
- The Future of Multimedia Home Networking - The typical
home network today is data-based and PC-centric. While these networks
provide a great deal of functionality to tech-savvy house. holds, they
are of limited interest to the typical consumer. A more widespread
application will be needed to entice the mass market to home networks.
Audio and video seem to be the most likely candidates to draw the
average consumer into home networking, says this Jan
2002 article by Jan 14, 2002 by Brian O'Rourke
- Future of ERP
- SAP Execs: SOA Shapes Strategy, Future - Renee Boucher
Ferguson, Dec
2006, eWeek - SAP is placing a winner-takes-all bet on service-oriented
architecture for itself and its customers, according to company
executives.
- The Post-PeopleSoft Landscape and the Future of ERP -
Oracle's acquisition of PeopleSoft is not the dawn of a scary new era
for CIOs; it's the twilight of the old ERP age. It may also be an
opportunity to create an ERP future that adds value, not cost, to your
business, says Scott Berinato in this CIO article,
Jun 2005
- Prepare for the future of ERP and business software -
Learn about XML and Web services - from Microsoft,
Sep 2006
- Where ERP is Going – Oct 2003 article from Network
Magazine India
- Some broad trends: move from client/server to
Internet-based; more apps for e-comm, sales force customization and
CRM; self-service applications; web-based order entry
- What the Future Holds for ERP – from ERP Wire
- Remodelling ERP for an Agile Future – John Rymer, Computer
Weekly, Oct 2006
- The future of ERP - Covering functional gaps, providing
seamless integration and incorporating SOA are some key trends in ERP,
says Ranga Pothula in this June 2006 article
in Express Computer Online
- Future of Programming Languages
- Convergence in Language Design – Peter Van Roy
(PDF)
- The Future of Programming & Software Development – Inform
IT
- The Next Move in Programming: A Conversation with Sun's
Victoria Livschitz – Feb 2004 @ Sun
Developer Network
- The Future
of Programming: Less Is More - By Darryl K. Taft, Aug 2006, eWeek -
In the future of the process of building software, the ability to do
more with less could become the norm, some developers say.
- The future of programming - from the Tekkie
blog
- Intelligent Distributed Systems
- Social Computing
- Community 802.11b networks
- Next Generation Search Engines
- Customised Web Spidering
- Mainframes Future
- Future Computing Environments – The Commodity Mainframe
Era – a Microsoft Thought
Paper (PDF)
- Utility Computing
- The Utility Business Model & Future of Computing
Services – IBM Systems Journal, Nov 2004
- The Future of Utility Computing – by Nicholas Carr @ HP
Technology at Work
- Advanced Encryption Standards
- Future of CRM
- Future of CRM Technology – DM Review,
Jul 2003
- Quocirca's Straight Talking: Is
CRM still dead? - Or does it just need a rethink? by Quocirca @
Silicon.com - September 2005
- The Future of Small business CRM Software - Where is on
demand hosted CRM going? – Sales Boom
- The future of CRM is mobile, wireless and Web-based,
says this 2003 Geekzone
article
- The Future of CRM: Intelligent Systems Empowering Sales
- Author: Brad Haigis, VP of Products for OneSource – CRM Advocate
(PDF)
- Intent Driven Organization & the Future of CRM - @
the Enterprise
Decision Management blog
- Sales Force of the Future – Sep 2001 report
from Line 56 - The Internet did not kill off sales reps, but it
will cause dramatic changes in salesforce strategy and deployment, says
this article
- The future
of CRM in the airline industry: A new paradigm for customer
management. An IBM E-business white paper (PDF)
- Neural Networks
- Computing Performance
- High Performance Computing – Past, Present & Future
– from Find
Articles, Jan 2004. Key phrases: Cluster computing, High
Performance Computing (HPC), Beowulf clusters, supercomputer, Gigabit
Ethernet, RISC-based processors, Scalable Storage, CPU technology,
vector processors, RISC-based processors, cluster middleware, Parallel
programming libraries, Diskless Clusters, High performance shared
storage architectures
- Mobile Blogging
- Satellite Broadband
- VoWiFi
- Impact of computing on other sciences
- Impact of computing on social sciences (social computing
& online social networks)
- Future trends in computer imagery
- Future trends in storage
- Anti Spyware & Anti Malware
- Semantic Web
- Interactive TV
- Electronic Wallets
- Speech Recognition
- Software Security
- Richer & Clearer Search Interfaces
- Visualization Tools
- Future of Software Quality Assurance
- Software Test Automation
- Information Security Auditing
- Master Data Management amongst disparate groups?
- Mashup / Mashups
- Pervasive Computing
- Model Driven Architecture for Software Development
- Social networking software
- Mobile phone applications
- Hierarchical Temporal Memory
- Parallel Computing
- Evolution of RSS
- SOA Virtualization
- Improved Office Productivity
- Mobile Code
- Different Payment Models
- Industry-strength, Secure Internet Messaging for
Business
- Unmetered VoIP
- Edge Devices
- Composite Applications
- Peer-to-Peer
- Digital Entertainment
- Collaborative Applications
- Database Information Lifecycle Management (ILM)
- Wireless Sensing, Wireless Sensors
- Optical CDMA
- High-performance Dynamic Graphics Streaming
- Clickstream Applications
- Telepresence
- Tele-Immersion & Tele-immersive techniques
- Self-managing Networks
- Autonomic Computing
- Natural Language Processing
- Machine Learning
- Voice over WLAN
- Mobile Linux
- Quiet Servers – servers with less noise!
- Mobile security
- Software-defined radio - radio that will handle
cellular, Wi-Fi and other standards on one chip.
- Better cooling of CPUs
- Micro ElectroMechanical Systems ( MEMS )
- Future of code optimization to get efficiency gains
- Future of mobile, desktop, and server processors
- Microblades instead of blade servers?
- Emergence of dedicated XPUs & processors for
divergent tasks
- Emergence of GPUs (Graphics Processing Units)
- Most music/multimedia hardware relies on its own
expansion boards outfitted with custom logic/DSP processors.
- And with time we are likely to end up with a
motherboard design that would contain numerous specialized chips or
co-processors designed with a single task in mind.
- To improve CPU efficiency the following alternative
approaches are currently being pursued:
- Super-threading (or Hyper-threading if we use Intel's
terms), which allows CPU to process several parallel threads
simultaneously switching from one thread to another when a stall
occurs. Intel is highly involved in speculative threading research and
offers a Mitosis technology that with the help of compilers designates
threads most suitable for speculative execution. Rumors are circulating
about AMD's clandestine "inverse hyper-threading" technology
allegedly capable of uniting two individual CPU cores into a single CPU
super-core CPU that would crunch single-threaded applications with a
considerable performance boost.
- The other approach for boosting instruction-level
parallelism is very-large instruction word (VLIW) or
explicitly-parallel instruction set (EPIC) computing.
- Multi-core CPU
- Future of Computer Hardware
- Modular PC – Asus Dreams Up Modular PC of the Future – Reg
Hardware, Feb 2006
- Green PC
- Processor Technology Advancements
- Optics architectures
- Biochips
- RISC
- Future of Computer Monitors
- HP
offers peek at future computer monitors - It's working on a
high-resolution paper-like display using plastic instead of glass, Oct
2004, Computer World
- IT Energy Management
- Future of Databases
- Long anticipated, the arrival of radically restructured
database architectures is now finally at hand, says this 2005 article
from ACM
Queue - by Jim Gray, Microsoft & Mark Compton
- The True Future of Databases - a Dec 2004 IT
Toolbox article
- Next-generation applications pose new challenges to
database systems that include: management of large amounts of data
arriving at high rates, highly dynamic data, privacy concerns due to
the wide spread of data among various vendors, large number of
continuous queries, and new query processing and optimization
techniques to cope with the new nature of data
- Parallel
Database Systems – the future of high performance database
processing (PDF)
- Oracle 2020: A Glimpse Into the Future of Database
Management - by Donald K. Burleson, from a 2006 article at
DBA Zine
- Future of Database Systems: Changing Applications and
Technological Developments, M. Tamer Özsu, University of Alberta, a 1996
paper – discusses multimedia objects & data types, distributed
& parallel database systems, and mobile data management
- Object Oriented Database Systems
- Real-time Databases
- Intelligent database systems will be required for the
merged media future - The merged media future will still need the data
we have seen for the last fifty years, but in addition there are
requirements to store and retrieve new types of data, both structured
and unstructured, dramatic increases in the volume of structured and
unstructured data, uncontrolled data entry resulting in vast amounts of
data of unknown quality and a new ability to mix data sources in a
single information access. The new intelligent data storage system must
understand the information framework that it manages and the context of
the source and destination of information.
- Performance of Future Database Systems: Bottlenecks and
Bonanzas - Current trends in database systems include the incorporation
of parallel processing; object-relational capabilities; support for
data warehousing, data mining, and OLAP. The typical hardware systems
on which such database systems are being implemented include SMP’s,
MPP’s, clusters, 64-bit processors, disk caches, and RAID and other
high availability configurations. In addition, as database technology
and products have matured, they have been employed in a wide range of
traditional business applications including transaction processing,
decision support, and OLAP, as well as newer, emerging applications which
require, for example, handling of multimedia and spatial data; handling
historical data and providing support for tertiary storage; and dealing
with multiple, heterogeneous data sources. As the database, hardware,
and application trends continue, and new ones emerge, what will
be their impact on the overall performance of database systems. What
does the future hold? Some of the measures and topics to be considered
could be:
- Power measures of performance, such as transactions per
second or queries per minute
- Will utility performance and the impact of providing
24x7 availability be factored into system performance?
- Should one care only about server performance, or also
client/server performance?
- Multimedia Databases
- Through the Looking Glass – an old (1997) article from
Database Programming & Design
- Future of Operating Systems
- Future of Operating Systems – Simplicity – says this
Jan 2003 Computer
World article
- Designing the Operating System of Tomorrow – from OS News, Apr
2004
- The Operating System of the Future – Some Speculations
– from EMCP
- Operating Systems – Now and in the Future – A Thought
Paper from Hewlett Packard Laboratories (PDF)
- The Future of Operating Systems Security – A March 2001
article
- Smart Card Operating Systems – Past, Present &
Future – a 2003 research
paper (PDF)
- Emerging Trends in Operating Systems
- Virtualization
- Replication and consistency in distributed systems
- Event-driven v. threaded paradigms
- Self-organizing (p2p) systems
- Scheduling
- Fault localization in os
- Security challenges, access control
- XenSource, a new software company formed to promote
the Xen hypervisor, is a challenge to Microsoft's operating system.
The hypervisor is a thin layer of software that runs at the hardware
level of a system. This thin layer of open source software allows for
operating systems to run on top of it, thus fully emulating the system
platform and thereby allowing multiple operating environments to run
in parallel on a single system. ( see here)
- The Future of the Internet
- The Future of the Internet - In a survey, technology
experts and scholars evaluate where the network is headed in the next
ten years - from Pew Research, Jan
2005 report (PDF)
- The Internet: What lies ahead? - A CNN Sept 2005 report
- Future of Internet TV Is Coming Into View - January ,
2006 - by Leslie Walker @ Washington
Post
- The Future of the Internet II - A survey of technology
thinkers and stakeholders shows they believe the internet will continue
to spread in a “flattening” and improving world. There are many,
though, who think major problems will accompany technology advances by
2020. Read this BBC article
for more (PDF)
- The Future of Internet Worms - Jose Nazario, with
Jeremy Anderson, Rick Wash and Chris Connelly @ Crimelabs Research, a July
2001 report (PDF)
- The Future of Internet Security - By Charles Adetokunbo
Shoniregun, from ACM Magazine, a 2002
report
- Internet's future in 2020 debated - There are more than
a billion people online worldwide - The internet will be a thriving,
low-cost network of billions of devices by 2020, says a major survey of
leading technology thinkers. The Pew report on the future internet
surveyed 742 experts in the fields of computing, politics and business.
More from this Sep 2006 BBC
article
- The Future of Internet Publishing Is… Different – says
this Oct 2006 blog article from The
Friday Traffic Report
- Charting the Future of Internet TV By Adam Gerber - a
Jan 2006 article @ iMedia
Connection
- Building on the future of the web - Ahead of the
world's largest web conference, computer scientist Dave De Roure
reflects on how far the web has come; May 2006, BBC, UK
- "D2D" or device-to-device Web, where systems
arrange themselves into mesh networks
- The future of the Web is Semantic - Ontologies form the
backbone of a whole new way to understand online data, says this Oct
2005 IBM
white paper
- The Future of Web 2.0 Social Experience – Predictions
for a Web 2.0 Social Experience - Ben Hunt casts an eye to the future
of a more connected web and how we will experience it through new
social applications. This vision features insights into new search
engines, an online marketplace, and solutions for phishing and spam -
from Web
Design from Scratch
- August 2009: How Google beat Amazon and Ebay to the Semantic
Web - By Paul Ford; A work of fiction.
A Semantic Web scenario. A short feature from a business magazine
published in 2009. Written in 2002
- Smart Goods, Nanotechnology & MEMS
- The Consumer Market
- Clothing
- Cosmetics
- Housewares
- Gadgets
- Paint
- Smart Underwear
- Sportwear
- Star Gazing
- Wearable Displays
- White Goods
- The Industrial Market
- Coatings
- Product Filtration
- Smart Floors
- Water Quality Monitoring
- Wireless Sensor Networks
- The Medical Market
- Dental Implants
- Infection Control
- Diabetes
- Hearing Aids
- Ophthalmology
- Pharmaceutical Production
- Radiation Treatment
- Smart Beds
- Woundcare/First-Aid
- The Military Market
- Product Developments - Nanotechnology
- Compound Solubility
- Cooking Oil
- Electronic Textiles
- Fuel Cells
- Stent Coatings
- Product Developments - MEMS
- Accelerometers
- Ink Jet
- Microspectrometers
- RF MEMS
- Product Developments - NEMS
- Lab-on-a-Chip
- Wafer Probes
- Product Developments - Other Technologies
- Food Safety
- RFID
- Sensory
Array
- Sensor networks and location
technologies
- Debugging complex software
environments
- Life sciences will continue to
represent an IT frontier for many years to come
- Innovative display technologies
that can deliver more visual information at lower costs, improving the
ways in which people interact with computers
- Future of Semiconductors
- Future of Memory Devices
- Biological Microarrays in the
domain of Semiconductors?
- Real-time business activity
monitoring (BAM)
- Future of automated support –
related: Speech technology to automate customer interactions
- Products that can detect usage
trends for IT/Software applications and tell when an application is no
longer in desired state
- Hosted service for faxing and mailing
documents directly from back-end applications
- Software that can watch the Web
and specified files for you and retrieve information you might be
interested in.
- Enhanced voice applications that
are enabled through voice over Internet protocol (VoIP)
- Advanced roaming service delivery
platforms so mobile phone users can better use their phones abroad.
- Marriage of voice, broadband
Internet and television services
- Three-dimensional integrated
circuits
- Solutions for a variety of
security problems, such as regulatory compliance, vulnerability
detection and fraud
- Products to ensure that a
company's day-to-day use of business rules are documented, reviewed and
enforced
- Products to detect new-account
fraud for credit and wireless accounts
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Other Possible Future Computing & Software Trends
- Trinary Coding
- DNA Computers
- Wearable Computers
- Artificial Intelligence
- Virtual Assistants
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