The emergence of the Mobile Cloud
Mobile distributed computing paradigm will lead to explosion of
new services with mobile and computing converging to create a
new platform that could provide unlimited computing resources.
Presently constrained by memory, processing power and battery
life but if it is combined with cloud computing, data processing and
storage can happen outside of mobile devices
From Internet of Things to Web of Things
Going beyond the Internet of Things, where identifiable objects
are seamlessly integrated into the information network, the
Web of Things takes advantage of mobile devices’ and sensors’
ability to observe and monitor their environments, increasing the
coordination between things in the real world and their counterparts
on the Web. The Web of Things will produce large volumes of data
related to the physical world, and intelligent solutions are required
to enable connectivity, inter-networking, and relevance between
the physical world and the corresponding digital world resources.
From Big Data to Extreme Data
It’s more than the three Vs—volume, velocity, and variety—that make
big data such a difficult tiger to tame. It’s that the technology world
hasn’t quite caught up with the need for trained data scientists and
the demand for easy-to-use tools that can give industries—from
financial and insurance companies to marketing, healthcare, and
scientific research organization—the ability to put the data they
gather into meaningful perspective.
The Revolution Will Be 3D
New 3D printing tools and techniques are empowering everyone
from global corporations to do-it-yourselfers to create new devices
and realize new concepts more quickly, cheaply, and easily than
ever—from car parts, batteries, prosthetics, and computer chips to
jewelry, clothing, firearms, and even pizza.
Supporting New Learning Styles
These days, students from all corners of the world can sign up for
online classes to study everything from computer science, digital
signal processing, and machine learning to European history,
psychology, and astronomy–and all for free. As interest in Massive
Open Online Courses (MOOCs) continues to explode, there will be a
need for technology to support these learning systems and styles
Next-generation mobile networks
Today, mobile computing systems must rise to the demand. The
Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast Update projects that global
mobile data traffic will increase 18-fold between 2011 and 2016.
Many systems in urban areas take advantage of robust networking
infrastructure, gigabit-bandwidth backbones, high-speed relays,
and unlimited power and recharging capabilities. However,
many operate within degraded network, power, or computing
environments, such as for first-responders in a catastrophe,
mobile phone users in remote regions or countries with degraded
communication infrastructure, or when millions of people watch
fireworks and overwhelm the local networking infrastructure. In
these scenarios, the needs of mobile customers can outstrip the
infrastructure’s capacities and result in degraded performance.
Balancing Identity and Privacy
Social networks have quickly become the key organizing principle
of Internet communication and collaboration. However, the growth
of these systems raises new risks and growing concerns. Social
network users can be bullied, their pictures can be stolen, or their
status posts can reach unwanted audiences. Even when profiles
don’t list any information, social graphs can be analyzed to infer
personal information. A battle now exists between individual privacy
and the interests of the system at large.
Smart and Connected Healthcare
Individual health is encouraged with the development of intelligent
systems, apps, gadgets, and mobile systems that focus on diet,
exercise, and information provision. Medication, surgery, and
assistive devices rely on intelligent systems to analyze data and
human responses, guiding the implementation and management
of therapies and interventions. In addition to work that focuses on
individuals, there is a proliferation in use of intelligent systems for
large-scale analysis of biomedical data, socially relevant data, and
metadata, such as disease or certain health-habits in populations.
E-Government
Electronic government, e-government, or digital government
refers to the use of information and communication technology
(ICT) to provide and improve government services, transactions,
and interactions with citizens, businesses, and other arms of
government. Interoperability is essential to broad success in
e-government. Challenges emerging in this area focus on
e-government interoperability in cloud computing, open
government, and smart city initiatives.
Scientific Cloud Computing
Scientific computing has already begun to change how science
is done, enabling scientific breakthroughs through new kinds of
experiments that would have been impossible only a decade ago.
It is the key to solving “grand challenges” in many domains and
providing breakthroughs in new knowledge, and it comes in many
shapes and forms: high-performance computing (HPC), highthroughput
computing (HTC), many-task computing (MTC), and
data-intensive computing.
