Today鈥檚 innovation is tomorrow鈥檚 history
Professor Athman Bouguettaya says "Cloud computing, Big Data and the Internet of Things are the three key emergent paths for research innovations and those studying to be IT professionals."
Professor Athman Bouguettaya Head of the School of Information Technologies聽
Together with industry partners, we will work to identify current and future needs of the digital revolution
The computer science specialist and聽leading researcher in service computing has a long term vision 鈥� make the University of Sydney the best in Australia in IT research; and produce graduates who will unleash a wave of unprecedented聽innovations in industry.
鈥淣ationally we have witnessed a sharp increase in the number of students wanting to pursue careers in information technology. Student numbers have increased by 30 percent over the past decade.
鈥淭ogether with industry partners, we will work together to identify current and future needs of the digital revolution which has been taking the world by storm,鈥� Professor Bouguettaya says.
鈥淎s the pace of IT innovations accelerates, we will train and prepare students for jobs that haven鈥檛 even been created yet.聽 Witness the rise of 3D printing, quantum computing, disposable computing,聽among others, which will require unique skills that will be essential in the next few years and beyond that,鈥� says Professor Bouguettaya.
To do this Professor Bouguettaya plans to build on the research strengths of the School to significantly increase outreach and partnerships with industry.聽
鈥淥ver the past decade we鈥檝e heard a lot about big data and it鈥檚 here to stay and in a big way. It鈥檚 coming from all kinds of sources, sensors, deep space exploration, social media, smartphones, genomics for example. We need to understand how to make this data useful,鈥� says the Professor.
鈥淲e also need to continue to sustainably develop the Cloud or data centres, that have been instrumental in supporting the storage and processing of the ever increasing amount of data.聽
鈥淢aking this data useful is the next challenge and service computing is the next major evolution of computing that aims at transforming massive data into products that bridge the gap between business services and IT services.
鈥淲hat is commonly referred to as the Internet of things (IoT) is also here to stay.聽 One key challenge is how to make it secure and useful to society. We have yet to understand and make sense of what it means to have everything that we see and don鈥檛 see connected to the internet.聽 This is the next wave of research innovation which will chart a new and exciting journey in IT research.鈥�