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Research & Discovery:

Technologies Today for Solving Problems

Tomorrow

Limsoon WongInstitute for Infocomm

Research

Copyright © 2004 by Limsoon Wong

Plan

• Making Research Exciting– Have long-term vision– Knowing what counts

• Looking for Emerging Opportunities– Misconceptions– Advice for increasing probability of success– Sources of opportunity for innovation

• A role model • Reasons for Optimism in R&D

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Making Research Exciting


Have Long-Term Vision

• By 2010, quality of life will be improved by an ICT technology-based product of ours

• By 2015, at least one Singapore company will become a successful MNC based on our technology-based product


What Really Counts…10X Impact

• Good (practical) research should have a story like this at the end– produced a technology used by millions– produced a technology earning millions of

dollars– produced a technology that makes a difference

to the Singapore ICT industry – first to identify an important problem and solve

it– first to solve an important existing problem– make a 10x improvement to the solution of an

existing problem

• muvee Technologies’ Automatic Video Production Software Adopted by Sony’s Digital Imaging Devices

• muvee’s pioneering technology will dramatically simplify creative photo and video production for millions of consumers.

• Toppan has developed an original RFID chip, and peripheral devices, including tags and reader/writers, through collaboration with I2R

• Annual sales of the system in Japan will reach 2 billion yen (S$31M) in 2005

• Some speculative tech for transforming sports editorial content production industry

30% 18%

Enhanced Tennis TV

• Vaccines are often the only solution for viral diseases

• Finding & developing effective vaccine targets (epitopes) is slow and expensive process

• Enabled MOM’s Occupational Hazards Dept to automate checking chemical safety info from Material Safety Data Sheets and verifying standards conformance

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Looking for Opportunity


Misconceptions

• Innovation must big• Innovations are the works of geniuses• Innovations depend on novel ideas• Innovations occur only in commercial

markets


Practical Advice to Increase Probability of 10X

• Look for a clear need where– solution is not expected for several years– not at a big disadvantage to arrive before

competition– have or can build strength– partner to move ahead faster in a win-win way

In short, start from our strongest point, target for maximum impact, and attack competitor's weakest point. Also collaborate to gain advantage over "us"-only effort


Practical Advice to Increase Probability of 10X

• Carry out what we set out to do• Improve quality & rigor of our work• Improve quality & passion of our people• Evangelize our ideas & projects to the

world


Sources of Opportunity for Innovation

• Unexpected success/failure in our work & outside event

• Gap betw reality & common belief

• Bottleneck in processes• Change of industry

struct---new biz model, distribution channels, modes of business, etc.

• Change in demographics---age, religion, income, etc.

• Change of mood & perception---terrorism, fashion, etc.

• Fringe practices that may solve persistence breakdown in current central practices, ie. value innovation

• New knowledge & scientific advances

• Man-made barriers---legislation & regulation

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A Role Model: Li Jinyan


Jinyan’s Vision

• No human will fall sick unexpectedly• No machine will fail unexpectedly


Jinyan’s Aim for 10X

• Diagnosis of diseases and optimization of treatments sufferings are reduced and chance of cure is increased

• Prediction of faults in engineering systems and optimization of industrial systems safety is improved, cost is reduced, and quality is raised

• Analysis of computer and network logs to detect intrusion and other threats cyber struct is strengthened, and assets are guarded

Childhood ALL

• Major subtypes: T-ALL, E2A-PBX, TEL-AML, BCR-ABL, MLL genome rearrangements, Hyperdiploid>50,

• Diff subtypes respond differently to same Tx

• Over-intensive Tx – Development of

secondary cancers– Reduction of IQ

• Under-intensiveTx – Relapse

• The subtypes look similar

• Conventional diagnosis– Immunophenotyping– Cytogenetics– Molecular diagnostics

• Unavailable in most ASEAN countries



Single-Test Platform ofMicroarray & Knowledge

Discovery

training data collection

feature selection

Image credit: Affymetrix

feature generation

feature integration

Conventional Tx:• intermediate intensity to all 10% suffers relapse 50% suffers side effects costs US$150m/yr

Jinyan’s optimized Tx:• high intensity to 10%• intermediate intensity to 40%• low intensity to 50%• costs US$100m/yr


•High cure rate of 80%• Less relapse

• Less side effects• Save US$51.6m/yr

Impact

An Important Ingredient in Jinyan’s Success:

Collaborations


He does the wet expts

He inventsthe algo’s

She implementsthe algo’s

He designs thedry expts &

interprets betwthe dry & wet

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Reasons for Optimism in ICT

R&D


High-Level Drivers• Physical needs

– nourishment, – health, ...

• Security needs– privacy – protection– stability– ownership

• Socializing needs– collaboration– sharing– be understood– be informed

• Entertainment needs– novelty– belonging– communicating– mobility


Major Trends

The use of info mgmt & techhas become• more complex• more “self-service”• more personalization• more embedded• more distributed• more pervasive


Major Apps

• “Trans-disciplinary” Apps– Lifestyle & entertainment

• organizing data, narrowing human-digital, virtual gaming, realistic immersive user experience, entertainment on demand, digital rights, asset mgmt, IP protection, ...

– Tech in healthcare• pervasive digital media, adaptive syst,

decision syst, …

– Ubiquitous systems• privacy, security, monitoring of trans, image

processing, lang translation, voice recognition, adaptive syst, decision syst

– Smart sensors & intelligent syst

• signal processing, pattern recognition, security, privacy, adaptive syst, decision syst, ...

– Physical & digital security• privacy, surveillance, authentication, access

control, audit, behaviour analysis, abnormal event diagnostic, multimedia crytographic algo, ...

• “Traditional” Apps– E-learning– E-govt– E-health– E-traffic– EAI– SCM– PDA– Knowledge mgmt, ...


Engines of Growth

• Business intelligence– ontology & metadata

tech – adaptive tech – human language tech – collaboration tech – decision tech

• Information security– security infrastructure – cyber terrorism – biometrics tech – privacy & identity

mgmt

• Native media processing & analysis– production tech – analysis tech – distribution tech– intuitive user

interfaces

Enabled byInfo Mgmt

Engg Sciin

Medicine

Int Syst & SensorNetworks

Env TechIntegrativeManufact

Broad Band

Gridprotect

video, audio, & image

analysis

decisiontech

Energy

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Thank You


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