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Agenda • Erik Noreke, Khronos VP Business Development
- Enabling collaboration between Industry and Academia
• Dr. Hwanyoung Lee, KNU Korea
- Creating a teaching program using Khronos technologies
• Dr. Cornel Pokorny
- Teaching graphics using WebGL
• Mike Bailey
- Oregon State University – Graphics Department Update
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Khronos Connects Software to Silicon • Khronos APIs define processor acceleration capabilities
- Graphics, video, audio, compute, vision and sensor processing
APIs developed today define the functionality of platforms and devices tomorrow
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Apple
Board of Promoters
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APIs *by* the Industry *for* the Industry • Khronos standards have strong industry momentum
- 100s of man years invested by industry leading experts
- Shipping on billions of devices and multiple operating systems
• Khronos is OPEN for any company to join and participate
- Standards are truly open – one company, one vote
- Solid legal and Intellectual Property framework for industry cooperation
• Khronos APIs define core device acceleration functionality
- Low-level “Foundation” functionality needed on every platform
- Rigorous conformance tests for cross-vendor consistency
• They are FREE
- Members agree to not request royalties
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Educators Feel Need for Academic Standards • Khronos on the road
- Sought input from industry and
researchers, academia and students
• For many years heard same comments from educators:
- “It’s hard to keep up with so many
specifications under rapid development”
- “It’s challenging to convert specifications
into courses”
• Those comments became more
frequent and urgent
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Industry Feels Need for Academic Standards • Typical comments from industry members
- “We hire 100 young OpenGL ES engineers a year and we spend months re-training
them to consistent standards - our standards - and it costs us time and money.”
- “We contract 50 OpenGL engineering consultants every year and we want
assurances that they are educated and skilled to a measurable benchmark before
we engage them.”
• Industry requesting Proficiency Certification in key industry technologies
- Just like Cisco or Microsoft Certifications
- Complement to full academic qualifications
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Connecting Khronos and
the Educational Community
KITE Responds to these Needs Khronos Initiative for Training & Education
• Initiative to increase communication and
cooperation between INDUSTRY and
EDUCATORS
Three Goals:
• Accelerate development of educational
materials for Khronos APIs
• Develop standardized testing methods for
Khronos API proficiency
• Make Khronos certification testing widely
available in the industry
Industry as represented by
Khronos Membership
Educators, institutions and students
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Khronos Working Groups
Ratified Specifications
Conformance Tests and Adopters Program
SDKs, Sample, Ref Cards and Man Pages
Adopters Build conformant implementation and products
Developers Develop applications using the APIs
Educators / Certifiers Academic Courses Training and Certification
Educator Guidelines and Courseware
API Working Groups (Industry and Academic)
Members
Wider Community
Certification Materials
KITE encourages academic participation in working groups to produce materials for educators and certification
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Getting Involved – Membership Tiers
Promoter Members - Participation and vote in working groups - Board seat for strategy, budget and spec ratification
Contributor Members - Participation and vote in working groups
Academic Members - Participation in working groups
$1K/year
$10K/year
$30K/year
ALL members have full access to ALL Khronos working meetings, discussions, materials, drafts … Anyone with a member email domain can sign up for a Khronos login – no limit to number of participants
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Training and Certification • Geographically specific
- Language and culture differences
• Diverse range of certification partners emerging
- Colleges and polytechnics
- Government funded institutes
- Graphics vendors
- Commercial training companies
• Khronos looking to start engaging training partners
- Start focused, learn and build out
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Educators and Certifiers
KITE Process
Students and Working
Professionals
Cooperate on developing: - Best Practices - Educator Guidelines - Academic Courseware - Certification materials
Educators and third party certifiers administer Khronos-related courses and certification exams
• Certification helps
students and
professionals prove
their proficiency and
land top jobs in the
industry…
Develop courses and exams using
Khronos materials
Khronos Members (Industry and Academic)
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Academia is Responding Positively • Since 2008, Academic Members Joining Frequently
Khronos Academic Member Country
ICT China
Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications China
Nihon University Japan
University of Bristol Great Britain
ITRI Taiwan
Oregon State University USA
Politecnico di Milano Italy
Universita di Bologna Italy
Universite Claude Bernard Lyon France
Imperial College London Great Britain
University of Toronto Canada
University Western Australia Australia
Kyungpook National University Korea
Seoul National University Korea
UMEÅ Sweden
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Next Steps • Please consider joining Khronos as an Academic Member!
- Help drive KITE materials AND be involved in the creation of the specifications
• Khronos is still forming KITE program details
- ANY and ALL feedback welcome!
- Help build the KITE you need
• Key outstanding questions
- How get the right balance between academic courses and training/certification
- How ensure globally consistent certification standards
- Precisely what data should Khronos be generating?
• Seeking partners to administer Khronos training / certifications
- Potential business opportunity
• Resources and these slides:
• http://kite.khronos.org/en