Serguei Seloussov - Future of computing and SIT MSc program
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The document discusses the critical need for protection in the digital world, highlighting rapid data growth and cyber threats, alongside the importance of a vendor-independent protection platform. It elaborates on Acronis's offerings in cyber protection, which combine proactive measures, recovery solutions, and AI-powered technologies to secure data. Additionally, it outlines advancements in computing technologies, including quantum and neuromorphic computing, as part of addressing contemporary challenges in various fields.
Serguei Seloussov - Future of computing and SIT MSc program
- 1. 1Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Protecting Digital World Has Major Challenges Digital workloads are mission critical but very fragile – need protection! (Sources: IDC “The Digitization of the World From Edge to Core”, Cisco “Internet of Things At a Glance”) PrivacyComplexity Security 5th Basic NeedCost Accelerating growth rate of amount of data and workloads: 50ZB+ in 2020, 500ZB+ by 2030 A protection platform vendor independent from a production platform vendor is required to enable freedom of choice Rapid growth of number of systems and locations: < 50B devices in 2020, 500B+ by 2030 Industrialization of cyber crime, AI & exploit automation, ransomware, zero-day exploits, exploit-as-a- service The digital world is the 5th basic human need. The world can’t go on without IT anymore <1% devices Core <10k datacenters 99%+ devices Edge and Endpoints in 1B+ locations Robotic arms in VW (Skoda Auto) car factory
- 2. 2Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Princeton-Plainsboro teaching hospital as pictured in “House M.D.” TV show Acronis Cyber Protection for Humanity Similarities of biological and computer viruses – MSP are our “doctors” Detection (Active) Response (Active, Reactive) Recovery (Reactive) Forensics (Reactive, Proactive) Prevention (Proactive, Active) Vulnerability assessment, patch management, smart protection plans, self- protection Coordinated response: Blocking of malware execution, malware removal from backups and production system, new heuristics Instant recovery with no data loss, automated disaster recovery Metadata and memory dump storage with backups for incident investigations Vaccination, good hygiene, healthy lifestyle, social distancing Screening of symptoms, RNA/DNA tests, antibody tests, leukocytes Immune system response, antiviral drugs, antibiotics, ICU, healthcare system Macrophages to remove dead tissue, osteoblasts rebuild, interferons killing cells Genome sequencing, pathogen study, contact tracing to connect cases into clusters BiologicalDigital AI-based threat detection, behavior analysis, white and black lists, URL filtering
- 3. 3Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and other ships from Carrier Strike Group Five (CSG-5), which includes 3 Ticonderoga-class cruisers and 8 Aleigh Burke-class destroyers, are leading multinational force of 32 ships and 5 submarines at RIMPAC maritime exercise Solution is Acronis Cyber Protection Acronis mission to protects all data, applications and systems (workloads) ControlEase of Use Security Reliability Total Cost of Ownership Nothing is lost: there is always a copy for recovery Proof that copy is exact replica of the original Control over visibility and access Access from anywhere at any time Protection against bad actors Safety Accessibility Privacy Authenticity Security S A P A S
- 4. 4Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Acronis is a Leader in Cyber Protection AI-powered Cyber Protection, Cyber Cloud, Cyber Platform Schaffhausen Corporate HQ Singapore International HQ, Suntec City Computer Science, Software Engineering and Education Swiss Singaporean Dual HQ for Dual Protection Cyber Protection and Cyber Engine Business Science, Sport Tech, #CyberFit Global Scale & Rapid Growth $300M+ billings 50% business growth 100%+ cloud growth 50,000+ partners 500,000+ businesses 5,500,000+ prosumers Modern electronic learning-management build by SIT/Alemira for partner portal. Acronis Foundation Founded in 2003 in Singapore, currently the International HQ Since 2008 Corporate HQ in Schaffhausen, Switzerland Artificial Intelligence. Integrated Safety, Accessibility, Privacy, Authenticity and Security Sports partnerships, #CyberFit products, score, certification, marketing, partners, customers and employees Acronis Unique Expertise
- 5. 5Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Real-world Problems Need Better Computers Wars and Violence Environment and Global Warming Social Justice and Poverty Diseases and Ageing Space and Universe challenges
- 6. 6Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 https://video.ethz.ch/speakers/bernays/2019.html Computational tools for vaccine design The Universe is a Computer – Computers can be Used to Predict the Universe
- 7. 7Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Digital Computers are effectively equivalent to Turing Machines “Old Brass Brains” (or more formally, Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2) – calculated tide tables for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1912 until 1965 The Church-Turing Thesis “Computable” = Turing-computable
- 8. 8Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Evolution of Digital Computers – Photonics and Neuromorphic 5. Photonics: superior Deep Learning Luminous Computing (Bill Gates led a $9M seed round) builds AI chip with computing power equivalent to 3,000 Google’s TPU boards Lightelligence world’s 1st optical AI computer: 12x smaller, 4.2x less power, 11x cheaper vs NVidia 4. Photonics: 1st AI Computer 3. Neuromorphic: Memristors HPE Dot-Product Engine demonstrator - parallel analog computation with large-scale memristor crossbar arrays Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine – the largest single chip in the world, used by DoE to build supercomputers for AI tasks 2. Neuromorphic: wafer-scale engine Intel Loihi chip – 128 cores, optimized for biologically inspired Spiking Neural Networks (SNN) 1. Neuromorphic: multicore SNN chip
- 9. 9Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Hottest problems of current silicon chips – will hit hard limits before we solve really hard problems Performance and throughput Power Consumption Transistor Size (and Die Size) Many Body Problem • Solving many body problem needs much more powerful computers than we have today – but it will give us complete control over the physical matter (Schrödinger's Equation) Large Integer Prime Factorization • Many cryptographic protocols are based on the difficulty of factoring large composite integers or a related problem (for example, the RSA problem) • An algorithm that efficiently factors an arbitrary integer would render most of today’s public-key cryptography insecure Fundamental Hard Limits • Current smallest FinFET transistor has 2.5nm gate – or just about 12 Si atoms • Margolus-Levitin bound:The processing rate cannot be higher than 6 × 1033 ops per sec per joule (75 y) • Bremmerman’s Limit: c2/h ≈ 1.36 × 1050 bits per sec per kg (60 y) Scott Aaronson estimates that we will hit hard limits in 25 years
- 10. 10Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Google’s record-breaking quantum computer (Oct 2019) Upcoming Revolution: Quantum Computing and other possibilities 3. Superconducting (Google, IBM, Rigetti) Superconducting systems exhibit generic quantum properties such as quantized energy levels, entanglement, and superposition of states. Google, Microsoft, IBM, Rigetti, and Intel actively research superconducting qubits 2. Ion traps (IonQ, Honeywell) Charged atoms can be controlled and manipulated in macroscopic traps with a very high degree of accuracy. Chris Monroe (UMD) and Rainer Blatt (Innsbruck) have built hierarchical architecture of ion trap chains 1. Cold Atoms (Lukin) Harvard group led by M. Lukin had achieved significant progress towards high-fidelity quantum control, opening possibilities of using thousands of coherent qubits for quantum simulators and computers CATALOG has designed and built a megabit-rate writer and codec capable of writing information into DNA at 12 Mbps. Long-term goal - enable latency tolerant training and inference on massive data sets at low energy and volume per operation Advanced Materials 5. Advanced Materials Data and instructions are encoded in the matter and dropped into a black hole. Hawking radiation carries output. Far, far in the future. 4. Black Hole
- 11. 11Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Ultimate Advanced Material Computer – Human Body/Brain A helmet containing a brain–computer interface that enables the wearer to interact with a computer using brain activity 200 billion atoms in DNA 40 trillion cells in a human body 100 billion neurons in human brain 100 trillion connections (synapses) ~10 watt power consumption, 1.45 kg 1. Do we know all the physics of the processes in the human brain? 2. Do we know all the physics needed to understand human brain or other knowledge-generating devices? 3. Does the physics even remain the same around super powerful knowledge-generating devices? "Human intuition and insight ... cannot be reduced to any set of computational rules. ... Gödel's theorem indeed shows this, and provides the foundation of my argument that there must be more to human thinking than can ever be achieved by a computer." -- Roger Penrose, “Shadows of the Mind”
- 12. 12Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Some Specific Cases Where Traditional Silicon Electronic Could be Replaced Even Sooner Robots, sensors, actuators Photonic Quantum Repeater Advanced Material Simulation Data Storage (DNA) Healthcare – smart prosthetics Thales Alenia Space intends to use terabit speed photonics for satellite components interconnects: lighter, faster, more reliable and lower power consumption Quantum Internet Artur EkertCharles H Bennett Gilles Brassard https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13132
- 13. 13Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 Ultimate Fantasy Mainframe – all kinds of computing will coexist (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, IBM Cloud, Ali Cloud) “Avatar” movie: The Tree of Souls has a way to interact with the world through the seeds, and to connect directly to the human nervous system Open systems interconnect (GenZ - https://genzconsortium.org/) CPU GPU TPU MemristorArrays Photonics QuantumComputing MicroBlackHole Noise-FreeAnalog AdvancedMaterials HumanBrainpower
- 14. 14Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 300mm Silicon Wafer New Physics + New Computing = New Business 1. New Computers require NEW ADVANCED MATERIALS 2. New Computers require to build a lot of NEW HARDWARE 3. New Computers require NEW SOFTWARE to design them 4. Running New Computers requires NEW OPERATING SYSTEM 5. Getting results from New Computers requires NEW ALGORITHMS
- 15. 15Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 SIT: Science, Tech, and Education - $10T market 1. Real Estate 2. Education 3. Science Transformation Services 4. Spin-Offs/Accelerators/Funds 5. Learning & University Management Systems 1.COMPUTERS, 2.PHYSICS, 3.BUSINESS $100M+ investment over 8 years $500M+ annual revenue in 15 years 2.5B+ market cap in 15 years (40%+ IRR) 5+ campuses around the globe 500,000+ m2 of real estate worldwide SIT RESEARCH CENTER 25+ chairs in: Cybersecurity and Information Integrity, AI/ML, Software Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous Machines, Quantum Technologies, Advanced Materials, Digital Health, Digital Sports, New Generation Business Management, AI in Arts & Computer Design, Digital Law SIT TECH PARK 250+ SIT’s startups and R&D centers of 100+ industry partners – within walking distance from the University SIT UNIVERSITY Top 50 under 50 Global Top 100 in CS, Physics, Business 2,500+ degree students on main campus 25,000+ blended degree off-campus students 250,000+ online non-degree students
- 16. 16Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 SIT: Research-Led University to Address Global Challenges Through Science, Tech and Education 1. Computers 2. Physics 3. Business Sciences 1. Cybersecurity and Information Integrity 2. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning 3. Software Engineering 4. Robotics & Autonomous 5. Quantum technologies 6. Advanced materials 7. Digital Health 8. New Gen Business Mgmt. 10. Digital Sports 11. Digital Learning & Education 12. AI in Arts/Design 9. Digital Law Interdisciplinary Approach
- 17. 17Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 #3 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 #10 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 SIT: Top Notch International Partnerships & Boards Members Konstantin Novoselov Chairman NUS, Univ of Manchester Nicolas Gisin University of Geneva STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD Artur Ekert NUS, University of Oxford Mikhail Lukin Harvard University Mark Kamlet Carnegie Mellon University BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE BOARD INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNION
- 18. 18Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 #3 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 #10 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 SB Serguei Beloussov Initiator and Primary Investor Christian Wipf Chairman CGA Altium BOARD OF DIRECTORS Guenther Dobrautz Partner at PwC Zurich Eugene Demler Prof. Physics, Harvard University Rene Bonvanie EVP, Palo Alto Networks STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNION SIT: Top Notch International Partnerships & Boards Members
- 19. 19Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 #3 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 #10 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 Jürgen Brücker Executive VP Bertrand Meyer Provost Mauro Pezze Prof. USI, Milano-Bicocca Anton Grachev VP Tech Park STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD EXECUTIVE BOARD INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNION BOARD OF DIRECTORS Elena Novoselova VP Communication and Grant Management SIT: Top Notch International Partnerships & Boards Members
- 20. 20Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 #3 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 #10 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 Paul Maritz Chairman of Pivotal, prev. VMware, Microsoft Dmitry Chikhachev Managing Partner, Runa Capital Roberto Cingolani CTO Leonardo SpA Kirill Tatarinov Executive Vice Chairman Acronis STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNION BOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE BOARD Arkadiy Dobkin CEO, EPAM SIT: Top Notch International Partnerships & Boards Members
- 21. 21Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 #3 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 #10 in QS World Ranking by Computer Science 2018 Nick Santhanam Sr. Partner, McKinsey Vladimir Shalaev Prof. Electrical and Computer Eng, Purdue Sir Andre Geim Prof. Physics, Univ. Of Manchester Serguei Netessine Prof. Wharton Business School STRATEGIC ADVISORY BOARD INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNIONBOARD OF DIRECTORS EXECUTIVE BOARD Alexandra Boltasseva Prof. Electrical and Computer Eng, Purdue SIT: Top Notch International Partnerships & Boards Members
- 22. 22Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 SIT: 2020 Master of Science Program at a glance 3. BUSINESS SCIENCES AND SCIENCE TRANSFORMATION (2021+) 2. QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AND ADVANCED MATERIALS (2021) 1. COMPUTING SCIENCE AND SOFTWARE ENGINEERING Term 1: Fall 2020 (30 ECTS) Term 2: Spring 2021 (30 ECTS) SUMMER 2021 (ELECTIVE) Term 3: Fall 2021 (30 ECTS) Term 4: Spring 2022 (30 ECTS) Technical skills (18 ECTS) - Quality Engineering (6 ECTS) - Data Science (6 ECTS) - Cyber Protection (6 ECTS) Management skills (6 ECTS) - Product vision, strategy, innovation and marketing (6 ECTS) Leadership skills (3 ECTS) - Human and Social Psychology (3 ECTS) Technical skills (18 ECTS) - Software Engineering (6 ECTS) - Architectural strategy (6 ECTS) - Dynamic Analysis and Deep Learning (6 ECTS) Product Management skills (6 ECTS) - Product design, portfolio management and analytics (6 ECTS) Leadership skills (3 ECTS) - Agile leadership and Strategic Management (3 ECTS) INTERSHIP Technical skills (12 ECTS) - System Protection (6 ECTS) - Programmatic Marketing (3 ECTS) - Quantum Informatics (3 ECTS) Product Management skills (6 ECTS) - Transformational change management (6 ECTS) Leadership skills (6 ECTS) - Customer centric mindset and agile delivery management (3 ECTS) - Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship (3 ECTS) - Research Thesis - Industry Thesis - Start-up Design Capstone Project (Geographically) distributed teams working on Industrially relevant projects in cooperation with companies with academic advisors (or develop a commercialization project at the local tech park facilities) (12 ECTS)
- 23. 23Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 All modern companies develop software and need new breed of leadership – SIT differentiates itself by preparing students for key leadership positions 1.Chief Architect (CA) 2.Chief Product Officer (CPO) 3.Chief Program Officer (CPgmO) 4.Chief Development Officer (CDO) 5.Chief Security Officer (CSO) … key technical professionals: 6. Chief Science Officer 7. Chief Design Officer … and premier specialists: 8. Chief Technology Officer (CTO) 9. Chief Information Officer (CIO) 10.Chief Quality Officer 11.Chief Engineer 12.Chief Idea Officer 13.Chief Services Officer 14.Chief Support Officer 15.Chief Data Center Ops Officer Small Project – 10 people x 10 years = 100 man- years, 10 releases: needs 1-3 leaders Medium Project – 100 people x 10 years = 1000 man-years, 10-100 releases: needs 5-8 leaders Larger Project – 1000 people x 10 years = 10,000 man-years, 100+ releases: needs all 15 leaders
- 24. 24Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 SIT Differentiators: Advanced Computer Science / Software Engineering program with added unique benefits I. Advanced people reputation and expertise - SIT governing boards and SIT Union network II. Entrepreneurship - Providing hands-on skills and actionable knowledge to build a new high-tech company or internal startup project and find first customers III. Leading Teams of Leaders – developing future leaders for all roles for effective and repeatable scaling (be a leader and create a team of leaders) IV. Transformational Change Leadership – manage change, not just lead the change V. Science Of People – effective team leadership is impossible without understanding human interactions and human behavior VI. Business Science - essential toolkit of business skills formulated in the language of computer science VII. Quantum Informatics – bleeding edge of computer science with the world leaders in the field VIII. Advanced Materials Science – interdisciplinary: solving hard computing problems for development of new advanced materials and using advanced materials to solve hard computing problems Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower -- Steve Jobs
- 25. 25Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 What To Do Now? For Example: 1. Become #CyberFit with Acronis Cyber Protection (for sure) 2. Join SIT as a researcher or faculty, or help – sponsor, invest or buy SIT services 3. SIT is looking for students for its unique Masters Programs. Apply Now at https://sit.org! a) You can be famous like Alan Turing b) You can get 2 Nobel’s like John Bardeen c) Or you can build Google like Larry Page and Sergey Brin (if you finish your Master and drop out of PhD studies) John Bardeen (1908-1991) First to win two Nobel prizes in the same field 1956 – Transistor, 1972 - Superconductivity Larry Page and Sergey Brin Both MS CS Stanford grads, launched Google in 1998 and placed PhD studies on hold
- 26. 26Proprietary and Confidential © 2020 All modern companies develop software and need new breed of leadership – SIT differentiates itself by preparing students for key leadership positions. Find more at https://sit.org LEADERSHIP DIFFERENTIATORS BOLOGNA MASTER LEADERSHIP MASTER EXECUTIVE MASTER 1. Chief Architect 2. Chief Product Officer 3. Chief Program Officer 4. Chief Development Officer 5. Chief Security Officer … key technical professionals: 6. Chief Science Officer 7. Chief Design Officer … and premier specialists: 8. Chief Technology Officer 9. Chief Information Officer 10. Chief Quality Officer 11. Chief Engineer 12. Chief Idea Officer 13. Chief Services Officer 14. Chief Support Officer 15. Chief Data Center Ops Officer I. Advanced people reputation and expertise - SIT governing boards II. Entrepreneurship - Providing hands-on skills and actionable knowledge III.Leading Teams of Leaders – developing future leaders for all roles for scaling business IV.Transformational Change Leadership – manage change, not just lead the change V. Science Of People – understanding human interactions and human behavior VI.Business Science - business skills formulated in the language of computer science VII.Quantum Informatics – bleeding edge of computer science with the world leaders in the field VIII.Advanced Materials Science – interdisciplinary Pre experience Master (0-2 years working experience) – continuing education Entry stage into the labor market 90-120 ECTS 1.5-2 years Full time low tuition fees (CHF 15-20k) potentially cost-covering Study calendar: international academic year Master (3-5 years working experience) Next job level 60+ ECTS 1-3 years Full time or part time (accompanying) Tuition Fees (CHF 50-100k) Study calendar: Sept or Jan (flexible) Specialized certificates (CAS, DAS, MAS etc.) Focused profile, customized program Working experience Cumulable to a major degree in 5-10 years total to minimize impact on the job 10-30 ECTS – CAS, 30-60 - DAS, 60+ - MAS 1 - 4 weeks sessions Part time (accompanying – work- study basis) Tuition Fees (CHF 15-30k) Study calendar: flexible • For talented students with a bachelor in science or engineering, who aim at entering technical leader careers • Two-year curriculum (120 ECTS) • Option for a dual degree with either CMU or NUS • For talented students with 3-5 years of experience who aim at senior technical leader roles (Bachelor required) • One-year curriculum (70 ECTS) • Exec master and Bologna master share lectures and team activities • For talented students with 3-5 years of experience who aim at senior technical leader roles (Bachelor required) • Continuing education or work-study, primarily designed to minimize impact on existing employment flow
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