IBM Academic Initiative & Scholars Program

1. IBM Academic Initiative & Scholars Program Paul Newton

2. Agenda • WW Technology Challenges • SOA • IBM Academic Initiative • IBM Scholars Program • Technical Briefings • developerWorks • Web Events • Open Standards Skills Support for Faculty • Why IBM for your Students • IBM Ambassador Program

3. A Worldwide Technology Challenge • The need for skilled developers and IT professionals is greater than ever – in particular open standards skills for on demand business • The fastest-growing occupation in the next decade is projected to be computer software engineers (Watson Wyatt, Monster.com) • In the U.S. alone, 1.5 million additional skilled IT professionals are expected to be needed by 2006 (U.S. Department of Labor) • The number of students graduating with science and engineering degrees in the U.S. has been declining over the last 10 years (National Science Board) • Other trends are converging as well • The steady retirement of Baby Boomers • Tighter immigration policies • An economy that increasingly demands better-educated, more highly skilled workers Need – Build student skills and attract students in Computer Science Provide them with the skills to get great jobs and they will enroll

4. Higher Education Students Higher Education Students in Science & Engineering Science and Engineering Enrollment Total Student Population: 88.2 million Students in Science & Engineering: 23.6 million Source: UNESCO 2000

5. Pre Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Access (Process Optimized) The first stage of business evolution, going back to the mainframe, was all about automating the back office. We took an enormous amount of cost out of the back office by automating processes and enabling access to data within the department. At this point most of the offices have been automated and they are still running mainframes.

6. Pre Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) Integration (Enterprise Optimized) The need to automate offices, warehouses and manufacturing gave rise to the integration era. The client/server technology revolutionized business design and the information technology industry. The combination of technologies provide new opportunities for integrating processes across departments within the company.

7. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) On-Demand (Value-net Optimized) The next generation is going to be about value nets - making it much easier to integrate and interoperate within an organization and across a global network of service providers. We would like to make it so easy that it is dynamic and adaptable. Companies partner to form a virtual enterprise, with each company focusing on its core competencies.

8. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) An integration architecture approach based on the concept of a service. The business and infrastructure functions that are required to build distributed systems are provided as services that collectively, or individually, deliver application functionality to either end-user applications or other services. SOA specifies that within any given architecture, there should be a consistent mechanism for services to communicate. That mechanism should be loosely coupled and support the use of explicit interfaces.

9. Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) By adopting an SOA approach and implementing it using supporting technologies, companies can build flexible systems that implement changing business processes quickly, and make extensive use of reusable components.

10. Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) IBM strategic direction includes use of open standard technologies such as J2EE as a base for its value-added software products that provide the ability to plan, build and run Service Oriented Architecture based business applications in the new On Demand business process model The need for open standard technical skills will increase during the next 5 years. Management skills should include an understanding of the new On Demand business model

11. IBM Academic Initiative • Partner with colleges and universities to drive open standards • Better educate millions of students for a more competitive IT workforce

12. IBM Academic Initiative Offerings • Broad range of offerings for faculty and students • IBM middleware and tools • Access to IBM hardware • Course materials • Curriculum consultation services • Training for faculty and IT staff • Courseware resources available for IBM’s technology portfolio • WebSphere software • Rational software • DB2 Information Management software • Lotus software • Tivoli software • eServer iSeries • eServer zSeries • Java and Eclipse • Grid computing • On Demand Business

13. The IBM Scholars Program IBM Offerings for Scholars developerWorks IBM Academic Initiative and Skills Support for Universities Preparing Tomorrow’s IT Professionals

14. Free membership to faculty and researchers of accredited academic institutions worldwide Free IBM software for education and non-commercial research IBM middleware and tools available via download Technical support Access to IBM eServers and Linux hubs Discounts on eServer iSeries hardware Access to zSeries and Linux systems Free training for faculty Tutorials, articles, white papers and Redbooks Course materials and certification resources Online resources including e-mail newsletters, newsgroups, webcasts, case studies and other tools University Programs: IBM Scholars Program

15. Product downloads and CDs Faculty training Curriculum and courseware http://www.ibm.com/university

16. ibm.com/education/students – IBM Student Portal IBM’s online resource for students Jobs, downloads and other technical information Contests and special offers

17. Free resources for developers 22 Industry Awards – including the prestigious Jolt Award

18. ibm.com/developerWorks – IBM’s Resource for Developers Free resources for developers, administrators, architects, designers, testers Highly ranked web site for overall satisfaction and goal achievement Summit Strategies ranks developerWorks ahead of MSDN 25 industry awards, including best web site Online training Latest technologies Sample code Q&A forums Design flowcharts Newsletters Product trials Webcasts Online enablement Downloads How-to articles Product communities

19. Technical Briefings Speed-start Web Services Globalizing your applications Building applications with the IBM Software Development Platform e-Business on demand software:Build, Run, Manage Speed-start Linux

20. Live and On Demand Web • events • Topics cover the full spectrum of • Information technology • Special events for IBM Scholars • members

21. Benefits for Faculty and Students • Faculty • Access to leading-edge, open standards-based technology • Access to world-class curriculum • Ongoing faculty skills development • Increase in student placement • Students • Access to leading-edge, open standards-based technology • Highly marketable job skills that will enable them to get good jobs more quickly • Industry-leading certifications

22. Open Standards Skills Support Specifically for Professors

23. Three Requirements Faculty Consistently Ask For • Access to Tools and Middleware with no-cost academic licensing • No-cost training for faculty on Tools, Middleware and Technology • Consultative assistance with the development of course content.

24. Onsite support • 2. Faculty training • University briefings • Guest lectures • Curriculum consultation • Products and Technologies • 1. Eclipse, Rational, WebSphere, DB2, Lotus, Tivoli • On-demand Technologies • Software Dev. Platform • Open standards • Java / Web services • Grid / Autonomic computing Support Offerings in Response to Requirements • Consultative engagements and conference calls to assess status of faculty needs, curriculum, or other academic projects • Faculty training on IBM products, Linux, Eclipse, Java or higher level training on open standards and e-business concepts • Assistance with curriculum planning and course content development. • Remote support • 3. Course content and material updates • Technical articles • Technical web seminars • Webcasts

25. WebSphere Application Server Eclipse Rational XDE Web Services Java DB2 UDB OGSA WSAD Linux University Support Offering (…continued) Open Standards

26. IBM Course Content Conversion Projects • Professional Education is a 5 day course with afternoon labs • College education is 3 hours per week with homework exercises • Internship for college students at IBM Austin • Repurpose brand course material into 12 week / semester format • Content: • Java / J2EE • Eclipse -> Rational XDE • WebSphere Studio Application Developer • WebSphere Application Server • DB2

27. Challenge Professors teaching Web application development courses. Students using a text editor, the javac.exe Java compiler, and the Apache Tomcat servlet container for labs. Students frustrated by a lack of productivity and lack of an effective debugging environment. Professors spending more time debugging typing errors than teaching application development principles. Solution A week-long training was held for the professors: WebSphere Studio Application Developer WebSphere Application Server DB2 Rational XDE Developer. Value Professors are now able to find students’ problems/bugs easier and to use the detection of those bugs, with the WSAD Debug Perspective, as a teaching element. Students spend more time focusing on Web technologies and less time on typos and configuration errors. University of Puerto Rico – Mayaguez

28. What’s Next? • Visit today: ibm.com/university • Faculty: If you haven’t already, apply for membership today • Investigate how IBM technologies & products fit into your curricula • Download software and try it out • Take online tutorials • print and read a Redbook or technical white paper, or • register for an IBM course • Subscribe to our newsletters

29. Registration Process http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/members/registration.html Register for an IBM ID https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=swcaresww Learn about available software http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/downloads/ Learn about available courseware http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/courseware/ Discussion forums http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/resources/ Request no-fee training http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/training/classroom.html

30. Request support http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/support Provide feedback http://www.developer.ibm.com/us/en/university/scholars/feedback Renew registration https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/preLogin.do?source=ursparww Forgot userid or password https://www.ibm.com/account/profile/us?page=forgot

31. Why IBM for your Students? Because IBM has always aspired to do two things better than any other company in the world: • Create innovative technologies • Help clients apply technologies to transform what they do and how they do it • We operate in 164 countries • We employ ~ 325,000 people • We have more than 1 billion clients • We spend more than 6 billion US $ on research annually • We hold more US patents than HP, Intel, Sun, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, Oracle, and EMC combined.

32. University Ambassador Program

33. Academic Initiative Team MembersKevin Faughnan, Director

34. Paul Newton paulnewt@us.ibm.com