The Campus of the Future : 2020 and Beyond by James S . Cross , PhD
What does your vision of the future include ?
“ Prediction is very difficult , especially if it ’ s about the future .”
Niels Bohr , physicist
With costs falling rapidly and increased global connectivity , the worlds of transportation , collaboration , and language transparency are rapidly changing the way people stay connected worldwide with a mobile , go-anywhere communications infrastructure .
The next wave of technology evolution continues to build momentum in the U . S . economy as we are introduced to long term evolution ( LTE ), digital signal processors ( DSP ), near-field communications ( NFC ), virtual reality ( VR ), artificial intelligence ( AI ), augmented intelligent reality ( AIR ), and intelligent mobile computing devices ( IMCD ). LTE is poised to become the first truly global mobile smartphone standard even though the frequency bands vary from country to country . The exponential rise in demand for IMCD has advanced by leaps and bounds as new dual-core powerhouses provide the following key features :
• Point-and-shoot camera
• Display resolutions that exceed the limits of the human eye
• Near-field communications technology that enables payment by phone by waving a phone in front of a payment kiosk in place of swiping a credit card
• Siri-type voice activated intelligent assistant agents
• Augmented intelligent reality Whether you are a college or university ; local , state , or federal government agency ; or private business , the next wave of mobile communications technologies is essential to success . Today ’ s generation of IMCD technologies is transforming mission-critical operations and critical core services with rich-media applications and services . With costs falling rapidly and increased global connectivity , the worlds of transportation , collaboration , and language transparency are rapidly changing the way people stay connected worldwide with a mobile , go-anywhere communications infrastructure .
As the PC era wanes , the IMCD apps ecosystem will drive future access . The ability to access big data with analytic apps-empowered IMCD devices makes all kinds of things possible . The intelligent mobile collaboration apps offer colleges and universities the opportunity to leverage and get the best of all options in launching new services , remaking / remodeling the curriculum , and provisioning degree programs and services and will impact how they are perceived in the marketplace .
Mobile Computing Demand With the exponential rise in demand for mobile computing , deployment has become critical in the marketplace . “ The worldwide mobile computing market is poised for continued double-digit growth in the years ahead . Strong end-user demand , broader selection of devices , and lower price points will drive shipments higher in the years to come ,” says Ramon Llamas , senior research analyst with IDC ’ s Mobile Phone Technology and Trends team .
The next-generation IMCD technologies will continue to transform critical operations and core services with broadband connections , richmedia applications , and collaborative-friendly devices to support a plethora of current challenges and active research projects . For example , 90 percent of new drugs tested on people either do not work or fail to produce satisfactory results . These failures are an expensive part of the estimated $ 2.6 billion dollars it costs to bring a new drug to the market . The following are some of the hightech research endeavors involving IMCD technologies that were once thought impossible :
• iChip . A research lab in California is working with Lawrence Livermore National Lab to build a replica of the human body and / or organs on a chip ( iChip ) and customized human DNA sequence chips to test new drugs .
• Inferno . A team testing blood samples from around the world for new deadly microscopic viruses .
• MEL Science Chemistry Set . A
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