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Citizen EngineerEngage, Communicate, LeadEngage, Communicate, Lead

Greg Papadopoulos, Ph.D.Chief Technology Ocer and

Executive Vice President Research & DevelopmentSun Microsystems, Inc.


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Acknowledgements

Co-Author: David DouglasSenior Vice President,Cloud ComputingSun Microsystems, Inc.

The many engineers at Sunwho contributed their

thoughts and insight.


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The Innovation Revolution

20th Century

ScientistIndividualTop-Down

ProprietaryCorporations

Planned

21st Century

EngineerCommunitiesParticipative

OpenEcosystemsContinuous


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What is an Engineer?


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A Constructive Artist

What is an Engineer?

Performing OptimizationUnder Constraints


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Science or Engineering?

c


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the engineer creates what never was.- Theodore von Karman

The scientist describes what is;


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A WholeNew Scale

The Engineering Paradigm Shift

PervasiveCollaboration BroaderInuence

Changes in the Nature of Engineering


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Externally Driven Changes

The Green

Explosion

Corporate Social

Responsibility

Corporate Social

Responsibility

Security and

Privacy

Rise ofDigital Goods

New Laws,Tighter Controls

The Engineering Paradigm Shift


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What is a Citizen Engineer?

Science Society

PureKnowledge

How

Knowledgeis Used

Creating the Intersection


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Become a Citizen Engineer

Eco Techno Social

Exercise Your Responsibility


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Business

Technology

Collaboration

Ecology IP

Public Policy

Expand Your Knowledge Base


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EconomicContribution NetworkScale ShareIdeas

50% of GDP50% of GDP


Use Your Inuence


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Product Lifecycles

May Not be What They Seem

Environmental Responsibility


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Make

UseRenew


Reduce

ReuseRecycle

vs.

Eciency Lifecycle


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The McDonough/Braungart View*

Use

Renew?

Resources/MaterialsFood

Waste

Make

UpcycleWaste = Food

*Cradle to cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things


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Biological versus Technical Cycles

Resources

Waste

BiologicalStuff that's eaten

Waste

TechnicalMetals, plastics, solvents...

Resources


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Safety Tip: Don't Cross the Streams!

Resources

Waste


Waste


Resources

X


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Safety Tip: Don't Cross the Streams!

Resources

Waste


Waste


Resources

X

...


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>Computers => clouds

>Water lters => clean water

>Solvents => clean parts

>Washing machines => clean clothes

>Cars => transportation

> ...

Big Idea: Products => Services


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Stay Legal

Business Opportunities

Biggest ImpactsLow Hanging Fruit



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Intellectual Responsibility

Innovation Happens Elsewhere*

*Sun Founder Bill Joy


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Innovation Happens Everywhere

Smart people don't work onlyfor you!

Get them to work on your stuff>Because your stuff is cool

> Because your stuff is free

> Because your stuff lets thembuild even cooler things


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How do you get

people to participatewith yourstuff?


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Make itFree(as in freedom, not beer)

Sharing Creates Communities

Communities Create Markets


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Patents Copyrights TrademarksProtects

Expressions of Ideas

Right to Make Copies

Protect Ideas

Right to Exclude Others

Protects Names ofThings

An Exclusive Right toName Them

Intellectual Property 101


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>A license regulated by copyrightlaws>You have to play by the rules of the license

Propagate it Perhaps require put-back

> May or may not deal with patents BSD (and MIT) are silent MPL (and CDDL) are explicitly granting GPL is implicitly granting, but somewhat

ambiguous

>The freedom of developers to share code

One Example: Open Source Software


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The Open Prosthetics ProjectAN INITIATIVE OF THE SHARED DESIGN ALLIANCE

Prosthetics shouldn't cost and arm and a leg.


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Managing InnovationFostering

Eight

AxiomsofInnovation

Management


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Managing Innovation

#1

You have to be in itfor the long term


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Managing Innovation

#2

Conventionalwisdom often isn't


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Managing Innovation

#3

Vision is top-down;innovation isbottom-up


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Managing Innovation

#4

Embrace failure


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Managing Innovation

#5

Disrupt thyself


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Managing Innovation

#6

Small, smart teams10 or 102

i i


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Managing Innovation

#7

Technology transferis a contact sport

M i I i


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Managing Innovation

#8

It's all about the(right) people

Life Philosoph


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Life Philosophy

Don't Solve

Problems.Create Possibilities.


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Thank You!

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