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Leading Edge Forum 2012

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FOREWORD

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Discovery — and the ability to track and anticipate new trends, new applications and emerging technologies — is at the heart of CSC’s success in providing business value to our clients.

Our clients continually seek out reliable partners who can supply them with sound information on which to base decisions about new technologies and business practices. CSC’s Grants program facilitates this critical market-sensing capability. Through this program, we demonstrate our commitment to leadership and innovation in an array of business areas by encouraging our employees to explore potential breakthrough innovations.

In this way, CSC, and our clients, are able to stay abreast of market-leading business trends, promising new technologies and their application to solving business problems. We share this knowledge company wide, and encourage employees to make original contributions to the body of knowledge in their field. CSC Grants have already paved the way for transformative capabilities and innovative solutions that have blazed new trails, establishing CSC’s thought leadership in diverse fields.

The CSC Grants program helps guide organizational decisions by publishing high-quality white papers. We share the grant results with clients through customer presentations and our annual Technology and Business Solutions Conference. Each year, the Leading Edge Forum selects and funds grants from proposals submitted by CSC employees around the world. We invite you to turn the page and discover the breadth and diversity of the work represented in the 2012 grant projects.

2012 CSCGRANTS

Bill Koff Vice President & Chief Technology Officer Office of Innovation, CSC

Paul Gustafson Director, Leading Edge Forum


ABOUT THE CSC GRANTS PROGRAMThroughout CSC’s history, our people have been known for their ability to see new uses and applications of technology. Our scientists and technologists have often gone beyond their jobs to explore new ideas, developing breakthrough innovations that have changed the company, the discipline as a whole and their own careers.

Recognizing the benefits of “greenfield” research for the marketplace, the individual and the company, the Leading Edge Forum (LEF) created a formal program in 2000 to build on our culture of innovation by giving employees a structured opportunity to ex-plore a technology topic or solution that is gaining momentum in the market but does not yet have broad exposure within CSC.

Today, in keeping with our focus to be the leading next-generation technology solutions and services provider, the CSC Grants program encompasses industry specific applica-tions, business process services, consulting and next-generation infrastructure that pro-mote innovation and value for our clients.

The LEF provides funds to grant recipients to explore business and technology areas that have strategic implications for market solutions, both near term and long term. By requiring recipients to share their results in a way that can be disseminated through-out the company, we ensure that the Grants program has a deep and wide impact that touches our everyday work for clients worldwide.

The information, views and opinions expressed in these research papers constitute solely the authors’ views and opinions and do not represent in any way CSC’s official corporate views and opinions. The authors have made every attempt to ensure that the information contained in their research papers has been obtained from reliable sources. CSC is not responsible for any errors or omissions or for the results obtained from the use of this information. All information in these research papers is provided “as is,” with no guarantee by CSC of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. In no event will CSC, its related partnerships or corporations, or the partners, agents or employees thereof be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information in these research papers or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.

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CONTENTS

Android as an Army Platform Robert Donnelly .................................................................................................................................................... 4

Architecture Guide for Selecting and Deploying Data Grids Paul Colmer ............................................................................................................................................................. 5

Dematerialized Digipass on Cross-Mobile Devices Thibaut de Sany ...................................................................................................................................................... 6

Enabling Mobile Money through Technical Innovation Erica Salinas ............................................................................................................................................................ 7

Exploding Trends in Business Intelligence Craig Guinn .................................................................................................................................................................................... 8

HTML5: The Quiet Revolution Daniel Munyan ......................................................................................................................................................... 9

Improving Patient Outcomes by Applying Integrative Genomics Techniques to Electronic Health Records Pavan Gupta ............................................................................................................................................................10

Investigation of Open Source Augmented Reality (AR) for Real Applications Richard Brown ......................................................................................................................................................... 11

A New Paradigm for Developing, Delivering and Consuming IT Services in a Mobile Enterprise Erika Olimpiew ...................................................................................................................................................... 12

Personalized Medicine: Merging Bio-IT and Informatics with Next Generation Healthcare Technologies Venkat Rao ............................................................................................................................................................... 13

Social Media Analytics: An Emerging New Age of Advanced Business Intelligence Jeremy Ceulemans ..............................................................................................................................................14

Past CSC Grants .................................................................................................................................................... 15

Recipients2012 CSC Grants


Smartphones are being used for mobile IT needs, social networking and entertainment. While iPhones and Androids handle the horizontal needs, there’s a growing interest in applying this technology to verti-cal needs such as Army mission command and intelli-gence. Instead of specialized systems (from hardware through all the software layers), various industries are asking: “Why isn’t there an app for that?”

The answer requires understanding the mobile plat-form and its role within the larger vertical enterprise. Beyond being web-enabled, a smartphone can run a local database, serve and receive multimedia and handle specialized transactions. Processing power and memory increases provide extensive functional-ity, but the platform has limits in both software and hardware. This grant seeks to understand what An-droid can do as part of a vertical market enterprise.

Capabilities like situational awareness map to imple-mentations (e.g., position/status reports, geographic mapping, organization/identity data) and to mecha-nisms (e.g., transport, storage, map engines with local caching, databases). Capabilities vary by vertical mar-ket, but mechanisms are shared. The use of develop-ment methods, software libraries and data stores are explored with specific results: C libraries should work, but C++ libraries have limits like in-use exceptions. In addition, database commits shouldn’t exceed one per second because of flash write speeds.

These translate into handling Android within the en-terprise. If C++ libraries are extensively needed, they should be tested. An Android database can handle slow-changing configuration data but not fast-chang-ing status data for many items. The result is not just answering if an app can be used, but how it needs to be implemented.

Identity and system configuration data is a common need, be it Army units and systems, network devices, package tracking, product and customer lists, email and phone contacts, etc. Handling concerns such as keeping local caches and updates are examined. Interacting with a typical enterprise service such as LDAP is tested. Again, limits are understood: The Android Contact List is useful for storing typical personnel-related data but not for specialized Army or network data.

Most vertical markets are best understood via a holis-tic systems engineering approach. Mobility and cloud are modern implementation methods. As an open platform, Android eases adaptations including spe-cialized hardware support and adding market-specific libraries. The results of this grant work enable an implementer to understand Android’s capabilities and limits so a resulting app provides mobile functionality that is an integral part of the enterprise.

About the Grant Recipient

Dr. Bob Donnelly is a Systems Engineer in CSC’s Defense Group’s Ground Division, supporting U.S. Army customers. He has applied knowledge of systems engineering to integration frameworks and field experimentation, enabling interoperability of command, control, communications, computers, Iintelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) systems. His most recent assignment is for Program Executive Office Command Control Communications – Tactical (PEO C3T) in its support of the Army’s Network Integrated Evaluation (NIE), part of an agile systems engineering process that assesses capabilities in an operational environment and reduces risk in controlled laboratory tests.

This is Bob’s second LEF grant. The first evaluated embedded Linux as a mobile platform and provided the basis for CSC’s role as software lead for Land Warrior, a wearable system for the soldier. The current grant work enables comparisons of such special-purpose systems and Android-based devices.

Bob started with CSC in support of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, providing middleware for NASA’s Deep Space Network. This triggered Bob’s interest in application performance over satellite and tactical radios, which continues in his Army sup-port. The Defense Group Fellows Program enabled Bob to present this work at industry conferences the last three years.

Android as an Army Platform

ROBERT DONNELLy

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The IT outsourcing industry is experiencing a new wave of business-driven change. CEOs and business leaders struggle to comprehend increasing IT costs to refresh, upgrade and maintain systems. Often, these IT transformations do not provide significant business advantages.

Business owners and business visionaries are de-manding change: a world where IT services are easier and more effectively consumed, with significant added business value through business process en-hancement, rather than through business process support. They envision a world where email, network-ing, data protection and data archiving functions happen with a low price point using commodity com-ponents. CEOs are demanding services automatically in tune with business needs; where IT services change instantly with business change, and where (in the fu-ture) IT changes happen predictively, just before the business does.

This period of change that IT outsourcing will un-dergo for the next 3-5 years is beyond cloud; it’s about providing IT as an integral part of the business service, shaped by operational technology (OT)/IT convergence (e.g., SCADA (OT) converging with IaaS (IT) for utilities and mining and PACS (OT) converg-ing with SaaS (IT) for health clients).

The In-Memory Data Grid is small but important to this change. It underpins the Information-as-a-Service movement, able to provide a reliable, scalable, high-performance fabric that can be leveraged across business services and potentially separate businesses via the use of an application development platform. It allows data to be modeled to make sense for the business problem, and clears the way for new types of architectures to be defined to support the innova-tive ways in which business processes will be mea-sured and the new maturity wave in IT outsourcing. At last we have a way of providing IT that maximizes and demonstrates clear business value aligned to changing business needs.

Imagine an Apple App Store equivalent that allows mining clients to select the business applications re-quired by their mobile device of choice and access the back-end services via a cloud. Now imagine an IT service that directly enables a global mining business to mine an extra 10 million tons per mine, per year. Lastly, imagine a client like NASA being able to offer all its data collected over the past 30 years in space exploration “as a service” to scientists who need in-formation to help solve problems.

Well imagine no more. It’s coming. And an in-memory data grid is a key piece of the puzzle.


Paul Colmer is a Lead Technology Consultant, Solution Architect and Film Music Composer in Brisbane, Australia. His areas of expertise include system transformation and integration, solution architecture and design, business analysis, IT strategy and roadmapping and business process analysis exemplified through cross-industry client engagements.

Paul joined CSC in 2005, after previously working for Santander. He joined the Textron transformation program in EMEA and migrated to Australia in 2006. His work has encompassed a wide range of technologies including virtualized operat-ing systems, storage solutions, WAN/LAN solutions, messaging integration, business continuity, service management, mining applications, financial applications and cloud/grid/utility computing. In addition, he is an active contributor to CSC Catalyst, a member of the local health and safety committee and CSC Brisbane’s Chief First Aid Officer.

In his spare time, Paul is a lead assessor for the British Computer Society, an active volunteer for the Queensland State Emergency Service, Director of Music4Film (www.music4film.net) and plays for the over 35’s Mitchelton Soccer Team. As a film music composer he has been a finalist in two international competitions and has written music for film, tv, radio, gam-ing, concerts and exhibitions. His music is available on iTunes, Amazon and YouTube and he is currently signed to Bluepie. Paul holds a 2:1 Music degree, is a fellow of the London College of Music and a Chartered IT Professional with the British Computer Society. Past skills include becoming an advanced motorcycle instructor, 25 years as a martial arts coach and ring-side mentor, and even a stint in Portugal as a barman.

Architecture Guide for Selecting and Deploying Data Grids

PAUL COLMER



Thibaut de Sany is the Mobility Manager for CSC Belgium. He joined CSC in 2008, created a highly-skilled team of 70 peo-ple (in 2012) and has been involved in a variety of mobile technologies since. Prior to this, he worked as Mobile, J2EE Ar-chitect and 3D Medical Engine Developer. Thibaut has more than 10 years of experience implementing mobile solutions on past, present and future mobile platforms. He is an international conference speaker and driven by innovation engineering. Thibaut is also developing the interface brain2machine for CSC later this year (http://www.emotiv.com). Find details about his latest initiatives here: http://thibaut.desany.eu

Dematerialized Digipass on Cross-Mobile Devices

THIBAUT DE SANy

People want to interact with their banks on the move using personal mobile devices. Securing interactions in such an environment, without introducing constraints, is a challenge. Today, several options offer dematerialized authentication, enabling availablity on a wide range of mobile platforms. The global market for mobile authentication products and services is estimated to rise from $153 million (2010) to almost $760 million in 2014.

The financial services sector aims to offer mobile access to its services without compromising security This grant looks at how to:

• Build and deliver a mobile interaction channel ac-cessible from as many mobile devices and plat-forms as possible.

• Provide strong and convenient authentication for the mobile channel.

These objectives are a subset of the broader “mobile payment solutions” scope being addressed in a very competitive way, aiming to make the smartphone the modern person’s “Swiss army knife.”

This grant was investigated within CSC Belgium’s Mobility Center of Excellence, which is actively studying, experimenting and delivering mobile solutions. CSC Belgium has deep native and mobile web and hybrid technologies expertise and believes that HTML5 and solutions like Cordova-Phonegap, which connects custom native development with HTML-JavaScript front-end, will provide the best toolbox for future mobile applications, deployable on a variety of platforms.

Strong authentication on mobile devices is in early-stage development, where many actors compete to impose technical solutions and business models provide different control and financial options. This, combined with constantly evolving IT security needs to protect against new threats, means that no solution can be considered the reference today.

Special thanks to Daniel Frauman for his knowledge sharing and research about eID v2 (http://eid.belgium.be/en/) and Vincent Van Mol. I’m proud of the accomplishments of the entire Belgian Mobile team, recognized by CSC globally as strong, innovative partners.

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Mobile money is a disruptive innovation that first gained international recognition with the introduction of M-PESA, a short message service (SMS)-based money transfer system initially launched in Kenya. The system allows individuals to deposit money with an agent, who then transfers the credit to the cus-tomer’s cell phone. Subsequently, customers can pay bills, send remittances, buy goods, cash out at an agent or access a variety of other financial services -- all with basic SMS text messaging. M-PESA revolu-tionized financial services in Kenya and spurred the development and launch of similar services across Africa and the world.

Mobile money is a burgeoning industry, predicted to become a multi-billion-dollar industry in the next 3 to 5 years. However, the current market is filled with disparate proprietary systems that lock users into a single service. If mobile money is to continue its exponential growth, the market will require an open platform that supports interoperability between mo-bile money systems and established international payment networks.

While mobile money services emerged from a series of unknown first movers, it is clear that now is the time for those companies with years of IT, financial and mobile expertise to start playing a more signifi-cant role. If large financial institutions, experienced IT integrators and international payment service providers start working together, they can transform national mobile money systems into a unified inter-national mobile money ecosystem. This ecosystem will need to support universal standards established by leaders with the expertise, reputation, and market power necessary to shape the market.

A mature and agile mobile money ecosystem will finally bring cost-effective financial services to bil-lions of low-income people who have been excluded from their local economies and connect them to life-changing financial services. This will impact devel-oped and developing markets alike, as we integrate into an ever-growing global marketplace.


Erica Salinas is a strategy consultant in the Federal Consulting Practice of CSC’s North American Public Sector. She is cur-rently a Project Manager working on mobility solutions for the US Department of Homeland Security. While her roles at CSC have varied, Erica continually strives to bridge the gap between the business and technical worlds. Outside of the federal space, she has a passion for leveraging technology to drive change across the developing world.

Prior to joining CSC, Erica worked as a research engineer for a series of prestigious government-funded laboratories, in-cluding Lawrence Livermore National Labs, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and the Southwest Research Institute. Erica holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She also holds a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Arts degree in Development Economics from American University.

Enabling Mobile Money through Technical Innovation

ERICA SALINAS


Business intelligence (BI) is a broad area covering many competencies and capabilities, second only to the application space. With enterprise resource plan-ning organizations holding much of the application space and now reaching maturity, the BI space is exploding with innovation. Over the past 20 years or so, the discipline was relatively stable (data modeling, warehouses, OLAP tools etc.) Now we see an on-slaught of tools, techniques, infrastructure and instru-mentation that will fundamentally change the data discipline going forward.

For organizations to remain competitive, a compre-hensive top-line Point Of View (POV) needs to be created around these emerging trends. This POV is used externally for market-facing collateral support-ing pursuits, as well as internally for BI and analytic practice areas to help in product positioning and competency development.

Given that we are seeing these emerging components find their way into client requests, it is imperative that we are able to understand and properly place them within our BI and analytic vision and reference archi-tectures.

With CSC’s publication of the LEF report “Data rEvo-lution”, a clear call to action was created to describe the new “big” data and the concept of connecting the dots. This Grant paper, entitled “Exploding Trends in Business Intelligence,” looks to fill in the gaps, ad-dressing fundamentals of the nature of data and technologies allowing the data to be used in new and fundamentally different ways.

This paper covers the data view on the following trends:

• Emerging data techniques (MapReduce)

• Data governance (metadata integration)

• Data visualization (Cognos, Microstrategy)

• Purpose-built data hardware (Teradata, Netezza, ExaData)

• Performance engineering (data In memory, solid state hierarchies, columnar databases)

• High performance analytics (Linux based MPP)

• Unstructured-to-structured data flow processes (MapReduce, Hadoop, XML)

• Data design (data model integration, business in-formation models)

• Wireless device integration:(phone and tablet)

Taken together, these trends represent a true para-digm shift in the data discipline. They need to be understood individually and collectively to provide the best value to our clients. This paper describes these new capabilities, how to differentiate between products and how to match technology to specific data assets to enable better, more effective business decisions.


Craig Guinn is a Senior Partner, Distinguished Architect and leads CSC’s Analytic Insights and Information Management practice in our Global Business Solutions North America group. He is responsible for delivery of AIIM business, techni-cal and analytic solutions across the United States. Mr. Guinn has over 25 years of broad-based experience in information systems, project management and technology selection and deployment. Mr. Guinn’s background includes a blend of professional consulting and Fortune 50-based technical evolution that has exposed him to a broad spectrum of systems, processes and customer relationship issues. He has specialized in directing complex, large-scale consulting engagements that deploy technical solutions to meet a client’s vision and achieve the organization’s growth objectives.

Exploding Trends in Business Intelligence

CRAIG GUINN

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Daniel Munyan is Director, Senior Business Solutions Architect and Technology Evangelist for CSC’s Machine-to-Machine Center of Excellence. He coordinates the work of a group of engineers and software developers to create cross-industry and industry-specific applications in this relatively new and interesting M2M space. Daniel works with clients and the CoE for tracking location and condition of assets through their life cycle; locating people when they are needed, in transit, in danger, or requiring assistance; monitoring and interfacing with industry operations remotely; or visualizing infrastructure that is complex, remote or extended beyond typical human perceptibility, in 2D or 3D.

Daniel joined CSC in 2001 as a Project Management Officer. He has served as the Chief Scientist for CSC’s Biometric Tech-nology Fusion Center (2004-2008) and Director of the CSC Logistics Center of Excellence (2008-2012). Daniel is a patent and copyright holder in both hardware and software, and a published author in biometric hygiene. He received the CSC President’s Award for Excellence in Technology (2004), Business Process & Improvement (2006), and Excellence in Busi-ness Initiative (2007).

Previously, Daniel was the CEO of Everybook, Inc., an ebook startup from 1995-2001, and Director of MIS for the Pennsyl-vania Credit Union Association from 1986-1995. He received a bachelors degree in Geology from Millersville University of Pennsylvania, an MBA from Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania and an invaluable education from the 3/4 Cavalry of the US Army’s 25th Infantry Division.

HTML 5: The Quiet Revolution

DANIEL MUNyAN

Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, is the lingua franca of the World Wide Web. In 1997, HTML4 be-came the recommended specification and ushered in much of the web functionality fueling Internet growth in the last 15 years. But along the way, things like YouTube, NetFlix, iPhones, App Stores, GPS, Twitter, Facebook, Google Maps/Earth, Latitude, Pandora and FaceTime have come along and stretched the fabric of HTML4 beyond its capability. Third party vendors arrived with proprietary applications to get around structural problems with the web, but the basic problems of searching and scaling complex graphics, streaming video and advanced communications did not go away.

The grant paper discusses how HTML5, a nascent web language specification with no money, no in-dustry support, no government intervention and no well known advocates, has become a key competitive weapon in the arsenal of Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook. The author also addresses the impact of this quiet revolution for CSC.

The author contends that HTML5 went from obscu-rity to near total adoption because every provider of hardware, middleware (browsers), application soft-ware and content found a way to use HTML5 to cut

into the market share of both horizontal and verti-cal competitors. All of these companies also saw in HTML5 a threat that their competitors could exploit unless they stopped relying on the majority of their proprietary HTML4 enhancements. What began in 2007 as a technological issue to improve the web experience on PC’s, known as Web 2.0, became, by 2010, a competitive differentiator on the Post-PC de-vices of the smartphone and tablet.

The author makes clear how CSC can play multiple, important and profitable roles in the HTML5 revolu-tion. He sees the monopolies of device, network, ap-plication and content reforming into open alliances, while the need for industry expert, technology savvy integrators becomes more vital. HTML5 is opening new opportunities for cloud orchestration, cyber-security and systems provisioning. It is enabling the Bring-Your-Own-Device movement and creating op-portunities for CSC’s device-independent solutions and services. HTML5 is opening new opportunities in the M2M space, especially where M2M meets people through mobile devices (M2M2P). HTML5 is also al-lowing applications to grow into enterprise-scale mo-bility, where CSC is well-positioned to exploit mobile business.


Systems holding and using electronic health records (EHR) are increasingly falling behind the pace of translation bioinformatics. This gap between deployed, active EHR technologies and computational cutting-edge technologies is particularly wide when human genome data is introduced and assessed. As a result, a competitive edge exists for EHR implementers who apply intelligent integrative genomics to their EHR systems. Leveraging clinical, academic and genomic data can provide significant long-term diagnostic advantages for patients using EHR systems with integrative genomics methods built in.

While this project’s review and application of integrative genomics techniques demonstrates an increasingly complex and significant computational power requirement, it also demonstrates the possibility for these techniques to yield key answers about medical effectiveness and efficiency. Indeed, the entire spectrum of healthcare participants can benefit from intelligent data integration through machine learning, from patients knowing in advance about their breast cancer to the Food and Drug Administration recognizing deadly drugs more quickly.

These higher order questions require available data from both EHR systems and other publically available data (e.g., National Institutes of Health data, World Health Organization data, etc.) and, by definition, compute answers through the lens of multiple variables. Intelligently processing this data using supervised and increasingly unsupervised machine learning can begin to predict clinical outcomes, potential treatment problems and fundamentally a more effective use of the healthcare dollar. And implementers who incubate this knowledge stand to benefit as there will be a continuous need to improve and adjust the performance of these kinds of intelligence engines as the informatics space changes.

Through this grant, Pavan demonstrated the use of a series of modern machine learning algorithms to intelligently identify genetic sequences for both Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease from whole genome sequences and microarray data. These disease characteristics were then used as a template to flag new patient data as having or not having the identifying genes for these diseases. Although this work is certainly a prototype, it represents the possibility that a real diagnostic revolution is on the horizon, and integrative genomics may be one of the cutting-edge knowledge sets required to lead the charge.


Pavan Gupta is a Senior Consultant and architectural expert within CSC’s Federal Consulting Practice and is currently working on a special projects team in support of the Department of Homeland Security’s United States Visitor and Immi-grant Status Indicator Technology. Previously, he worked as a part of the Core Technology team at Bridgewater Associates in Westport, Connecticut and as an engineer for USAID’s mission in Iraq.

Pavan’s primary interest lies in the application of machine learning techniques and high performance computing to cum-bersome problems both in bioinformatics and computer vision. His experience spans many different technologies from AWK to VHDL, with an increasing focus on the use of GPGPU and FPGA solutions to address complex data-oriented prob-lems. Pavan holds a Bachelors of Science in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Virginia.

Improving Patient Outcomes by Applying Integrative Genomics Techniques to Electronic Health Records

PAvAN GUPTA

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Richard Brown is a CSC Senior Scientist/Visualization Lead working at the John C. Stennis Space Center (SSC). He has extensive experience in 3D visualization, especially in a geospatial context, with a remote sensing and realtime terrain modeling background. He has worked at SSC for over 30 years and led visualization projects ranging from Meteor Cra-ter, Arizona to Lewis and Clark’s FT Clatsop site in Oregon to Shackleton Crater on the south pole of the moon. He has also developed several stereo immersive visualization applications for NASA including a forensic launch system foam fragments viewer, for which he won a space flight awareness award. He founded, developed and passed on his own mul-timedia company in the late 1980s. Richard holds a degree in mechanical engineering technology from the University of Southern Mississippi.

Investigation of Open Source Augmented Reality (AR) for Real Applications

RICHARD BROWN

Today augmented reality (AR) technology and ap-plications are rapidly increasing in everyday use. AR involves blending the real world with simulated ele-ments; the technology is already employed in niche areas such as flight simulations and surgical training. Now applications are being developed and woven into everyday use in the form of AR tags/image recognition triggers in advertising placement, hard-ware/equipment demos and auto-trigger website launches from AR tag recognition via AR-enabled smartphones. It holds great promise for “point of application” data and information overlay via either handheld tablet AR platforms or hands-free wearable head-mounted Heads-Up Display type usage. There are great rumblings now that the major smartphone innovators are close to releasing AR glasses to bring a hands free augmented lifestyle one step closer to reality. To be able to move in an AR-enabled environ-ment and get immediate data retrieval at the point of need is an extremely powerful concept with unending

possible applications. Determining that “need” and the best application and platform for the end user is currently being explored by many developers, with updated toolsets and enhanced mobile platforms rapidly being released.

AR software development tools are now released in open source fashion to see what advancements from application developers will gain traction. Real applica-tions used in value-added ways that can enhance op-erational models are the grail being sought. It needs to be worth it to hold your smartphone up and point it at an augmented scene, or to have your “glasses on’” — sometime in the future perhaps.

This grant paper documents the investigation and lessons learned from exercising the most recent open source AR software/service toolsets to test prototype applications on an Android tablet in three areas at Stennis Space Center: facilities, operations, and his-torical recreation/archiving.


Recent technology advances in more powerful, feature-rich and low cost consumer handheld devices are enabling the development of new and innovative mobile applications that support enterprise IT ser-vices. However, developing mobile applications for an enterprise is challenging given the variety of devices and platforms, expensive test devices and unique in-teraction patterns between devices, mobile users and the environment.

This research addresses the challenge of how to de-sign, develop, host and manage mobile applications for an enterprise by describing a mobile application development process model, and then applying this model to two examples: an asset inventory and track-ing IT mobile application for a field worker, and a con-ference exhibit application. The process model covers requirements, analysis, design, implementation, test-ing and deployment activities, emphasizing aspects unique to mobile application development. The paper concludes with lessons learned, recommendations and future study.


Erika Mir Olimpiew is an Application Designer Leader in Chantilly, Virginia and is also a part-time Adjunct Professor at George Mason University (GMU). Erika’s research interests are in the areas of enterprise mobility, cloud computing, soft-ware design, software testing and software reuse. In 2010 she presented the results of a research grant on “A reference architecture model for cloud service lifecycle management” at CSC’s Technology and Business Solutions Conference and wrote a paper based on this grant. She is currently researching enterprise mobility ecosystems.

She received her Ph.D. in Information Technology from GMU in May 2008 with the dissertation “Model-Based Testing for Software Product Lines,” and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Virginia Commonwealth University in 1997 with the thesis “An investigation of the software testing coupling effect using perturbation analysis.” Previously, she was a teaching assistant at GMU and worked for 6 years developing software for a satellite communications company. Outside of work, she enjoys nature watching, art and music.

A New Paradigm for Developing, Delivering and Consuming IT Services in a Mobile Enterprise

ERIkA OLIMPIEW

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Personalized medicine is about making medical treat-ment as individualized as one’s disease by systemati-cally including genomic and clinical information in the diagnosis and treatment. Personalized medicine em-phasizes disease prevention by enhancing our ability to predict an individual’s predisposition to a disease such as cancer, project the course of disease devel-opment, and identify potentials for adverse effects.

The healthcare community is on track to adopt per-sonalized medicine, as early results indicate better efficacy, better outcomes and safer treatment op-tions. However, in order to fully realize the benefits, the discipline of pharmacogenomics needs more de-velopment. Pharmacogenomics is a rapidly emerging specialty where genetic variability in drug response is used as the basis for drug development. Genetic variation is combined with biochemistry and pharma-cology to offer better, safer drugs.

Related to this, successful adoption of personalized medicine depends largely on two broader forces: cost-benefit and information technology (IT). Person-alized medicine provides healthcare decision makers with a unique tool to make key decisions about re-source allocations based on the cost-benefit analysis

of competing diagnostic and therapeutic interven-tions. Such a cost-benefit analysis would help payers make healthcare coverage decisions and the industry make investment decisions on the new generation of pharmacogenomics drugs. A key requirement is the availability of clinical evidence to demonstrate the economic benefits of a nascent healthcare delivery system such as personalized medicine.

Currently, healthcare IT focuses mainly on automat-ing healthcare delivery as practiced today and is not designed for new healthcare paradigms like per-sonalized medicine. IT platforms need to support a seamless flow of digital information at an individual patient level on clinical, laboratory, genetic, disease monitoring, medical claims and health outcomes. The system should facilitate connectivity, integration and medical informatics on healthcare outcomes across subgroups.

This grant focused on these two critical forces, which are likely to have a significant impact on the research and development of core technologies and enablers of personalized medicine.


Dr. Venkat Rao is a Senior Fellow and Chief Scientist for the CSC Defense Group’s National and Defense Programs. Dr. Rao is a recognized subject matter expert in biochemical pharmacology, toxicoinformatics and decision support systems related to biodefense medical countermeasure and pharmaceutical products development. He has over 20 years of expe-rience working on public health, infectious agent risks assessment, biodefense vaccine biosafety practices, chemical and carcinogenic agents risk assessment, and toxicoinformatics. He is the CSC senior subject matter expert supporting several federal initiatives including U.S. Defense Advance Research Programs Agency (DARPA) projects on the biological-inspired neuromorphic computing architectures. Dr. Rao was program director for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s global tuberculosis laboratory performance evaluation program.

Dr. Rao holds a doctoral degree in biochemistry, two Master’s degrees (pharmacology and toxicology), and is Board-cer-tified by the American Board of Toxicology. He has authored over 100 articles and publications, serves on expert panels in national and international forums, and is frequently invited to speak on emerging topics in biomedical sciences.

In recognition of his technical qualifications and leadership, Dr. Rao was inducted, in 2008, as a Senior Fellow by the CSC Defense Group. Dr. Rao was accepted, in 2008, as a visiting scholar of the Hastings Center, to study bioethical issues re-lated to biosecurity research and development programs.

Personalized Medicine: Merging Bio-IT and Informatics with Next Generation Healthcare Technologies

vENkAT RAO


With the advent of Web 2.0 and the growth of so-cial media and networks, customers who used to be isolated and passive actors have started moving to a more central position in business. Now they can share their experiences and express their opinions quickly and loudly.

This grant work is not about social media itself. It is about the business intelligence that goes along with social media and the business opportunities in this domain. Today most of our clients are present in social media, but few are measuring the ROI or even monitoring what is said about them on the web. These clients are showing a growing interest in social media analytics and they are coming to us with ques-tions.

One can easily identify the business objectives that stand as the reason why social media activities are undertaken: raising awareness, fostering dialogue, promoting advocacy, facilitating customer support

and spurring innovation. Now, it requires some ex-pertise to identify, for each business objective, the perfect set of key performance indicators (KPI) that should be tracked. When it comes to deciding which software solution to use to track the identified KPI, it becomes complex. A framework linking the business objectives, the functionalities and the metrics can be used to assess the match between the business needs and the solution to be used. It is important to understand this end-to-end process since it enables us to approach clients, offer advice in selecting, implementing and fine-tuning the right software, and possibly integrate the solution alongside legacy sys-tems.

A long-term objective of this research is to develop expertise in the integration of these social media ana-lytics with other performance indicators in order to expand our integration capabilities and service offer-ing in performance management.

Jérémy joined CSC Belgium in 2011 as a Change Manager. Previously, he worked in the healthcare insurance sector. At CSC, he is responsible for the initiation phase of the change management on a five-year program.

Before joining CSC, Jérémy worked in Rome for an agency of the United Nations, the World Food Programme, and was in charge of various projects in the logistic units.

Jérémy holds two Master’s degrees: one in Business Engineering from the Louvain School of Management in Belgium and a second one from the CEMS in International Management. During his studies he specialized in the management of infor-mation and business opportunities of Web 2.0. He is a Certified Associated in Project Management (CAPM) from the Proj-ect Management Institute (PMI).

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