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From Supercomputers to 3D Game

Programming: The Impact of

CyberInfrastructure on our Youth Kris Stewart

Professor, Computer Science San Diego State Univeristy

http://cyberday.unm.edu/

Please see my

handout for details

about me

Disney, model Railroads and Kris?

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Title image of Kris, as volunteer at Walt‟s Barn in Griffith Park, Los Angeles

Walt = Walt Disney

As Marine Corps brat, Stewart was born at Camp Pendleton

http://www.cpp.usmc.mil/ Zip:92055

Annual Camp Pendleton night at Disneyland, when stationed there, and a visit on

each duty change, along with “visit the relatives”.

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How does the fiber map relate to us today? (Qwest‟s High Speed Fiber located on the Railroad Right of Way)

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NSF Celebrates 50 years 23March2009

www.nsf.gov/news/special_reports/nsf-net/

statesman Vint Cerf

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1960s 1960s

Note:

4 computers

Speed 4000 baud

young Vint Cerf

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1970s

188 computers

4800 baud

1977, K Stewart builds

Z80/Imsai kit computer

numerical software for

Masters at SDSU in CS

1978 Stewart ABQ

Sandia Labs Intern

1979 Stewart JPL

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1980s

159,000 computers

1,400,000 baud

1985 NSF assisted

Supercomputer

Centers start

1984

Stewart hired SDSU

as numerical analyst

1987 Stewart earns

UNM PhD

numerical analysis

1981 Stewart

starts PhD UNM

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1990s

for Stewart

248,000,000 computers

10,000,000 baud

1993-96 STEP

high school comp‟l sci

1994 Mosaic added

1990-2 SUE

Undergrad HPC

1997-2006 ECCSE

NPACI for CSU

lab in Library/neutral

turf on SDSU campus

SDSC Steering

Committee1992-97

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2000s

1.2 G computers

20,000,000,000 baud

1997-2004 ECCSE

NPACI for CSU at

SDSU

2005 EPIC

3D Game Prog‟m‟n

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NSFNet 1985-1995

http://www.merit.edu/networkresearch/projecthistory/nsfnet/nsfnet_article.php

Retiring the NSFNET Backbone Service: Chronicling the End of an Era

By Susan R. Harris, Ph.D., and Elise Gerich

Reprinted with permission from "ConneXions", Vol. 10, No. 4, April 1996.

As member of SDSC Steering Committee „92-‟97, Stewart had front row seat for much

of the squabbling over Congress dictate to NSF to “privitize” NSFNet

Overtime, its been great to

watch technology enhance

• Processor speeds increasing & multicores

• Memory speed increasing

• Cost decreasing

• Computer Screen resolution and fidelity

improve

• GPUs as well as CPUs

• Mobile computing convenient and powerful

What an exciting time “the kids” can have

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Calculate Transmit Time for your 1GB

ThumbDrive vs. Network Speed

http://www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu/eccse/Calc_TransTimes/

1 GB in 74 Hrs

33.6Kpbs modem

WPA at SDSU

• SDSU was founded in 1897

• Oct 1929 start construction “on the mesa”

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Hepner Hall 1930 Hepner Hall now

WPA Murals found during renovations

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http://soap.sdsu.edu/Volume1/WPAmurals/WPAmurals.htm

1959 Photos taken color murals captured on black/white film

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Sailors Going to Hell

16 San Diego is a military town/county

SDSU Library is New Home

17 http://youtu.be/Y3TT9xJchds Seth Mallios, chair of the SDSU anthropology department

Constrasts

• Beautiful color murals showcasing big tuna

industry in San Diego that no longer exists

• Black/white photos only record of sections

of former murals

• Archeaological dig on our own campus

• InfoDome of Library houses the partial

reconstruction

http://youtu.be/Y3TT9xJchds

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Life at SDSU

SDSC (San Diego State College)

hosts JFK 06June1963 for

fascinating speech

19 http://scua.sdsu.edu/exhibits/online/2010/03/JFKMovie/JFKMovie.shtml

Marine Corps brat Kris

was in Kansas City June1963,

but Quantico VA Nov 63

Combining Interests through CI

• Network everywhere (Internet Archive

WayBack Machine = archeaological dig today)

• Who gets education, who pays?

• Segregation is illegal in U.S. now, not in

1963

• Women‟s suffrage in 1920 in U.S.

• Contrasts – Kris is analog, her students

were born digital!

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Outside Wisdom on our Students John Seely Brown [JSB] – 17Jan05 @ SDSU

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Superbowl Commercials from Tech

Companies (over time)

Computerworld choices:

Xerox: "Monks" (1976)

Apple: "1984" (1984)

Intel: "Play That Funky Music" (1997)

CompuServe: "Not Busy" (1997)

Lotus: "Capitalism" (1997)

Iomega: "Bermuda Triangle" (1998)

Network Associates: "Missile Silo" (1998)

EDS: "Cat Herders" (2000)

Computer Associates: "Amnesia" (2002)

Garmin: "Napoleon" (2008)

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9152078/Top_10_Super_Bowl_tech_ads?taxonomyName=Hardware&taxonomyId=12

My choices are:

Apple Macintosh premier, directed by Ridley Scott), 1984 EDS Cat Herders 2000 and

Bridgestone Tires Beaver carma salute 2011

My Favorite 2011 Superbowl Ad

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBUcG7xZB-g

Copy/paste into browser / Bridgestone beaver carma

http://youtu.be/7Rw-JUuUrZg

Carma - salute

Generation ME: Why Today‟s Young

Americans are more Confident, Assertive

and more Miserable than ever before

Jean M. Twenge, PhD, (Psychology Dept

SDSU) colleague

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3D Game Programming

• Serious object-oriented programming

• Team Sport

• Interdisciplinary [Artists and Programmers]

• Target of Negative Attitudes from others

(especially the “analog” ones)

• Be prepared with 5 minute elevator talk

• Learn your client vernacular

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Gamer Groups Spr 2006 Great Studio Class [JSB recommends] – Varying Engagement

One girl

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3D Game Programming as

Service Learning

Students create 3D video games that serve

other disciplines – started 2006 NSF grant

Handouts

Graduate students from CS 583 3D Game

Programming want to write thesis with me -

must find discipline to serve.

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http://www.sci.sdsu.edu/cos/downloads/cos_fusion2006.pdf 28

How CyberInfrastructure

Impacts/Engages our Youth

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Fall 2011 – Stewart teaches course at SDSU for first time. NSF, CSTA recognize we

need more programmers.

Stayed tuned!

www.stewart.cs.sdsu.edu

Students born digital - shrug off “history lessons” on

new, innovative, exciting, intrusive …connectivity

Internet is dynamic – keep a log (or web page

record, find what works for you since resource may

move – HtTrack and YouTube Downloader)

Internet never goes away, so watch out what you

post – Bill Gates mug shot from Albuquerque PD

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Questions?

President Weber cuts the ribbon

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SDSC 25 year timeline 1985-92 – 1of8

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Please take one of this timeline handout also

SDSC Transforming Science & Society through

Cyberinfrastructure

YouTubes

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