Assaf Schuster, ProfTCE head

Industry

V Systems

V Architecture

V Human-Computer Interaction

V Security

V Languages

V Search

Universities

V Theory

V Vision

V Networks

V Learning

V Security

V Languages

V Scalable Computing

Israeli leadership status

V x Systems[Storage,

OS,HW-SW,Runtime,

Virtualization…]

V x Architecture

x HPC

x Human-Computer Interaction

applied CE

Top universities

V Systems V Architecture V Programming V Human-Computer Interaction V Scalable Computing V Security V Networks V Learning V Theory V Vision

USA comparisonFrom knowledge transfer to knowledge sharing

Knowledge Sharing

• Constant shift of scientists between universities and research-oriented industry (comparable salaries, no career barriers)

• Flow of ideas, problems, solutions and funding between hi-tech industry and academia

• University-originated startups making it to commercialization. Supported by new IP rules.

Chindia

• They deliver projects in increasing levels of complexity • Without the technology edge (that keeps getting heightened), we may lose more and more business

Israeli hi-tech industry worries

SOLUTION for a small country: Join academic and industrial strengths

Vision

• Draw from industry strength into academic domain• Collaborate on high-risk, challenging R&D• Allow industry to continue build edge with limited risk/resources• Smooth path from innovation to commercialization

Center of academic excellence, academic-industrial synergetic activity, and entrepreneurship awareness

A different type ofacademic-industrial

ecosystem

• Pool Academic-Industrial resources• Academic-Industrial synergetic research environment • Mechanisms and education towards A-I collaborations• Let industry influence research agenda• Academy as a “neutral zone” for industry collaboration• Attract international scholars and students• Collaborate with similar EU- and USA-based institutes

METHOD: Bridging the Academy-Industry Gap

IMPLEMENTATION:Promoting Academic-Industrial CollaborationQuantum leap in faculty “cone of influence”

Mechanisms

Activities:• Joint center management• Visitor exchanges• International visitors• Joint project supervision• Workshops, tutorials, lectures• Graduate studies plans/exchange• Annual joint conferences• Joint research• E-learning

Resources, funding, commerc.:• Resources and labs • Magnet, Magneton, other• Governmental tools/support• Map and match researchers• EC projects and funding• Commerc. education/atmosphere• Relaxed IP barriers• Incubation support

SUMMARY: What do Israeli academy get?

Engagement

Excellence and visibility in neglected areas of CE

• Co-location and interaction with Industry experts and researchers• Knowledge exchange • Coverage• Visibility• Relevance• Resources and grants• Students, postdocs, funds, etc.• Teaching• Co-supervision

SUMMARY: What do Israeli industry get?

corporate value

Environment and support for high risk research

• Collaboration with knowledgeable faculty• Resources and labs• Supervision of research students• Student projects• Co-location with “complementing” industries• Containable IP rules• Incubation support and experience

• Become a top-rated and highly visible academic research center in applied areas of computer engineering.

• Conduct cutting-edge research in computer engineering.

• Bridge the industry-academia gap and drive Israeli high-tech industry towards international leadership.

• Educate the next generation of world-class leaders in  computer engineering.

TCE Vision)from site(

• Recruit best faculty and students, and conduct leading research in computer engineering

• Collaborate on high-risk, challenging research and development

• Enable industry to continue maintaining its edge with limited risk and resources

• Cooperate with experts, researchers and students in target areas

• Create a smooth path from innovation to commercialization

• Host visitors, workshops, tutorials, lectures, conferences and graduate student exchange

TCE Values)from site(

2010 Summer – TCE conceived (deans+assaf)•Fall - Technion mgmt. approve TCE establishment•Allocate 4 tkanim •Winter - I-Core submitted, failed, still negotiating•Construction begin•Technion sets target funding - $35M, still pending•Inauguration committee 4XCS+4XEE+deans, bi-weekly2011 Spring – Meetings with industry executives•June – 1st TCE conference (Arch., Systems, Vision)•Writing documents for ATS fundraising•Fall – recruited Ruth•1st TCE faculty – Yoav Etzion •Increasing academic activity - visitors, schools, conf’s.2012 Spring - Intel center• Website, pamphlet, logo, etc.•Recruited Rafi and Eli, industry liaisons•TCE home populated•June – 2nd TCE conference (Networking, Cloud)•IP guidelines document

Milestones (June 2012)

• IP guidelines document (industry, Technion mgmt, legals)• Bringing in the industry researchers, create culture• Open to non CS+EE faculty• Fundraising (government, Angels)• Inauguration guidelines document• Finalize administration (pending funding)• Academic activity

• workshops, schools, postdocs, grad students, visitors…• High-profile visitors• Over-oceans postdoc plan• Acceleration greenhouse for seeds and sprouts• Partnering with sister inst’s, European, US, Eastern• Recruit more faculty• More construction• Etc.

The future (already here)

• CS+EE faculty

• Any relevant Technion faculty

• Relevant CE faculty from other universities

• Industry researchers • (approved by membership committee)

• Visiting intl. scholars, academic+industry

Membership Policy

The Globalisation of Technology TransferDr David SecherChairman, PraxisUnico

Principal, Cambridge Knowledge Transfer

Recife 1528 April 2010

IP issues

“Conclusion:• Licensing and spin-out

equity income should not be the primary purpose of tech transfer

• Financial returns are like a lottery: tech transfer should not be considered a promising business investment for the university

• BUT…..”

Income to UK universities

• IP rights will be part of the center bylaws • Special care will be given to make them simple• Clearly stated IP rules will be set to all participants:

• Phase I: Public Domain• Phase II: Contractual

• Strategy: Industry support, then negotiation with T mgmt

• Technion-Cornell Innovation Institute• Berkeley• INRIA• Barcelona Supercomputing Center• EPFL• Israeli hi-tech industry, IATI, etc. • Intl. research centers. Their Israeli proxies• Startups. Startup accelerators• East-based institutes

• Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, etc.

• Others abound

Collaboration Opportunities for TCE)examples(

1. Alon Halevi, Google, Dr.2. Avigdor Wilentz, founder Galileo3. Ayal Bar David, Qualcomm4. Ayal Itskovitz, VP Oracle, Dr.5. Bart Miller – UW Madison, Prof.6. Benny Schneider, Entrepreneur (Qumranet) 7. Bill Freeman (MIT) 8. Chemi Peres, Pitango 9. Dadi Perlmuter, Intel 10. David Dobkin, Princeton 11. Eyal Waldman – Mellanox CEO 12. Fernando Pereira, director in Google research 13. Gera Strummer - ex mediguide CEO 14. Gil Goren, EMC 15. Giora Yaron, Entrepreneur (Itamar) 16. Guillermo Sapiro - UMN, Prof.17. Hugo Krawczyk (IBM)18. Jennifer Rexford (Professor - Princeton) 19. John Platt, Microsoft 20. John Shawe-Taylor, UK, EU projects 21. Kai Li – Princeton, founder Data Domain, Prof.22. Leonard Kleinrock (Distinguished Professor - UCLA) 23. Mark Horowitz, Stanford, Prof.24. Mateo Valero, UPC-BSC, Prof.25. Maurice Herlihy, Brown, Prof.26. Mendel Rosenblum - Stanford, founder of Vmware.27. Michael Kearns, University of Pennsyivania, ties with Industry 28. Mooly Eden, Intel 29. Paul Siegel, Prof. UCSD (formerly director of the Center for Magnetic Recording Research, a leading storage researcher with a special affinity to Israel).30. Randy Katz, UC Berkeley, Prof.31. Roch Guerin (Professor - UPenn, EiC - IEEE/ACM ToN, Co-Founder – Ipsum Networks)32. Ronen Shilo - founder, CEO and chairman of Conduit. His bio indicates he received a BSc in Computer Science from the Technion.33. Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Inst. Tech., Prof.34. Scott Shenker (Professor - Berkeley, Co-Founder - Nicira) 35. Shimon Ullman (Weizmann) 36. Shlomo Merkel – VP Broadcom, Dr.37. Shuki Bruck, Caltech, Prof.38. Shuki Gleitman, ASCEND39. Stephane Mallat - ecole polytechnique Paris, Prof., and founder of let it wave (sold to zoran) and known as one of the wavelets founders... Also comes from a family of Technion donors.40. Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL, Prof.41. Yair Weiner, RadVision42. Yale Patt, U Texas, Prof.43. Yehuda & 44. Zohar Zisapel, RAD

Preliminary long list for advisory board

COMPUTERSCIENCE

ELECTRICALENGINEERING

Architecture and Town Planning

Biology

Aerospace Engineering

Industrial Engineeringand Management

Chemistry

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Mechanical Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Medicine

Autonomous System and Robotics

Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center

for Life Sciences & Engineering

COMPUTERSCIENCE

ELECTRICALENGINEERING

Architecture and Town Planning

Biology

Aerospace Engineering

Industrial Engineeringand Management

Chemistry

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Mechanical Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Medicine

Autonomous System and Robotics

Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center

for Life Sciences & Engineering

COMPUTERSCIENCE

ELECTRICALENGINEERING

IBM HRL

Yahoo!

Microsoft

Google

Mellanox

Elbit

Rafael

Intel

MarvellHP

Architecture and Town Planning

Biology

Aerospace Engineering

Industrial Engineeringand Management

Chemistry

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Mechanical Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Medicine

Autonomous System and Robotics

Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center

for Life Sciences & Engineering

COMPUTERSCIENCE

ELECTRICALENGINEERING

IBM HRL

Yahoo!

Microsoft

Google Mell

anox

Elbit

Rafael

Intel

Marvell

HPAmdocs

SAP

VMware

EMC2

Oracle

LSI Tower Freescale

Checkpoint

RAD

Qualcomm

Broadcom

IAITISandiskEZchip

MotorolaCisco

Fujitsu

Samsung

Kontera

GM

PTC

Biosense

Architecture and Town Planning

Biology

Aerospace Engineering

Industrial Engineeringand Management

Chemistry

The Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute

Mechanical Engineering

Mathematics

Physics

Medicine

Autonomous System and Robotics

Lorry I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center

for Life Sciences & Engineering

COMPUTERSCIENCE

ELECTRICALENGINEERING

IBM HRL

Yahoo!

Microsoft

Google

Mellanox

Elbit

Rafael

Intel

MarvellHPAmdocs

SAP

VMware

EMC2

Oracle

LSI Tower Freescale

Checkpoint

RAD

Qualcomm

Broadcom

IAITISandiskEZchip

MotorolaCisco

Fujitsu

Samsung

Kontera

GM

PTC

Biosense

Architecture+ Learning

[Intel, others]

Security[I-CORE]

HPC[Mellanox,

NVIDIA]

Medical Systems

Technion-Cornell

Innovation Institute

Mobile

Smart everything