Emerging Opportunities in Software Technology R

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Emerging Opportunities in Software Technology
RDA Technology Forecast

• Walt Scacchi
• Institute for Software Research
• University of California, Irvine
• Irvine, CA 92697-3455
• wscacchi_at_ics.uci.edu

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Some Opportunities Areas

• Open Source Software
• Networked Computer Games
• Ubiquitous Wireless Networking

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Open Source Software

• Changing world of software products, processes,
  and software development projects

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OSS Business Revenue Streams

• Subscription support services
• Providcs ongoing maintenance services 24/7
• Email or phone help desk
• Provides indemnification
• Access to Operations Network
• Consulting and Migration services
• On-site custom development and support
• Training Services
• Web-based how-tos, tutorials (also retail books)
• On-site customer training (Direct or via
  Certified Partners)
• All services sold on a direct basis (e.g., in
  North America and Europe), and via Certified
  Partners (globally)

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FOSS Social Networking across projects
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Google Summer of Code 2006
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Networked Computer Games

• Rapid rise in research interest in game culture
  and technology
• Precipitating the Web 3.0

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UCI Game Lab Faculty

• Studio Art Robert Nideffer (Director),
  Antoinette LaFarge
• Computer Science Paul Dourish, Magda El Zarki,
  Dan Frost, Bonnie Nardi, Andre van der Hoek
• Engineering Tara Hutchinson, Falko Kuester,
  Joerg Meyer
• Arts, Computation, Engineering Beatriz de Costa,
  Simon Penny, Bill Tomlinson
• Institute Software Research Celia Pearce, Walt
  Scacchi (Research Director),
• Others Tom Boellstorf (Anthropology),
  Christopher Dobrian (Music), Peter Krappe
  (Humanities/Film Studies), Charlie Zender (Earth
  Systems Science)

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DOOM Wars, May 2006
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Game Culture and Technology

• Games as immersive, experiential literary form --
  game play as emergent narrative
• Gaming as rapidly growing global industry
• Modding and making games as practice-based
  learning and career development
• Games as new media and cultural form
• Game culture as social movement

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Games as a new medium
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New Game related RD efforts

• alternative game cultures and venues
• hot rod game machines, LAN parties, and
  GameCons
• visual and performing arts
• Games as cultural media (www.selectparks.net)
• humanities and social sciences
• Games as graphic narratives for storytelling
  machinima game-based cinema
• science learning and technology education
• Games for informal education in science
• Learning science/engineering domains and
  practices through immersive (role-playing) games

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Csports.net Game Players, May 2006
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Hot Rod PCs
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Ubiquitous Wireless Networking

• Enabling open source software development and
  networked computer games via wireless networking

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Stadium Area Games
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Questions?
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Acknowledgements

• Mark Ackerman (UMichigan), Margaret Elliott
  (ISR), Les Gasser (UIUC), Chris Jensen (ISR),
  Robert Nideffer (UCI Game Lab), John Noll (Santa
  Clara U), Celia Pearce (UCI Game Lab), also
  others at ISR and UCI Game Lab.
• Research grants from the National Science
  Foundation (no endorsement implied) 0083075,
  0205679, 0205724, 0350754, and 0534771.
• Discovery Science Center, Santa Ana, CA
• UC Humanities Research Institute
• Digital Industry Promotion, Daegu, Korea
• California Institute of Telecommunications and
  Information Technology (CalIT2)
• Creative Kingdoms Inc.