How Software is Changing the World

A talk meant to introduce and inspire youths and high school students to learn about software development

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1. Mingding Han 20th Mar 2015 How Software is Changing the World
2. Who  am  I?   Mingding Han @hanmd82 hanmd82@gmail.com Work Experience •  Research Engineer @ A*STAR, I2R. Systems Group Lead & Software Architect •  Two years as software engineer in PlayMoolah, a Singapore startup •  Research Engineer at NUS Education •  Masters in Computer Engineering, NUS •  Bachelors in Computer Engineering, NUS Remarks •  Loves coding & open-source software •  Loves start-ups & entrepreneurship •  Learner-for-life
3. Today  I’m  going  to  talk  about  so6ware   •  What’s  fascina<ng  about  it?   •  What  you  can  do  with  it?   •  How  you  use  and  benefit  from  it?   •  How  can  you  get  into  it?  
4. So6ware  powers  much  of  the  world  around  us  today      
5. So6ware  you  use  daily     Credits:  GrabTaxi   Credits:  Carousell  
6. So6ware  for  entertainment     Credits:  League  of  Legends,  Plants  vs  Zombies,  Candy  Crush  Saga  
7. So6ware  enables  SCALE     Consumers          |          Companies          |          Eco-­‐systems  
8. So6ware  enables  SCALE     Credits:  TechCrunch  (www.techcrunch.com)   As  of  Feb  2014,  WhatsApp  handled   70M  messages  per  second  and   supported  450  million  ac<ve  users   with  only  32  engineers.   Each  engineer  supports  14  million   users!  How  was  this  achieved?  
9. So6ware  accelerates  GROWTH     With  over  300  million  ac<ve  monthly   users,  Instagram  is  now  valued  at  $35   billion!     Facebook  acquired  it  for  $1  billion  in  2012.   “Instagram  makes  mobile   photos  fast,  simple,  &   beau<ful”  
10. So6ware  accelerates  GROWTH     “Neclix  Streaming  Eats  Up  35%  of   Downstream  Internet  Traffic”  (in  2014)  
11. The  Rise  of  the  App  Economy    
12. Data  Visualiza<on  &  Analy<cs     Time-­‐series   Geospa<al   Graph   Credits:  Data-­‐driven  Documents  (hjp://d3js.org/)  
13. Disease  Trends  in  Singapore     Credits:  Make  Health  Connect  (hjps://livemap.mhc.asia/)  
14. Big  Data  Systems     Variety   Volume   Velocity   Veracity   Value  
15. Virtualiza<on  &  Cloud  Compu<ng       Credits:   Amazon  Web  Services   So6ware  no  longer  comes  in  boxes,  but  as  packages  distributed   over  the  Internet.  Open-­‐source  is  the  fastest  distribu<on  model  
16. So6ware  &  Entrepreneurship    
17. •  Programming  &  Logic   •  Data  Structures  &  Algorithms   •  Computer  Networking   •  Embedded  Systems   •  Cloud  Compu<ng   •  Web  Applica<ons   •  Data  Analy<cs   •  Ar<ficial  Intelligence  and  Machine  Learning   What  is  So6ware?  
18. How  to  Get  Started?   •  hjp://www.tryruby.org   •  hjps://try.github.io   •  hjp://railsforzombies.org/   •  Codeacademy  
19. Thank  You!