1. Chiheb Chebbi
Microsoft Student Partner
Windows Azure:
Revolutionizing Education

2. "We're changing the world with technology."
Bill Gates

4. A Window into the Future

5. Cloud computing unlocks drug discovery

6. Fighting wildfires with data

7. A new tool for teaching climate change
in the cloud

8. Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela

9. The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein

11. What’s iCampus?
Running from 1999 to 2006, iCampus was a research collaboration
between Microsoft Research and MIT
whose goal was to create and demonstrate technologies with the potential
for revolutionary change throughout the university curriculum

12. iLab is dedicated to the proposition that online
laboratories - real laboratories accessed through
the Internet - can enrich science and engineering
education
What’s iLABS?

13. iLabs can be shared across a university or across the world.
The iLab vision is to share lab experiments as broadly as
possible within higher education and beyond.
For More Information visit: http://icampus.mit.edu/projects/ilabs/

14. The “Classic “ iLabs Shared Architecture
Internet
Campus
network
Campus
network
Students
Database
Lab server

18. Keep It Simple and Smart

19. The “New” iLab Shared Architecture
iLAB Service
Broker
DataBase
Students
Lab Server

20. Why do services fail?
Hardware
Network
Platform Service
Transient conditions
Upgrades

21. 16 Partners

22. Who’s moved to the Cloud ?
Boston College New York university Maryland Institute of Art

23. 75% Of public higher learning institutions
have online learning in their long-term plan
2019 It’s estimated that 50%
of all classes will be delivered online

25. Thank you for your attention
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“All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make, the better.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson