Serguei Beloussov - Future of computing

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Keynote
Future of
Computing
Dr Serguei Beloussov
Acronis Executive Officer and
the Founder of Schaffhausen Institute
of Technology

Computers and Software (Computing) are (is) eating the
world – everything is Digital now!
Digital workloads are mission critical but very fragile – need protection!
(Sources: IDC “The Digitization of the World From Edge to Core”, Cisco “Internet of Things At a Glance”)
PrivacyComplexity Security 5th Basic NeedCost
Accelerating growth
rate of amount of data
and workloads:
50ZB+ in 2020,
500ZB+ by 2030
A protection platform
vendor independent
from a production
platform vendor is
required to enable
freedom of choice
Rapid growth of
number of systems
and locations:
< 50B devices in
2020, 500B+ by 2030
Industrialization of
cyber crime, AI &
exploit automation,
ransomware, zero-day
exploits, exploit-as-a-
service
The digital world is the
5th basic human need.
The world can’t go on
without IT anymore
<1% devices Core
<10k datacenters
99%+ devices Edge and
Endpoints in 1B+ locations
Robotic arms in VW (Skoda Auto) car factory

Princeton-Plainsboro teaching hospital as pictured in “House M.D.” TV show
Acronis Cyber Protection for Humanity
Similarities of biological and computer viruses – MSP are our “doctors”
Detection
(Active)
Response
(Active, Reactive)
Recovery
(Reactive)
Forensics
(Reactive, Proactive)
Prevention
(Proactive, Active)
Vulnerability
assessment, patch
management, smart
protection plans, self-
protection
Coordinated response:
Blocking of malware
execution, malware
removal from backups
and production system,
new heuristics
Instant recovery with no
data loss, automated
disaster recovery
Metadata and memory
dump storage with
backups for incident
investigations
Vaccination,
good hygiene,
healthy lifestyle,
social distancing
Screening of symptoms,
RNA/DNA tests,
antibody tests,
leukocytes
Immune system
response, antiviral
drugs, antibiotics, ICU,
healthcare system
Macrophages to remove
dead tissue, osteoblasts
rebuild, interferons
killing cells
Genome sequencing,
pathogen study, contact
tracing to connect cases
into clusters
BiologicalDigital
AI-based threat
detection, behavior
analysis, white and
black lists, URL filtering

Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76)
and other ships from Carrier Strike Group Five (CSG-5),
which includes 3 Ticonderoga-class cruisers and 8 Aleigh
Burke-class destroyers, are leading multinational force of
32 ships and 5 submarines at RIMPAC maritime exercise
Solution is Acronis Cyber Protection
Acronis mission to protects all data, applications and systems (workloads)
ControlEase of Use Security Reliability
Total Cost
of Ownership
Nothing is lost:
there is always a
copy for recovery
Proof that copy
is exact replica
of the original
Control over
visibility
and access
Access from
anywhere
at any time
Protection against
bad actors
Safety Accessibility Privacy Authenticity Security
S A P A S

Acronis building 1st Cyber Protection Platform
One Mission, One Product, One System
International Space Station (ISS) – modular system
Acronis Cyber
Infrastructure
& Systems
Acronis
Cyber
Protection
Acronis
Cyber
Platform
Acronis
Cyber
Services
Acronis
Cyber
Cloud
Cyber Customers
SAPAS: Safety,
Accessibility,
Privacy, Authenticity,
Security
Cyber Control for
Datacenters:
333+ Acronis &
3,333+ partner
datacenters in 111+
countries in 2022
Cyber Developers
100k+ certified
developers in 2022
Cyber Partners
30k+ service provider
partners in 2022
Cyber details:
Closing every gap:
mindshare,
expertise, reach,
breadth, Acronis
#CyberFit Academy
100K+ Plumbers, 100B$+ Business

Acronis is a Leader in Cyber Protection
AI-powered Cyber Protection, Cyber Cloud, Cyber Platform
Schaffhausen Corporate HQ Singapore International HQ, Suntec City
Computer
Science, Software
Engineering and
Education
Swiss
Singaporean
Dual HQ for
Dual Protection
Cyber Protection
and Cyber Engine
Business
Science, Sport
Tech, #CyberFit
Global Scale &
Rapid Growth
$300M+ billings
50%+ business growth
100%+ cloud growth
10x in 5 years
50,000+ partners
500,000+ businesses
5,000,000+ prosumers
Acronis Cyber Platform
& Cyber Infrastructure –
1st complete Application
& System Platform
designed for Protection
Founded in 2003 in
Singapore, currently the
International HQ
Since 2008 Corporate
HQ in Schaffhausen,
Switzerland
Artificial Intelligence.
Integrated Safety,
Accessibility, Privacy,
Authenticity and
Security
AI driven - digital
marketing, digital
partnerships, digital
support, AI-driven
sports partnerships with
#CyberFit program
Acronis Unique Expertise

Real-world Real-Problems - Need Better Software
and Better Computers
Wars and Violence
Environment and Global Warming
Social Justice and Poverty
Diseases and Ageing
Space and Universe challenges

https://video.ethz.ch/speakers/bernays/2019.html Computational tools for vaccine design
The Universe is a Computer (Software = Laws of Nature)
Better Computers can be Used to Predict the Universe

Digital Computers are effectively equivalent to
Turing Machines
“Old Brass Brains” (or more formally, Tide-Predicting Machine No. 2) – calculated
tide tables for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey from 1912 until 1965
Turing machine - 1D, current CPUs - 2D, new CPUs are 3D > but there will be no 4D!
The Church-Turing Thesis
“Computable” = Turing-computable

Evolution of Digital Computers – Neuromorphic
and Photonics – Designed for Deep Learning & AI
5. Photonics:
superior Deep Learning
Luminous Computing (Bill
Gates led a $9M seed
round) builds AI chip with
computing power equivalent
to 3,000 Google’s TPU
boards
Lightelligence world’s 1st
optical AI computer: 12x
smaller, 4.2x less power,
11x cheaper vs NVidia
4. Photonics:
1st AI Computer
3. Neuromorphic:
Memristors
HPE Dot-Product Engine
demonstrator - parallel
analog computation with
large-scale memristor
crossbar arrays
Cerebras Wafer-Scale
Engine – the largest single
chip in the world, used by
DoE to build
supercomputers for AI tasks
2. Neuromorphic:
wafer-scale engine
Intel Loihi chip – 128 cores,
optimized for biologically
inspired Spiking Neural
Networks (SNN)
1. Neuromorphic:
multicore SNN chip

Hottest problems of Digital Computers – will hit
hard limits before we solve really hard problems
Performance
and throughput
Power
Consumption
Transistor Size
(and Die Size)
Many Body Problem
• Solving many body problem needs much more
powerful computers than we have today – but it will
give us complete control over the physical matter
(Schrödinger's Equation)
Large Integer Prime Factorization
• Many cryptographic protocols are based on the
difficulty of factoring large composite integers or a
related problem (for example, the RSA problem)
• An algorithm that efficiently factors an arbitrary integer
would render most of today’s public-key
cryptography insecure
Fundamental Hard Limits
• Current smallest FinFET transistor has 2.5nm gate –
or just about 12 Si atoms – almost at a limit
• Margolus-Levitin bound:The processing rate cannot
be higher than 6 × 1033 ops per sec per joule (75 y)
• Bremmerman’s Limit: c2/h ≈ 1.36 × 1050 bits per
sec per kg (60 y)
Scott Aaronson estimates that we will hit hard limits in 25 years

Google’s record-breaking quantum computer (Oct 2019)
Upcoming Revolution: Quantum Computing and
other possibilities
3. Superconducting
(Google, IBM, Rigetti)
Superconducting systems
exhibit generic quantum
properties such as quantized
energy levels, entanglement,
and superposition of states.
Google, Microsoft, IBM,
Rigetti, and Intel actively
research superconducting
qubits
2. Ion traps
(IonQ, Honeywell)
Charged atoms can be
controlled and manipulated in
macroscopic traps with a very
high degree of accuracy. Chris
Monroe (UMD) and Rainer
Blatt (Innsbruck) have built
hierarchical architecture of ion
trap chains
1. Cold Atoms
(Lukin)
Harvard group led by M. Lukin
had achieved significant
progress towards high-fidelity
quantum control, opening
possibilities of using
thousands of coherent qubits
for quantum simulators and
computers
CATALOG has designed and
built a megabit-rate writer and
codec capable of writing
information into DNA at 12
Mbps. Long-term goal - enable
latency tolerant training and
inference on massive data sets
at low energy and volume per
operation
Advanced Materials
5. Advanced Materials
Data and instructions are
encoded in the matter and
dropped into a black hole.
Hawking radiation carries
output. Far, far in the future.
4. Black Hole

Ultimate Advanced Material Computer – Human
Body/Brain
A helmet containing a brain–computer interface that enables the wearer to interact with a computer using brain activity
200 billion atoms in single DNA
40 trillion cells in a human body
100 billion neuron cells in human brain
100 trillion brain connections (synapses)
~10 watt power consumption, 1.45 kg
1. Do we know all the physics of the
processes in the human brain?
2. Do we know all the physics needed
to understand human brain or other
knowledge-generating devices?
3. Does the physics even remain the
same around super powerful
knowledge-generating devices?
"Human intuition and insight ... cannot be
reduced to any set of computational rules. ...
Gödel's theorem indeed shows this, and
provides the foundation of my argument that
there must be more to human thinking than can
ever be achieved by a computer."
-- Roger Penrose, “Shadows of the Mind”

Some Specific Cases Where Traditional Silicon
Electronic Could be Replaced Even Sooner
Robots, sensors, actuators
Photonic Quantum Repeater
Advanced Material Simulation
Data Storage (DNA)
Healthcare – smart prosthetics
Thales Alenia Space intends to use terabit speed photonics for satellite components interconnects: lighter, faster, more reliable and lower power consumption
Quantum
Internet
Artur EkertCharles H Bennett Gilles Brassard
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature13132

Ultimate Fantasy Mainframe – all kinds of Computing
could coexist now (AWS/Google/Azure/IBM/Ali and more)
“Avatar” movie: The Tree of Souls has a way to interact with the world through the seeds, and to connect directly to the human nervous system
Open systems interconnect (GenZ - https://genzconsortium.org/)
CPU
GPU
TPU
MemristorArrays
Photonics
QuantumComputing
MicroBlackHole
Noise-FreeAnalog
AdvancedMaterials
HumanBrainpower

300mm Silicon Wafer
New Physics + New Computing = New Business
1. New Computers
require NEW
ADVANCED
MATERIALS
2. New Computers
require to build a lot of
completely NEW
HARDWARE
3. New Computers
require NEW
SOFTWARE to design
them
4. New Computers
require NEW SYSTEM
SOFTWARE to use
them
5. New Computers
require NEW
APPLICATION
SOFTWARE
Monty Widenius

SIT: Science, Tech, and Education - $10T market
1. Real Estate
2. Education
3. Science Transformation Services
4. Spin-Offs/Accelerators/Funds
5. Learning & University Management Systems
1.COMPUTERS, 2.PHYSICS, 3.BUSINESS
$100M+ investment over 8 years
$500M+ annual revenue in 15 years
2.5B+ market cap in 15 years (40%+ IRR)
5+ campuses around the globe
500,000+ m2 of real estate worldwide
SIT RESEARCH CENTER
25+ chairs in: Cybersecurity and
Information Integrity, AI/ML, Software
Engineering, Robotics & Autonomous
Machines, Quantum Technologies,
Advanced Materials, Digital Health, Digital
Sports, New Generation Business
Management, AI in Arts & Computer Design,
Digital Law
SIT TECH PARK
250+ SIT’s startups and R&D centers of
100+ industry partners – within walking
distance from the University
SIT UNIVERSITY
Top 50 under 50
Global Top 100 in CS, Physics, Business
2,500+ degree students on main campus
25,000+ blended degree off-campus students
250,000+ online non-degree students

SIT: Research-Led University to Address Global
Challenges Through Science, Tech and Education
1. Computers 2. Physics 3. Business Sciences
1. Cybersecurity and
Information Integrity
2. Artificial Intelligence
and Machine Learning
3. Software
Engineering
4. Robotics &
Autonomous
5. Quantum
technologies
6. Advanced
materials
7. Digital
Health
8. New Gen
Business Mgmt.
10. Digital
Sports
11. Digital Learning
& Education
12. AI in
Arts/Design
9. Digital
Law
Interdisciplinary Approach

#3 in QS World Ranking
by Computer Science 2018
SIT: Top Notch International Partnerships & Boards Members
Konstantin Novoselov
Chairman
NUS, Univ of Manchester
Nicolas Gisin
University of Geneva
STRATEGIC
ADVISORY BOARD
Artur Ekert
NUS, University of Oxford
Mikhail Lukin
Harvard University
Mark Kamlet
Carnegie Mellon University
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE
BOARD
INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNION

SB Serguei Beloussov
Initiator and Primary
Investor
Christian Wipf
Chairman CGA Altium
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Guenther Dobrautz
Partner at PwC Zurich
Eugene Demler
Prof. Physics, Harvard
University
Rene Bonvanie
EVP, Palo Alto Networks
STRATEGIC
ADVISORY BOARD
EXECUTIVE
BOARD

Jürgen Brücker
Executive VP
Bertrand Meyer
Provost
Mauro Pezze
Prof. USI, Milano-Bicocca
Anton Grachev
VP Tech Park
STRATEGIC
ADVISORY BOARD
EXECUTIVE
BOARD INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNION
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Elena Novoselova
VP Communication and
Grant Management

Paul Maritz
Chairman of Pivotal, prev.
VMware, Microsoft
Dmitry Chikhachev
Managing Partner,
Runa Capital
Roberto Cingolani
CTO Leonardo SpA
Kirill Tatarinov
Executive Vice Chairman
Acronis
STRATEGIC
ADVISORY BOARD
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE
BOARD
Arkadiy Dobkin
CEO, EPAM

Nick Santhanam
Sr. Partner, McKinsey
Vladimir Shalaev
Prof. Electrical and
Computer Eng, Purdue
Sir Andre Geim
Prof. Physics, Univ. Of
Manchester
Serguei Netessine
Prof. Wharton Business
School
STRATEGIC
ADVISORY BOARD
INDUSTRY BOARD SIT UNIONBOARD OF
DIRECTORS
EXECUTIVE
BOARD
Alexandra Boltasseva
Prof. Electrical and
Computer Eng, Purdue

SIT: 2020 Master of Science Program at a glance
3. BUSINESS SCIENCES AND
SCIENCE TRANSFORMATION (2021+)
2. QUANTUM TECHNOLOGIES AND
ADVANCED MATERIALS (2021)
1. COMPUTING SCIENCE AND
SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
Term 1: Fall 2020
(30 ECTS)
Term 2: Spring 2021
(30 ECTS)
SUMMER 2021
(ELECTIVE)
Term 3: Fall 2021
(30 ECTS)
Term 4: Spring 2022
(30 ECTS)
Technical skills (18 ECTS)
- Quality Engineering (6 ECTS)
- Data Science (6 ECTS)
- Cyber Protection (6 ECTS)
Management skills (6 ECTS)
- Product vision, strategy,
innovation and marketing (6
ECTS)
Leadership skills (3 ECTS)
- Human and Social Psychology (3
ECTS)
Technical skills (18 ECTS)
- Software Engineering (6 ECTS)
- Architectural strategy (6 ECTS)
- Dynamic Analysis and Deep
Learning (6 ECTS)
Product Management skills (6
ECTS)
- Product design, portfolio
management and analytics (6
ECTS)
- Agile leadership and Strategic
Management (3 ECTS)
INTERNSHIP Technical skills (12 ECTS)
- System Protection (6 ECTS)
- Programmatic Marketing (3 ECTS)
- Quantum Informatics (3 ECTS)
Product Management skills (6 ECTS)
- Transformational change
management (6 ECTS)
- Customer centric mindset and agile
delivery management (3 ECTS)
- Entrepreneurship & Intrapreneurship
(3 ECTS)
- Research Thesis
- Industry Thesis
- Start-up Design
Capstone Project (Geographically) distributed teams working on Industrially relevant projects in cooperation with companies with academic
advisors (or develop a commercialization project at the local tech park facilities) (12 ECTS)

All modern companies develop software and need new breed of
leadership – SIT differentiates itself by preparing students for key
leadership positions
1.Chief Architect (CA)
2.Chief Product Officer (CPO)
3.Chief Program Officer (CPgmO)
4.Chief Development Officer (CDO)
5.Chief Security Officer (CSO)
… key technical professionals:
6. Chief Science Officer
7. Chief Design Officer
… and premier specialists:
8. Chief Technology Officer (CTO)
9. Chief Information Officer (CIO)
10.Chief Quality Officer
11.Chief Engineer
12.Chief Idea Officer
13.Chief Services Officer
14.Chief Support Officer
15.Chief Data Center Ops Officer
Smallest Project – 10 people x 10 years = 100 man-
years, 10 releases: needs 1-3 leaders
Typical Project – 100 people x 10 years = 1000
man-years, 10-100 releases: needs 5-8 leaders
Target Project – 1000 people x 10 years = 10,000
man-years, 100+ releases: needs all 15 leaders

SIT Differentiators: Advanced Computer Science / Software
Engineering program with added unique benefits
I. Advanced people - SIT governing boards and SIT Union network directly involved in
science & education process
II. Entrepreneurship – From 0 to 100 million. Providing knowledge and hands-on skills
to build a new high-tech company or internal startup project and find first customers
III. Leading Teams of Leaders – providing leadership skills essential in key leadership
positions (Chief Architect, Chief Product Officer, Chief Program Officer, Chief
Development Officer, Chief Security Officer, and other such leaders)
IV. Transformational Change Leadership – there is always change – manage change
V. Science Of People – effective team leadership is impossible without understanding
human interactions and human behavior
VI. Business Science - formulated in the language of computer science:
1. Business Strategy
2. Decision Science
3. Leadership, Social and Organizational Behavior
4. Decision Science
5. Programmatic Marketing
VII. Quantum Informatics – bleeding edge of computer science with the world leaders in
the field – quantum computers/simulators, quantum security and quantum sensors – all
need quantum design, system and application software
VIII. Advanced Materials Science – interdisciplinary: software & hardware to solve hard
computing problems for development of new advanced materials and using advanced
materials to solve hard computing problems
Bad companies are destroyed by crisis,
Good companies survive them,
Great companies are improved by them.
-- Andy Grove

What To Do Now? For Example:
1. Become Acronis #CyberFit Customer, Partner,
Employee, Engineer or Executive – will double headcount
in 3 years!
2. Join SIT as a researcher or faculty, or help – sponsor,
invest or buy SIT services
3. SIT is looking for students for its unique Masters
Programs. Apply Now at https://sit.org!
a) You can be famous like Alan Turing
b) You can get 2 Nobel’s like John Bardeen
c) Or you can build Google like Larry Page and Sergey Brin
(if you finish your Master and drop out of PhD studies)
John Bardeen (1908-1991)
First to win two Nobel prizes in the same field
1956 – Transistor, 1972 - Superconductivity
Larry Page and Sergey Brin
Both MS CS Stanford grads, launched Google
in 1998 and placed PhD studies on hold

All modern companies develop software and need new breed
of leadership – SIT differentiates itself by preparing students
for key leadership positions. Find more at https://sit.org
LEADERSHIP DIFFERENTIATORS BOLOGNA MASTER LEADERSHIP MASTER EXECUTIVE MASTER
1. Chief Architect
2. Chief Product Officer
3. Chief Program Officer
4. Chief Development Officer
5. Chief Security Officer
… key technical professionals:
6. Chief Science Officer
7. Chief Design Officer
… and premier specialists:
8. Chief Technology Officer
9. Chief Information Officer
10. Chief Quality Officer
11. Chief Engineer
12. Chief Idea Officer
13. Chief Services Officer
14. Chief Support Officer
15. Chief Data Center Ops
Officer
I. Advanced people - SIT
Union & Boards in action
II. Entrepreneurship - providing
knowledge and hands-on
skills , 0-100 million US$
III.Leading Teams of Leaders –
building software over 10+
years, with 100+ people, and
100+ releases
IV.Transformational Change
Leadership – manage
change, not just lead the
change
V. Science Of People –
understanding human
interactions and human
behavior
VI.Business Science -
business skills formulated in
the language of computer
science
VII.Quantum Informatics –
bleeding edge of computer
science with the world leaders
in the field
VIII.Advanced Materials
Science – interdisciplinary
Pre experience Master (0-2
years working experience) –
continuing education
Entry stage into the labor market
90-120 ECTS
1.5-2 years
Full time
low tuition fees (CHF 15K-25K)
potentially cost-covering
Study calendar: international
academic year
Master (3-5 years working
experience)
Next job level
60+ ECTS
1-3 years
Full time or part time
(accompanying)
Tuition Fees (CHF 50-100k)
Study calendar: Sept or Jan
(flexible)
Specialized certificates (CAS,
DAS, MAS etc.)
Focused profile, customized
program
Working experience
Cumulable to a major degree
in 5-10 years total to minimize
impact on the job
10-30 ECTS – CAS, 30-60 -
DAS, 60+ - MAS
1 - 4 weeks sessions
Part time (accompanying – work-
study basis)
Tuition Fees (CHF 15-30k)
Study calendar: flexible
• For talented students with
a bachelor in science or
engineering, who aim at
entering technical leader
careers
• Two-year curriculum (120
ECTS)
• Option for a dual degree
with either CMU or NUS
3-5 years of experience
who aim at senior
technical leader roles
(Bachelor required)
• One-year curriculum (70
ECTS)
• Exec master and Bologna
master share lectures and
team activities
3-5 years of experience
who aim at senior
technical leader roles
(Bachelor required)
• Continuing education or
work-study, primarily
designed to minimize impact
on existing employment flow

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