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What attracts the best and brightest minds of a new generation? What are the next big computing ideas, the ones that will define the future of computing, galvanize the very best students, and catalyze research investment and public support?
The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) seeks to mobilize the computing research community to answer these questions by identifying major research opportunities for the field.

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Challenge to the Community:

Is there a science for understanding the complexity of our networks such that we can engineer them to have predictable behavior?


Maybe our networks are really different from anything anyone has ever seen (in nature) or built (by human) before
Implication: A BRAND NEW THEORY is needed!

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Cyber-Physical Systems


The integration of physical systems and processes with networked computing

Computations and Communication deeply embedded in and interacting with physical processes to add new capabilities to physical systems. Applications range from miniscule (pace makers) to large-scale (the national power-grid).

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Robotics


The present CCC study will generate a roadmap of applications for robotics across users, producers and researchers. The objective is to provide a comprehensive view of the use of robotics, main obstacles to deployment and identification of key competencies to facilitate the transformation. Some of these key competencies are not available today due to fundamental problems in design of systems. The process will identify such basic problems that will have to be addressed in order to ensure continued progress. Both market drivers and technology push will be considered as mechanisms for design of new systems.

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Big-Data Computing Study Group


Under sponsorship by the CCC, the Big-Data Study Group will explore and enable opportunities for research and applications of high-performance, data-intensive computing systems, benefiting application areas ranging from astronomy to machine translation.

To begin this effort, two events were held in March, 2008.

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Visions for Theoretical Computer Science


Theoretical Computer Science (TCS) aims to understand the intrinsic capabilities and limitations of efficient computation.

This subfield of computer science has a record of producing unexpected discoveries of high impact, such as public-key cryptography and quantum computation; and of raising deep scientific questions, such as the P vs. NP question.

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Free/Open Source Software


Free/Open Source Software is radically transforming how software is being developed by different communities in diverse disciplines.

Many of the grand challenge topics for engineering research increasingly rely on the development and use of FOSS systems(e.g., the International Thermonuclear Energy Research (ITER) project for fusion research).

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Global Resources for Online Education (GROE)


GROE will influence computing research funding strategies in the advancement of education through computational models, reasoning, experimentation and implementation of mobile and ubiquitous pedagogical software.

Immediate topics of interest include: partnerships, services and tools for learning based on improved understanding of human cognition; improved human-computer interaction for individual productivity...

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Cross Layer Reliability


System-level, Cross-layer Cooperation to Achieve Predictable Systems from Unpredictable Components.

RelXLayer will draw participants from the broader computer research community to nurture a vision for a multi-level approach to reliability, generating a clear picture of the challenges and opportunities offered in multi-level reliability approaches...

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Global Development


The last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the application of information technologies to address problems in global development.

Information is an important factor in the delivery of many basic services - including finance, health care, governance, agriculture and access to markets...

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Machine Learning Applied to Indus Script

xamples of the Indus script. The four square artifacts with animal and human iconography are stamp seals that measure one or two inches per side. On the top right are three elongated seals that have no iconography, as well as three miniature tablets (one twisted). The tablets measure about 1.25 inches long by 0.5 inches wide.The Rosetta Stone allowed 19th century scholars to translate symbols left by an ancient civilization and thus decipher the meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphics. But the symbols found on many other ancient artifacts remain a mystery, including those of a people that inhabited the Indus valley on the present-day border between Pakistan and India. Some experts question whether the symbols represent a language at all, or are merely pictograms that bear no relation to the language spoken by their creators.

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Computing Research Initiatives for the 21st Century

The pivotal role of information technology in the United States' continued leadership in an increasingly competitive world is well documented. Advances in information technology have led to significant improvements in product design, development and distribution for American industry, provided instant communications for people worldwide. IT to collaborate across the globe, simulate experiments, visualize large and complex datasets, and collect and manage massive massive amounts of data. What does the new government need to know about the value of computing research? What are some of the most promising and exciting research opportunities in the field? What computing capabilities are critical for the nation today and into the future?

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