British Computer Society Releases Grand Challenges
The British Computer Society, inspired by a similar effort undertaken by CRA, has released a report identifying seven "Grand Challenges" in computing research. The report, the result of a series of workshops and discussions featuring the UK's top computer academics, calls for the continued development of a long-term research area in each of the following areas:
In Vivo--in Silico (iViS): the virtual worm, weed and bug
Science for global ubiquitous computing
Memories for life: managing information information over a human lifetime
Scalable ubiquitous computing systems
The architecture of brain and mind
Dependable systems evolution
Journeys in non-classical computation
These challenges seem to map nicely with the five challenges identified at CRA's first Grand Challenge workshop, held in June 2002. That conference focused on
Grand Research Challenges in Information Systems (pdf) and identified the following challenges:
Systems you can count on
A teacher for every learner
911.net (ubiquitous information systems)
Augmented cognition
Conquering complexity
For more on the BCS Grand Challenges, here's the
press release marking the release of the report, as well as the BCS Grand Challenges
website.
CRA's Grand Challenges activities (in Information Systems, and in Information Security and Assurance) are linked here.
Posted by PeterHarsha at January 25, 2005 09:43 AM
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