ISTAG Working Group on "Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information Society" FET 7FP Workshop, 21 April, Brussels, DFKI
ISTAG Working Group on "Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information Society" MISSION OF THE WORKING GROUP: to identify major new grand S&T challenges related to ICTs; to discuss the scientific, commercial and social importance and legal and ethical implications of these grand challenges to draw major basic research directions in ICTs and related sciences for addressing the above new grand S&T challenges. to design a roadmap with milestones showing how these grand challenges can be tackled in a staged approach to perform a preliminary portfolio analysis capturing Europe s competitive starting position for tackling these grand challenges compared to the North America and Asia.
Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information Society ISTAG Members in the Working Group: H. Bourlard (Switzerland), M. Hermenegildo (Spain), V. Kucera (Czech), L. Reinhart (France), (Germany, Chair) External Experts in the Working Group: W. Weigel (Siemens), E. Sandewall (Sweden), Th. Lengauer (MPI, Germany), G. Gross (Switzerland), J. Mariani (France) Using Results of Similar Groups in Europe: - Partners for Innovation - Feldafing Circle for Megatrends in IT - Dagstuhl Committee: Computer Science 10 years ahead - Grand Challenges Committees of the UK/France
Defining Grand Challenges : Partners for Innovation Industry, Academia, Politics, Unions Prof. Dr. Utz Claassen, Of EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg AG Kai-Uwe Ricke, Deutsche Telekom AG Michael Sommer, President Of DGB Heinz Putzhammer, VP, DGB Dr. Heinrich von Pierer, Siemens AG COO Chancellor s Office, Dr. Walter Steinmeier Eggert Voscherau, COO Of BASF AG Prof. Dr.-Ing. Dr.h.c. Hans-Jörg Bullinger, President of Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft Dr. Wolfgang Clement, Federal Minister for Economy and Work Prof. Dr.-Ing. Joachim Milberg, President Acatech Chairman of the Board, BMW Prof. Dr. Roland Berger, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants GmbH Wolfgang Mayrhuber, Deutsche Lufthansa AG Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster, DFKI Walter Raizner, IBM Deutschland GmbH Dr. Hubertus Erlen,, Schering AG Dr. Gunter Thielen, Bertelsmann AG Chancellor Gerhard Schröder Edelgard Bulmahn, Prof. Dr. Jürgen Mlynek, Federal Minister for President of Education and Forschung Humboldt University Berlin Quelle: GF AR 05/2004 WW10
The Role of Grand Challenges for the Evolution of the Information Society Grand Challenges are medium to long-term focused themes demanding breakthroughts in basic and application-oriented research and engineering in many key technologies lead to concrete pictures of the future that are easy to understand and communicate by politicians and industrial leaders lie at the edge of what just might be possible with a massive R&D effort integrate many disciplines, produce a lot of spin-off products, and have a clear commercial and social benefit boost the visibility and impact of European research
Grand Challenges for Information Society Technologies 1) The Pervasive Communication Jacket for life saving, security, health monitoring, mobile web services Fields: 4G mobile networks, wearables, ABC technologies, multimodal dialogue, biosensor fusion, location-based services 2) The Cell-based Disease and Drug Simulator for disease prediction, drug testing, medical research Fields: bioinformatics, visualization, event simulation, data Mining, ontology-based simulation, probabilistic and model-driven prediction 3) The Blackbox for Humans capturing a Life Log for augmented episodic memory, security, aid for the elderly and handicapped, Fields: sensors, user modeling, multimodal fusion, information extraction and mining, positioning technologies, data caputure
Grand Challenges for Information Society Technologies 4) The Service Robot for the Elderly for help with food preparation, surface cleaning Fields: cognitive systems, affective computing, multimodal dialogue, artificial intelligence 5) The Internet Police Agent for security, intrusion detection, law enforcement, fighting against a sick Internet Fields: software agents, multiagent systems, security, Information extraction, data mining, 6) The Ultralight Aerial Transport Agent for security, small-scale logistics for indoor and outdoor, helping the elderly and handicapped, convenience Fields: cognitive robotics, sensor fusion, multimodal dialogue
Grand Challenges for Information Society Technologies 7) The 100% Save Car for survival, security, convenience Fields: cognitive systems, embedded systems, verification, M2M, positioning technologies, 4G wireless, software development frameworks, control theory 8) The Powerless Mobile Terminal for mobile services, e-health, pervasive communication, security Fields: low power, wireless energy transmission, microelectronics, wireless technolgy, display technology, user Interface for mobile applications 9) The Self-Repairing Computing and Control System for network security, safety-critical applications, real-time services Fields: control theory, software methods, architecture,
Grand Challenges for Information Society Technologies 10) The Everywhere Visualizer for mobile everywhere displays, future office environments, telepresence, retail environments, augmented reality services Fields: new display technologies, graphics, visualization, image Understanding, multimodal interaction 11) The Intelligent Retail Store for smart logistics, mixed reality shopping, automatic comparison shopping, cross- and up-selling Fields: smart labels, tracking and tracing, user modelling, plan recognition, location-based services, privacy, security 12) The Multilingual Companion for tourists, cultural heritage, business meetings Fields: language technology, crosslingual information extraction and retrieval, mobile communication technologies