Background to the Grand Challenges in Computing
In Nov. 2002, the UKCRC [URL] ran a workshop to identify a collection of long-term grand challenges for Computer Science, which could contribute to the long-term advancement of the subject, providing coordinating visions and guidelines for both scientists and policy makers. The proposals and outcome of this workshop are available at [2002GCworkshopURL]. A futher workshop took place at Newcastle in March 2004 [NcleWorkshopURL]. The resulting seven challenges (listed below) cover a very wide range of concerns. Some, like GC7, are a co-ordinated collection of very long term research themes. Others, such as GC1 - now known as iViS - are shorter term, more focussed. For iViS, the focus is whole modelling of one of several life forms studied in considerable depth by life scientists.
The Seven Grand Challenges and their moderators
CG1 - In Vivo In Silico - Ronan Sleep (PDF)
CG2 - Science for Global Ubiquitous Computing - Marta Kwiatkowska & Vladimiro Sassone (PDF)
CG3 - Memories for Life - Andrew Fitzgibbon & Ehud Reiter (PDF)
CG4 - Scalable Ubiquitous Computing Systems - Jon Crowcroft (PDF)
CG5 - The Architecture of Brain and Mind - Aaron Sloman (PDF)
CG6 - Dependable Systems Evolution - Jim Woodcock (PDF)
CG7 - Journeys in Non-Classical Computation - Susan Stepney (PDF)