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Conventional Wisdom on Grand Challenges

To our mind, the first Grand Challenge should be coming up with a new name for Grand Challenges. We’ve been slinging this term around for at least two decades now.

The British Computer Society disagrees, apparently. According to InfoWorld:

A group of British computer scientists have proposed a number of “grand challenges” for IT that they hope will drive forward research, similar to the way the human genome project drove life sciences research through the 1990s. Ambitious goals include harnessing the power of quantum physics, building systems that can’t go wrong, and simulating living creatures in every detail.

The lowdown (as a .pdf) is available from the BCS themselves.

This entry was posted on Monday, February 7th, 2005 at 3:35 pm and is filed under Scientific Applications, Publications. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

One Response to “Conventional Wisdom on Grand Challenges”

  1. E Moritz Says:
    June 11th, 2005 at 9:00 pm

    ‘Grand Challenge’ is a conceptual description - the term is solid, though the application and adoption is not. A remedy appearing at http://grand-challenge.net/ is to implement a harness scale for ‘Grand Challenges’.

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