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La Unión Europea escoge dos proyectos de investigación que contarán con el mayor respaldo económico concedido para instituciones académicas, según ha confirmado 'Materia'. El anuncio oficial se hará el 28 ...
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Simulation der ZukunftWissenschaftler wollen auf Supercomputern berechnen, wohin sich die Gesellschaft bewegt und so eine "Ära sozialer und sozio-inspirierter Innovationen" einleiten Ende Januar wird sich die EU entscheiden, welches FET Flagship sie unterstützen wird. Gesucht werden wissenschaftliche Großprojekte vom Format der Mondlandung. Einer der aussichtsreichsten Kandidaten auf die immensen Fördergelder ist FuturICT. Das Projekt soll die Weltgesellschaft auf Supercomputern simulieren, die Zukunft managen und eine neue Wissenschaft gründen. Ob der von langer Hand geplante Paradigmenwechsel gelingt, ist aber ungewiss.
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Wissenschaftler wollen mit virtuellen Simulationen Katastrophen frühzeitig erkennen und verhindern Von Katja Heise Mit Smartphone-Apps und Drohnen sollen in Zukunft Unglücke wie das auf der Love-Parade verhindert werden
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Ein neues Grossprojekt der Hochschule will nicht weniger als die ganze Welt erklären – und dadurch Katastrophen verhindern.
Es ist nur ein kleiner Schritt für die EU-Kommission, aber ein grosser für die Wissenschaft. In den nächsten Tagen entscheidet die Europäische Union über Fördergelder von bis zu einer Milliarde Euro. Brüssel will damit ein wissenschaftliches Grossprojekt verwirklichen, das Europa weltweit zum Vorreiter machen soll. Forscher sprechen von einem Man-on-the-Moon-Projekt, weil es vergleichbar ist mit der Errungenschaft des ersten Menschen auf den Mond.
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L’UE sceglie i due progetti bandiera da 1 miliardo di euro
Grande eccitazione per l’imminente scelta della Commissione europea dei due progetti bandiera che guideranno l’innovazione scientifica e tecnologica nei prossimi dieci anni, grazie a un finanziamento di un miliardo di euro ciascuno. La competizione si è aperta nel 2010 e i progetti giunti ora alla fase finale sono sei (non vi sarete mica persi i nostri articoli sui sei FET Flagship?). Alla fine di gennaio, l’annuncio dei due vincitori. Nanorobot che controlleranno costantemente il nostro stato di salute, miracolose applicazioni del grafene, assistenti robot, una grande simulazione del cervello umano ma soprattutto FutureICT, su cui si concentrano le scommesse: una sperimentazione su scala globale volta a simulare e prevedere le future crisi sistemiche della nostra società.
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FuturICT Project A special edition of the European Physical Journal http://link.springer.com/journal/11734/214/1/page/1, Vol. 214 pp 1-666 (2012) has been published which supports the 'FuturICT' bid. It comprises 23 Chapters authored by scientists belonging to the FuturICT community. Links to the individual chapters are also available on the FuturICT website. The ISRS Director, Dr Jamie MacIntosh also co-authored a chapter within this special edition, entitled "Towards integrative risk management and more resilient societies." FuturlCT is a FET Flagship project using collective, participatory research, integrated across the fields of ICT, the social sciences and complexity science, to design socio-inspired technology and develop a science of global, socially interactive systems. The project will bring together, on a global level, Big Data, new modelling techniques and new forms of interaction, leading to a new understanding of society and its coevolution with technology. It will place Europe at the forefront of a major scientific drive to understand, explore and manage our complex, connected world in a more sustainable and resilient manner. The FuturICT bid could not accord more strongly with the ISRS mission. Success in addressing the measures of resilience will be invaluable to FuturICT and society. Resilience can offer a graceful convergence through creating jobs and healthy competitiveness. This is vital. FuturICT is the perfect platform for delivering such outcomes.
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FuturICT FET Flagship: open access special issue.
Simon Buckingham Shum, Tuesday 11 December 2012
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Steve Todd reports on Future and Emerging Technologies—the EU pathfinder program in information technologies.
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Le projet vise à mettre en place ce que ses concepteurs appellent un simulateur sociologique qui, en compilant de multiples données, serait capable de deviner l'imminence de conflits, de crises, de changements...
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Institute IMDEA Networks is among the 7 participants of the Spanish node (FuturICT Spain) within the FuturICT consortium. The Institute will provide its extensive experience on content distribution, network architectures, protocols, communications, green ICT and internet economics, among other fields, as well as skills specific to tackle this project, such as trace and data gathering from social and peer-to-peer-networks, mobile networks and sensor networks. Amongst the key people involved in the research and coordination activities of the FuturICT project, Marco Ajmone Marsan- Full Professor at the Electronics and Telecommunications Department and Chief Researcher at IMDEA Networks- will act as ‘leader’ of the WorkPackage 6.6 on ‘Smart Energy Systems’, where IMDEA Networks will be concentrating its activities. Antonio Fernández Anta, Senior Research at IMDEA Networks, shall coordinate the IMDEA team. Within the overall FuturICT aim to accelerate the scientific cycle that goes from data generation to prediction, the Institute’s research activities will focus on smart energy systems. They will look at future scenarios, devise solutions for future energy networks and energy-efficient ICT (using existing and newly developed tools) and generate insight, understanding and knowledge about the societal, economic, technological and environmental uses of this research, most particularly how its findings may be used in decision making, policy formulation, forecast and crisis management scenarios. FuturICT is in perfect alignment with Europe’s Vision 2020 with its strong focus on innovation and socio-economic-environmental as well as health challenges. Big Data and Open Data are the “oil of the 21st century” and as Europe is scarce of natural resources, it must build on ideas so the ability to refine them can become Europe’s newest resource. Innovations in this area will offer new opportunities for small and medium-sized businesses, for self-employment and stimulate an age of creativity leading to economic, social and cultural prosperity. Over the next few weeks the EC will seek review of the six final proposals with a view to funding two FET Flagship projects starting in 2013. More information:
• FuturICT Spanish node: http://futurict.es
• Video presentation of the project: http://www.futurict.eu
http://player.vimeo.com/video/29779008?autoplay=1
• The Proposal
• IMDEA Networks 3rd Annual Workshop: Internet Science 2011
• We want to build a Planetary Nervous System, Interview to Dirk
Helbing,Chair of Sociology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and Scientific
Coordinator of FuturICT
• Conference Takes A New Approach To Studying The Internet And Social Networking
• International Workshop To Investigate Internet Science And Social Networking
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Fußgänger sind unkalkulierbar. Welche Wege sie wählen, ist nach wie vor die große Unbekannte in der Forschung. Physiker und Soziologen haben daher ein neues Modell entwickelt, das auch psychologische Faktoren in Zahlen übersetzt. Passanten werden damit berechenbar, ihre Bedürfnisse können besser berücksichtigt werden - wenn Stadtplaner umdenken.
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By Associated Press, Updated: Tuesday, January 15, 3:32 PM BERLIN Call it Europe’s Got Talent for geeks. Teams of scientists from across the continent are vying for a funding bonanza that could see two of them receive up to €1 billion ($1.33 billion) over 10 years to keep Europe at the cutting edge of technology.
The contest began with 26 proposals that were whittled down to six last year. Just four have made it to the final round.
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A BRITISH-LED scientific project is poised to win £800m backing from the European Union. University College London (UCL) is co-ordinating a group of institutions that is seeking to develop a computer model of the world’s population, economy and society. Creating a virtual “mirror” of the world would allow scientists, governments and others to obtain unparalleled insights into the way society responds to certain events and under certain circumstances. For example, the impact of natural disasters or the introduction of new laws could be assessed in the virtual world, providing data about the effect on society and the economy. The response to contagious diseases could also be tried and assessed in the virtual world.
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By Bill Brantley About GovLoop GovLoop is the "Knowledge Network for Government" - the premier social network connecting over 60,000 federal, state, and local government innovators. A great resource to connect with peers, share best practices, and find career-building opportunities Over a 100 researchers in the top European universities are launching a ten-year Big Science project to create a new science for the 21st Century: FuturICT. FuturICT is the merger of information and communication technologies (ICT), complexity science, and social science to create “socially-adaptive, self-organized ICT systems.” What does that mean and why should we care? Simply put, our technological society is changing at an ever-increasing speed and complexity that we can no longer manager with our current scientific understanding and “collective experience from our simpler past.” Our best efforts to manage these complex networks often results in “counter-intuitive effects driven by positive feedbacks that lead to domino-like cascades of failures.” We need to create systems that can quickly recover from failures – predictable and unpredictable. We need to create sustainable solutions to our most pressing societal needs. And we need to accomplish in a future of constrained resources and increasing citizen demands.
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Six mega-projects, from a supercomputer brain simulation to a real-life SimCity on a global scale, are vying for two prizes, each worth $1 billion, It has been called science's X Factor: six mega-projects vying for two prizes, each worth a cool €1 billion. In 2010, the European Commission put out a call for visionary computing initiatives comparable to the moon landing or the mapping of the human genome. Such ultra-ambitious projects would change the way we think about the world and ideally solve some of its problems, too. Of 21 ideas submitted, six were shortlisted for further development. These include the Human Brain Project - an attempt to simulate the brain using a supercomputer - and a scheme to create a new generation of electronic devices based not on silicon but graphene. The winners will be announced at the end of January. The prize money, from European countries and private firms as well as the European Union, will be spread over 10 years. Our money is on FuturICT, a real-life SimCity on a global scale. It will give individuals, companies and governments real-time information about the planet, and run simulations to find the best strategies for dealing with issues such as climate change. FuturICT was conceived after the 2008 financial crash drove home our lack of understanding about today's hyperconnected world. The civilisation simulator will be an open platform, accepting data on anything from social media and the stock exchange to climate models and political preferences. Stay tuned for the start of something big.
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Open Access Special Issue of position papers underlying the FuturICT project
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“In the next century, planet earth will don an electronic skin. It will use the Internet as a scaffold to support and transmit its sensations. This skin is already being stitched together….. “. This comment from Harvard’s Cherry Murray, Dean of Engineering symbolises the foundation on which the FuturICT project is to be built. In essence, complexity theory suggests that human systems evolve like biological systems from the bottom up but that interventions are required to make sure that our own ability to evolve such systems meets sustainable limits and enables an optimum quality of life. In world of electronic sensing at every level, the potential for getting things badly wrong as well as reaching for what might be brilliantly right is greater than at any time hitherto. FuturICT proposes to realise these quests by using complexity theory to develop new designs for societal systems that meet these goals through contemporary information and communications technologies. This is one of several papers in the special topics section of the European Physical Journal that traces out this mission and suggests ways forward. Get the paper here. Some are open access and click here to see the contents of this issue
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FuturlCT is a FET Flagship project using collective, participatory research, integrated across the fields of ICT, the social sciences and complexity science, to design socio-‐inspired technology and develop a science of global, socially interactive systems. The project will bring together, on a global level, Big Data, new modelling techniques and new forms of interaction, leading to a new understanding of society and its co-‐ evolution with technology. It will place Europe at the forefront of a major scientific drive to understand, explore and manage our complex, connected world in a more sustainable and resilient manner.
In this open access special issue of EPJST, you’ll find a fascinating set of contributions from European scientists who set out a 10 year research agenda within their fields: what are the really tough problems? There are also visionary position papers outlining the kind of socio-technical infrastructure that FuturICT will investigate, and a foregrounding of the ethical dimensions that human Big Data and Analytics always raise.
• Foreword
• Introduction: The FuturICT knowledge accelerator towards a more resilient and sustainable future
• FuturICT: Participatory computing to understand and manage our complex world in a more sustainable and resilient way
• Accelerating scientific discovery by formulating grand scientific challenges
• A planetary nervous system for social mining and collective awareness
• Towards a living earth simulator
• Towards a global participatory platform: Democratising open data, complexity science and collective intelligence
• FuturICT – The road towards ethical ICT
• Theoretical and technological building blocks for an innovation accelerator
• The FuturICT education accelerator
• Challenges in complex systems science
• Challenges in network science: Applications to infrastructures, climate, social systems and economics
• A complex systems approach to constructing better models for managing financial markets and the economy
• Manifesto of computational social science
• Exploratory of society
• An economic and financial exploratory
• Socio-inspired ICT: Towards a socially grounded society-ICT symbiosis
• Complexity aided design: The FuturICT technological innovation paradigm
• Causality discovery technology
• Smart cities of the future
• Data and models for exploring sustainability of human well-being in global environmental change
• The emerging energy web
• Towards integrative risk management and more resilient societies
• Linking science and arts: Intimate science, shared spaces and living experiments
• Big science and big administration: Confronting the governance, financial and legal challenges of FuturICT
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FuturICT and the European Balancing Act December 03, 2012 Several years ago I was involved in an NSF grant proposal that focused on academic collaboration between geographically disparate scientific data sets. A handful of universities in the United States were part of the proposal.I participated on behalf of EMC and in concert with several other vendors. The term “Big Data” was not yet in vogue.....
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BBC Research & Development today announced a new strategic partnership with UCL, to drive innovation, and collaborate on a wide programme of R&D activity. Building on the BBC’s history of partnerships, this venture will bring together some of the brightest minds in the UK to discuss and tackle the challenges for digital media and the creative industry at large. Over the next four years, the new partnership between BBC and UCL will focus on an ambitious programme of research work that seeks to advance state-of-the-art communications technologies, Internet research, content production, user experience (UXD) and access services. The outcomes of this research will also be shared with the wider industry. As part of the partnership, the BBC and UCL will share facilities and resources, and create new opportunities for students, graduates, staff and third parties with a range of sponsored studentships for doctorate level research, internships, student placements and a staff exchange programme. This initiative will form the foundation for future collaboration with other academic and industrial partners and as such will act as a catalyst in accelerating UK performance in this sector.
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Chcemy zbudować 'Planetarny system nerwowy', który pozwoli nam spojrzeć na to, co boli konkretną część świata. To pomoże nam prognozować przyszłe wydarzenia, takie jak wybuch kryzysu. I pomoże politykom podejmować decyzje - mówi magazynowi Next prof.
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JOURNAL: THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL SPECIAL TOPICS Vol. 214 (November II 2012)"Participatory Science and Computing for Our Complex World".
http://epjst.epj.org/index.php?option=com_toc&url=/articles/epjst/abs/2012/14/contents/contents.html