http://www.cra.org/Activities/grand.challenges/
The proceedings of a Computing Research Associates conference on "Grand Research Challenges" in Computer Science and Engineering are available on-line, complete with the downloadable .PDF files of the five Grand Challenges which appear most noteworthy:
Create a Ubiquitous Safety.Net
Build a Team of Your Own
Provide a Teacher for Every Learner
Build Systems You Can Count On
Conquer System Complexity
All of these major issues have the power to so alter the fundamental fabric of computing and life that even if their realization is a matter of the more distant future, it behooves us to be thinking about them today.
"Chance favours the prepared mind" -- Louis Pasteur
Posted by jho at August 28, 2003 12:26 PM