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Grand Challenges For The Next 20 Years

Posted by michael on from the things-to-sink-your-teeth-into dept.

terrapyn writes "Infoworld is reporting: '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.' Did they get it right? What are some other worthy computing challenges?"

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  1. First by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Flamebait, first post! Ha!

  2. Maybe? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I don't think so

  3. Challenge to most Slashdotters ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    1. Move out of your parents' house
    2. Lose your virginity

  4. First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post!

  5. oil remaining? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    the challenge is to compute the oil remaining to pump and so how many years we have before the peak oil and the end of cheap oil... http://peakoil.com has some info on it :)
    if it happens in 2014, and people are starving to death and have no electricity, these "challenges" are pretty useless...

  6. How about by mboverload · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Fusion? We've been waiting for that for 30+ damn years.

  7. I want... by SmokeHalo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    ...a replicator!

    Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

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  8. But aren't we supposed to be gone in 10 years? by skaag · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Aren't we supposed to hit a point of no return with the planet's condition, in around 10 years? Isn't everything we do until then kinda pointless? :-)

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  9. Re:Here's an IT challange... by bulliver · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You people are jackels. Call me a troll if it makes you feel better, it was a joke. And even so, it doesn't make me wrong.

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