IV123 Future challenges of informatics

Fakulta informatiky
jaro 2014
Rozsah
2/0. 2 kr. (plus ukončení). Doporučované ukončení: zk. Jiná možná ukončení: k, z.
Vyučující
prof. RNDr. Jozef Gruska, DrSc. (přednášející)
Garance
prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Katedra teorie programování – Fakulta informatiky
Kontaktní osoba: prof. RNDr. Jozef Gruska, DrSc.
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra teorie programování – Fakulta informatiky
Rozvrh
St 14:00–15:50 B410
Předpoklady
There are no special technical requirements. Main requirement is a deeper interest to know the expected role of Informatics for society in future, as well as its expected development and main challenges. To know all that is of large importance because we can expect exponential developments in many areas and without a special understanding of main driving forces of future it is very hard, next to impossible, to get a proper vision of future and to prepare oneself for it.
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 18 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
The course presents a visionary, but as realistic as possible, view of the key role of informatics, and its grand challeneges, for future developments of science, technology and society in general. At the end of the course students should get a basic understanding what can they likely expect, during their future carrier, concerning the future development of informatics, concerning the role informatics is to play in society, concerning main challenges of society informatics is expected to help to solve This way students will get an understanding which areas of informatics are likely to play important role and so to which areas of informatics to pay increasing aattention during their study and afterwards. That will allow students to make qualified decisions what to do and how.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction. Why we need to know future and to which extend we can do that reasonably well. Old and new mega-challenges of science, technology and iformatics. 2.Evolution. From biological to technological evolution and their merge. Enormous expected impacts of the merge of biological and non-biological intelligence. 3. Exponential developments in information processing and communication technologies, as well as in information driven sciences and technologies, and their impacts on science, technology and the rest of society 4.New perception of informatics and its grand challenges. Informatics as a merge of scientific, engineering, methodological and application informatics. New perception of the scientific informatics and its grand challenges. 5. New perception of the technological and applied informatics and their grand challenges. 6. New, informatics-driven methodology for science, technology, and actually for all areas of society 6. Singularity - a stage of society after a significant merge of biological and non-biological intelligence. 7. Power and methods of modelling, simulation and vizualization. 8. Developments in understanding human minds and brain. 9. GNR (G - genomics, N - nanotechnology, R - robotics) revolution as a basis for singularity evolution. I. Genetics and nanotechnology. 10. GNR revolution - II. Robotics and artificial intelligence. 11. Singularity - life after (2045?) a merge of biological and non-biological evolution. 12. Longevity - life after 100 - till 150? or even longer? 13. History (long) of informatics
Literatura
  • R. Kurzweil: The singularity is near, Penguing books, 2005
Výukové metody
lectures in English in case of some no-Czech understanding listeners
Metody hodnocení
esseys, exams
Vyučovací jazyk
Angličtina
Informace učitele
http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska/future13
During the last 50 years information processing and communication technologies have kept improving their performance, performance/price ratios and also miniaturization and reliability with ever increasing speed and this is expected even to increase in the coming future. All that so much influences and is to influence all aspects of the life and development of the society that it can be expected that during the next 50 years the overall progress in science,technology, medicine and so on will be larger than during 500 years in case development would increase at the current speed. The goal of the lecture is to provide a visionary but well grounded presentation and analysis of what we can expect, in the development of information processing and communication technologies, non-biological intelligence, informatics as well as informatics methodology and thinking and their overall impacts during the next about 50 years - therefore during the period in which most of the current students of informatics will have to work and compete with new generations that are expected to have much better conditions for their developments - condition that are nowadays hard to imagine. The lecture should be of interest for all those interested to know the frameworks and tasks they will face in the future because they would like and need to know what and where to study in order to be prepared in the best way for bright but hard future and for their existence within it during expected(very) long carrier.
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Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích jaro 2013, jaro 2015, jaro 2016, jaro 2017, jaro 2018, jaro 2019, jaro 2020, jaro 2021, jaro 2022, jaro 2023, podzim 2023.