IV123 Future challenges of informatics

Fakulta informatiky
jaro 2015
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 main challenges and potential
Omezení zápisu do předmětu
Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Mateřské obory/plány
předmět má 18 mateřských oborů, zobrazit
Cíle předmětu
The existing exponential development of information processing driven technologies is going to have very soon enormous impacts on all major aspects of society. Due to that, what we can currently expect to happen in 100-500 years, in many important areas of society, especially in science, technology, medicine,..., if the current rate of development is sustained, is going to happen actually within next 20-50 years. The goal of the lecture is to provide a visionary, but as well grounded as possible, analysis of what we can reasonably expect, and why, in the (very) near future, especially due to the exponential developments in all information processing and communication driven technologies, nanotechnology, genetics, non-biological (artificial) intelligence and robotics as well as in fighting death. Informatics, once properly and sufficiently broadly and deeply understood is going to play by that the key role and help society to deal with its current two main megachallenges. The lecture should be of interest and importance to all those interested to learn frameworks, tools, methods, tasks and main challenges they and society as the whole will face in the near future. To understand that should be for anyone not only very interesting, but actually much needed for knowing how to prepare oneself for long future carrier in in enormously fast changing circumstances.
Osnova
  • 1. Introduction. Why and how we need/can forsee future? Old and new mega-challenges of science, technology and informatics. 2.Evolution. From biological to non-biological (technological) evolution and their merge. Enormous expected impacts of the merge ot the biological and non-biological intelligence. 3. Exponential developments in information processing and communication 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. Impulses and roads to a new perception of informatics. 6. New perception of the technological informatics and its grand challenges. 7. New, informatics-driven methodology for science, technology, and actually for all areas of society. 8. Modelling, simulation and visualisation - tools, problems and power. 9. Recent developments in understanding of human brains and minds. 10. GNR (G - genomics, N - nanotechnology, R (+AI) - robotics). - I. G + N 11. GNR revolution - II. Robotics and artificial intelligence. Long hhistory, hot outcomes, big dangers. 12. Singularity - life after (2045?) a merge of biological and non-biological evolution. 12. Longevity - Can we fight death? How (much). Lif etill/after 150?!
Literatura
  • R. Kurzweil: The singularity is near, Penguing books, 2005
Výukové metody
lectures
Metody hodnocení
esseys or exams or colloquia
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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