IV123 Future challenges of informatics

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2014
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: zk (examination). Other types of completion: k (colloquium), z (credit).
Teacher(s)
prof. RNDr. Jozef Gruska, DrSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. RNDr. Mojmír Křetínský, CSc.
Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Contact Person: prof. RNDr. Jozef Gruska, DrSc.
Supplier department: Department of Computer Science – Faculty of Informatics
Timetable
Wed 14:00–15:50 B410
Prerequisites
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.
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is also offered to the students of the fields other than those the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
there are 18 fields of study the course is directly associated with, display
Course objectives
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.
Syllabus
  • 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
Literature
  • R. Kurzweil: The singularity is near, Penguing books, 2005
Teaching methods
lectures
Assessment methods
esseys
Language of instruction
English
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Study Materials
The course is taught annually.
Teacher's information
http://www.fi.muni.cz/usr/gruska/future13
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2013, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023.
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