IV123 Future challenges of informatics

Faculty of Informatics
Spring 2013
Extent and Intensity
2/0. 2 credit(s) (plus extra credits for completion). Recommended Type of Completion: k (colloquium). Other types of completion: 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 main challenges and potential
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 (in Czech)
At the end of the course students should get a basic understanding what can they likely expect, during their future carrier, concerning the role informatics is to play in society, what will be main challenges of society informatics is expected to help to solve and 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 toestimate future and to which extend we can do tha reasonably well. Old and new mega-challenges of science, technology and iformatics. 2. Exponential development in information processing and communication technologies and their impacts on science,technology and society. 3.Evolution. From biological to technological evolution and their merge. Impacts of the merge ot biological and non-biological intelligence. 4.New perception of informatics and its grand cahllenges. Informatics as a merge of scientific, engineering, metodological and application informatics. 5. New, informatics - driven methodology for science, technology, and actually for all areas of society 6. Singularity - a stage of society after a significan merge of biological and non-biological intelligence. 7. GNR (G - genomics, N - nanotechnology, R - robotics) revolution as a basis for singularity evolution. 8. Brain and mind - problems and roads to solving them. 9. Longevity - life after 100 10. History of informatics 11. Informatics thinking and their impacts.
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 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020, Spring 2021, Spring 2022, Spring 2023, Autumn 2023.
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