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SUMMARY:IC Monday Seminar : "FuturICT – A Knowledge Accelerator to Explo
 re and Manage Our Future in a Strongly Connected World"
DTSTART:20111107T161500
DTSTAMP:20260509T211654Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Dirk Helbing\, ETH Zurich - Invited by Prof. Patrick Thi
 ran\nAbstract We have built particle accelerators to understand the forces
  that make up our physical world. But we still don’t understand the prin
 ciples underlying our strongly connected\, techno-socio-economic systems. 
 To fill the knowledge gaps and keep up with the fast pace at which our wor
 ld is changing\, a Knowledge Accelerator must be urgently created. This 21
 st century challenge will be addressed by the FuturICT Flagship project. G
 lobalization and technological change have made the world a different plac
 e. This has created or intensified a number of serious problems\, such as 
 international conflict and world-wide terrorism\, global financial and eco
 nomic crises\, political instabilities and revolutions\, the quick spreadi
 ng of diseases\, global environmental change\, disruptions of internationa
 l supply chains\, organized crime and increased cyber risks. At the same t
 ime\, the 21st century has the potential to create unprecedented benefits 
 for our economy and society\, based on a whole range of new methods and in
 novations. Although creating more interconnected systems has contributed t
 o the above problems\, future information and communication technologies (
 ICTs) can also be part of the solution. This requires us to establish a ne
 w science of multilevel complex systems\, bringing the best knowledge of e
 xperts on information and communication systems\, complex systems and the 
 social sciences together. The FuturICT flagship project aims to develop th
 e capacity to explore and manage our future\, based on a fundamental under
 standing of the principles that make connected systems work well.
LOCATION:INM 202
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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