IC Monday Seminar : "FuturICT – A Knowledge Accelerator to Explore and Manage Our Future in a Strongly Connected World"
Event details
| Date | 07.11.2011 |
| Hour | 16:15 |
| Speaker | Prof. Dirk Helbing, ETH Zurich - Invited by Prof. Patrick Thiran |
| Location |
INM 202
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| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract We have built particle accelerators to understand the forces that make up our physical world. But we still don’t understand the principles underlying our strongly connected, techno-socio-economic systems. To fill the knowledge gaps and keep up with the fast pace at which our world is changing, a Knowledge Accelerator must be urgently created. This 21st century challenge will be addressed by the FuturICT Flagship project. Globalization and technological change have made the world a different place. This has created or intensified a number of serious problems, such as international conflict and world-wide terrorism, global financial and economic crises, political instabilities and revolutions, the quick spreading of diseases, global environmental change, disruptions of international supply chains, organized crime and increased cyber risks. At the same time, the 21st century has the potential to create unprecedented benefits for our economy and society, based on a whole range of new methods and innovations. Although creating more interconnected systems has contributed to the above problems, future information and communication technologies (ICTs) can also be part of the solution. This requires us to establish a new science of multilevel complex systems, bringing the best knowledge of experts on information and communication systems, complex systems and the social sciences together. The FuturICT flagship project aims to develop the capacity to explore and manage our future, based on a fundamental understanding of the principles that make connected systems work well.
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Simone Muller