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The European Union's "Future Emerging Technologies" program sees innovative technologies enter into a competition to win a €1,000,000,000 funding prize! The six finalists are up, which one do you think deserves the funding and why?
Here are some brief discriptions;
The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis-Relief System: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future
--A project aiming to create a virtual Earth capable of predicting calamities that may befall us and providing a platform to test how certain policies would affect the world.
Graphene: Science and Technology for ICT and Beyond
--An investment in the "material of the future" for use in electronics, spintronics, photonics, plasmonics and mechanics.
Guardian Angels: For a Smarter Planet
--A project aiming to develop autonomous and intelligent programs that will be integrated into our infrastructure and lives to make life easier and safer.
HBP: Human Brain Project
--Hoping to simulate the human brain at all levels this project aims to provide insights into how our minds work, supply treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and greatly advance the field of artificial intelligence.
ITFoM: The Medicine of the Future: IT Future of Medicine: a revolution in healthcare
--Utilising extensive databases of human biochemical pathways, tissues and disease combined with new analytical equipment this project hopes to streamline personalised medicine by comparing data from a patient to that of a database to construct effective nad efficient healthcare.
RoboCom: Companions for Citizens
--By developing artificial intelligence and robotics technology this project aims to make intelligent robots an integrated part of everyday life.
A BBC report on the program can be seen here and the FET website (with descriptions of the projects and links to their websites) found here
Here are some brief discriptions;
The FuturICT Knowledge Accelerator and Crisis-Relief System: Unleashing the Power of Information for a Sustainable Future
--A project aiming to create a virtual Earth capable of predicting calamities that may befall us and providing a platform to test how certain policies would affect the world.
Graphene: Science and Technology for ICT and Beyond
--An investment in the "material of the future" for use in electronics, spintronics, photonics, plasmonics and mechanics.
Guardian Angels: For a Smarter Planet
--A project aiming to develop autonomous and intelligent programs that will be integrated into our infrastructure and lives to make life easier and safer.
HBP: Human Brain Project
--Hoping to simulate the human brain at all levels this project aims to provide insights into how our minds work, supply treatments for neurodegenerative diseases and greatly advance the field of artificial intelligence.
ITFoM: The Medicine of the Future: IT Future of Medicine: a revolution in healthcare
--Utilising extensive databases of human biochemical pathways, tissues and disease combined with new analytical equipment this project hopes to streamline personalised medicine by comparing data from a patient to that of a database to construct effective nad efficient healthcare.
RoboCom: Companions for Citizens
--By developing artificial intelligence and robotics technology this project aims to make intelligent robots an integrated part of everyday life.
A BBC report on the program can be seen here and the FET website (with descriptions of the projects and links to their websites) found here