Transcript info day 29/9/97 MEL

Future & Emerging
Technologies
(FETs)
Kostas Glinos
DG-INFSO F1
FET: Why are we there?
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To support research that is:
– Visionary and exploratory
– Longer term or high risk
– A nursery of novel ideas - trend setting
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It is a multidisciplinary job:
– It covers all areas covered by the Key Actions +++
– from a different perspective.
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The budget is about 300 Meuros
Two ways of working
– Open - calls without themes - anything goes
– Proactive - highly focused and integrated initiatives
The OPEN scheme
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Accept any idea of quality*
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Widest possible spectrum
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Proposals submitted at any time
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Innovative work that could lead to breakthroughs or
major advances:
– Bold ideas involving high risks
– Longer term research
*Quality in FETs = Innovative idea, with potential for strong impact, advancing
the state of the art; may be high risk or long term or combination of both
The OPEN scheme
project types and evaluation dates
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Assessment projects
– Opportunity to validate an idea
– 1 year contract (lump sum up to 100 keuro)
– Expected scheme closure: 15 June 2002
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Full scale projects
– Standard RTD contract
– Scheme closure: 28 February 2002
In both cases, a “short proposal” is submitted first!
Planned evaluation dates: September & December 2001,
March and July 2002
FET Open Scheme
SHORT PROPOSAL
REQUESTING AN
ASSESSMENT
PROJECT
NO ASSESSMENT
PROJECT
REQUESTED
EVALUATION
REJECT
ASSESSMENT
CONTRACT
FULL
PROPOSAL
FULL
PROPOSAL
EVALUATION
RTD
CONTRACT
REJECT
FET Proactive Initiatives
How they work
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What they are
– Focused research programmes with visionary, challenging goals
– In areas strategic for the future
• critical mass, timeliness, impact
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How they work
– Coordinated project clusters
• Common long term goals
• Shaping vision(s) of the future
– Integrated approach
Dovetailing projects
• Collective negotiations, grouped reviews
• Adaptation of objectives
• Network of Excellence and Dynamic Roadmaps
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Future and Emerging Technologies
Calls for Proposals
Universal Info
Ecosystems
Quantum Information
Processing & Comm.
PROACTIVE
The Disappearing
Computer
Nanotechnology
Information Devices
Global Computing
Nanotechnology
Information Devices
“Presence”
Neuroinformatics
Quantum Info
Proc. & Comm.
Life-like Perception
Systems
OPEN
No thematic preference
Life-like perception systems
Overall objective
Integrated perception-response systems:
 Bio-inspired
 “Perception”: sensorial, cognitive, control and response aspects,
referring to vision or hearing, or to any other type of interaction
with the environment by a biological organism
 Extension of the capabilities of machines or augmenting the
human senses
Life-like perception systems
Focus
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Systems approach:
– integrating perception with appropriate action resulting therefrom
– independent of implementation issues
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Desirable features:
– task-specific adaptability of the perception system
– processes of association (e.g. memory)
– fusion of sensory modalities
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Internal representation of real-world stimuli in biological
systems
Experimental and theoretical research
– novel sensors, computational neuroscience, cognitive science, computer
science,
control,
signal
processing,
cellular
engineering,
(bio)mechatronics (microrobotics and microsystems), etc.
Life-like perception systems
Research issues
Bio-inspiration
sensing
perception
action
New capabilities for
man-made artifacts
New or augmented sensory
capabilities for man
Life-like perception systems
on the Web
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fetbi.htm
Deadline for pre-proposals: 6 July 2001
PRESENCE RESEARCH
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Objective:
To develop novel media that convey a sense of “being there”
Design Practices
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Focus:
– Common reference model
– Measuring presence
– Capturing non-verbal cues, group mood,
eye-contact
– New media technologies for
richer experiences
Presence Research
Perception, Cognition
New Media
Development
PRESENCE RESEARCH
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Associated Disciplines:
– The senses
• Cognitive Sciences
• Psychology
• Neuroscience & Neurophysiology
• Psychoacoustics
• Haptics
– The technologies
• Computer Science / A.I.
• Telecommunications
• Hardware technologies
– Media, Arts and Design
Quantum Information Processing
and Communication
Can we build computers and communication systems that
exploit the properties of quantum mechanics (entanglement,
superposition of states, uncertainty,…) for their opeartion?
– Harness de-coherence
– Develop “quantum computer science”
– Find a scalable implementation technology
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Launched in 1999
15 projects - more than 100 partners
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± 21 M € funding
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QIPC - Questions
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Can we make, in the long term, quantum computers that
scale up and are cost effective?
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What problems would they be able to solve?
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Are these problems of sufficient interest to justify
development?
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What may be other applications of quantum systems that
would require a modest number of qubits?
QIPC
Main current research topics
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Quantum Algorithms
Entanglement
–
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Quantification, manipulation, applications
Decoherence, scalability
Error Correction & Fault Tolerance
Quantum Cryptography
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cryptography
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32%
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implementation
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49%
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algorithms
19%
Q. Logic Gates &
Networks
Physical models &
experimental ideas
Ion traps
Cavity QED
Superconductors
Quantum dots
Q. interferometry
Which technology
for quantum computers?
IONS
Innsbruck
Oxford
Munich
Quantum
Dots etc…
Basel
Cavity
QED
ENS Paris
Josephson Junctions
NMR
Delft, Karlsruhe, Catania,
Jyvaskyla…
Oxford
QIPC Structure
Project Partners
Project n
NoE Partners
Project n
Steering Committee
Project n
Project n
Project n
Roadmap
Roadmap
Specific objectives
of 2002 QIPC Call
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Elementary scalable quantum processor
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Quantum information theory and algorithms
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Simulation of quantum systems
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Novel applications - can useful things be done soon,
even with a few qubits?
Interdisciplinary balance
theoretical
physics
theory
applied
physics
chemistry
experiments
engineering
computer
science
FET on the Web
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome.htm