Convergent Systems     

Introduction

This is not an official NSF or US government wiki.  Rather, it is set up as part of Bill Bainbridge's research, and will be used now to facilitate writing a white paper expected to be of value to NSF.

The title "Convergent Systems" is the current placeholder, as we search for a really good title for the white paper and for the possible grant competition that may follow.  An earlier placeholder was "human-in-the loop."

Resources

NBIC Converging Technologies

Human-Centered Computing

Convergent Systems -- Initial Slides(Haym).ppt

Graphics! 

Draft Sections of White Paper

Executive Summary

Overview

Expanding Computability: how humans and computers working in partnership can solve problems neither could solve alone.

Enhancing Human Abilities: new ideas about how information technologies - properly adapted to individual needs - can educate, assist, and empower people.

Online Society, Economy, Culture: going beyond today's online communities, open source networks, wikis, and recommender-reputation systems, to develop new and valuable forms of social computing.

Services Science: reconceptualizing much of post-industrial economy as the provision of information services, and identifying the science and technology needed to achieve vast benefits for society.

Virtual Worlds: the emerging computational environments where people work, play, learn, and build new forms of institutions, movements, and partnerships.

Conclusion