The earth in the future will be more wisdom, various types of objects, equipment and large physical system will join each other, under the impetus of the computer technology, in accordance with the instructions and people together to perform a task, to maximize the interests of the people. Smarter planet can also make people real-time collaboration, according to the need to establish dynamic people with equipment, data, information, computing platforms and various application of associative specific AD hoc networks. Smarter planet includes autonomous robot system on a mission and also include the network of the physical system. These systems are networked computing system and the depth of the engineering of the physical system integration, to monitor and control the whole performance and behavior of physical systems.

in the process of the information technology revolution, the United States has been a lead in the invention and application of information technology in the world. Recent U.S. government formulated the national network and information technology research and development project strategic planning, presents a vision of the digital world in the 21st century, hope that the next generation of information technology infrastructure to make the United States in the economic innovation, scientific discovery, national security, education, energy and environment, health and quality of life continue to lead.
And network technology, software makes it possible to the digital world, command computers and equipment, and computer application instructions. The more complex software, the more likely they are to appear unpredictable unexpected behavior, which has increased the risk of system failure, likely to Watson instrument enterprises, services, equipment, or users have a significant impact.

So far, the focus of the digital age has always been a novel machine, must now turn their attention to people, as well as digital ability and seamless integration and utilization of digital resources. & other; Man-machine coordinated & throughout; (WeComplacee) concept is one of the foundations of the research and development of information technology strategic planning in the United States, it has been clear about the direction of technology of the 21st century is between people and computer systems more closely, more productive partnership.

Development of social networks

Network infrastructure of the 21st century must be strong enough, can satisfy the need of highly diverse, and include support for everyone to enjoy the digital world of web services; The amount of data exponential growth and the change of the data access mode; Used for defense, commercial and financial sectors of reliable and secure network; For data intensive scientific research to provide end-to-end broadband services, performance, and the new required for network technologies (e.g., all optical network); Wireless network, satellite communications and fiber optic network heterogeneous network. Need to promote the core research areas include network foundation, the network design, network management, privacy and security, and ease of use.

To build wisdom earth


Of network engineering system and products to play a greater role for these systems is becoming very important. Scientific research need to develop new system in the future, provide a unified basis, models, tools, system capability and architecture, promote high credible, network engineering system and natural system of innovation. In this research field, there are more profound understanding of the complexity of the system, necessary to help improve the management and decision support.

Design of sophisticated software



Traditional software development is incremental change, this is not enough to solve the problem of the complexity of modern critical systems. Improve the quality of the software system, cost effectiveness and sustainability become major technical challenges, it requires radical innovation, ranging from basic science and engineering research to the software application. Also need to rethink the software design, including from the basic design idea, software evolution and adaptation to the man-machine seamless integration of advanced system. Also need to have new practices, technology, tools and evaluation methods, in order to reduce errors and defects in software development and loopholes.

From the data to the new knowledge

At present, the human's ability to produce electronic data far more than its management and speed of technological progress needed for effective utilization of data resources. Very large scale data sets (i.e., & other big data throughout the &;) Is the treasure may have new knowledge, however the current network infrastructure is not on the desktop access and deal with large data end-to-end performance levels. We need to be more powerful, more sophisticated tools, data to dig the treasure, combine various types of data, and visually express, which may bring new insights in order to find the important matters, patterns and relations.

Developing social intelligence system

And open source software development and all the package and other new forms of cooperation and communication, that will be new form of social intelligence has the potential of man-machine integration. Social intelligence system can be composed of a single and a single computer system, can also refer to the world a lot of people and computer system. In the social intelligence system, the people in better computing environment projects, solve the problem of extremely complicated, man and machine will play to their strengths. This kind of environment will include more powerful analytical tools, enable people to make effective decisions.
To support individuals, organizations and social complex thinking, analysis and timely action and decision, must actively respond to user needs and expertise to management, access and absorb a variety of sources and forms of large-scale original data information (such as sensor data). In the 21st century, scientific data and other data is very large, and using information to promote research and development of knowledge discovery and decision making faces a major challenge, need from information standard, decision support and information management, etc.

Weibo, information security, video, recommendation system, and the reputation system innovation has made such as e-commerce and online communication has had the change, network support of scientific discovery and virtual organization is to promote the advancement of science. However, today's system is the future more a sign of powerful social intelligence system. Intelligent system research, the society need to put the computer as the participants of intelligence, people also needs to know how best to carry out large-scale real-time collaboration, to better understand what kind of problems is most suitable for man-machine coordinated.