Successful intelligent R&D data mining tools created
Today's growing wealth of digital data in Europe is poorly exploited. Advances in storage, pervasive computing, digital sensors and instrumentation have led to massive growth in the volume of data collected and the number and c...
Economic crisis caused by unreliability of SCM software
It is a well-known fact that collaborative supply chain management and planning reduces overall costs. Nevertheless it is not being exploited due the fact that partners are reluctant to share the necessary, but sensitive data. ...
Dozen people killed by computer gaming
New type of unautorized computer network games has emerged on the internet. These games are potentially dangerous for the players. In combination with specific gaming gadgets they are able to cause serious health demage or even...
Traditional "camera-on-top-of-a-TV-set-on-a-cart" videoconferencing systems have failed to meet the "telepresence challenge" of providing a viable alternative for physical business travel, which is nowadays characterized by una...
Complete loss of privacy - Europe is lagging in cryptography
Due to huge improvement of rough computing force the Chinese scientists are able to solve all the secret codes currently used in digital communinication. New cryptography methods are necessary, but European scientists are laggi...
3D multimedia revolution didn't come
Film or cinema had been the driving force for the entertainment industry, setting the standards of quality, providing the most compelling experience, and feeding the distribution chains of other media (broadcast TV, cable and s...
P2P networks as a predominant technology for data management
P2P (Peer-to-Peer) is a technology that fosters self-deployment and self-organisation, thus, it is reducing operational costs, while it achieves optimised resource utilisation for the deployed applications and services.Therefor...
The coming of "technological singularity"
The “technological singularity” is a concept advocated by Ray Kurzweil and other futurists (it was first introduced by the mathematician and Science Fiction writer Vernor Vinge). The basic idea is that due to the exponentia...
Advanced software systoms will become so complex, that the diagnostic of their correct/incorrect opperation will be unaccomplishable by common tools for software development. It will cause slowdown of further software developm...
Efficient work with personal data made impossible due to exo ...
Permanently increasing legislation demands to personal data protection will cause a serious security incident - imprtant data about treatment of patients in a big hospital are irrecoverably lost, because it was not possible to ...
Collapse of internet network connection structure
Due to quickly growing demand for intenet bandwidth in combination with frequent and massive hacking attempts on the interet, the connection through the network will become highly unstable and unreliable. Practically no real ti...