Top 125 Scientific Challenges
Science has an interesting list of 125 top unresolved scientific questions in their latest online issue (thanks slashdot). It's interesting to note that just two (maybe three) are in any way computer science related:
Maybe you can count the Malthus question as something CS can contribute to through simulations.
Still, either what compsci is doing isn't hard :-), nobody cares or we've failed to explain it :-).
[UPDATE] and we don't do a whole lot better in the next 100! Something really worth doing would be searching out lists of outstanding challenges in computer science - P=NP? made it, but not much else! Its hard to argue against the fact that many of the issues we are concerned with are engineering rather than scientific challenges - but some of the issues in the list are also how? rather than why? :)
- What Is the Biological Basis of Consciousness? AI and computational cognitive scientists may have something to say on that...
- and .. What Are the Limits of Conventional Computing?
Maybe you can count the Malthus question as something CS can contribute to through simulations.
Still, either what compsci is doing isn't hard :-), nobody cares or we've failed to explain it :-).
[UPDATE] and we don't do a whole lot better in the next 100! Something really worth doing would be searching out lists of outstanding challenges in computer science - P=NP? made it, but not much else! Its hard to argue against the fact that many of the issues we are concerned with are engineering rather than scientific challenges - but some of the issues in the list are also how? rather than why? :)
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