The ultimate goal of the FuturICT project is to understand and manage complex, global, socially interactive systems, with a focus on sustainability and resilience. This will be done by developing a robust, trustworthy and adaptive information and communication technologies (ICT), based on socially inspired paradigms.
About 30 computer science centers around the world have pledged support for the project. Most of these centers like ETH Zurich and Oxford University are in Europe, but there is also buy-in from groups in the USA, Japan, China, and Australia. In addition, the project is getting backing from commercial organizations, including Microsoft Research, IBM, Telecom Italia, Yahoo! Research, and Disney Research, among others.
Read more: FutureICT site.
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