Grand Challenges in Computing Research

Welcome to the homepage of the Grand Challenges Exercise, an enterprise of the UKCRC (UK Computing Research Committee) to discuss possibilities and opportunities for the advancement of computing research, particularly in the UK.

Its method is to solicit submissions from the UK computer research community, identifying ambitious, long-term research initiatives that might benefit from some degree of national and international coordination.

Information can be found on separate pages about the background to the Grand Challenges Exercise and also the criteria of maturity for a Grand Challenge.

The Exercise is ongoing. To view details of the current Grand Challenges please go to the Current Grand Challenges page; here you will find links to each of the current Challenges. Of course, the current Grand Challenge proposals do not exhaust the possibilities.

NEW!

Grand Challenges in Computing Research for 2010 and beyond

The call for submissions are now up on the UKCRC website.

See http://www.ukcrc.org.uk/grand-challenge/2010-gccr.cfm

There is also a discussion forum to allow comments on each submission which can be accessed through the above web page

The meeting forms part of the ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science conference 2010.

See www.bcs.org/visions2010

We want the whole community to be involved in this debate so please encourage all your colleagues and research students to consider using the discussion forum and attend the meeting. The new challenges will drive the discipline forward this year as well as reviewing the progress of existing grand challenges. Also for the first time we are including discussion of the role computing research plays in the major societal grand challenges. We plan the meeting itself to be very interactive so that every who attends will be able to take part in the discussion.

The costs of attendance for the Visions conference have been kept very low. We hope most people will attend the whole event but you have the option just to attend the Grand Challenge day. Registration is now open on the BCS website. Follow the link above

Grand Challenges in Computing Research - GCCR '08 - Report

The final report from the Grand Challenges Conference 2008 has just been published. Edited by John Kavanagh and Wendy Hall, this document gives a full run down on the event and subsequent discussions during the two days.

Grand Challenges in 2005- Reports

Reports from the Conference on Grand Challenges in Computing Research, and Grand Challenges in Computing Education, held in Newcastle from 29 to 31 March 2004, are available for download from the UKCRC website. Please use the following links to access these documents in pdf format.