Current Grand Challenges

Each Challenge Moderator with his/her collaborators has set up a Network, or is exploiting an existing Network, together with a series of Workshops. They aim to reach broad agreement on how best to promote high-quality research in the topics of their Challenge. The intended outcome in each case is to develop background documentation, feasibility studies, and a Roadmap of stategic directions.

The Moderators of Challenges GC2 and GC4 (involving different aspects of ubiquitous computing) agreed to combine them, and to add a new theme on human experience; the resulting Challenge GC2/4 has a new title.

A small committee for each Challenge has been set up to carry it forward, together with an overall Steering Committee. Each Committee has elected a Chair.

The Committees and Chairs are listed below:

GC0	Steering (Initial membership)	Wendy Hall (Southampton, Chair) Alan Bundy (Edinburgh) Robin Milner (Cambridge) Joe Sventek (Glasgow)
GC1	In Vivo -- In Silico	Andrew Bangham (East Anglia, Chair) Luca Cardelli (Microsoft)
GC2/4	Ubiquitous Computing: Experience, Design and Science	Morris Sloman (Imperial, Chair) Dan Chalmers (Sussex) Jon Crowcroft (Cambridge) Marta Kwiatkowska (Oxford) Robin Milner (Cambridge) Tom Rodden (Nottingham) Vladimiro Sassone (Sussex)
GC3	Memories for Life	Nigel Shadbolt (Southampton, Chair) Andrew Fitzgibbon (Oxford) Wendy Hall (Southamton) Ian Horrocks (Manchester) Ehud Reiter (Aberdeen)
GC5	The Architecture of Brain & Mind	Murray Shanahan (Imperial, Chair) Mike Denham (Plymouth) Steve Furber (Manchester) Mark Lee (Aberystwyth) Aaron Sloman (Birmingham)
GC6	Dependable Systems Evolution	Jim Woodcock (York, Chair) Cliff Jones (Newcastle) Peter O'Hearn (Queen Mary)
GC7	Journeys in Nonclassical Computation	Susan Stepney (York, Chair) Samson Abramsky (Oxford) Andrew Adamatzky (W. of England) Colin Johnson (Kent) Jon Timmis (Kent)
GC8 New	Learning for Life	Josie Taylor (OU, Chair) Anne Anderson (Glasgow) Tom Boyle (London Metropolitan) Mike Sharples (Nottingham)
GC9 New	Bringing the Past to Life for the Citizen	David Arnold (Brighton, Chair) David Duce (Oxford Brooks) Andrew Day (UEA) Alan Chalmers (Warwick) Phil Willis (Bath)