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Future Emerging Technologies (FETs)
Kostas Glinos DG-INFSO F1
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FET Why are we there?

• To support research that is
• Visionary and exploratory
• Longer term or high risk
• A nursery of novel ideas - trend setting
• It is a multidisciplinary job
• It covers all areas covered by the Key Actions
  
• from a different perspective.
• The budget is about 300 Meuros
• Two ways of working
• Open - calls without themes - anything goes
• Proactive - highly focused and integrated
  initiatives

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The OPEN scheme

• Accept any idea of quality
• Widest possible spectrum
• Proposals submitted at any time
• Innovative work that could lead to breakthroughs
  or major advances
• Bold ideas involving high risks
• Longer term research
• Quality in FETs Innovative idea, with
  potential for strong impact, advancing the state
  of the art may be high risk or long term or
  combination of both

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The OPEN schemeproject types and evaluation dates

• Assessment projects
• Opportunity to validate an idea
• 1 year contract (lump sum up to 100 keuro)
• Expected scheme closure 15 June 2002
• Full scale projects
• Standard RTD contract
• Scheme closure 28 February 2002
• In both cases, a short proposal is submitted
  first!
• Planned evaluation dates September December
  2001, March and July 2002

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FET Open Scheme
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FET Proactive InitiativesHow they work

• What they are
• Focused research programmes with visionary,
  challenging goals
• In areas strategic for the future
• critical mass, timeliness, impact
• How they work
• Coordinated project clusters
• Common long term goals
• Shaping vision(s) of the future
• Integrated approach
• Dovetailing projects
• Collective negotiations, grouped reviews
• Adaptation of objectives
• Network of Excellence and Dynamic Roadmaps

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Future and Emerging TechnologiesCalls for
Proposals
Universal Info Ecosystems
The Disappearing Computer
Quantum Information Processing Comm.
Global Computing
Nanotechnology Information Devices
Nanotechnology Information Devices
PRO- ACTIVE
Presence
Neuroinformatics
Quantum Info Proc. Comm.
Life-like Perception Systems
2002
1999
2000
2001
No thematic preference
OPEN
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Life-like perception systems Overall objective

• Integrated perception-response systems
• Bio-inspired
• Perception sensorial, cognitive, control and
  response aspects, referring to vision or hearing,
  or to any other type of interaction with the
  environment by a biological organism
• Extension of the capabilities of machines or
  augmenting the human senses

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Life-like perception systems Focus

• Systems approach
• integrating perception with appropriate action
  resulting therefrom
• independent of implementation issues
• Desirable features
• task-specific adaptability of the perception
  system
• processes of association (e.g. memory)
• fusion of sensory modalities
• Internal representation of real-world stimuli in
  biological systems
• Experimental and theoretical research
• novel sensors, computational neuroscience,
  cognitive science, computer science, control,
  signal processing, cellular engineering,
  (bio)mechatronics (microrobotics and
  microsystems), etc.

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Life-like perception systemsResearch issues
novel sensors computational neuroscience cognitive
science computer science signal processing and
control cellular engineering biomechatronics
task-specific adaptability of the perception
system processes of adaptation fusion of sensory
modalities
Understanding of the internal representation of
the real-world stimuli in biological systems
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Life-like perception systems on the Web

• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fetbi.htm
• Deadline for pre-proposals 6 July 2001

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PRESENCE RESEARCH

• Objective
• To develop novel media that convey a sense of
  being there
• Focus
• Common reference model
• Measuring presence
• Capturing non-verbal cues, group mood,
• eye-contact
• New media technologies for
• richer experiences

Design Practices
New Media Development
Presence Research
Perception, Cognition
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PRESENCE RESEARCH

• Associated Disciplines
• The senses
• Cognitive Sciences
• Psychology
• Neuroscience Neurophysiology
• Psychoacoustics
• Haptics
• The technologies
• Computer Science / A.I.
• Telecommunications
• Hardware technologies
• Media, Arts and Design

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Quantum Information Processingand Communication

• Can we build computers and communication systems
  that exploit the properties of quantum mechanics
  (entanglement, superposition of states,
  uncertainty,) for their opeartion?
• Harness de-coherence
• Develop quantum computer science
• Find a scalable implementation technology

• Launched in 1999
• 15 projects - more than 100 partners
• 21 M funding

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QIPC - Questions

• Can we make, in the long term, quantum computers
  that scale up and are cost effective?
• What problems would they be able to solve?
• Are these problems of sufficient interest to
  justify development?
• What may be other applications of quantum systems
  that would require a modest number of qubits?

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QIPCMain current research topics

• Quantum Algorithms
• Entanglement
• Quantification, manipulation, applications
• Decoherence, scalability
• Error Correction Fault Tolerance
• Quantum Cryptography

• Q. Logic Gates Networks
• Physical models experimental ideas

• Ion traps
• Cavity QED
• Superconductors
• Quantum dots
• Q. interferometry

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Which technologyfor quantum computers?
IONS Innsbruck Oxford Munich
Quantum Dots etc Basel
Cavity QED ENS Paris
NMR Oxford
Josephson Junctions Delft, Karlsruhe, Catania,
Jyvaskyla
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QIPC Structure
NoE Partners
Project Partners
Project n
Project n
Steering Committee
Project n
Project n
Project n
Roadmap
Roadmap
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Specific objectivesof 2002 QIPC Call

• Elementary scalable quantum processor
• Quantum information theory and algorithms
• Simulation of quantum systems
• Novel applications - can useful things be done
  soon, even with a few qubits?

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Interdisciplinary balance
theoretical physics
theory
applied physics
chemistry
experiments
computer science
engineering
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FET on the Web

• http//www.cordis.lu/ist/fethome.htm