• DOI:10.1145/602382.602401
• Corpus ID: 10336312

What next?: A dozen information-technology research goals

@article{Gray2003WhatNA,
  title={What next?: A dozen information-technology research goals},
  author={Jim Gray},
  journal={ArXiv},
  year={2003},
  volume={cs.GL/9911005}
}

• J. Gray
• Published 11 November 1999
• Computer Science
• ArXiv

Charles Babbage’s vision of computing has largely been realized; we are on the verge of realizing Vannevar Bush’s Memex; but, we are still far from passing the Turing Test. This article outlines a set of fundamental research problems that broaden the Babbage, Bush, and Turing visions. They extend Babbage’s computational goal to include highly secure, highly available, self-programming, self-managing, and self-replicating systems. They extend Bush’s Memex vision to include a system that automatically organizes indexes, digests, evaluates, and summarizes information. They also extend Turing’s vision of intelligent machines to include prosthetic vision, speech, hearing, and other senses. Each problem is simply stated and each is orthogonal from the others, although they share some core technologies.