The U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engineering report has received a great deal of attention from legislators, policymakers, and educators, but what does it entail for social justice considerations in engineering? This article situates the Grand Challenges report as a cultural artifact of the engineering profession—an artifact that works to reinforce engineering’s p...

In this position paper, I introduce five grand challenges in the development of networked digital games. While this list is not intended to be exhaustive, I argue that these challenges are significant in that they are holding back the development of the next generation of innovative games.

Carlos M. Duarte* 1 Department of Global Change Research, (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas-University of the Balearic Islands) Instituto Mediterráneo de Estudios Avanzados, Mallorca, Spain 2 The UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia 3 Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, University of Tromsø, Tromsø, Norway *Correspondence:...

It is now time to begin the study of personal genome services based on the interdisciplinary theories and technologies of genomics and artificial intelligence (AI). Although recently much attention has been given to personal genome services for realizing personal medicine, little systematic research has been done on their communication and computational aspects for intelligent wellness service ...

RoboCup was started in 1997 by a group of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics researchers with the following grand challenge, to be achieved by 2050 [9]: “to build a team of robot soccer players, which can beat a human World Cup champion team.” Since then, RoboCup Federation1 established itself as a structured organization and as one of the major events in the research field of Artificial Inte...

Servitization is a grand challenge for all manufacturing companies to extend their business. As main result this paper presents an approach and corresponding research questions on how to integrate servitization in manufacturing businesses by making use of an innovation ecosystem. Companies might benefit from this approach, as it indicates how relevant characteristics to evolve in order to take ...

In March 2010, the Dagstuhl Seminar 10102 explored the grand challenges confronting research and practice in the domain of discrete event logistics systems. This Executive Summary describes the process of the seminar and discusses the key conclusions regarding grand challenges for research and practice. Abstracts of the presentations given during the seminar are put together in the online proce...

Over forty years ago, Jerome Bruner proposed a radically new theory of education, that "...any subject can be taught effectively in some intellectually honest form to any child at any stage of development." [1]. While many have disputed the more extreme claims attached to that hypothesis, it is anadmirable goal, though one difficult to achieve. One way to implement this theory is through the “s...