Emerging Technologies

The Swedish Data Inspection Board. Ubiquitous Computing

If you say “Ubicomp”, many laughs and thinks of intelligent fridge. But the phenomenon should not be underestimated. For years, IT industry in the U.S., EU and Japan spent astronomical sums on development. People and equipment are bound together in a giant wireless network, it is intended, and it could More >

Statement by the Swedish Research Institute of Defence at the Stockholm Chamber of Commerce 2012 03 21

The art of creating machines with ethical behaviour is something that robot scientists and philosophers have started to study.

What part has man to play in a future, in which ethical decisions will be taken also by machines?

When will a machine become a human being?

The question of borderlines between man and More >

Virtual/Augmented Reality

Virtual/Augmented Reality

Similar to[1]:

·Virtual worlds: mainly referring to entertainment when virtual reality refers more to utilities

·Mixed reality: mainly used in entertainment applications where different kinds of realities are mixed. Augmented reality on the other hand refers to situations where reality is augmented with some other elements.

·Metaverse: vision of an immersive 3D virtual world, to More >

Robotics

Robotics

History

The term “robot” was derived from early 20th century literature (Čapek 1920) to denote machines that are apparently able to work independently of direct human control. There is currently no uniform agreed definition of “robot”, although the International Standard Organisation (ISO) 8373 defines them as “an automatically controlled, reprogrammable, More >

Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing

History

Blackbody Radiation

The technology of quantum computing is based on the idea of extending classical information theory. This is done by combining it with the concept of quantum physics and thereby enhancing computer science, which has so far been reduced to a binary architecture, built on transistor systems. More >

Neuroelectronics

Neuroelectronics

History

Neuroelectronics, sometimes referred to as neurotechnology, is the discipline that deals with the interface between the human nervous system and electronic devices. It is a highly complex and interdisciplinary field with contributions from computer science, cognitive science, neurosurgery and biomedical engineering. Neuroelectronics has roughly three related branches: (1) neuroimaging, (2) More >

Human-Machine Symbiosis

Human-Machine Symbiosis

History

Human-machine symbiosis can be traced back to Licklider who in 1960 envisaged a situation where machines could work side by side with humans. Licklider’s vision was that humans and machines could be coupled together and work interactively. He stated the following:

Man-computer symbiosis is an expected development in cooperative interaction More >

Future Internet

Future Internet

Related terms:

Web 3.0, Internet of Things, Real World Internet, Semantic Web, Intelligent Web, Internet of Services

History

The development of digital information networks begun in the U.S.A. in the 1960’s at the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)[1] and as a result the first network called ARPANET was opened between four American More >

Cloud Computing

Cloud Computing

Similar to:

·Utility Computing

·On-Demand Computing

History

The history of cloud computing as a concept that would deliver computing resources to different locations through a global network can be said to have originally been introduced in the sixties by Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider often shortened to J.C.R Licklider. J.C.R Licklider’s idea of an More >

Bioelectronics

Bioelectronics

History

One can state that bioelectronics is quite an old scientific research area although the actual term, bioelectronics can be traced back to the mid- 1970s.  The first attempts to integrate biology and electronic devices have been associated to medical development in for example the development of the electrocardiograph. Electrocardiograph is More >

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence

History

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a diverse field of R&D dealing with machine intelligence. Its underlying concepts reach back many centuries into Greek philosophy and mathematics. The idea of universal computation has been discussed in connection with concepts for computational devices since at least the times of Charles Babbage More >

Ambient Intelligence

Ambient Intelligence

History In 1998, Philips and Palo Alto Ventures coined the term ‘ambient intelligence’ (AmI) in order to illustrate a vision of the future where technologies seamlessly interact and adapt to human needs while being none obtrusive. From then on they have further developed the concept, or vision, and designed More >

Affective Computing

Affective Computing

Also known as

  • Emotional computing
  • Emotion-oriented computing

History

Research into affect can be traced to the 19th century. However, it used to be linked to living organisms. Interest in the computational aspects of affects (or emotions, the terms seem to be used interchangeably) has only developed in the last decade of More >

Computer – Brain – Interaction

Brain- Computer- Interaction Development of BCI-AI (Brain-Computer-Interaction and Artificial Intelligence) Research and development going on in secret. Ethical debates and legislation is nonexistent. The lack of facts in this matter creates naive ideas about the safe development of BCI-AI. The researchers put the lid on the public debate on the subject More >