UKCRC, The UK Computing Research Committee, have asked for
"Grand Challenges in Computing Research for 2010 and beyond"
http://www.ukcrc.org.uk/grand-challenge/2010.cfm
This will help UK research funding agencies to plan ahead.
They invite a 2-page proposal by 8th February,
for a workshop in Edinburgh, Scotland, on 16th April 2010.
I'd like to propose: Understanding the Quran -
a new Grand Challenge for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence
- see draft at
http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric/UnderstandingTheQuran.doc
The proposal has to relate to "major societal grand challenges"; for the
purposes of this meeting they have picked four challenges on which to
focus, namely - climate change, assisted living, security and health.
My draft proposal on "Understanding the Quran" tries to fit this focus
by highlighting security-related applications; but of course an
online Quran Expert will have many other uses too.
I hope others on the comp-quran discussion list will support this
proposal. If you would like to be named as a joint proposer, please
email me <[email protected]> to confirm:
your NAME, and AFFLIATION - department/school and university
Thanks in advance for your support.
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Eric Atwell,
Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
Faculty of Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, Leeds LS2 9JT, England
TEL: 0113-3435430 FAX: 0113-3435468 WWW/email: google Eric Atwell
