Document Type : Analytical note
Author
University of Tehran
Abstract
These are exciting times for computational sciences with the digital revolution permeating a variety of areas and radically transforming business, science, and our daily lives. The Internet and the World Wide Web, GPS, satellite communications, remote sensing, and smartphones are dramatically accelerating the pace of discovery, engendering globally connected networks of people and devices. The rise of practically relevant artificial intelligence (AI) is also playing an increasing part in this revolution, fostering e-commerce, social networks, personalized medicine, IBM Watson and AlphaGo, self-driving cars, and other groundbreaking transformations.
Key Insights
Computer science enriches sustainability. Computer scientists can and should make important contributions to help address key societal and environmental challenges facing humanity, in pursuit of a sustainable future. The new field of computational sustainability brings these efforts together.
Sustainability enriches computer In turn, working on sustainability problems, which involve uncertainty, machine learning, optimization, remote sensing, and decision making, enriches computer science by generating compelling new computational problems.
Sustainability concerns human well-being and the protection of the planet. A large group of computer science researchers, collaborating with an even larger group of domain from social, environmental, and natural sciences, can drive computational sustainability in ways that would not be possible in a smaller or less interdisciplinary setting.
Keywords
Main Subjects
)
Send comment about this article