TAP Technology Tracking

TAP identifies and tracks a set of emerging technologies and their related research organizations and standards bodies. TAP's tracking activities support assessment and development projects and provide an over-the-horizon technology view for the university.

The tracked technology list varies somewhat depending on the projects in the current cycle. TAP is currently considering the following technologies and trends.

Areas of Interest

Context Awareness and Proactivity

• Agent-based Computing
• Context-Aware Computing
• Proactive Computing

Pervasive - Ambient - Ubiquitous Computing

• Task Computing
• Mobile/Pervasive Computing
• Smart Spaces
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Sensors and Actuators

Services and Architecture

• Service-Oriented Architecture
• Web 2.0 Concepts
• Semantic Web
• Unified Communications
• Programming Languages and Application Frameworks

Geospatial and Location-based Services

• Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

Links of Interest

Seminal and Visionary

• Computing Machinery and Intelligence, Alan Turing
• As We My Think, Vannevar Bush
• The Computer for the 21st Century, Mark Weiser

Research and Technology

• What Next? A Dozen Information-Technology Research Goals, Jim Gray
• Computing Research Association (CRA) Grand Challenges
• British Computer Society (BCS) Grand Challenges
• MyLifeBits: Fulfilling the Memex Vision, Jim Gemmell; Gordon Bell; Roger Lueder; Steven Drucker; Curtis Wong

Higher Education

• Navigating the American University through the Stormy Seas of a Changing World, James J. Duderstadt
• 2006 EDUCAUSE/NMC Horizon Report
• Cyberinfrastructure for Education and Learning for the Future, Computing Research Association (CRA)

Organizations and Journals:

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Computing Research Association (CRA)
• American Association for Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)