RE: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical problems of our era?

["Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>]

Something like that. :)

Roger: are you looking for cutting edge technical development or really
"doesn't exist" stuff?  

If the former, PID-based control systems.  The crash of the Air France
flight is one example of what happens when it all goes wrong among the
sensors, the controls and pilot training.  The concepts are applicable
to other real-time and near-time systems.   As climate change continues
to alter the performance models, we have to rethink our designs.

We are facing a need to re-engineer our housing architectures for
shifting climate conditions as well.  It could look shire-like.

Reduced complexity in financial systems to enhance transparency are
desirable.  Or we may burn down the banks and the bankers.

Now that we have improved information consumption devices, the
opportunities to enhance education are obvious.   

We have not scratched what may be possible given very large scale data
analysis and pattern inferencing.  We really don't understand the social
implications of same.  For example, sensitivity analysis.

Genetic engineering obviously.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Rushforth, Peter [mailto:Peter.Rushforth@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca] 
Sent: Monday, July 09, 2012 8:24 AM
To: Len Bullard; Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical problems of our
era?

Just like the FBI of Arlo Guthrie's day. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Len Bullard [mailto:Len.Bullard@ses-i.com] 
> Sent: July 9, 2012 09:02
> To: Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical 
> problems of our era?
> 
> If we tell you then the Chinese will know.
> 
> len
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Costello, Roger L. [mailto:costello@mitre.org]
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2012 4:27 PM
> To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: [xml-dev] [OT] What are the key technical problems 
> of our era?
> 
> Hi Folks,
> 
> In the 15th and 16th century a key problem was that there 
> were no accurate clocks. Accurate clocks were needed by ships 
> at sea to determine their position. Smart individuals, such 
> as the Dutch mathematician, astronomer, and physicist 
> Christian Huygens, worked and solved this problem with the 
> creation of the pendulum clock along with its mathematical 
> underpinnings.
> 
> What are the key technical problems of our time? 
> 
> What waters can we not sail today because we do not have the 
> technology and the math and science underpinnings to enable it?
> 
> /Roger
> 
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