Second Trans-Atlantic Symposium on Information and Communication Technology (ICT),To Be Held at the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars, in Washington DC, June 18-19, 2018.

新的和新兴的信息和通信技术发展有可能加速科学发现和工业增长，产生积极的社会影响。然而，往往缺乏对新出现的信息和通信技术的宏观评估，特别是从国际角度。欧盟委员会在其地平线2020计划下，启动了2016年智能社会的ICT政策、研究和创新项目：在欧盟和美国的ICT合作中迈向新的大道(毕加索项目)。根据这项提议，NSF将共同资助美国研究人员参加毕加索项目研讨会，该研讨会的重点是探索与美国和欧盟研究人员合作相关的新兴ICT领域。这是第二届跨大西洋ICT技术和政策研讨会，将于2018年6月18日至19日在华盛顿特区伍德罗·威尔逊国际学者中心(威尔逊中心)举行。研讨会将使人们更好地认识到美国/欧盟在信息和通信技术和政策方面的共同优先事项和需求，并加强合作。预计将有大约100人出席，外展旨在促进传统上在STEM中代表性不足的群体的参与。无处不在的传感和连接、大规模安全数据存储库、分布式和云平台中的高性能分析、实时闭环应用程序以及机器人技术都提供了研究和应用领域的个别进步，并将随着这些技术的影响汇聚在一起，实现前所未有的社会、环境和经济效益。从国际角度来看，这次研讨会的目标是召集学术界、工业界和政府的代表，寻求确定和推动新的和新兴的信息和通信技术领域的合作研究。将探索的具体主题领域包括网络物理系统(CPS)、物联网(IoT)、大数据、5G及以后、自动化的未来和网络弹性，所有这些都是美国和欧盟的高度优先事项。研讨会将以主旨演讲和全体小组讨论为主，第二天的分组会议将允许研究人员详细讨论不同主题领域的关键技术问题。该讲习班将提供投入，帮助从高级别路线图的角度确定美国/欧盟合作的机会。将为国家科学基金会和欧盟委员会编写一份最终报告，该报告的一个版本也将在威尔逊中心和毕加索项目的网站上公开提供。研讨会还将通过来自美国和欧盟的网络参与者确定机会并推动合作研究。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

New and emerging Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) developments have the potential to accelerate scientific discovery and industrial growth with positive social impacts. However, big picture assessments of new and emerging ICT are often lacking, particularly from an international perspective. The European Commission, under its Horizon 2020 program, launched a 2016 project on ICT Policy, Research and Innovation for a Smart Society: Towards New Avenues in EU-US ICT Collaboration (the PICASSO project). Under this proposal, NSF will provide co-funding for US researchers to participate in a PICASSO project symposium focused on exploring emerging areas of ICT relevant to cooperation between researchers in the US and EU. This workshop, the 2nd Trans-Atlantic Symposium on ICT Technology and Policy, will be held at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (the Wilson Center) in Washington, DC, on June 18-19, 2018. The symposium will result in greater awareness of shared US/EU priorities and needs in ICT technology and policy and in enhanced collaborations. Attendance of approximately 100 is anticipated, with outreach designed to facilitate participation from groups that are historically under-represented in STEM.Pervasive sensing and connectivity, large-scale secure data repositories, high-performance analytics in distributed and cloud platforms, real-time closed-loop applications, and robotics all offer individual advances in research and application areas, and will enable social, environmental, and economic benefits on unprecedented levels as the impacts of these technologies converge. Taking an international perspective, the goal of this workshop is to convene representatives from academia, industry, and government seeking to identify and advance collaborative research in new and emerging ICT areas. Specific thematic areas to be explored include Cyber Physical Systems (CPS), Internet of Things (IoT), big data, 5G and beyond, the future of automation, and cyber-resiliency, all of which are a high priority for the US and EU. The symposium will predominately feature a mix of keynote speeches and plenary panel discussions, through breakout sessions on the second day will allow researchers to discuss key technical aspects of different thematic areas in detail. This workshop will provide inputs to help define opportunities for US/ EU collaboration from a high-level road-mapping perspective. A final report will be prepared for NSF and the European Commission, and a version of this report will also be made publically available on websites of the Wilson Center and PICASSO project. The symposium will also identify opportunities for and advance collaborative research through networking participants from the US and EU.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.