What next? A dozen information-technology research goals

A set of fundamental research problems that broaden the Babbage, Bush, and Turing visions are outlined. They extend Babbage's computational goal to include highly secure, highly available, self-programming, self-managing and self-replicating systems. They extend Bush's Memex vision to include a system that automatically organizes indexes, digests, evaluates and summarizes information. They also extend Turing's vision of intelligent machines to include prosthetic vision, speech, hearing and other senses. Each problem is simply stated and each is orthogonal from the others, although they share some core technologies.