Grand Challenges in Pedometrics-AI Research

AI Grand Challenges for Education

Artificial intelligence impacts growth and productivity in many industries (e.g., transportation, communication, commerce, and finance). However, one painful exception is education; today, very few AI-based learning systems are consistently used in classrooms or homes. Yet the potential for an impact on education is great: today’s instructional software now routinely tailors learning to individ...

Grand challenges in conservation research

One of the privileges and responsibilities accorded to Specialty Chief Editors in the Frontiers journals, at the commencement of new specialty sections, is to provide an overview of potential research directions for the specialization in the form of a challenge statement. There is, however, a tight restriction on this prerogative: specifically, a limit of 2000 words. For the very practical and ...

Grand challenges in climate research

INTRODUCTION Climate change has been at the forefront of environmental concerns for over a quarter of a century. The sequence of reports published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, 1990, 1996, 2001, 2007, 2013) has been instrumental in bringing climate issues to the attention of the public and policy-makers alike. In 1992, the United Nations Conference on Environment and D...

Grand Challenges in Psychosomatic Research

The link between emotion and disease has long fascinated mankind. Famous seventeen century British physician, Thomas Willis (1621–1675) saw diabetes as a consequence of sadness or long sorrow (Willis, 1971). Though better known for describing what eventually became known as the " Circle of Willis " , he provided a fairly comprehensive description of the role of nervous system in disease (Encycl...

Grand Challenges for Computing Research