The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), a Singapore government agency, are establishing a new research center in Singapore. The Advanced Digital Sciences Center will be focused on breakthrough innovations in information technology that are expected to have a major impact in transforming human beings' utilization of information technology.

The initial program to be undertaken at ADSC is the Human Sixth Sense Programme (HSSP). The bold vision of HSSP is to develop the information technology infrastructure and human-machine interfaces necessary to enable humans to interact with the digital world in a manner that is as seamless and natural as the use of any of our other senses. This will translate into natural business opportunities, since many of our daily activities and decisions depend on quick access to trustworthy information. One can imagine scenarios in which a fireman will be able to access building plans of a building on fire from a remote city office in a trustworthy (i.e., reliable, trusted, and timely) manner, or a process engineer will be able to monitor real-time embedded systems throughout a manufacturing plant and be able to react immediately if operations deviate from sophisticated digital projections at his disposal. The envisioned impact is for the general population to grow to trust service computing and use their own personal information as a seed to grow useful information for a much better quality of life.

For more information, please browse this site or contact the ADSC administration at Illinois through the contact details shown at the left. To apply to the program as a student, please see our for students page.