BRUSSELS 1.12.2004 The Internet of the Future A EuropeanChallenge - Inauguration of the Autonomic Communication Forum On 8 December 2004 in Brussels the inaugural meeting ofAutonomic Communication Forum will take place in the presence of - Dr. Ulf Dahlsten, Director Emerging Technologies andInfrastructures, DG Information Society of the EuropeanCommission - Prof. Dr. Radu Popescu-Zeletin, Chair of ACForum and directorof Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin and other high-rank officials of theIT industry and leading European research organisations. More than 45 industrial companies and research institutes fromacross the whole of Europe have come together in this Forum in acommon endeavour to define the future of communications and ofeInternet, the worldwide communication infrastructure. TheInitiative is founded on the belief that a radical paradigm shifttowards a self-organising, self-managing and context-awareautonomous network, considered in a technological, social andeconomic context, is the only adequate response to theincreasingly high complexity and demands now being placed on theInternet. Europe has the capacities and the expertise to meetthis challenge and to set new international standards. The Forum is strictly related to the new research area Situatedand Autonomic Communications launched by the Future and EmergingTechnologies unit of the IST (Information Society Technologies)research programme of the European Commission. Registration is free but, due to room limitations, absolutelynecessary; please use http://www.autonomic-communication-forum.org/registration Press Contact: Dr. Gudrun Quandel Corporate Communications Kaiserin-Aiugusta-Allee 31 10589 Berlin Tel +49 30 3463 7212 Tel +49 30 3463 8000Mail: quandel@fokus.fraunhofer.de
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