Last week, I joined an international conference on awareness science and technology, in which researchers discussed about awareness computing, with the goal of building systems that are aware. Slightly different from computational intelligence or artificial intelligence, awareness is the most fundamental ability for any living beings to survive; without being aware, a system may never become intelligent.

I was deeply encouraged by the keynote speeches about awareness computing in different fields and purposes. For instance some researchers concerned awareness computing for humanity, involving health technology, happiness technology, and offering/caring/warming technology; some researchers illustrate how the awareness computing is used in bioinformatic applications; and there are also researchers focusing on awareness computing for intent modeling.

Gradually, I realized that different kinds of technologies could be inter combined with each other, to make different awareness systems that may not be as intelligent as human being, but can make our lives more comfortable, more exciting, and happier.