Nowadays it seems appropriate to recall the outcome of the seminar promoted by the Brazilian Society for Computer Science (SBC) "Grand Challenges in Computer Research in Brazil: 2006-2016", held in São Paulo on May 8-9, 2006 with the participation of renowned researchers and observers belonging to the most important institutions of R&D and of support to R&D of this country. In this document of the SBC we have:

“...Some characteristic aspects of the Grand Challenges in Research are summarized below.

1. The Grand Challenges must be directed to significant advances in science, rather than incremental gains based on existing results.
2. The vision of a Grand Challenge should be well beyond of what can be achieved in a research project within the typical financing period of a grant.
3. The Grand Challenges must be capable of undergo clear and objective assessment to define and establish its level of success.
4. The Grand Challenges must be capable of undergo incremental diagnosis, such that it allows changes in its direction during its realization.
5. The Grand Challenges must be visionary and ambitious but not unrealistic, viable within a present time –in the case of this initiative, 10 years.
6. The Grand Challenges must be challenging and motivating for the scientific community and motivating to the society.
7. Many of the problems that are behind these challenges are multidisciplinary in nature and in its possible solutions.
8. The topics of the Grand Challenges emerge from a consensus of the scientific community, to serve as a long-term scenario for researchers, regardless of financial policies or conjunctural issues.”

As a result of the meeting of the SBC the following Grand Challenges in Computer Research in Brazil were proposed for the period 2006-2016:

1. Information management for large distributed volumes of multimedia datasets.
2. Computational modeling of artificial, natural and sociocultural complex systems, as well as those based on human-nature interaction.
3. Impacts in the area of computing of the transition from silicon to new technologies.
4. Participative and universal access of Brazilian citizens to knowledge.
5. Technological development of quality: available, accurate, secure, scalable, persistent and ubiquitous systems.

As you can appreciate, all the grand challenges (and future vision) foreseen by the SBC are closely correlated with the motivation and vision of the future that the members of this INCT-MACC had during the gestation of the institute over the past 10 years (1999-2008).