Jeff Naughton, a top database researcher from the University of Wisconsin – Madison, has made available a superb keynote that he gave at the 26th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering. It will be worth your time to read and think about Jeff’s slides – “We guarantee it!”
Computing Community Consortium Blog
The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
You might also be interested in Yann LeCun’s related “A New Publishing Model in Computer Science”. http://yann.lecun.com/ex/pamphlets/publishing-models.html