Intelligence Visions and Achievements: Linking Abstract Ideas to Real-World Concepts Menno Lindwer ¢¡ , Diana Marculescu £¥¤ , Twan Basten ¦§¡ , Rainer Zimmermann ¨ , Radu Marculescu £§¤ , Stefan Jung © , Eugenio Cantatore Philips Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, PA, USA Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands European Commission, Brussels, Belgium Infineon Technologies, Corporate Research, Emerging Technologies, Munich, Germany ent Intelligence vision is abstract and as such not useful for funding decisions, research project definition, and business plan development. This is in particular the case for the electronic design community. The European Commission intends for the EU to achieve world leadership in Information Societies technologies within ten years. To that end, it has incorporated the Ambient Intelligence vision in its Sixth Framework. Microelectronics and nanoand optical devices...