IT
Information society technologies (IST)
Objective
The activities carried out in this area, pursuant to the conclusions
of the Lisbon European Council and the objectives of the e-Europe
initiative, are intended to stimulate the development in Europe of both
hardware and software technologies and applications at the heart of the
creation of the information society in order to increase the
competitiveness of European industry and allow European citizens in all
Union regions the possibility of benefiting fully from the development
of the knowledge-based society. Concentration on the future generation
of IST will bring IST applications and services to everyone and enable
the development of the next generation of technologies to be more
user-centered.
Justification of the effort and European added value
At the dawn of the 21st century, information and communication
technologies are revolutionising the functioning of the economy and
society, and are generating new ways of producing, trading and
communicating.
This has become the Union's second most important sector of the
economy, with an annual market of EUR 2000 billion and employing more
than 2 million persons in Europe, a number that is steadily rising.
Europe is well positionedto lead and shape the future development
not only of technologies but also of their impact on our life and work.
The future competitiveness of all European industry and the living
standards of Europe's citizens depend largely on future efforts in IST
research in order to prepare the future generation of products,
processes and services.
Industrial and commercial successes of the kind that Europe has
achieved in mobile communications as a result of the global system for
mobile communication (GSM) standard will not be repeated unless a
concerted effort is made to invest a critical mass of research
resources in this area, by integrating public and private sector
efforts on a European scale.
With a viewto exerting maximum impact in economic and social terms,
effort should focus on the future generation of those technologies in
which computers, interfaces and networks will be more integrated into
the everyday environment and will render accessible, through easy and
"natural" interactions, a multitude of services and applications. This
vision of "ambient intelligence" (interactive intelligent environment)
seeks to place the user, the human being, at the centre of the future
development of the knowledge-based society.
Community actions will concentrate on the technological priorities
that will make it possible to realise this vision. They will aim at
mobilising the community of researchers around targeted initiatives,
such as the development of the next generations of mobile communication
systems, so as to achieve medium and long-term objectives while being
able to react to the new needs and demands of markets as well as those
of public policy and citizens.
Actions envisaged
The actions undertaken will therefore address the following
technological priorities:
Integrating research into technological areas of priorityinterest
for citizens and businesses
Completing and building on progress expected in the development of
basic technologies, research aimed at finding solutions for major
societal and economic challenges, faced by an emerging knowledge-based
society including the consequences for work and the workplace
environment, and, accordingly, focusing on:
(a) research on technologies addressing the key security challenges
posed by the "all-digital" world and the need to secure the rights and
privacy of citizens;
(b) "ambient intelligence" systems offering access to the
information society for all, regardless of age and situation (such as
disability or other individual circumstances), as well as interactive
and intelligent systems for health, mobility, security, leisure,
tourism, access to and preservation of the cultural heritage, and
environment;
(c) electronic and mobile commerce, as well as technologies for
secure transactions and infrastructures, new tools and new methods of
work, technologies for learning (such as e-learning) and systems for
corporate knowledge management, for integrated business management and
for e-government taking account of user needs;
(d) large-scale distributed systems and platforms, including global
resource information database (GRID) based systems that provide
effective solutions to complex problems in areas such as the
environment, energy, health, transport and industrial design.
Communication and computing infrastructures
Mobile, wireless, optical and broadband communication
infrastructures and computing and software technologies that are
reliable, of wide application and can be adapted to meet the growing
needs of applications and services. Work will focus on:
(a) the new generations of wireless and mobile communications
systems and networks; satellite communications systems; all-optical
technologies; integration and management of communication networks,
including interoperable network solutions; capacity-enhancing
technologies necessary for the development of systems, infrastructures
and services, in particular for audio-visual applications. Work will
also lead to the development of next Internet generation;
(b) software technologies architectures, distributed and embedded
systems supporting the development of multifunctional and complex
services that involve multiple actors engineering and control of
complex and large-scale systems to ensure reliability and robustness.
Components and microsystems
Miniaturised and low-cost components based on new materials and
integrating extended functionalities, with the effort focusing on:
(a) the design and production of nano-, micro-, and opto-electronic
and photonic components, including those used for information storage,
pushing the limits of miniaturisation and minimising the costs and
power consumption of micro-electronic and micro-system components, and
taking account of the environmental impact of IST systems;
(b) nano-electronics, micro-technologies, displays and
micro-systems, and multi-disciplinary research into new materials and
quantum devices; new computing models and concepts.
Information management and interfaces
Research into information management tools and interfaces, with a
view to enabling easier interaction everywhere and at all times with
knowledge-based services and applications, addressing:
(a) knowledge representation and management systems based on context
and semantics, including cognitive systems, as well as tools for
creating, organising, navigating, retrieving, sharing, preserving and
disseminating digital content;
(b) multi-sensorial interfaces capable of understanding and
interpreting the natural expression of human beings through words,
gestures and the various senses, virtual environments, as well as
multilinguistic and multicultural systems indispensable to the
establishment of the knowledge-based society on a European scale.
European IST Research 2005-06, Building on Assets, Seizing
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News
Information Technology
30 June 2009: Building a crash-proof internet. A series of
catastrophic failures seems to suggest that the internet is rather more
vulnerable to accidents.
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29 June 2009: A team of researchers has created the first
rudimentary solid-state quantum processor, taking another step toward
the ultimate dream of building a quantum computer.
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29 June 2009: Private stock exchanges are emerging to fight
what venture capitalists call a liquidity crisis. These exchanges give
stakeholders an alternative way to trade their shares in hot startups
like Facebook for cold, hard cash - without having to wait years for an
IPO.
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29 June 2009: From searching for cures for disease to
monitoring the Earth’s atmosphere, grid computing has become essential
to data-intensive research. European researchers are making the access
to limited grid resources easier.
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26 June 2009: Computer systems that dynamically create,
monitor, manage or suspend online contractual agreements are being
developed to deliver greater reliability and security to
service-oriented e-business applications.
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26 June 2009: A mathematical problem that has confounded
scientists since the invention of public-key encryption. Now, a
breakthrough called "privacy homomorphism," or "fully homomorphic
encryption," makes possible the deep and unlimited analysis of
encrypted information.
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26 June 2009: Researchers are beginning to collaborate with
computer scientists to help uncover biological forms of deception,
known as molecular mimicry.
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25 June 2009: Physicists have found a way to drastically
prolong the shelf life of quantum bits, the 0s and 1s of quantum
computers.
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25 June 2009: Eye-tracking software opens online worlds to
people with disabilities. The gaming-with-gaze software - a first
version of which has been made publicly available for free - is one of
several applications to emerge from COGAIN, an EU-funded network of
excellence.
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25 June 2009: Software originally developed for the One
Laptop per Child (OLPC) project can now be used on any old PC.
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24 June 2009: To achieve energy-aware computing, a
first-of-a-kind water-cooled supercomputer is to be built, that will
directly repurpose excess heat. The innovative system, dubbed Aquasar,
is expected to decrease the carbon footprint of the system by up to 85%
and estimated to save up to 30 tons of CO2 per year.
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23 June 2009: Living safely with robots, beyond Asimov's
Laws. A framework is proposed for a legal system focused on Next
Generation Robot safety issues.
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23 June 2009: Computer scientists are using the power of
storytelling to draw younger students into programming. An animation
program called "Alice" allows student programmers of all ages to create
their own worlds without realizing they're actually writing code.
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23 June 2009: An Austrian project has made the leap from
research bench to shop shelf. A digital audio system has been made
possible by a computer algorithm that is the first to enable the
automatic creation of customised playlists directly in a hi-fi.
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23 June 2009: Email logs can provide advance warning of an
organisation reaching crisis point. That's the tantalising suggestion
to emerge from the pattern of messages exchanged by Enron employees.
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22 June 2009: While information technology is generally
thought to require electrons or photons for transmitting information,
scientists have recently demonstrated a third method of transmission:
chemical reactions -- "infochemistry."
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19 June 2009: Revolutionize evolutionary biology.
SATé -- an automated computing method -- can analyze molecular
data from thousands of organisms and computing their evolutionary
relatedness.
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19 June 2009: The protocol GridFTP has been used to transfer
unprecedented amounts of data over the network, providing a reliable,
high-performance communications infrastructure to facilitate
large-scale, collaborative science endeavors.
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19 June 2009: Inspired by the behavior of the human eye,
computer scientists have developed a technique that lets computers see
objects as fleeting as a butterfly or tropical fish with nearly double
the accuracy and 10 times the speed of earlier methods.
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18 June 2009: Working out a timescale for quantum
operations. One of the issues affecting quantum systems is coherence.
Understanding coherence and how it breaks down (decoherence) is one of
the keys to putting together a powerful quantum computer.
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18 June 2009: Researchers develops Java programming tools
employing human-centered design techniques.
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18 June 2009: Computer scientists have developed a framework
for studying the arrangement of tissue networks created by cell
division across a diverse set of organisms, including fruit flies,
tadpoles, and plants.
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18 June 2009: You can now donate your computer's idle time
to cutting-edge biomedical research aimed at finding a cure for HIV,
Parkinson's, arthritis, and breast cancer.
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17 June 2009: In a groundbreaking study, scientists have
created a "hybrid" system to examine real-time interactions between
humans and machines (virtual partners).
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16 June 2009: A new type of reconfigurable robot can perform
diverse tasks by changing its configuration, such as lengthening and
twisting its “arms,” in a much simpler and more compact way than
previous reconfigurable robots.
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16 June 2009: A 'magnetic superatom' - a stable cluster of
atoms that can one day be used to create molecular electronic devices
for the next generation of faster computers with larger memory storage.
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16 June 2009: Could an entirely new approach to online
security, based on distributed sanctions, help prevent cybercrime,
fraud and identity theft?
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16 June
2009: The inside story of the Conficker worm.
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15 June 2009: A website offers clues to the role DNA plays
in aging and disease by helping scientists make sense of the vast
jumble of information emerging from genetics research.
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15 June 2009: A huge consortium of European researchers is
solving some of the fundamental obstacles blocking real quantum
computing applications in the short term.
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12 June 2009: Risk of mobile phone virus attacks:
Traditional cell phones have been immune to viruses because they lack
standardized operating systems.
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12 June 2009: A new and novel computer modeling platform
developed through intensive, multidisciplinary collaboration can help
hospitals and cities to be more prepared for catastrophic public health
scenarios.
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11 June 2009: ‘Refactoring’ -- 'Anti-aging' technique for
computer software systems.
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8 June 2009: Scientists are on the trail of a phenomenon
called the “colossal magnetoresistance effect” (CMR) which is up to a
thousand times more powerful than existing “giant magnetoresistance
effect,” and could trigger another revolution in computing technology.
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8 June 2009: A team of physicists and engineers has
demonstrated exquisite control of single particles of light — photons —
on a silicon chip to make a major advance towards long-sought-after
quantum technologies, including super-powerful quantum computers and
ultra-precise measurements.
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8 June 2009: European researchers in robotics, psychology
and cognitive sciences have developed a robot that can predict the
intentions of its human partner. This ability to anticipate (or
question) actions could make human-robot interactions more natural.
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5 June 2009: Google launches search tool 'Google Squared'
which presents information derived from a query in a spreadsheet-like
grid called a "square." Users can then build, modify and refine their
"square" through further Web searches.
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5 June 2009: A unique ultra-high density memory storage
medium that can preserve digital data for a billion years -- a
crystalline iron nanoparticle shuttle enclosed within the hollow of a
multiwalled carbon nanotube.
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4 June 2009: Vibrating ions get entangled. Quantum
entanglement of mechanical vibrations brings 'quantum computing'
another step nearer.
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4 June 2009: New ultracold scheme for scalable quantum
information processing. In a recent study, a new system that uses
ultracold atoms trapped in an optical lattice to generate entanglement
may be a promising method for realizing a scalable quantum computer due
to the high degree of control it offers.
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4 June 2009: Physicists have demonstrated entanglement in a
mechanical system similar to those in the macroscopic everyday world
where quantum behavior can be observed.
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4 June 2009: MIT engineers have built a fast,
ultra-broadband, low-power radio chip, modeled on the human inner ear,
that could enable wireless devices capable of receiving cell phone,
Internet, radio and television signals.
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3 June 2009: Flexible memristor: Memory with a twist.
Electronic memory chips may soon gain the ability to bend and twist.
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3 June 2009: Interactive data eyeglasses. A CMOS chip with
an eye tracker in the microdisplay makes it possible for a pair of
eyeglasses to know what the wearer is looking for.
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3 June 2009: The most popular Web sites in the US all share
data with their corporate affiliates and allow third parties to collect
information directly by using tracking beacons known as "Web bugs" -
despite the sites' claims that they don't share user data with third
parties.
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2 June 2009: Computer scientists have developed a new way of
cloning facial expressions during live conversations to help us better
understand what influences our behaviour when we communicate with
others.
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2 June 2009: French physicists had used ultra-fast lasers
that could accelerate storage and retrieval of data on hard discs by up
to 100,000 times, pointing the way to a new generation of IT wizardry.
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2 June 2009: Cutting-edge computer modelling software has
enabled a long-lost, trumpet-like instrument to be recreated - allowing
a work by Bach to be performed as the composer may have intended for
the first time in nearly 300 years.
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2 June 2009: A group of researchers in Spain has
developed Inmamusys, a software program that can create music in
response to emotions that arise in the listener. By using Artificial
Intelligence techniques, the program means that original,
copyright-free and emotion-inspiring music can be played continuously.
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29 May 2009: Brain-computer interface (BCI) technology is
being developed in Europe that lets users perform everyday tasks with
thoughts alone.
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29 May 2009: Using your mood to operate a computer game.
Brain Computer Interfaces measure electrical signals from the brain and
convert them into data that can be used by a computer.
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29 May 2009: A team of physicists and engineers have
demonstrated all-fibre quantum logic, where single photons are
generated and used to perform the contolled-NOT quantum logic gate in
optical fibres with high fidelity.
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28 May 2009: Computer scientists are one step closer to
building low cost networks of underwater sensors for real time
underwater environmental monitoring. There are energy conservation
benefits of using reconfigurable hardware.
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27 May 2009: Google vs. the Real-time Web . Twitter
and Facebook are emerging as an alternative to the traditional engine,
which presents a big challenge to Google’s core business. Real-time
discovery engines use a more dynamic kind of democracy.
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27 May 2009: A new supercomputer with the power of 50,000
home PCs -- the fastest in Europe and the third worldwide -- was
unveiled in Germany.
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26 May 2009: Too much entanglement can render quantum
computers useless. In Quantum computing, the way systems are entangled
- correlated - can help scientists perform powerful computational
tasks.
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26 May 2009: European researchers believe they have achieved
what has remained an almost impossible dream in the wireless world:
powerful mobile services that work simply, seamlessly and intuitively.
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26 May 2009: A group of researchers in Spain has developed a
Web 2.0 application that filters the programming schedules of hundreds
of television channels to recommend programmes that viewers are
interested in.
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25 May 2009: Computer scientist try to peer inside papyrus
scrolls buried by the Mount Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD by using digital
technology. The scrolls were literally turned to carbon by the volcanic
heat.
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25 May 2009: Computers have been used for years to
facilitate learning at a distance. A new European research programme
shows that computers can also enhance collaborative, face-to-face
learning and problem solving.
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25 May 2009: Multiferroics are materials in which unique
combinations of electric and magnetic properties can simultaneously
coexist. They are potential cornerstones in future magnetic data
storage and spintronic devices.
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22 May 2009: A search engine for songs and music. Take the
song "Bohemian Rhapsody" by the band Queen as an example, it is so
internally varied that machine learning algorithms at the heart of
their experimental music search engine have trouble labeling the song.
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22 May 2009: New evolutionary computing developments
optimize complex problem solving. Evolutionary algorithms are a family
of algorithms within the artificial intelligence (AI) world.
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22 May 2009: There's a newfound flaw in our understanding of
transistor noise, a phenomenon affecting the electronic on-off switch
that makes computer circuits possible.
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21 May
2009: A US watchdog agency has warned that the GPS
system could start failing in 2010 and beyond. Due to delays in
launching replacement satellites and other circumstances.
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21 May 2009: The psychological reasons consumers may fall
victim to mass marketed scams are revealed today in a groundbreaking
research in UK.
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21 May 2009: A web browser that can understand technical
terms in life sciences and automatically find additional resources and
services has been developed by European researchers. It could lead to a
new generation of intelligent search engines.
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21 May 2009: An article “How to find bugs in giant software
programs” in the arXiv blog -- a statistical study of program sizes and
bug distributions in a dataset of Java programs.
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20 May 2009: Dutch national supercomputer Huygens defeated 2
human Go professionals in an official match. This is the second victory
of Huygens and it sets new world record.
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18 May 2009: Project LifeLike aims to create visualizations
of people, or avatars, that are as realistic as possible.
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15 May 2009: The Origin of Artificial Species: Creating
Artificial Personalities. Recently, a team of researchers has designed
computer-coded genomes for artificial creatures in which a specific
personality is encoded.
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15 May 2009: Shrinking 'ridiculous' data sets to manageable
size. 2 decades ago, data size of 10 trillion bytes is "ridiculous,"
while today it isn’t. But the ability to monitor and process the data
has not kept up with the ability to create it.
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14 May 2009: By combining techniques from game theory and
artificial intelligence, computer scientists have developed a better
way to find the best bidding strategy in a simulated auction modeled
after commodity and financial securities markets.
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13 May 2009: Ion trap quantum computing – to speed up the
time scale of solving certain important problems such as factoring and
data search, and outperform classical computing on large scale
problems.
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12 May 2009: Tunable fluidic micro lenses can focus and
direct light at will, and creates tiny flexible laser on a chip.
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12 May 2009: Software to track our emotional outbursts by
trying to understand the emotional content of what we write. These
"sentiment analysis" tools are a branch of a wider area of computer
science that is trying to teach computers to understand the feelings
expressed in text just as well as humans do.
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11 May 2009: A cloud computing infrastructure project
developed at Argonne National Lab, called Nimbus, is demonstrating that
cloud computing's potential is being realized now.
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8 May 2009: RAPHaEL (Robotic Air Powered Hand with
Elastic Ligaments) – a low cost, dexterous robotic hand operated by
compressed air, that can firmly hold a can of food or an egg, or
gesture for sign language.
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8 May 2009: The first of 2 basic types of semiconductors
using graphene -- one-atom-thick material -- could lead to faster,
smaller and more versatile computer chips.
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7 May 2009: “Prosumer”: professional media and content
consumers. European researchers in the Citizen Media project want to
exploit the power of technology and networked multimedia for the
benefit of citizens.
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7 May 2009: Wolfram Alpha: the world's first answer engine.
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6 May 2009: Constantly “re-rolling the dice”, combining
and selecting: “Evolutionary algorithms” mimic natural evolution in
silico and lead to innovative solutions for complex problems.
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6 May 2009: The Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine (ACQUINE)
is the first publicly available tool for automatically determining the
aesthetic quality of digital images.
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6 May 2009: Security researchers have uncovered one of
the most notorious zombie networks, the Torpig botnet, by collecting
70GB of data that was stolen in just 10 days.
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6 May 2009: Mathematical engineers have discovered for
the first time a rigid structure which exists within the centre of
turbulence, leading to hope that its chaotic movement could be
controlled in the future.
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5 May 2009: The most advanced supercomputers require
programming skills that all too few U.S. researchers possess. At the
same time, affordable computers and committed national programs are
available elsewhere.
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5 May 2009: A new approach to analyzing social networks
could identify the covert connections between the people behind
terrorist attacks.
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5 May 2009: Tomatoes come in a variety of sizes and shapes,
making them the perfect subject to test shape-analyzing software.
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5 May 2009: The EU-funded MOMOCS project has just released a
prototype of a software engineering platform that could help companies
save time, money and energy as they scramble to upgrade complex IT
systems.
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4 May 2009: Austrian physicists say a breakthrough in
next-generation quantum cryptography could allow encrypted messages to
be bounced off satellites.
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1 May 2009: Bionic penguins learn how to swim backwards
and take flight.
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1 May 2009: Ultrafast, light-sensitive video cameras are
needed for observing high-speed events such as shockwaves,
communication between living cells. Now, the world's fastest camera can
take 6 million frames per second.
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1 May 2009: Conficker worm has crawled into hundreds of
medical devices at dozens of hospitals in the United States and other
countries.
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1 May 2009: Making quantum cryptography practical. Quantum
cryptography is a completely secure means of communication. Researchers
have developed high speed detectors to receive more information faster.
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30 April 2009: Electrofluidic Display Technology (EFD),
the first to electrically switch the appearance of pigments in a manner
that provides visual brilliance equal to conventional printed media.
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30 April 2009: The latest supersonic combustion ramjets --
called scramjets -- burn air for fuel. When such a jet is so
experimental that it must fly unmanned, only a computer control system
can pilot it.
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30 April 2009: New computer program promises to be 'Rosetta
Stone' for chemical names, translating complex chemical names from one
language into another.
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30 April 2009: Quantum computers get commercial – and
hackable.
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29 April 2009: Analysis of Flickr photos could lead to
online travel books. Based on nearly 35 million Flickr photos taken by
more than 300,000 photographers from around the globe.
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29 April 2009: Officially established as an electronic
data collection standard by the World Health Organization, EpiSurveyor
is now the most widely adopted open source mobile health software in
the world, reinventing health care in developing countries.
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27 April 2009: There are new advances in researching a
new kind of memory, called 'racetrack' memory, which could become the
standard method of storing information on home computers.
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27 April 2009: Quantum entangled systems can be easily
‘disturbed’ by their environment. This is turned into an advantage
which promises quantum sensors that are fundamentally more sensitive.
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24 April 2009: To shorten the 'transpiration phase' --
repetitive and uninspiring work – in design and to create more room for
real inspiration, a software tool is developed to swiftly provide a
designer with hundreds of alternatives on which to make an informed
decision.
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23 April 2009: A technique for efficiently suppressing
errors in quantum computers. The advance could eventually make it much
easier to build useful versions of these potentially powerful but
highly fragile machines.
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23 April 2009: A new, extremely energy-efficient
167-processor chip -- dubbed AsAP – would provide breakthrough speeds
for a variety of computing tasks. The chip is ultra-small, fully
reprogrammable and highly configurable.
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23 April 2009: Digital sound archives offer enormously rich
resources but accessing them is currently difficult, and often
arbitrary. European researchers believe they have developed a solution
-- one which the system functions are all combined within in a single
user-configurable interface.
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23 April 2009: Lip-reading computers can detect different
languages.
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23 April 2009: The Blue Brain project launched in Europe in
2005 has been the most ambitious brain simulation effort ever
undertaken. A detailed simulation of a small region of a brain built
molecule by molecule has been constructed and has recreated
experimental results from real brains.
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22 April 2009: A European consortium is responding with a
new kind of reconfigurable chip that is both efficient and flexible.
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22 April 2009: Computer engineers are bringing the
minimalist approach to medical care and computing by coupling USB-based
ultrasound probe technology with a smartphone, enabling a compact,
mobile computational platform and a medical imaging device that fits in
the palm of a hand.
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22 April 2009: Humanity's earliest written works go online.
National libraries and the U.N. education agency put some of humanity's
earliest written works online Tuesday, from ancient Chinese oracle
bones to the first European map of the New World.
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21 April 2009: Computer scientists have developed a new
method for systematically identifying bugs in cyber-physical systems
(CPS): such as aircraft collision avoidance systems, high-speed train
controls and other complex, computer-controlled devices.
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21 April 2009: The World Digital Library, a website
offering free access to rare books, maps, manuscripts, films and
photographs from across the globe, launches on 21 April 2009 at UNESCO
headquarters in Paris.
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20 April 2009: The first experimental proof of
all-optical ultra-fast communication signal processing is found with
silicon-based devices for transmission speeds above 100Gbit/s.
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20 April 2009: Computers are used to automatically analyze
aggression and courtship in fruit flies, opening the way for
researchers to perform large-scale, high-throughput screens for genes
that control these innate behaviors.
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20 April 2009: European researchers have developed a suite
of tools to add non-verbal cues to email, phone calls, chats and other
channels of electronic communication. It is fascinating work, and the
real-world applications are even more compelling.
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17 April 2009: Putting the squeeze on an old material
could lead to 'instant on' electronic memory. A special state called
ferroelectric - a result that could prove key to next-generation memory
devices.
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17 April 2009: Cloud computing has the potential to bring
about irreversible changes in the way computers are used around the
world.
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16 April 2009: The development in silicon, a principal
constituent of natural stone, glass, concrete and cement, could lead to
applications in monitoring the signal quality of internet connections.
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16 April 2009: Diamonds could revolutionize the field of
quantum mechanics in computing by leading to ultra-secure
communication, lightning-fast database searches, and code-cracking
ability.
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16 April 2009: Scientists will lead an international
initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by
sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.
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15 April 2009: A Canadian engineering research team has
developed the world's first flying microrobot capable of manipulating
objects for microscale applications.
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more
15 April 2009: Our faces contain natural ‘barcodes’ of
information which help us recognise people and may have implications
for improving face recognition software.
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14 April 2009: A new technology was developed capable of
reducing data leakage from integrated circuits during electronic
transactions by up to 95% in comparison with conventional logic
circuits.
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14 April 2009: European researchers have created a new
software abstraction called Autonomic Communication Elements (ACEs)
which will enable ecosystems for service networks, and make the future
‘internet of things’ a reality.
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14 April 2009: Researchers at MIT have found a novel method
for etching extremely narrow lines on a microchip, using a material
that can be switched from transparent to opaque, and vice versa, just
by exposing it to certain wavelengths of light.
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9 April 2009: Researchers have shown that changing the
chirality, or direction of spin, of a nanoscale magnetic vortex creates
an electric pulse, suggesting that such a pulse might be of use in
creating computer memory and writing information.
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9 April 2009: Quantum computers will require complex
software to manage errors, the software that employs far more
complex and resource-intensive solutions to ensure the devices function
effectively.
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9 April 2009: An open source software that restores privacy
in peer-to-peer (P2P) systems works by masking a user's real download
activity to disrupt classification privacy.
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9 April 2009: Rogue security software referred to as
"scareware" pretends to check computers for viruses, and then claims to
find dangerous infections that the program will fix for a fee. It is a
growing threat, according to Microsoft.
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9 April 2009: A new ion trap that enables ions to go through
an intersection while keeping their cool, is 10 million times cooler
than in prior similar trips. It is a step toward scaling up trap
technology to build a large-scale quantum computer using ions
(electrically charged atoms.
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8 April 2009: Digital album recording every drooling
smile and flailing attempt to crawl of children can allow parents to
monitor their child's health and developmental progress.
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7 April 2009: Tactile User Interfaces (TUIs). To interact
with computers and other devices by moving around and handling real
physical objects. In short, by doing what comes naturally
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7 April 2009: What’s faster than the speediest
supercomputer? A high-speed grid linking 12 world-class supercomputers
to catalyse European science.
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7 April 2009: 2 new technologies evaluate an author's
feelings based on text data in order to automatically generate
entertaining blog content.
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7 April 2009: The new technology overcomes a barrier in chip
cooling by improving the application of a paste that binds chips to
their cooling systems. It will allow for faster computer chips to be
cooled more efficiently.
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7 April 2009: The explosive growth of mobile phones in the
developing world has sidelined tens of millions of people. Without a
mobile, it seems the people are cut off socially and economically.
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6 April 2009: Researcher finds optimal fix-free codes 50
years after Huffman coding, an entropy encoding algorithm used for
lossless data compression in computer science and information theory.
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6 April 2009: Nimbus and cloud computing meet STAR
production demands. Nimbus is an open source cloud computing
infrastructure that provides tools allowing users to deploy virtual
machines on resources.
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6 April 2009: Researchers have developed and tested a
technology that can alert the medical community about public health
crises in seamlessly and instantly pushing out information critical to
patient care.
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more
6 April 2009: Quantum mathematics could improve web
searches. A mathematical technique for studying disorder in quantum
systems could improve internet keyword searches.
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more
3 April 2009: Being Isaac Newton: Computer derives
natural laws from raw data.
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3 April 2009: A Robot Scientist, called Adam, is a computer
system that fully automates the scientific process. It is believed to
be the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific
knowledge.
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more
3 April 2009: Could handsets that intelligently sense their
radio environment and opportunistically grab free bandwidth?
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3 April 2009: Engineer explores underwater wireless
communications.
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more
1 April 2009: The intrinsic rotation of electrons – the
"spin" – is a promising property for future electronics devices. It may
be a new step towards quantum computers.
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more
1 April 2009: New robot 'steered by thought,' thanks to a
helmet-like device that measures a person's brain activity and sends
signals to the machine.
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more
1 April 2009: Engineers are developing a technique for mass
producing fast computer chips made from the same material found in
pencils.
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1 April 2009: A humanoid robot will lead to a deeper
understanding of human intelligence.
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1 April 2009: Researchers bring new brain mapping
capabilities to desktops of scientists worldwide. Technical advances
have reduced the time to process high-speed "color" ultrastructure
mapping of brain regions down to a few months.
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31 March 2009: A team used folded film to create an
actuator muscle. Artificial muscles used in robotics…
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more
31 March 2009: The Cancer Genomics Browser provides a new
tool to visualize and analyze data from studies aimed at improving
cancer treatment by unraveling the complex genetic roots of the
disease.
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31 March 2009: Reports of Internet-based crime jumped 33
percent in 2008.
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more
30 March 2009: A new software program simulates assembly
paths and also factors in the pliability of components.
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more
30 March 2009: Global spyware network detected in computers.
A vast electronic spying operation has infiltrated computers and has
stolen documents from hundreds of government and private offices around
the world.
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more
30 March 2009: Students of popular musical instruments may
soon be learning to play with the help of a new generation of
intelligent, interactive computer programmes.
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27 March 2009: Networking out of natural disasters.
Open-source software could transform response to disease outbreaks and
natural disasters.
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more
27 March 2009: The growing amount of "digital breadcrumbs"
-- the traces left behind when people phone or surf the Internet
-- were of enormous social and scientific value, and were
increasingly exposed to misuse and violation of privacy as "reality
mining," allowing companies and governments to piece them together.
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27 March 2009: Denmark and Sweden are better than the
United States in their ability to exploit information and
communications technology, according to a survey.
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26 March 2009: New metasearch engine deals with the deep
web, and leaves Google, Yahoo crawling with the surface web.
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26 March 2009: A new way for biometric validation is a quick
X-ray snapshot of a person's internal body parts and biometrics, such
as knees.
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25 March 2009: Rise of the Robots--The Future of
Artificial Intelligence. By 2050 robot "brains" based on computers that
execute 100 trillion instructions per second will start rivaling human
intelligence.
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25 March 2009: A novel system is enabling high energy
physicists at CERN in Switzerland, to make production runs that
integrate their existing pool of distributed computers with dynamic
resources in "science clouds."
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25 March 2009: Fox Chase Cancer Center, USA, performed the
world's first successful minimally invasive distal pancreatectomy using
the ViKY® system's revolutionary robotic, compact laparoscope
holder. The technology is developed in France and tested on thousands
of patients in Europe.
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25 March 2009: Silver surfers: New social networking Web
site Genkvetch geared to seniors.
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24 March 2009: Synthetic biology: transforming cells into
microscopic biological computers.
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more
24 March 2009: Smart Grid Technology: vulnerable to hackers.
Smart Grids are digitally based electricity distribution and
transmission systems. A hacker can break into the system resulting in a
massive blackout.
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more
23 March 2009: Making quantum information processing
scalable is an important part of the efforts involved with regard to
practical quantum computing.
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23 March 2009: The Internet could be used as an early
warning system for potential ecological changes and disasters.
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23 March 2009: TLS is the main protocol used today to secure
exchanges over the Internet. The protocol has been subject to attacks
in recent years, resulting in identity theft and data tampering. 2 new
extensions to the TLS protocol are developed.
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20 March 2009: New material could lead to faster chips.
Graphene may solve communications speed limit.
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more
20 March 2009: Latest 3D TV technology offers interactive
control, allowing viewers to adjust viewing parameters such as cropping
a scene and reproducing an appropriate amount of depth.
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19 March 2009: A new approach is to sort the data of
images and music, according to moods.
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more
19 March 2009: Information warfare in the 21st century:
Ideas are sometimes stronger than bombs.
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18 March 2009: Ultra-thin chip embedding for wearable
electronics, with a thickness of less than 60 micrometer.
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more
18 March 2009: The memristor is a computer component that
offers both memory and logic functions in one simple package. It has
the potential to transform the semiconductor industry, enabling
smaller, faster, cheaper chips and computers.
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18 March 2009: Study on free-space optical communication
shows experimental evidence of a unique atmospheric effect --
"scavenging," where the composition of fog changes with respect to
Quantum cascade laser (QCL).
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17 March 2009: Europe must raise its game to become world
leader in ICTs. The global ICT market is worth some EUR 2,000 billion
and is growing at 4% per year. Within Europe, ICTs account for 6% of
GDP (Gross Domestic Product).
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17 March 2009: An EU-funded project addressing the
challenges of designing and maintaining long-lived and trustworthy
software systems has just got underway. The HATS ('Highly adaptable and
trustworthy software using formal models') project has been funded
under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7).
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more
17 March 2009: 2 new highly sophisticated methods for
monitoring keyhole surgery and detecting disease: state-of-the-art
computer science to help surgeons pinpoint the exact position of a
diseased cell and a computer-monitored capsule that can travel through
the body searching for signs of illness.
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more
17 March 2009: Brain on a chip? How does the human brain run
itself without any software?
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17 March 2009: By reversing a process that converts
electrical signals into sounds heard out of a cell phone, researchers
may have a new tool to enhance the way computer chips, LEDs and
transistors are built.
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16 March 2009: Web founder, Tim Berners-Lee, warns
against website snooping.
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16 March 2009: New organic material may speed Internet
access.
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16 March 2009: Stolen-data trove offers look inside a
botnet. Getting hacked is like having your computer turn traitor on
you, spying on everything you do.
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16 March 2009: 'Self-correcting' gates advance quantum
computing. Researchers have found a way to develop more robust “quantum
gates,” which are the elementary building blocks of quantum circuits.
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13 March 2009: The computer industry is in hot pursuit of
innovative, state-of-the-art systems that can meet its needs for
prototyping embedded systems. The INTERESTED ('Interoperable embedded
systems: tool-chain for enhanced rapid design, prototyping and code
generation') project is supported under the Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7).
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more
13 March 2009: Unlike today’s biggest and most realistic LCD
and plasma TVs, 3D TV screens can project images that seem to float in
mid-air beyond the screen.
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13 March 2009: Random network connectivity can be delayed,
but with explosive results. As connections are added, there comes a
critical moment when the network's overall connectivity rises rapidly
with each new link.
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more
13 March 2009: Web 2.0 for the real world. European
researchers work on a mobile platform that brings forth some of the
most powerful and compelling Web 2.0 services.
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13 March 2009: Networking and blogging sites account for
almost ten percent of time spent on the internet -- more than on email.
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more
12 March 2009: First responders could boost their radio
communications quickly at a disaster site by setting out just 4 extra
transmitters in a random arrangement to significantly increase the
signal power at the receiver.
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more
12 March 2009: Can a robot follow nonverbal commands from a
person in a variety of environments — indoors as well as outside?
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11 March 2009: Web usage data outline map of knowledge.
Analysis offers fresh perspective on role of humanities and social
sciences.
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11 March 2009: Robotic gardening: MIT course creates
robot-tending tomatoes.
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11 March 2009: Hologram seminar probes past and future of
3-D imaging.
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11 March 2009: Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award. ACM cites
'foundational innovations' in programming language design.
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more
10 March 2009: Wolfram Alpha could answer questions that
Google can't. It could make searching the Internet more intelligent by
computing its own answers rather than looking them up in a large
database.
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10 March 2009: Single-Molecule Magnets Open New Door for
Information Technology. Single molecules have the ability to store
information via their magnetic state. Their work is a first step toward
a new generation of ultra-compact data storage technologies based on
individual molecules.
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10 March 2009: Quantum doughnuts slow and freeze light at
will: 'fast computing & slow glass'.
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10 March 2009: Handsets, laptops, cars and even clothes:
they are all part of the ‘network of things’, an incarnation of the
future internet, and European researchers are working hard to create
that future now.
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more
9 March 2009: Rights groups called on Google, Yahoo! and
Microsoft not to censor their Web search engines on the World Day
Against Cyber Censorship.
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6 March 2009: Computer scientists deploy first practical,
Web-based, secure, verifiable voting system.
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6 March 2009: Breakthrough for post-4G communications.
European researchers are working on a new technology able to deliver
data wirelessly up to 12.5Gb/s.
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5 March 2009: Researchers in Japan has moved one of the
fundamental paradoxes in quantum mechanics into the lab for
experimentation and observed some of the 'spooky action at a distance'
of quantum mechanics directly.
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more
5 March 2009: NZ ranks 16th in a telco survey of phone,
computer and internet technology developments.
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more
5 March 2009: IBM Creates Software for Holding Face-to-Face
Meetings in Virtual Worlds -- Sametime 3D. In virtual worlds, people
are represented by versions of themselves, called avatars.
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5 March 2009: The improved use and exploitation of digital
knowledge - that is the aim of the THESEUS Project. In the future
semantic technologies will be able to recognise the meaning of
information content.
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4 March 2009: ITEA2 ('Information Technology for European
Advancement'), the pan-European programme that promotes collaborative
research in the field of software-intensive systems and services, has
released the third edition of its Roadmap for Software-Intensive
Systems & Services.
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more
4 March 2009: Researchers mine millions of metaphors through
computer-based techniques. Metaphors cannot be taught. But a computer
scientist and literary historian say Aristotle is wrong.
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4 March 2009: An artificial intelligence expert announced
that he has identified a key component of how humans develop
mathematical talent. If he's right, a robot mathematician can be as
good as us at mathematics, and possibly better.
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more
3 March 2009: North European countries and South Korea
have the fastest and most widespread telecoms and computer growth in
the world, the UN's telecomunications agency said.
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3 March 2009: Six in ten people around the world now have
cell phone subscriptions, signaling that mobile phones are the
communications technology of choice, particularly in poor countries,
according to a U.N. report.
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3 March 2009: Trading carats for nanometers - and defective
diamonds for crystal clear microscopy. Such defects can form nanoscopic
color centers, which play a key role in the development of both quantum
computing and quantum cryptography.
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3 March 2009: We are entering into the era of
user-generated services that converge internet and telecom technologies
- a sort of Telco 2.0.
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2 March 2009: Engineers tune a nanoscale grating
structure to trap and release a variety of light waves. They can hasten
the advent of faster all-optical telecommunication networks, in which
light signals transmit and route data without needing to be converted
to electrical signals and back.
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more
27 February 2009: Self-Programming Hybrid
Memristor/Transistor Circuit Could Continue Moore's Law. A new circuit
element is a memory resistor (or “memristor”) which is a 2-terminal
device that changes its resistance to current flowing through it.
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27 February 2009: European researchers usher in Telco 2.0 --
the era of converged internet and telecom services. A platform that
allows users with no special expertise to generate telecom plus
internet services.
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26 February 2009: European researchers work diligently to
develop and improve technology. Case in point is the EU-funded IQ
('Inductive queries for mining patterns and models') project, which has
succeeded in generating new methods to analyse complex data from
databases.
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more
26 February 2009: By using light to “dress up” neutral
atoms, researchers have caused ultracold rubidium atoms to undergo a
startling transformation. It can lead to exotic computing.
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26 February 2009: Computer scientist has unified the
hardware and software worlds into one environment, such that hardware
is software. To design electronic systems as collections of small
programmable computer…
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25 February 2009: 'Quantum data buffering' scheme
demonstrated; Potentially useful for quantum computers.
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more
25 February 2009: Most powerful ever quantum chip undergoing
tests.
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more
24 February 2009: Exploring a 'Deep Web' that Google
can't grasp. New ways to uncover the vast data volume stored in
databases.
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more
24 February 2009: Biometrics for identification or
authentication still has a way to go. Fingerprint security and facial
recognition technology are not safe.
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more
24 February 2009: Social patents: Using online social
networks to handle patent applications.
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23 February 2009: Automated speech recognition has its
limitations. The EU-funded LUNA project, funded under the Sixth
Framework Programme, is raising the level of intelligence of automatic
systems up to 'Spoken Language Understanding' (SLU).
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more
23 February 2009: American scientists unveiled an
interactive Google Earth map showing carbon dioxide emissions from
fossil fuels across the United States.
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more
23 February 2009: The laser light glowed brilliant red,
forming a moving line as it bounced information from a skeletal bird
dodo’s bones back into the high-tech scanner…
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20 February 2009: Nanoscale elements assemble themselves
over large surfaces -- it could open doors to dramatic
improvements in the data storage capacity of electronic media --
contents of 250 DVDs to fit onto a surface the size of a quarter (US
coin).
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20 February 2009: Online collaboration identifies bacteria.
A new website, a portal for electronic bacterial taxonomy, has been
launched which allows scientists everywhere to collaborate on the
identification of bacterial strains.
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19 February 2009: San Diego Supercomputer Center begins
cloud computing research using the Google-IBM CluE cluster. Extremely
large data sets hosted on massive, Internet-based commercial computer
clusters – “clouds”…
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18 February 2009: Greedy Routing Enables Network
Navigation Without a 'Map' – a navigation technique to find the
shortest paths between nodes using only local information, without
knowledge of the network’s global topology.
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18 February 2009: The superior computing power of the
Cray XT3 system allow astronomers to input the extensive calculations
necessary to incorporate black hole physics into a cosmological
simulation. In fact, such computing power has enabled the most detailed
and accurate recreation of the evolution of the universe to date.
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17 February 2009: LG Electronics and Intel Corporation
today announced a collaboration around mobile Internet devices (MIDs)
based on Intel's next-generation MID hardware platform, codenamed
"Moorestown," and Linux-based Moblin v2.0 software platform.
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17 February 2009: Computer scientists and biochemists have
developed and laboratory-tested a computer program that can show
experimentalists how to change the machinery that bacteria use to make
natural antibiotics.
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16 February 2009: How do you build a synthetic brain?
Nanocarbon modeling may be the next step toward emulating human brain
function.
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more
16 February 2009: 'Brain gyms' a new industry. From video
games that claim to sharpen concentration to brain gyms offering mental
circuit training, consumers are jumping on the "use it or lose it"
notion of brain health in an effort to stave off the effects of aging.
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more
16 February 2009: Internet emerges as social research tool.
The Web is moving to a virtual world where social interaction and
communities can inform social science and its applications in the real
world.
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16 February 2009: Nanotechnology and plasmonics may lead to
faster computers.
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13 February 2009: Technology advances at lightning speed
and while the industry may relish the developments that emerge,
researchers are concerned about preserving access to digital material
and protecting our cultural heritage. The KEEP ('Keeping emulation
environments portable') project is funded under Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) Theme of the Seventh Framework
Programme (FP7).
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13 February 2009: Researchers Demonstrate 'Quantum Data
Buffering' Scheme.
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more
13 February 2009: Software that can be used to play almost
any computer game in history is to be developed as part of a European
attempt to preserve digital cultural heritage.
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more
12 February 2009: A new kind of counting: Scientists
develop computer algorithm to solve previously unsolvable counting
problems.
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12 February 2009: Plasmonics -- a possible replacement
for current computing approaches -- may pave the way for the next
generation of computers that operate faster and store more information
than electronically-based systems and are smaller than optically-based
systems.
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12 February 2009: New High Frequency Amplifier Harnesses
Millimeter Waves in Silicon for Fast Wireless. New imaging and high
capacity wireless communications systems are one step closer to
reality, thanks to a millimeter wave amplifier.
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12 February 2009: Compete.com has crowned Facebook the most
popular social networking website, saying it racked-up nearly 1.2
billion visits in January 2009.
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12 February 2009: A technique called "feature frequency
profiles" (FFP) makes it possible to compare, classify, index and
catalog just about any type of linear information that can be
electronically stored.
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11 February 2009: The European Union has signed a pact
with 17 social networking providers including Facebook, MySpace and
Google to improve safeguards against the bullying of teenagers online.
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11 February 2009: Today's advanced mobile robots explore
complex terrains across the globe and even on Mars, but have difficulty
traversing sand and other granular media like dirt, rubble or slippery
piles of leaves.
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more
10 February 2009: High-frequency wireless communication
is growing and a team of EU-funded researchers is combining radio and
optics technologies to develop millimetre-wave photonic components and
integrated functions. The IPHOBAC project is funded under the Sixth
Framework Programme (FP6).
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more
10 February 2009: Google is making its vast online
library of books available for mobile phones.
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10 February 2009: IMEC develops low-cost low-power 60GHz
solutions in digital 45nm CMOS.
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10 February 2009: Semantic web technology promises a smarter
electricity grid.
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more
10 February 2009: Scientists develop revolutionary microchip
that uses 30 times less energy while running seven times faster than
today's best technology.
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9 February 2009: Fingerprints and faces can be faked, but
not brain patterns.
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more
9 February 2009: Future for electronics opened up with
domain walls that conduct electricity.
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more
9 February 2009: US researchers have created a portable
"sixth sense" device powered by commercial products that can seamlessly
channel Internet information into daily routines.
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5 February 2009: Open source research platform: wireless
at WARP speed.
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more
5 February 2009: Google launches phone track service. The
Latitude service is available free in the UK, US and 24 other
countries. It plots a user's location - marked by a personal picture on
Google's map - by relying on mobile phone masts, global positioning
systems or a wi-fi connection to deduce their location.
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more
5 February 2009: IBM building 20-petaflop machine to secure
nuclear stockpile. One thousand trillion calculations per second.
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more
5 February 2009: Semantic science search engine knows the
difference. Noesis, a new web search engine helps scientists who study
the environment to retrieve relevant research data.
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5 February 2009: Unnatural selection: Robots start to
evolve.
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more
4 February 2009: The frequency of words in texts, the
size of companies and the linking together of components in Linux
software distributions show approximately the same mathematical
distribution: they obey Zipf’s law.
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more
4 February 2009: A unique laboratory combines psychology
with technology to focus on the interaction between humans and complex
systems.
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3 February 2009: Computer network structure alone can
affect outcomes, relationships and behavior.
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more
3 February 2009: New control of nanoscale 'magnetic
tornadoes' holds promise for data storage. At the nanoscale, closely
coiled magnetic vortices hold the promise of a new generation of
computers.
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more
3 February 2009: Scientists develop first chip-scale
thermoelectric cooler.
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3 February 2009: After Google Earth comes Google Ocean.
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3 February 2009: Census of Marine Life and ocean in Google
Earth bring ocean information to life.
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3 February 2009: Scientists have developed a computer game
called “Gorge” - designed to help children understand artificial
intelligence through play, and even to change it. It can also improve
the children’s social interaction skills.
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3 February 2009: The robot, Eve, uses advanced artificial
intelligence combined with innovative data mining and knowledge
discovery techniques to analyse the results of pharmacological
experiments it conducts itself.
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3 February 2009: De-multiplexing to the max: 640
Gbits/second (Gbps, or billion bits per second).
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3 February 2009: Researchers develop technique for quick
detection of Salmonella.
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2 February 2009: The threat of cybercrime is rising
sharply, experts have warned at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
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2 February 2009: What are the Chances? Probability Solves
an Evolutionary Puzzle.
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2 February 2009: PanCGH: a genotype-calling algorithm for
pangenome CGH data.
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more
2 February 2009: Precision and recall estimates for
two-hybrid screens. Yeast two-hybrid screens are an important method to
map pairwise protein interactions.
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more
30 January 2009: Capture of nanomagnetic 'fingerprints' a
boost for next-generation information storage media.
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30 January 2009: Organic computing takes a step closer.
Computer processors may soon have one fundamental aspect in common with
their owners – a structure composed largely of carbon, rather than
silicon.
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29 January 2009: Computer applications require huge
amounts of storage space for the information and data that they gather
and use. The services of specialised computer analysts to help
interpret this stored information are crucial. Enter the EU-funded
VisMaster project, which aims to tackle this problem through the use of
visual analytics.
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more
29 January 2009: Researchers examine behavior influenced by
network structure. It was demonstrated in 81 separate experiments that
network structure alone can affect outcomes, relationships and
behavior.
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29 January 2009: Two years ago, the European research
programme UNITE took on the challenge of creating a virtual testbed
that IT developers across Europe could use easily and effectively to
fine-tune new devices and services.
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29 January 2009: How to avoid fast-moving computer worm.
Since early January, a worm whose names includes "Downadup," "Kido" and
"Conficker," has been infecting millions of computers around the world.
It exploits a previously discovered vulnerability in Microsoft's
Windows operating system.
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29 January 2009: Working artificial nerve networks.
Scientists have already hooked brains directly to computers by means of
metal electrodes, in the hope of both measuring what goes on inside the
brain. The first step in this direction is taken by creating circuits
and logic gates made of live nerves grown in the lab.
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29 January 2009: New computational technique allows
comparison of whole genomes as easily as whole books.
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28 January 2009: New wireless standard promises
ultra-fast media applications. A CMOS chip capable of transmitting 60
GHz digital RF signals.
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more
28 January 2009: Electrical engineers have achieved
world-record speeds for real-time signal processing, the first
Terabit-scale technology for optical processing.
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27 January 2009: Europe's nuclear fusion researchers have
been granted access to the network of Europe's most powerful
supercomputers. The hope is that access to DEISA ('Distributed European
infrastructure for supercomputing applications') will enable scientists
to carry out complex simulations of the processes taking place inside a
fusion reactor.
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more
27 January 2009: Researchers have used the tendency of
electron to bounce probabilistically between different quantum
states to create holograms that pack information into subatomic
spaces.
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27 January 2009: Can networked human computation solve
computer language comprehension?
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26 January 2009: Worm infects millions of computers
worldwide. A new digital plague has hit the Internet. The world's
leading computer security experts do not yet know who programmed the
infection, or what the next stage will be. It may be the worst
infection since the Slammer worm in 2003.
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more
26 January 2009: Internet use tops one billion worldwide,
with China accounting for the largest population of Web surfers,
digital research firm comScore reported.
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more
23 January 2009: To increase the speed of computers and
telecommunication networks, researchers are looking to replace
electrical currents with beams of light that would originate from small
semiconductor lasers.
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23 January 2009: A "Spore" computer game that lets people
play God by designing life forms is evolving to offer versions tailored
for children, space hunters, and fans of Wii consoles.
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23
January 2009: Holographic discs set to smash storage
records. Improved materials promise discs that could store over 1000
gigabytes of data within 3D holograms.
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more
22 January 2009: EU researchers have taken speech
recognition to a whole new level by creating software that can
understand spontaneous language.
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21 January 2009: Scientist receives massive computing
project award to develop magnetic fusion energy.
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20 January 2009: Quantum communication through synergy.
When people think of quantum communication, they think in terms of
private communication channels… quantum cryptography.
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20 January 2009: The Raging Windows Worm, known as Conficker
or Kido, has attacked over 8.9 Million Computers. Once a USB memory
stick is infected, there is no Microsoft patch to remove the worm.
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20 January 2009: By seeing how far the quantum property
extends into the classical realm, researchers can investigate the
implications of entanglement in the macroscopic world, such as our
assumptions of “realism” and “locality” - that objects cannot
communicate with each other faster than the speed of light.
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20 January 2009: Wireless carriers appear poised to deliver
on what the mobile industry has long seen as its holy grail --
location-based services.
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more
16 January 2009: Measureing quantum information without
destroying it. A recent advancement in building quantum computer
is demonstration of a quantum non-demolition sum gate at the University
of Tokyo.
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16 January 2009: A flood of data is emerging from genome
research. To help science keep pace with this flow of knowledge,
advanced computer technologies is being developed to tackle data
like those of three-dimensional structure of proteins.
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16 January 2009: New wireless 60GHz standard promises
ultra-fast applications.
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15 January 2009: Researchers from China have discovered
that Moore’s Law can also describe the growth of the Internet. It is
predicted that the Internet will double in size every 5.32 years.
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15 January 2009: Quantum physicists have shown that Hardy’s
paradox can be confirmed and ultimately resolved, a task which had
seemingly been impossible to perform.
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15 January 2009: More chip cores can mean slower
supercomputing, Sandia simulations show.
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15 January 2009: Thanks to an ingenious new strategy,
computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective,
low-cost defenses against computer worms.
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15 January 2009: Medical robotics expert explores the
human-machine interface, a wearable robotic “exoskeleton” that could
enable a person to lift heavy objects with little effort.
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14 January 2009: Fourteen masterpieces from Spain's Prado
museum went on display in microscopic detail on Google Earth, in what
was hailed as a first for a major international museum.
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14 January 2009: Putting heads (and computers) together
to solve global problems. Imagine if the planet's collective brainpower
and computing power could be brought together to tackle some of the
world's toughest problems.
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13 January 2009: Digital Communication Technology Helps
Clear Path to Personalized Therapies.
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13 January 2009: Rice University researchers have created
a sophisticated new computer program that rapidly scans large databases
of news reports to determine which terrorists groups might be
responsible for new attacks.
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13 January 2009: European researchers have developed a
service bundle that could make virtual team organisation a snap. It is
the service-oriented ‘pervasive collaboration service architecture’
(PCSA), come out from the inContext project funded by the ICT strand of
the Sixth Framework Programme for research.
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13 January 2009: Researchers are nearing completion of their
first prototype of “SurgiCam,” a tiny surgical camera that can be
inserted through a 1.5 cm incision in the abdomen during minimally
invasive surgery (MIS).
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13 January 2009: Why the Mediterranean is the Achilles' heel
of the web.
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12 January 2009: Shortcovers expects to be turning
iPhones into electronic books with the release of a mini-application
that lets people read books on Apple-made smart phones in response to
electronic book devices sold by Amazon and Sony.
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9 January 2009: P2P Traffic Control: Wireless Technology.
Could a concept from information technology familiar to online file
sharers be exploited to reduce road congestion and even traffic
accidents?
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9 January 2009: A powerful computing tool - a set of
algorithms - that allows scientists to extract features and patterns
from enormously large and complex sets of raw data has been developed.
The tool is compact enough to run on computers with two gigabytes of
memory.
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9 January 2009: Microsoft Corp. has secured an agreement to
become the default provider of Internet search service to mobile phone
customers of Verizon Wireless, a Verizon executive.
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8 January 2009: A team of University of Toronto
physicists have demonstrated a new technique to squeeze light to the
fundamental quantum limit, a finding that has potential applications
for high-precision measurement, next-generation atomic clocks, novel
quantum computing.
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8 January 2009: Reality Gets Hyperlinked. European
researchers can now attach hyperlinks to pictures you take using your
mobile phone. It offers the prospect of new ways to discover, engage
and navigate your surroundings.
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8 January 2009: Scientists Propose Thermal Memory to
Store Data by maintaining temperature instead of voltage.
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8 January 2009: Using diamond to make micro circuits
that channel light, not electricity, could help realise the elusive
promise of quantum computing.
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8 January 2009: 'Interplanetary internet' passes
first test. The new networking commands could one day be used to
automatically relay information between Earth, spacecraft, and
astronauts, without the need for humans to schedule transmissions at
each point..
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7 January 2009: Femtocells boost cell phone reception
indoors. A femtocell is a toaster-size plastic box that plugs into a
regular broadband Internet connection.
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7 January 2009: Unlocking the dynamic web. Open
Knowledge. Most of the knowledge and services potentially available on
the worldwide web can’t be accessed through browsers and websites. A
new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that unlocks
and links the web’s hidden resources.
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7 January 2009: Fock states could hold clues to quantum
memory components…toward developing a quantum computer.
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6 January 2009: The future of telecommunications has come
one step closer thanks to the ROCKET project, funded under the EU's
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The project aims to provide a
wireless solution that will increase bandwidth availability for
consumers and increase efficiency.
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6 January 2009: The remarkable ability of insects to look in
all directions at once has been emulated by a team of international
scientists who have built an artificial 'eye' with an unobstructed
all-round view.
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6 January 2009: Teaching intangibles with technology. A new
system developed by European researchers will help students to learn
critical thinking, social interaction, discourse, rhetoric and
self-expression.
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6 January 2009: Desktop atom smashers could replace LHC.
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5 January 2009: The EU-funded project CASAGRAS
('Coordination and support action for global RFID-related activities
and standardisation') aims to provide a framework of foundation studies
to assist the European Commission and the global community in defining
and accommodating international issues and developments concerning
radio frequency identification (RFID), with particular reference to the
emerging 'Internet of Things'.
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5 January 2009: Ever-smaller generations of transistors have
driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each
turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth
in computing?
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more
5 January 2009: European researchers have designed an
innovative new system to help keep motorists on the right track by
constantly updating their digital maps and fixing anomalies and errors.
Now the partners are mapping the best route to market.
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more
5 January 2009: Crystallographers Use Computers To Find New
Superconductor.
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5 January 2009: Weakness In Internet Security Uncovered.
In the Internet digital certificate infrastructure that allows
attackers to forge certificates that are fully trusted by all commonly
used web browsers.
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5 January 2009: Improved Volumetric Displays May Lead
to 3D Computer Monitors.
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5 January 2009: European researchers are pushing online
culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search
system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimised for cultural
heritage. Better yet, this promising system has wide application in
other fields.
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5 January 2009: Cloud computing looms larger on
corporate horizon. Genentech Inc. decided to rent business software
from Microsoft, IBM or another long-established supplier from Google
Inc.
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22 December 2008: Dream of quantum computing closer to
reality as mathematicians chase key breakthrough. The ability to
exploit the extraordinary properties of quantum mechanics in novel
applications, such as a new generation of super-fast computers, has
come closer following recent progress.
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22 December 2008: Grid computing technology has long been
the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw
processing power. Now a European research effort has created an
industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial
applications.
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22 December 2008: 'Seeing' The Quantum World: How A Quantum
Computer Would Work.
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22 December 2008: The fast pace of growing computing power
could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research from
the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying advanced
techniques to magnetic semiconductors.
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22 December 2008: The plastic fantastic future of
newspapers. Flexible “e-paper” screens emerging from the labs will soon
find their way into portable, lightweight, electronic readers the size
of an A4 sheet of paper.
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22 December 2008: Scientists develop Species Distribution
Grids which offers online maps showing which species live where, across
the globe.
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19 December 2008: A new generation of lighting devices
based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs) will supplant the common light
bulb in coming years. In addition to the environmental and cost
benefits of LEDs, the technology is expected to enable a wide range of
advances in areas as diverse as healthcare, transportation systems,
digital displays, and computer networking.
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19 December 2008: Gesture recognition. A system that can
recognize human gestures could provide a new way for people with
physical disabilities to interact with computers.
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18 December 2008: Scientists Write Guide to Build
Supercomputer from Sony Playstation 3.
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18 December 2008: Cognitive computing: Building a machine
that can learn from experience. The brain of a mammal is a
supercomputer that can decode the human genome, play chess and
calculate prime numbers out to 13 million digits.
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18 December 2008: Toshiba, IBM, AMD Develop World's
Smallest FinFET SRAM Cell with High-k/Metal Gate.
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18 December 2008: Gas memory could send spooky messages the
full distance. Extending the attention span of a kind of quantum
computer memory could send secure messages over a 1000 kilometres .
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more
17 December 2008: Computer Scientists Launching Indoor
Navigation System. With its Galileo navigation system, the European
Union intends to become independent of America’s GPS (Global
Positioning System).
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17 December 2008: The year the Web changed politics. The
White House campaign of Barack Obama has ensured that things will never
be the same again.
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17 December 2008: Researchers develop computational tool to
untangle complex data such as the underlying structure of
time-dependent, interrelated, complex data, like the votes of
legislators over their careers, second-by-second activity of the stock
market, or levels of oxygenated blood flow in the brain.
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17 December 2008: About 90 percent of all email is spam:
Cisco. Armies of hijacked computers are flooding the world with spam as
hackers devise slicker ways to take over unwitting people's machines.
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17 December 2008: Fujitsu Develops Power-Saving CMOS
Technology for 32nm-Generation and Beyond.
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16 December 2008: Being able to control a computer with
the mind was the ultimate goal of human-machine interaction. It's now
going to be available from next year. An Australian company plans to
release…
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16 December 2008: Users of all current versions of Microsoft
Corp.'s Internet Explorer browser might be vulnerable to having their
computers hijacked because of a serious security hole in the software.
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15 December 2008: Migrating to cloud computing? Don't
forget DNS. "As cloud computing takes off… traffic management is going
to be a very big deal for people running dynamic Web apps.”
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15 December 2008: Talent scout software boosts search for
stars. The program is claimed to be able to spot upcoming pop artists
weeks or months before they hit the big time by watching people share
music on peer-to-peer file-sharing networks.
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11 December 2008: Semantic Desktop Paves Way For Semantic
Web. European researchers have developed innovative software to make
finding information on your computer and sharing it with others
considerably easier.
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11 December 2008: Collective Solution To Accessing The
Internet Via Satellite.
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11 December 2008: Google announced on Tuesday that it had
begun adding magazines to its online archive of books in a partnership
with publishers.
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11 December 2008: Sevenfold Accuracy Improvement for 3-D
'Virtual Reality' Labs. Software that improves the accuracy of the
tracking devices in its immersive, or virtual, research environment by
at least 700 percent.
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11 December 2008: Social networking sites concern
cyber-security experts.
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11 December 2008: The Open Handset Alliance said Tuesday
that 14 more technology firms have joined the army of businesses
backing "Google phones" based on an open-source Android platform.
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11 December 2008: Cranial Computing: Practical
Brain-to-Cyber Interfaces Closer to Reality.
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10 December 2008: A group of scientists at Korea Advanced
Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) has fabricated a working
computer chip that is almost completely clear -- called transparent
resistive random access memory (TRRAM), the first of its kind.
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10 December 2008: High Energy Physics Team Sets New
Data-Transfer World Records A bidirectional peak throughput of 114
gigabits per second (Gbps) and…
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10 December 2008: The fast pace of growing computing
power could be sustained for many years to come thanks to new research
from the UK's National Physical Laboratory (NPL) that is applying
advanced techniques to magnetic semiconductors.
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10 December 2008: Toward 4G Phones: LG Develops World's
First LTE Handset Modem Chip. The modem chip can theoretically support
wireless download speeds of 100Mbps (megabits per second) and upload
speeds of 50Mbps.
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10 December 2008: Hitachi announced today that it released
'GazoPa book' a new Facebook application that enables users to search
for images both inside Facebook and on the web similar to their profile
photo and photos at their albums.
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9 December 2008: Robotics Integrated With Human Body In
Near Future? Technology Gulf Between 'Have' And 'Have Nots' Predicted
By 2020.
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9 December 2008: Intel researchers have made the next
advance in the field of Silicon Photonics by achieving world-record
performance using a silicon-based Avalanche Photodetector (APD) that
could lower costs and improve performance.
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9 December 2008: The on-board entertainment and internet
access enjoyed by train passengers could soon be transformed by new
technology developed at the University of York.
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8 December 2008: People are dependent on wireless
communication. This is particularly evident in the number of radios,
mobile phones, GPS systems and network hotspots used worldwide. But
with every wireless communication channel that emerges, pressure grows
for people to develop technology to meet market demands. The EU project
ICESTARS ('Integrated circuit/electromagnetic simulation and design
technologies for advanced radio systems-on-chip'), supported with EUR
2.8 million in funding, will deliver new methodologies and prototype
tools to meet these challenges.
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8 December 2008: Mobile Phones Affect Memory In Laboratory
Animals, Swedish Study Finds.
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8 December 2008: Both Facebook and Google announced an
extension to their services known as “connect” – this means taking your
online identity with you all over the web.
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more
8 December 2008: Physicists have taken a significant step
toward creation of quantum networks by establishing a new record for
the length of time that quantum information can be stored in and
retrieved from an ensemble of very cold atoms.
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8 December 2008: Quantum computing: Entanglement may not be
necessary. It is a truth universally acknowledged that quantum
computing must have entanglement.
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4 December 2008: A handful of sand contains countless
grains, which interact with each other via friction and impact forces
as they slip through your fingers. When a handful becomes a load in an
excavator bucket, those interactions multiply exponentially.Using
parallel computers to analyze granular material motion is much faster.
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4 December 2008: First superconducting transistor promises
PC revolution. A layer of free electrons called an electron gas. At 0.3
kelvin - just above absolute zero - these electrons flow without
resistance and so create a superconductor.
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3 December 2008: New approach eliminates software
deadlocks using discrete control theory. Software deadlocks are the
Catch-22s of the computer world.
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3 December 2008: A more human approach to processing raw
data could change the way that computers deal with information.
'Granular computing' — a computer paradigm that looks at groups or sets
of information, called information granules, rather than the high level
of detail at which data is currently processed.
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3 December 2008: Scientist urges new look at government
'Web-tapping'. The technology of government surveillance has changed
dramatically, and the rules governing surveillance should be changed
accordingly.
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3 December 2008: The United States is embracing social
networks and other Web 2.0 tools to win the "war of ideas" with Islamic
militants and other extremist groups, a top US policy-maker said.
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3 December 2008: Powerful online tool for protein analysis
provided pro bono by Stanford geneticist. Scientists around the world
may benefit from a powerful new database, available for free online,
that will help them to home in on the parts of proteins most necessary
for their function.
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2 December 2008: Linux Evolution Reveals Origins of
Curious Mathematical Phenomenon. Zipf’s law is a testament to the order
in our world, showing that the same patterns emerge in a wide variety
of situations.
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2 December 2008: Unravelling the mystery of mechatronics.
Futuristic projects such as a glamorous desktop personal assistant
called Nicole, who can help with tasks around the office, will come
under the spotlight at a conference at the Massey University this week.
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2 December 2008: Revolutionary new software which harnesses
the power of networked computers to analyse data at high speeds is
being developed by new start-up company Manjrasoft Pty Ltd and
researchers within the University of Melbourne, Australia.
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1 December 2008: The world of artificial cognitive
systems and machine learning is moving at a fast pace and is becoming a
major international research challenge. New techniques are being
developed in this field that will transform many aspects of our
day-to-day lives and work. The SIMBAD project (' Beyond features:
Similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition'), backed by the EU
with EUR 1.65 million in financing, is looking at some of the ways that
this research may be put to use.
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1 December 2008: Highly efficient lithium batteries could
greatly extend battery life of laptop computers. Scientists have
developed a new material for anodes, which could clear a path for a new
generation of rechargeable batteries.
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1 December 2008: Spinning into the future of data storage.
Thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic
spintronics'.
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28 November 2008: Photon force harnessed to do some light
work. You can't feel it, but light can exert forces. And one has now
been used to drive a tiny mechanical resonator, in a proof of principle
that opens the door to a new way of powering nanoscale machinery.
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27 November 2008: RFID chips: a privacy and security
Pandora’s Box? Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found
tagging everything…However, the threats posed to personal privacy
should be taken into account at the design phase of the applications.
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27 November 2008: CHRISTOPH BENDA'S first novel Senghor on
the Rocks seems to be the first which combines text with an embedded
map mash-up from Google Maps. The book is in German.
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27 November 2008: Creating a memory device out of paper.
As technology continues to shrink, and as memory needs become more
demanding, the industry dealing with microelectronics requires devices
that are cost-efficient and lightweight.
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27 November 2008: A computer can pick out speech even amid
cacophony. Using a recent development in speech recognition, it is
possible to search through television news programmes provided the
recognition system has been trained beforehand.
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27 November 2008: Call it Cable 2.0: You get many of the
same TV shows and movies, often with fewer commercials. Better yet, you
get to watch what you want on your schedule, not the cable network's.
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27 November 2008: In many rural areas, getting on the
internet means putting up with sluggish dial-up connections or, at
best, erratic mobile services. A new satellite-based solution developed
by European researchers promises to change that.
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27 November 2008: Alkaline earth atoms lend themselves to
quantum computing. Researchers in Austria and the US have developed a
new scheme for quantum computing using alkaline earth atoms and other
species containing two valence electrons.
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26 November 2008: In the past, the idea of crime would
bring to mind the image of a burglar breaking into your house or
stealing your car. Nowadays, criminals use computers to commit crimes.
Whether someone is across the street or 500 km away, state-of-the-art
technology has made it easier for criminals to invade your privacy.
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more
26 November 2008: The promise of quantum computing is that
it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling certain
key problems: searching large databases, factoring large numbers,
creating uncrackable codes and simulating the atomic structure of
materials.
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more
26 November 2008: Semantic desktop paves the way for the
semantic web. European researchers have developed innovative software
to make finding information on your computer and sharing it with others
considerably easier.
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26 November 2008: Bioinformatics lecturers enlist undergrads
to tackle DNA annotation challenge. Annotathon – an innovative
bioinformatics teaching approach that appeals to undergraduate biology
students. With an increasing interest in metagenomics – the decoding of
not just a single genome, but of an entire microbial ecosystem – the
amount of data produced is more than a biologist can keep up with.
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25 November 2008: Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn have
been instrumental in building social and professional networks all over
the world. But do they work in the scientific world? A group of experts
tackled this question by kicking off an innovative networking platform
where researchers can connect with the click of a mouse. Being the
first Web 3.0 Community available to the public, ResearchGATE is now
taking the scientific world by storm.
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more
25 November 2008: Multiple high-definition videos and
other data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships
and planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems
developed by European researchers.
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more
25 November 2008: Spinning into the future of data storage.
Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have improved their
understanding of the inner workings of our computers and mp3 players,
thanks to an exciting new field of research called 'organic
spintronics'.
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25 November 2008: Developing a neighborhood watch for the
Internet. But since the Internet has no built-in monitoring system,
network problems often go unnoticed…the Network Early Warning System.
"You can think of it as crowd sourcing network monitoring,"
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24 November 2008: A new generation of ultra-low-power
computers may soon be a reality, courtesy microchips that process
information without moving electrons.
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24 November 2008: Now a new method that uses lasers to
produce streams of truly random numbers faster than ever before could
help improve security at a time when digital traffic and cybercrime are
both growing.
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more
21 November 2008: IBM wants to build a computer based on
the brain. BIGGISH BLUE boffins and five leading universities are
partnering to create computing systems to simulate and emulate the
brain. The big idea is to get a machine that can sense, perceive,
interact and be cognitive.
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21 November 2008: How time-traveling could affect quantum
computing. The type of space-time that enables time traveling involves
“closed time-like curves” (CTCs), and, besides personal fates, CTCs can
also provide insights into quantum information and computing. In a
recent study, computer scientists Scott Aaronson of MIT and John
Watrous of the University of Waterloo have discovered that, if closed
time-like curves exist, then quantum computers would be no more
powerful than classical computers.
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21 November 2008: Quantum computers would likely outperform
conventional computers in simulating chemical reactions involving more
than four atoms, according to scientists at Harvard University, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Haverford College. Such
improved ability to model and predict complex chemical reactions could
revolutionize drug design and materials science, among other fields.
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21 November 2008: Foundations for the World Wide Grid. The
dream of using the internet to allow people to access as much computer
processing and storage power as they need, when they need it, is a step
closer thanks to European researchers.
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21 November 2008: Quantum computing advances a qubit closer
to reality. Quantum computers are a sort of holy grail of information
science. Their inherent computational advantage comes from their
fundamental computational unit, the quantum bit ("qubit").
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more
20 November 2008: The promise of quantum computing is
that it will dramatically outshine traditional computers in tackling
certain key problems: searching large databases, factoring large
numbers, creating uncrackable codes and simulating the atomic structure
of materials.
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more
20 November 2008: As part of its belief that robotics is
an important emerging technology, Microsoft has released Robotics
Developer Studio 2008, a software program that enables users to create
applications for robots.
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20 November 2008: In the last 10 years, e-mail has gone from
a novelty to a necessity. What was once a pastime is now an essential
form of communication, with many people opening their inboxes to find
dozens of e-mails waiting.
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20 November 2008: As part of an international team of
researchers, Northwestern University has officially released the first
online game in which human players partner with artificial intelligence
(AI) software –- in this case with the goal of solving a treasure hunt
in a virtual world.
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more
20 November 2008: Multiple high-definition videos and other
data-rich services may soon stream through homes, offices, ships and
planes via new hybrid optical/ultra-wideband-radio systems developed by
European researchers.
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19 November 2008: Nanotechnology: quantum computer may be
closer with extended quantum lifetime of electrons. Physicists in the
USA and at the London Centre for Nanotechnology have found a way to
extend the quantum lifetime of electrons by more than 5,000 per cent,
as reported recently in Physical Review Letters.
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more
19 November 2008: As the global population continues to grow
exponentially, our social connections to one another remain relatively
small, as if we're all protagonists in the Kevin Bacon game inspired by
"Six Degrees of Separation," …The underlying success of this phenomenon
called the "small-world paradigm," discovered in the 1960s by
sociologist Stanley Milgram, recently provided a source of inspiration
for researchers studying the Internet as a global complex network.
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19 November 2008: The National Nuclear Security
Administration's (NNSA) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has
teamed with 10 computing industry leaders to accelerate the development
of powerful next-generation Linux clusters in a project dubbed
Hyperion.
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19 November 2008: The latest list of the TOP500 computers in
the world has been announced at the SC08 supercomputing conference in
Austin, Texas, and continued to place the Roadrunner supercomputer at
Los Alamos National Laboratory as fastest in the world running the
LINPACK benchmark -- the industry standard for measuring sustained
performance.
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19 November 2008: Experts believe Personal Networks will run
to a thousand devices by 2017, which presents an enormous networking
challenge. European researchers are developing some very clever
technology to create a Smart Personal Network that can cope with all
those devices.
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18 November 2008: Still can't figure out how to work your
computer or your cell phone? You're certainly not alone. A survey
released Sunday by the nonprofit Pew Research Center shows that 48
percent of adults who use the Internet or have a cell phone or computer
say they usually need someone else to set up their device or show them
how to use it.
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18 November 2008: The Internet contains vast amounts of
information, much of it unorganized. But what you see online at any
given moment is just a snapshot of the Web as a whole -- many pages
change rapidly or disappear completely, and the old data gets lost
forever.
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18 November 2008: The Network of Everything. Wireless
experts believe that, by 2017, personal networks will have to cope with
at least a thousand devices, like laptops, telephones, mp3 players,
games, sensors and other technology…European researchers believe that
they are moving towards the solution.
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14 November 2008: CSC's Cray supercomputer has been
upgraded to over 85 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations
per second). This makes the new Cray XT5 system at CSC the most
powerful academic supercomputer in the Nordic countries and one of the
fastest supercomputers in Europe.
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14 November 2008: US wireless technology titan Qualcomm
on Wednesday said it is unleashing technology that will let people in
poor countries connect to the Internet without personal computers.
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14 November 2008: Google on Wednesday resurrected ancient
Rome online, opening a three-dimensional virtual version of the city
for cyber-explorers interested in trips back through time.
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14 November 2008: Voice recognition software reads your
brain waves. Mind-reading software developed in the Netherlands can
decipher the sounds being spoken to a person, and even who is saying
them, from scans of the listener's brain.
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more
13 November 2008: Increased use of computers to create
predictive models of human disease is likely following a workshop
organised by the European Science Foundation (ESF), which urged for a
collaborative effort between specialists in the field. Human disease
research produces an enormous amount of data from different sources
such as animal models, high throughput genetic screening of human
tissue, and in vitro laboratory experiments. This data operates at
different levels and scales including genes, molecules, cells, tissues
and whole organs, embodying a huge amount of potentially valuable
insight that current computer modelling approaches often fail to
exploit properly.
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13 November 2008: IBM Corp. is throwing its considerable
weight behind an idea that seemed to have faded: broadband Internet
access delivered over ordinary power lines. The technology has been
around for decades, but most efforts to implement the idea on a broad
scale have failed to live up to expectations.
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more
13 November 2008: Light-speed computer connection will slash
genetic data transfer time between TGen-ASU. Hot on the heels of a new
supercomputer, plans for a new light-speed data line between the
Translational Genomics Research Institute and Arizona State University
could slash the time is takes to transfer genetic information.
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13 November 2008: Improved spectrometer based on nonlinear
optics. Scientists at Stanford University and Japan's National
Institute of Informatics have created a new highly sensitive infrared
spectrometer. The device converts light from the infrared part of the
spectrum to the visible part, where the availability of superior
optical detectors results in strongly improved sensing capabilities.
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13 November 2008: DNA strands become fibre optic cables.
Thanks to a new technique, DNA strands can be easily converted into
tiny fibre optic cables that guide light along their length. Optical
fibres made this way could be important in optical computers, which use
light rather then electricity to perform calculations, or in artificial
photosynthesis systems that may replace today's solar panels.
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more
13 November 2008: Jacking into the brain – is the brain the
ultimate computer interface? How far can science advance
brain-machine interface technology? Will we one day pipe the latest
blog entry or NASCAR highlights directly into the human brain as if the
organ were an outsize flash drive?
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more
12 November 2008: VMWare has extended its virtualization
mojo to mobile phones. Today, the software abstracter told the world
it's now offering handset makers something it likes to call the VMWare
mobile virtualization platform. MVP, for short.
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more
12 November 2008: A world-wide expert on wireless
communications, Professor Jri Lee of the National Taiwan University
(NTU) and UCLA PhD conferred has created a system on a chip (SOC) with
transmission speeds 100 times faster than WiFi and 350 times faster
than 3.5G cell phones. Professor Jri Lee's team broke the speed record
with the SoC design which is about 1/10th the size and cost of existing
chips. Preliminary figures indicate the SoC chip can be massed-produced
for less than $1 per unit.
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12 November 2008: With universities storing ever more
teaching resources online, how do students and tutors find what they
need? European researchers have devised novel ways to classify and
locate teaching materials – and in eight different languages.
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12 November 2008: Computers are getting smaller and smaller.
And as hand-held devices — from mobile phones and cameras to music
players and laptops — get more powerful, the race is on to develop
memory formats that can satisfy the ever-growing demand for information
storage on tiny formats.
Read more
11 November 2008: A computer model that can predict how
people will complete a controlled task and how the knowledge needed to
complete that task develops over time is the product of a group of
researchers, led by a professor from Penn State's College of
Information Sciences and Technology.
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more
11 November 2008: Physicists use Bose-Einstein
condensates to enhance factoring algorithm. Theoretically, quantum
computing has the potential to work more efficiently and accurately
than classical computing for certain processes, such as factoring. But
quantum methods are experimentally challenging, since they often
require tiny, fragile systems that are difficult to handle.
Read more
11 November 2008: The latest upgrade to the Cray XT Jaguar
supercomputer at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Oak Ridge National
Laboratory (ORNL) has increased the system's computing power to a peak
1.64 "petaflops," or quadrillion mathematical calculations per second,
making Jaguar the world's first petaflop system dedicated to open
research. Scientists have already used the newly upgraded Jaguar to
complete an unprecedented superconductivity calculation that achieved a
sustained performance of more than 1.3 petaflops.
Read more
10 November 2008: Tuning in to the virtues of virtual
labs. The grid’s huge communication and computation capacities could
let scientists gather data and run remote experiments anywhere in the
world. European researchers have now mapped out how that can be done.
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more
10 November 2008: Anarchy may be the bane of political
conservatives, but on the Internet it is the essence of the information
superhighway.
Read
more
10 November 2008: Wireless networks that use a popular form
of security known as Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) are vulnerable to an
attack that could compromise certain communications in less than 15
minutes,
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more
7 November 2008: Yahoo’s Hadoop transforming how data is
analyzed. Behind Yahoo's push to open up Web search and advertising is
software powerful enough to sort through the entire Library of Congress
in less than half a minute. The software, called Hadoop, is part of
Yahoo's massive computing grid and is transforming the way that Yahoo
and corporate giants like IBM extract meaning from enormous streams of
data. Universities are also using the code - an open-source version of
software Google relies on for daily operation - to train a new
generation of computer scientists and engineers.
Read more
6 November 2008: Federal regulators have approved a plan
to use currently unlicensed parts of the US TV airwaves, known as white
spaces, to deliver broadband services. For more than two years this
proposal has pitted new media against old. Companies, including Google,
HP and Microsoft, say opening up the spectrum would improve internet
access for Americans, especially in rural areas.
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more
6 November 2008: In chaotic computing, anarchy rules OK.
William Ditto, a physicist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
Along with a team of colleagues in India and the US, Ditto has spent
more than 10 years conjuring up the electronic equivalent of chaotic
weather systems and harnessing them to build the next generation of
computer processors.
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more
4 November 2008: The grid’s huge communication and
computation capacities could let scientists gather data and run remote
experiments anywhere in the world. European researchers have now mapped
out how that can be done. Two years ago, researchers in the
European-funded project RINGRID – Remote Instrumentation in
Next-generation Grids – took on the challenge of mapping out how
scientists round the world can efficiently carry out remote research
using the ‘grid’.
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more
3 November 2008: When complex, computerised control
systems encounter a malfunction in any part of the process they
control, the whole operation often grinds to a halt while the problem
is diagnosed and fixed. Software developed by European researchers
overcomes that problem by decentralisation.
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more
3 November 2008: Researchers at Eindhoven University of
Technology (TU/e) in The Netherlands have managed to crack the
so-called McEliece encryption system. This system is a candidate for
the security of Internet traffic in the age of the quantum computer -
the predicted superpowerful computer of the future.
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more
3 November 2008: Figures from the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD) showing strong growth in the uptake
of broadband in New Zealand…The OECD's Directorate for Science,
Technology and Industry surveys broadband use across the organisation's
30 member countries every six months. Its latest findings reveal New
Zealand had the world's sixth-fastest growth in broadband penetration
over the year to June.
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more
31 October 2008: New supercomputer can do 50 trillion
operations per second. In less time than the blink of an eye, the
Translational Genomics Research Institute's new supercomputer at
Arizona State University can do operations equal to every dollar in the
recent Wall Street bailout.
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more
31 October 2008: Women who're not comfortable revealing
their age should stay miles away from University of Illinois-developed
computer software that reveals a person's age just like humans do-by
looking at his or her face. The software, developed at the University
of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, could analyse an image of your face to
verify your identity.
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more
31 October 2008: Intel and the Taiwan government plan to
open a development center to further the Linux-based Moblin OS for
devices such as netbooks and mobile Internet devices (MIDs), they
jointly announced on Thursday. Intel, the world's largest chip maker,
created Moblin to use with devices that run on Intel Atom
microprocessors. The open source software includes a Linux kernel, a
user interface, a browser, developer tools.
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more
30 October 2008: There have been several revolutions
during the 60 year history of electronic computation, such as high
level programming languages and client/server separation, but one key
challenge has yet to be fully resolved. This is to break down large
complex processes into small more manageable components that can then
be reused in different applications.
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more
30 October 2008: What stands a better chance of surviving 50
years from now, a framed photograph or a 10-megabyte digital photo file
on your computer’s hard drive?
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more
30 October 2008: Nokia hopes giving away the Symbian
technology used in its high-end mobile phones will encourage Internet
developers to build innovative applications on the platform, helping it
win back market share.
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more
30 October 2008: European researchers are developing the
world’s first optical firewall capable of analysing data on fibre optic
networks at speeds of 40 gigabits per second. Their work promises to
save the internet from the looming threat of network security
bottlenecks.
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more
29 October 2008: Scientists at Clemson University for the
first time have been able to make a practical optical fiber with a
silicon core, according to a new paper published in the current issue
of the Optical Society's open-access journal, Optics Express.
Read more
28 October 2008: The Internet is not just changing the
way people live but altering the way our brains work with a
neuroscientist arguing this is an evolutionary change which will put
the tech-savvy at the top of the new social order.
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more
28 October 2008: Microsoft’s Ozzie unveils ‘cloud computing’
play. The man who replaced Bill Gates as Microsoft Corp.'s top
technical thinker said Monday that Microsoft will compete with
Amazon.com Inc., IBM Corp. and other rivals in selling information
storage space and computing power "in the cloud," distributed across
massive data centers worldwide.
Read more
28 October 2008: Good code, bad computations: a computer
security gray area. If you want to make sure your computer or server is
not tricked into undertaking malicious or undesirable behavior, it's
not enough to keep bad code out of the system.
Read more
28 October 2008: Inside your laptop is a small
accelerometer chip, there to protect the delicate moving parts of your
hard disk from sudden jolts. It turns out that the same chip is a
pretty good earthquake sensor, too -- especially if the signals from
lots of them are compared, in order to filter out more mundane sources
of laptop vibrations, such as typing.
Read more
28 October 2008: Another step towards quantum computing –
the Holy Grail of data processing and storage – was achieved when an
international team of scientists that included researchers with the
U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
(Berkeley Lab) were able to successfully store and retrieve information
using the nucleus of an atom.
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more
24 October 2008: Conservationists working with Google
Inc. have unveiled a tool that lets people view protected marine areas
with the click of a mouse - a bid to harness the Internet's top search
engine to raise awareness of endangered ocean habitats.
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more
24 October 2008: For all its sophistication and power, your
brain is built from unreliable components – one neuron can successfully
provoke a signal in another only 40% of the time. This lack of
efficiency frustrates neuroengineers trying to build networks of brain
cells to interface with electronics or repair damaged nervous systems.
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more
23 October 2008: An international team of scientists has
performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing
information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key
step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the
fundamental theory of quantum mechanics which could crack problems
unsolvable by current technology.
Read more
23 October 2008: Engineers at the University of California,
Berkeley, are reporting a new way of creating computer chips that could
revitalize optical lithography, a patterning technique that dominates
modern integrated circuits manufacturing. By combining metal lenses
that focus light through the excitation of electrons - or plasmons - on
the lens' surface with a "flying head" that resembles the stylus on the
arm of an old-fashioned LP turntable and is similar to those used in
hard disk drives, the researchers were able to create line patterns
only 80 nanometers wide at speeds up to 12 meters per second, with the
potential for higher resolution detail in the near future.
Read more
22 October 2008: Google on Tuesday released the
open-source code which powers its Android mobile operating system and
invited outside programmers to tinker with the software to develop
their own features.
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more
22 October 2008: Silicon electronics are a staple of the
computing industry, but researchers are now exploring other
techniques to deliver powerful computers. A quantum computer is a
theoretical device that would make use of the properties of quantum
mechanics, the realm of physics that deals with energy and matter at
atomic scales.
Read more
21 October 2008: The way we use and interact with
machines is undergoing a profound change as computers are programmed to
learn from experience and see more how we see. European research into
machine learning is pushing back the boundaries of computer
capabilities.
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more
21 October 2008: Theoretical proof of stable and measurable
states extending over two quantum dots and creating offspring has now
been provided for the first time. This supports the notion of what is
known as Quantum Darwinism, which makes the selection and reproduction
of quantum mechanical states responsible for the way in which our
reality is perceived. These results of an Austrian Science Fund FWF
project were recently published in Physical Review Letters and will
play a part in the future development of quantum information
technology.
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more
17 October 2008: New technology developed by European
researchers allows companies to deploy their business processes using
grid computing and, even better, it validates a platform that gives
easy access to grid resources. It is a big deal.
Read
more
17 October 2008: Future models of the living computer, made
from the DNA-like molecule RNA, could be used to run calculations in
vivo – that is, inside human cells – to release drugs or prime the
immune system at the first hint of illness.
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more
16 October 2008: A team of European physicists has
developed an integrated circuit that can build itself. The work,
appearing in this week's Nature, is an important step towards its
ultimate goal — a self-assembling computer.
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more
16 October 2008: A navigation system able to provide
emergency services with the quickest route while at the same time
taking stress into account; this is an example of a new type of
dialogue system developed by PhD candidate Trung Bui of the University
of Twente. His dialogue system recognizes the user’s emotions and is
able to react to them.
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more
16 October 2008: Researchers at the National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST) and JILA, a joint institute of NIST and
the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder, have made the first tunable
“noiseless” amplifier. By significantly reducing the uncertainty in
delicate measurements of microwave signals, the new amplifier could
boost the speed and precision of quantum computing and communications
systems.
Read more
15 October 2008: Browsing the internet is better than
reading books for boosting the brain power of middle-aged and older
adults, new research has found.
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more
15 October 2008: A terahertz version of the single-pixel
camera developed by Rice University researchers could lead to
breakthrough technologies in security, telecom, signal processing and
medicine.
Read more
15 October 2008: Perfect secrecy has come a step closer with
the launch of the world's first computer network protected by
unbreakable quantum encryption at a scientific conference in Vienna.
Read more
15 October 2008: As part of the 18th Loebner Prize, all of
the artificial conversational entities (ACEs) competing to pass the
Turing Test have managed to fool at least one of their human
interrogators that they were in fact communicating with a human rather
than a machine.
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more
29 September 2008: The fast growth of broadband has led
the European Commission to bring forward a review of the basic telecoms
services Europeans can expect. Current statistics suggest about 36% of
households in EU member nations have high-speed net access. When a
majority of EU citizens are using a telecoms service, EC rules dictate
that it becomes one every European should be able to enjoy.
Read more
25 September 2008: The race is on to develop the next
generation of computer technologies, and Europe is leading the pack.
Recent experiments in magnetic memories have broken all past speed
records and have reached the fastest possible speed that magnetic
memories can reach. What this means for the average European is that
new faster computers are just around the corner.
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more
22 September 2008: A new EU-funded project to boost the
capacity and efficiency of the next generation of optical networks has
just got underway. The PHASORS ('Phase sensitive amplifier systems and
optical regenerators and their applications') initiative is funded
under the 'Information and communication technology' (ICT) Theme of the
Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) to the tune of EUR 3.9 million.
Read
more
17 September 2008: The European commission will today
propose updating a 12-year-old global IT trading pact to take account
of the explosive growth in hi-tech products and to produce further
price-cuts.
Read more
11 September 2008: Making use of all the knowledge online
is a huge challenge that may be solved by cloud computing, which
researchers say is the next logical step for the Internet.Computer
scientists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are
working with colleagues at Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo, as well as
researchers in Europe and Asia, to build a global test bed for
exploring system designs for the future.
Read more
10 September 2008: Google Inc. said Tuesday it will
further cut the amount of time it stores data about users' search
requests, to meet European privacy demands.
Peter Fleischer, Google's global privacy adviser, said the company will
reduce the time it stores search information from 18 months to nine.
Read more
9 September 2008: HP today announced an unprecedented
milestone in mobile computing: up to 24 hours of continuous notebook
operation on a single battery charge. As measured by an
industry-standard benchmark, the new HP EliteBook 6930p configured with
an optional ultra-capacity battery delivered up to 24 hours of battery
runtime.
Read more
8 September 2008: Urgent action is needed to cut red tape
and create a more risk-tolerant environment for high-tech research in
the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) sector, the European
Commission has said.
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more
4 September 2008: A new software package, developed by
researchers, helps hospital or emergency staff anticipate the rush of
patients hour by hour for the day or the next week, even on holidays
with varying dates, such as Easter.
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more
3 September 2008: Stanford computer scientists have
developed an artificial intelligence system that enables robotic
helicopters to teach themselves to fly difficult stunts by watching
other helicopters perform the same maneuvers.
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more
2 September 2008: Google is launching an open source web
browser to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox. The browser is
designed to be lightweight and fast, and to cope with the next
generation of web applications that rely on graphics and multimedia.
Read more
21 August 2008: Intel has unveiled the processors that
will form the core of its product line from 2009 onwards. Details about
Nehalem, now officially called Core i7, were given at the Intel
Developers Forum in San Francisco.
Read more
20 August 2008: Nokia and travel information company
Lonely Planet said Tuesday they are joining forces to sell maps and
city guides that can be accessed on mobile phones. The world's largest
handset maker said users of Nokia Maps can now download information
about more than 100 popular tourist locations provided by Lonely
Planet, and that more destinations were planned. Each download costs
7.99 euros ($11.75).
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more
19 August 2008: IBM is teaming with the University of
Toronto to build what they say will be the most powerful supercomputer
in Canada. In a statement, IBM said the computer will be capable of
performing 360 trillion calculations per second. It is expected to be
among the top 20 fastest supercomputers in the world when complete.
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more
18 August 2008: A legal ruling on a student project in the
United States has thrown the computer science community into a battle
over the line between legitimate research and illegal hacking. The
disagreement turns on the principle of "responsible disclosure", which
governs decisions by computer security researchers over when and how to
make public weaknesses in commercial systems.
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more
13 August 2008: Drexel University students have taken game
controller innovation beyond motion control with a “hands-off” approach
and developed an interface that allows players to execute actions using
only their mind.
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more
12 August 2008: The annual Tech.Ed SEA conference is one
of the biggest initiatives by Microsoft Corp that reflects the software
giant’s continued commitment to growing the Malaysian software economy.
Saw Ken Wye, vice-president of Microsoft Asia-Pacific, said the event
is part of RM26mil in investments that it makes yearly in programmes
that foster innovation in the local software ecosystem.
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more
11 August 2008: Computers are far from being truly clean
machines, but Dell Inc. and other PC makers are trying to make their
own business operations greener. Dell said Wednesday its facilities
worldwide are now carbon neutral, a goal the Round Rock, Texas-based
company had set to achieve by the end of 2008.
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more
11 August 2008: Google is giving everyone a chance to peek
deeper into its database of search requests and discover the things
that preoccupy individuals and, in aggregate, entire cities, regions or
nations, at any one time. The company was to introduce Wednesday a free
service called Insights for Search.
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more
7 august 2008: Antivirus software on your personal
computer could become a thing of the past thanks to a new "cloud
computing" approach to malicious software detection developed at the
University of Michigan. Cloud computing refers to applications and
services provided seamlessly on the Internet.
Read more
4 August 2008: The Partnership for Advanced Computing in
Europe (PRACE) has just received a new supercomputer prototype. Armed
with this prototype it now has the means to investigate supercomputing
of the future in a manner it has not been able to achieve before.
Read
more
31 July 2008: Europeans have a strong foothold in
information technology research. Not only has their research fuelled
growth for the sector and industry, but consumers have also been
feeling the positive effects of the technologies that have emerged over
the years. Adding to this remarkable development is the MUSE (Multi
Service Access Everywhere) project. Backed by the EU with €15.5 million
in funding, MUSE contributed to the strategic objective 'Broadband for
All' of Information Society Technologies.
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more
31 July 2008: Justin Seitz will make you feel scared,
vulnerable and invaded. It's his job. The Saskatoon-based computer
genius is a security researcher, or in more familiar terms, a hacker.
He gets inside the brain of a system, rewires it, makes it crash,
steals its information.
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more
31 July 2008: A massive project to redesign and rebuild
the Internet from scratch is inching along with $12 million in
government funding and donations of network capacity by two major
research organizations. Many researchers want to rethink the Internet's
underlying architecture, saying a "clean-slate" approach is the only
way to truly address security and other challenges that have cropped up
since the Internet's birth in 1969.
Read more
30 July 2008: It has been difficult to make robots that
can truly learn and adapt to unexpected situations and capable of
smooth movement. A conference organized by the European Science
Foundation (ESF) and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
(JSPS), brought together young researchers actively working in the
fields of cognitive science and robotics to tackle such issues.
Read
more
30 July 2008: The European conference on technology
enhanced learning (ECTEL 08) will take place from 16 to 19 September in
Maastricht, the Netherlands. The event will be composed of keynote
speeches, workshops, tutorials, meetings and an exhibition.
Read
more
30 July 2008: Yahoo and technology giants Intel and
Hewlett Packard today announced an alliance to advance "cloud
computing," backing a trend that would reduce reliance on packaged
software.
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more
29 July 2008: Anna Patterson's last Internet search engine
was so impressive that industry leader Google Inc. bought the
technology in 2004 to upgrade its own system. She believes her latest
invention is even more valuable - only this time it's not for sale.
Read more
24 July 2008: The steady march of the crowdsourcing
movement has reached molecular biology in force. Earlier this week,
bioinformatics experts announced the creation of a Wikipedia-style
database that allows anyone to create and amend a repository of complex
biochemical pathways.
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more
24 July 2008: Britain's six biggest internet service
providers (ISPs) have signed up to a government-backed drive to clamp
down on illegal downloading of music and films, it was revealed today.
Read
more
23 July 2008: More than 75 percent of the bank Web sites
surveyed in a University of Michigan study had at least one design flaw
that could make customers vulnerable to cyber thieves after their money
or even their identity.
Read
more
23 July 2008: The inclusion of a touchscreen keypad in
place of a physical keyboard on the iPhone has enabled the manufacturer
to incorporate a larger screen which means a better display of videos,
web pages and games. However, without being able to feel when a button
is selected users often experience a high level of errors, particularly
when inputting text. Now researchers are using tiny vibrations to
imitate the feel of a button when a user touches the keypad.
Read more
22 July 2008: Facebook is making sweeping changes to the
world's largest social networking site, aiming to give users more
control and to curb new forms of spam, company officials have
announced. Facebook's redesign aims to make user profiles more dynamic
by giving more prominence to the newest information, and it is cracking
down on applications that violate privacy or user-control guidelines.
Read
more
22 July 2008: The world's first thought-controlled
computer game could be launched by the end of the year. A new headset
being developed by an Australian company may soon replace joysticks and
Wii handles.
Read
more
22 July 2008: Details of how to copy the Oyster cards used
on London's transport network can be published, a Dutch judge has
ruled. The ruling overturns an injunction to suppress the information
won by NXP - makers of the travel smartcards used in London and many
other cities.
Read more
17 July 2008:
In a nod to privacy complaints, Viacom Inc. won't be told the
identities of individuals who watch video clips on the popular
video-sharing site YouTube.
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more
17 July 2008: There is a clear sense of anticipation building
at the Mozilla Foundation's headquarters in Mountain View, California
where engineers have been working for the past 34-36 months perfecting
Firefox 3.0.
Read more
17 July 2008: Purdue University scientists have taken a
page
from air conditioner technology in their quest for a new way to cool
down ever-more powerful computer chips.
Read more
17 July 2008: A Michigan State University researcher has
created an automatic image retrieval system, whereby law enforcement
agencies will be able to match scars, marks and tattoos to identify
suspects and victims.
Read
more
15 July 2008: NICTA,
Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT ) Research
Centre of Excellence, has secured a place in the European Commission's
prestigious 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological
Development (FP7 ). "This is a significant achievement for NICTA
and Australian ICT research on the international stage, and the first
time the organisation has been included in the 7th Framework program,"
said NICTA's Networked Systems Research Group Manager, Dr Max
Ott. Read more
1 July 2008: Researchers
are developing a miniature refrigeration system small enough to fit
inside laptops and personal computers, a cooling technology that would
boost performance while shrinking the size of computers. Read
more
1 July 2008: Scientists may have found a new way to combat
the most dangerous form of computer virus. Read
more
1 July 2008: The odd behavior of a molecule in an
experimental silicon computer chip has led to a discovery that opens
the door to quantum computing in semiconductors. Read
more
30 June 2008: Orbiting robots
could repair
satellites on the fly. Read
more
27 June 2008: The WINSOC project, supported by the EU with EUR 2.44
million in funding, is developing innovative sensor networks that mimic
biological systems. Read
more
27
June 2008: IST research in Europe: good, but could do better. Read
more
27 June 2008: Food
inspection technology could kill
waiter jokes. Read
more
27 June 2008: Laser headband
brings Alzheimer's out
of the shadows. Read
more
27 June 2008: Device blocking
stomach nerve signals
shows promise in obesity. Read
more
26 June 2008: 'Time reversal'
allows wireless broadband under the sea. Read
more
26 June 2008: Physicists
Produce Quantum-Entangled Images. Read more
26 June 2008: Managing
fisheries with semantic technologies. Read more
26 June 2008: Supercomputers
join cancer fight. Read
more
26 June 2008: EU
funding for information society
technologies (IST) research under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6)
has
helped make Europe a world leader in a number
of key
areas, including high-speed networking and nano-electronics. Read
more
25 June 2008: Radio ID tags
can play havoc with
hospital devices. Read
more
25 June 2008: A new and more
accurate method of
assessing people at risk from cardiovascular disease (CVD) is set to
improve
national diagnosis rates and identify those at risk among black and
minority
ethnic groups. Read
more
25 June 2008: Ministers
give green light to EUROSTARS and assisted living
programmes. Read
more
24 June 2008: Idle computers offer hope to solve cancer's mysteries
through grid computing project. Read more
24 June 2008: Automated
microfluidic device reduces time to screen small organisms for genetic
studies. Read more
24 June 2008: Nasal spray
using body's immune system provides hope of cure for common cold. Read more
24 June 2008: Tethered
molecules act as
light-driven reversible nanoswitches. Read more
24 June 2008: UBC physicists
develop 'impossible'
technique to study and develop superconductors. Read more
24 June 2008: Princeton
engineers have invented an affordable technique that uses lasers and
plastic
beads to create the ultrasmall features that are needed for new
generations of
microchips. Read
more
23 June 2008: Fastest-ever
flashgun captures image
of light wave. Read
more
23 June 2008: How to store a
picture in a cloud of
gas. Read
more
20 June 2008: Canada-India
RFID project looks to improve traffic flow, reduce pollution. Read more
20 June 2008: Exciton-based
circuits eliminate a 'speed trap' between computing and communication
signals. Read more
20 June 2008: Tiny
refrigerator taking shape to cool future computers. Read more
20 June 2008: In work that solves
a long-standing mystery in neuroscience, researchers at MIT's Picower
Institute for Learning and Memory have shown for the first time that
star-shaped brain cells called astrocytes—previously considered bit
players by most neuroscientists—make noninvasive brain scans possible. Read more
20 June 2008: Budapest
wins race for EIT seat. Read
more
20 June 2008: Car insurance
companies and people in
charge of analysing satellite mission quality are just two of the
beneficiaries
of the EU-funded OntoGrid project, which came to an end recently. Read
more
20 June 2008: Multicore
technology, which combines
two or more processor cores on a single silicon chip, allows computers
handle
separate tasks at the same time, thereby increasing their performance. Read
more
19 June 2008: Scientists discover way to color MRI scans. Read
more
19 June 2008: A
kind of virtual colonic irrigation
could help to reduce the occurrence of colorectal cancer.
Read more
19 June 2008: Surgeons may
get Minority
Report-style display. Read
more
18 June 2008: Computer predicts anti-cancer molecules. Read more
18 June 2008: Discovery will
assist treatment and research into fatal brain disorder. Read more
18 June 2008: OSU's
Transparent Electronics Key to
Solar Energy Breakthrough. Read
more
17 June 2008: Lighting up
polymer LEDs through nanotechnology. Read more
17 June 2008: PET
imaging detects early, 'silent heart' stage of disease in asymptomatic
diabetic patients. Read
more
17 June 2008: UCSF
and YouTube create novel channel
to drive medical research. Read
more
16 June 2008: Untangled
Quantum Quirk Is
Significant Step Toward Quantum Computing. Read
more
13 June 2008: Ontario
is investing $18 million into nanotechnology and quantum computing
research. Read
more
13 June 2008: A
way to close of diseased blood vessels with unprecedented accuracy
using a zap of laser light has been tested in mice. Read
more
13 June 2008: 'Electron
turbine' could print designer molecules. Read
more
13 June 2008: Carbon
Nanotubes as a Single-Photon Source. Read more
13 June 2008: The
silky skills of Europe’s top footballers will
not be the only eye catcher this summer as the movement of the fans
themselves fall under the watchful gaze of state-of-the-art video
surveillance. Read
more
13 June 2008: Samsung
Introduces 90-Nanometer High Performance Smart Card IC. Read more
13 June 2008: Computer
models show major climate
shift as a result of closing ozone hole. Read
more
12 June 2008: Study Finds New Properties in Non-Magnetic Materials. Read more
12 June 2008: 'N-variant'
microchips could protect intellectual property, enable new services. Read more
12 June 2008: Researchers
untangle quantum quirk. Read more
12 June 2008: Microwave
Synthesis Connects With the (Quantum) Dots. Read more
12 June 2008: Measuring The
Footprint Of Cells For Health And Competitive Sports. Read
more
12 June 2008: European
researchers have developed solutions to help weld a mishmash of
different technologies, protocols and system architectures, making it
easier to run research and education networks. Read more
12 June 2008: The
European Commission has announced
that it will double its investment in European robotics research
between 2007
and 2010. Read
more
11 June 2008: Real time video
to help fight forest
fires. The scientists are currently looking at how their system could
be
adapted for use in unmanned airborne vehicles, as part of the EU-funded
AWARE
project. Read
more
11 June 2008: New
Wireless Sensor Network Keeps Tabs On The Environment. Read
more
11 June 2008: Managing
symptoms by mobile phone may revolutionize cancer care for young
people. Read more
11 June 2008: CT lung cancer
screening no cure-all
for smokers. Read
more
11 June 2008: The
EU's top antitrust official called Tuesday on member governments to use
open-source software, an apparent jab at Microsoft Corp.'s proprietary
technology. Read
more
11 June 2008: Industrial
dye holds the key to advancing spintronics. Read more
10 June 2008: Open
Patent Alliance Formed to
Advance
WiMAX 4G Technology. Read
more
9
June 2008: Researchers
develop new PET scanning probe that will allowing monitoring of the
immune
system. Read more
9 June 2008: For
the first time, a team of Dutch, German and South Korean scientists
have shown
how light can squeeze through any hole regardless of its size using
Terahertz
(THz) radiation. Read
more
6
June 2008: New
MRI to debut in African nation of Malawi;
will save lives, advance malaria research. Read more
5 June 2008: Nanotech: Hot Technology Gets a Cool Down. Read more
5 June 2008: Tongue
stimulator can boost ailing senses. Read
more
5
June 2008: Public funding impacts
progress of human embryonic stem cell research. Read more
5 June 2008: New
wireless sensor network keeps tabs on the environment. Read more
5 June 2008: A
new software solution developed as
part of the EU-funded SIMDAT ('Data grids for process and product
development
using numerical simulation and knowledge discovery') now gives
aerospace
engineers access to more computing power.
Read more
4
June 2008: EU
sees security threats lurking in printers. Read more
3
June 2008: Latest
Competitiveness Council brings progress for research. Read
more
30 May 2008: Commission
sets target for IPv6 deployment. Read
more
28 May 2008: Computer
scientists devise a 'P4P' system for efficient Internet usage. Read more
28 May 2008: Carbon
nanoribbons could make smaller, speedier computer chips. Read more
27 May 2008: Transforming
buses into mobile sensing platforms. Read more
27 May 2008: Nanotechnology
could offer jolt to memory chips. Read
more
27 May 2008: CT
May Better Predict Those At Higher Risk For Heart Disease. Read
more
23 May 2008: Access
to next-gen Internet may be uneven. Read more
22 May 2008: Chip-Based
Device Measures Drug Resistance in Tumor Cells. Read more
22 May 2008: Mass-Producing
Tunable Magnetic Nanoparticles. Read more
22 May 2008: Targeting
A Pathological Area Using MRI. Read
more
21 May 2008: Scripps
Research Institute awarded patent for remarkable chemical technology. Read more
20 May 2008: Jaguar
Upgrade Brings ORNL Closer To Petascale Computing. Read
more
19 May 2008: New
Tool To Understand Evolution Of Multi-domain Genes Developed. Read
more
19 May 2008: Military
European Land-Robot Trial, Hammelburg,
Germany.
Read
more
16 May 2008: Student
Innovation Could Improve Data Storage, Magnetic Sensors. Read more
16 May 2008: ICT
to the rescue of Europe's carbon footprint. Read
more
16 May 2008: Europe
sees BRIGHTER future with laser diode technology. Read
more
14 May 2008: Adding
ultrasound to mammography may improve breast cancer detection in
high-risk
women. Read more
14 May 2008: Rensselaer
student invents alternative to silicon chip. Read more
13 May 2008: New
MRI technique developed at UT Southwestern detects subtle but serious
brain
injury. Read more
13 May 2008: Biochips
can detect cancers before symptoms develop. Read more
13 May 2008: New
process may convert toxic computer waste into safe products. Read more
12 May 2008: Improving
Anxiety Treatment Through The Help Of Brain Imaging: A Potential Future
Treatment Strategy. Read
more
9 May 2008: Warming
up for Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Read more
9 May 2008: Made-to-order
isotopes hold promise on science's frontier. Read more
9 May 2008: NCAR
installs 76-teraflop supercomputer for critical research on climate
change,
severe weather. Read
more
8 May 2008: Ultrasound first, not CT, for diagnosing
suspected
acute appendicitis. Read
more
8 May 2008: Vienna and Bratislava present joint candidature
for EIT headquarters. Read
more
6 May 2008: Delaying
data could cut net's carbon footprint. Read
more
6 May 2008: Data
protection authority to monitor EU research policy and
projects. Read
more
5 May 2008: Smarter
electric grid could be key to saving power. Read more
5 May 2008: IT
gurus launch software cleanup of Estonia.
Read more
2 May 2008: 'Nanomechanical
Oscillators' Could Lead to New Class of Computers. Read more
1 May 2008: Engineers
find 'missing link' of electronics. Read
more
18 April 2008: A leading contender to replace
silicon as the basis for computing has made another step forward. Read
more
18 April 2008: Nanotech
to slash gadget power consumption. Read
more
18 April 2008: Tiny
robotic hand has the gentlest
touch. Read
more
17 April 2008: From cartilage to fruit-fly wings, physicist studies
'squishiness' in everyday things. Read more
17 April 2008: New technique
yields more detailed picture of chromatin structure. Read more
17 April 2008: The idea that
girls are not interested in science and technology is a popular
misconception. For the past five years, school girls have been working
with robots in "Roberta courses". Read more
17 April 2008: Fast AFM
probes measure multiple properties of biomolecules or materials
simultaneously. Read
more
17 April 2008: Researchers
discover chromium's
hidden magnetic talents. Read
more
16 April 2008: University
of Utah engineers took an
early
step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light
instead
of electricity: Read
more
16 April 2008: EU-funded scientists
have developed a platform which allows users to stroll freely through
virtual worlds.
Read
more
15 April 2008: Folks below
the 'digital divide'
would use the Internet more if they had it, research suggests. Read more
14 April 2008: The "Bernstein
Award" is equipped with up to 1.25 Mio Euros in the form of a grant
over a
period of five years. It will be awarded to a highly qualified young
researcher, considering the candidates' verifiable research profile in
the
field of Computational Neuroscience and the scientific concept for a
future
young research group. Read
more
11 April 2008: Sweet nanotech batteries: Nanotechnology could solve
lithium battery charging problems. Read more
11 April 2008: Researchers
find the ties that bind
electrons in high-temperature superconductivity. Read more
10 April 2008: EU Report
Urges Search Data Deletion.
Read more
9
April 2008: Nanophysicists
have made a
discovery that can change the way we store data on our computers.
Read more
9 April 2008: Habit
Plays Major Role in Continued Use of Information Technology, Study
Finds. Read more
9
April 2008: Researchers
take step toward creating quantum computers using entangled photons in
optical
fibers. Read more
9 April 2008: Team
simulates first merger of 3 black holes on a supercomputer. Read more
9 April 2008: IBM
Turns on the Water for Energy-Efficient Supercomputer. Read more
9 April 2008: Needle-size
device created to track tumors, radiation dose. Read more
8 April 2008: Newly discovered 'superinsulators' promise to
transform materials research, electronics design. Read more
8 April 2008: New
EU project to boost online
security. Read
more
8
April 2008: The
not-so-digital future of digital signal processing. Read more
8
April 2008: Robot-assisted
minimally-invasive CABG surgery. Read more
8
April 2008: Data-handling
technique finds genes to be team players in curbing brain cancer cell
growth. Read more
3 April 2008:
Bon MOT:
Innovative atom trap catches highly magnetic
atoms. Read more
2
April 2008: Euro-India
ICT information day, Bangalore, India.
Read
more
2 April 2008: Data storage using ultra-small needles. Read more
2 April 2008: Hypercubes
Could Be Building Blocks
of Nanocomputers. Read
more
31 March 2008: Communicating your way to a healthy heart. Read more
31 March 2008: Real-time
Imaging Device May Improve Surgery For Congenital Colon
Disease. Read
more
31 March 2008: Future
Of Computing: Carbon Nanotubes
And Superconductors To Replace The Silicon Chip.
Read more
28 March 2008: Astrotechnology
Brings Nanoparticle
Probes Into Sharper Focus. Read
more
28 March 2008: Femtogram-level
chemical measurements now possible. Read more
28 March 2008: SUNY
researcher issued patent for virtual telemicroscope. Read more
28 March 2008: Basis created
for directing and
filming blood vessels. Read
more
27 March 2008: Researchers
hoping to use carbon
nanotubes for quantum computing -- in which the spin of a single
electron would
represent a bit of data -- may have to change their approaches,
according to
new Cornell research. Read
more
27 March 2008: Magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI) falsely detects breast cancer in five out of
every six
positive scans according to new research into the use of MRI for women
with a
high, inherited risk of developing the disease. Read more
27 March 2008: PET
confirmed as valuable cancer diagnostic and disease-staging tool. Read more
26 March 2008: A
new study from Tufts University shows that while the "digital divide"
may be narrowing in terms of access to the Internet, a significant
"digital skills divide" is emerging. Read more
25
March 2008: MRI: A window to
genetic properties
of brain tumors. Read
more
20 March 2008: Microsoft Corp. has announced the Microsoft
HealthVault Be Well Fund and Request for Proposals. The $3 million
initiative is designed to empower providers with targeted funding to
stimulate the research and development of online tools that improve
health. Read
more
20 March 2008: Chemical
'Keypad Lock' for Biomolecular Computers. Read more
20 March 2008: More
than 50,000 European homes and offices added a high-speed broadband
Internet connection every day last year, according to the European
Commission. Read
more
20 March 2008: Researchers
Prove Bridge from Conventional to Molecular Electronics Possible. Read more
20 March 2008: Team
Finds 'Metafilms' Can Shrink
Radio, Radar Devices.
Read
more
19 March 2008: IBM scientists
today took another significant advance towards sending information
inside a computer chip by using light pulses instead of electrons by
building the world’s tiniest nanophotonic switch with a footprint about
100X smaller than the cross section of a human hair. Read more
19 March 2008: Better
Graphene Transistors. Read more
19 March 2008: A
machine that churns out three-dimensional artificial tumours could help
improve anti-cancer drug testing, Read
more
19 March 2008: Doctors may
one day be able to detect early stages of colon cancer without a
biopsy, using a new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford
University School of Medicine. Read
more
19 March 2008: Computational
tools could become a
vital resource for detecting rogue genetically engineered bacteria in
environmental samples. Read
more
19 March 2008: UCLA
researchers have developed a
feedback control scheme that can search for the most effective drug
combinations to treat a variety of conditions, including cancers and
infections. Read
more
19 March 2008: The
2008 DEISA (Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing
Applications)
symposium will take place on 28 and 29 April in Edinburgh,
UK. Read
more
14 March 2008: Physicists discover how fundamental particles lose
track of quantum mechanical properties. Read more
14 March 2008: The
European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) will open for
business by the summer following the European Parliament's approval of
the Council's common position on its establishment. Read
more
14 March 2008: For
accuracy's sake, medical professionals should use the same software for
comparing and analyzing diagnostic heart images taken from different
time periods and laboratories, a team of researchers has concluded. Read more
14 March 2008: The
U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE)
Argonne National Laboratory and Toda Kogyo Corp. (Toda) of Japan
have reached a world-wide licensing agreement for the commercial
production and
sales of Argonne’s patented composite cathode
materials
for lithium-ion batteries, which result in longer-lasting, safer
batteries for
hybrid-electric vehicles, cell phones, laptop computers and other
applications.
Read more
13 March 2008: In response to the electronics industry’s
rallying cry of “smaller and faster,” the next breakthroughs in the
electronics size barrier are likely to come from microchips and data
storage devices created out of novel materials such as organic
molecules and polymers. Read more
13 March 2008: An MIT
materials scientist's research on sea snails has helped transform
battery technology and may end the era when cell phones die if they're
dropped and PDAs must be replaced if they get dunked in the tub. Read more
13 March 2008: Researchers
Hack Defibrillators. Read more
13 March 2008: The
European Institute of Innovation
and Technology (EIT) will open for business by the summer following the
European Parliament's approval of the Council's common position on its
establishment. Read
more
12 March 2008: A team of
researchers has developed a
device which promises 100 times faster broadband speeds and 75% cheaper
costs. Read
more
12 March 2008: A researcher
at the National University
at San Diego has taken a
mathematical approach to a
biological problem - how to design a portable DNA detector. Read more
11 March 2008: The European Commission's Directorate General for
Information Society and Media has issued a call for tenders for a
feasibility study on the interconnection of south and eastern African
research networks to GÉANT. Read
more
11 March 2008: An
information day on the ARTEMIS (embedded computer systems) and ENIAC
(nano-electronics) JTIs (Joint Technology Initiatives) will be held in Brussels,
Belgium, on 4
April. Read
more
11 March 2008: Team
achieves nuclear fuel performance milestone. Read more
11 March 2008: New detector
can 'see' single neutrons over broad range. Read more
11 March 2008: Mind over body: new hope for quadriplegics. Read more
11 March 2008: Researchers
develop more
computer-aided drug design. Read
more
11 March 2008: A new blood
test could enable doctors
to rule out tuberculosis (TB) infection within days rather than weeks,
according to a new study. Read
more
10 March 2008: A team led by a Purdue
University researcher has
achieved images of a virus in detail two times greater than had
previously been achieved. Read more
10 March 2008: For
the first time, researchers have
created solar cells made of different-sized quantum dots, each tuned to
a
specific wavelength of light. By arranging these quantum dots in an
ordered
pattern, the scientists hope that they can one day fabricate “rainbow”
solar
cells, which can efficiently harvest a large part of the useful
spectrum of
sunlight. Read
more
10 March 2008: Capitalizing
on a cell’s ability to roll along a surface, MIT researchers have
developed a
simple, inexpensive system to sort different kinds of cells — a process
that
could result in low-cost tools to test for diseases such as cancer,
even in
remote locations. Read
more
7
March 2008:
A new EU-funded information and communication technology (ICT) project
is
tackling issues of safety in newly developed drugs. Read
more
6
March 2008:
Unique locks on microchips could reduce hardware piracy. Read more
6 March 2008: A
summer school on technology enhanced learning (TEL) will be held in
Ohrid,
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM), on 15 to 21 June. Read
more
6
March 2008:
SENIOR project initiates ethical debate on ICT for the elderly. Read
more
5
March 2008:
AMD is announcing the availability of the AMD 780G chipset, designed to
deliver
the ultimate mainstream computing experience. Read more
5
March 2008:
Pentagon worried by China
in space and cyberspace. Read
more
5
March 2008:
New project to deliver next generation electronic chips. Read
more
5
March 2008:
A conference and exhibition on 'infocommunication in the service of
everyday
life' called eVITA 2008 will be held in Budapest,
Hungary on 3 to 5
April. Read
more
5
March 2008:
A conference entitled 'Security research: technology solutions to
enhance
systems interoperability' will take place in Ankara,
Turkey, on 17 to
18
April. Read
more
4
March 2008:
Coming soon to Japan:
remote control with a wink. Read
more
4
March 2008:
A marathon contest longer and more complex than any race at the Olympic
Games
is unfolding behind the windowless facade of Digital Beijing. Read more
3
March 2008:
With efforts to fight climate change growing apace around the world,
the IT
industry is also doing its bit, as the world's largest technology fair
starting
next week in Germany
aims to show. Read
more
3
March 2008:
The world's highest-speed computer network, Europe's
GEANT, is linking up with others worldwide to create a global research
network,
the European Commission announced. Read more
29 February 2008: The
Valencian Regional Government
offers sixty Santiago Grisolia grants for foreign fellow investigators
interested in participating in specific research programmes in a range
of
subjects. Read
more
29 February 2008: Academia and
industry join forces to
make technology more resilient. Read
more
29 February 2008: Google Inc
is offering a simple Web
site publishing tool for office workers to set up and run their team
collaboration sites. Read
more
29 February 2008: IBM
researchers unveil green optical
network technology prototype. Read more
29 February 2008: Japanese
cell phones to turn into
'robot' buddies. Read
more
29 February
2008: The European
Commission is to spend €3bn (£2.3bn) on
nanoelectronics research and €2.5bn (£1.9bn) on embedded computer
systems over
the next 10 years. Read
more
28 February 2008: EU-funded
project develops microchip
specification language. Read
more
28 February 2008: Microsoft
Corp has released the
latest version of its Windows operating system for powerful servers,
thrusting
itself into the red-hot market for virtualization technology that
allows one
computer to act like many machines. Read
more
27 February 2008: Google Inc
has agreed to build an
undersea cable with five telecoms operators that will link the United
States to Japan,
and provide the capacity to sustain a surge in Internet traffic between
the
continents. Read
more
27 February 2008: IBM is set
to launch the latest
update of its powerful mainframe computer, a more energy-efficient
machine that
it hopes will compete with high-end computers from rivals. Read
more
27 February 2008: Analogue
logic for quantum computing.
Read
more
26 February 2008: An
international conference on
Computational Cell Biology will be held in Hinxton,
UK, from 26th
– 29th March. It is the second in a series of conferences
dedicated
to this research field. Read
more
26 February 2008: An official
ceremony on 22nd
February marked the inauguration of the fastest civil supercomputer
JUGENE in
the world at the moment. Read
more
26 February 2008: Criminal
investigations will benefit
if a straightforward modification is made to computer operating
systems, say engineers.
Read
more
26 February 2008: A team of
researchers has
demonstrated a new class of computer attacks that compromise the
contents of
"secure" memory systems, particularly in laptops. Read
more
26 February 2008: STOP
terrorism software. Read
more
26 February 2008: The European
Commission has launched
two new Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs) designed to boost Europe's
competitiveness in the fields of nanoelectronics and embedded computer
systems.
Read
more
25 February 2008: Giving e-networks a
boost. Read
more
25 February 2008: Intel to
produce chip for low-cost
computer market. Read
more
25 February 2008: Computers
the size of blood cells
will create fully immersive virtual realities by 2033, leading inventor
Ray
Kurzweil has predicted. Read more
25 February 2008: Large
companies are vulnerable to
hackers when they network their computers for cost-saving live virtual
machine
migration, researchers say. Read
more
25 February 2008: Flawless
data reception for internet
and other fibre-based telecommunications. Read
more
25 February 2008: A high-tech
"virtual fence"
on part of the U.S.
border with Mexico
is finally ready for service and the technology can fight illegal
crossings all
along the frontier. Read
more
22 February 2008: No
directions required - Software smartens
mobile robots. Read
more
22 February 2008: Advanced
engineered substrates boost
chip performance. Read
more
22 February 2008: Giving
e-networks a boost. Read
more
22 February 2008: Launch event
of new project on ICTs
and ageing. Read
more
22 February 2008: Japanese
firm harnesses the power of
human touch. Read
more
21 February 2008: Harnessing
the web for genomics. Read
more
21 February 2008: European
research project to shape
next generation Internet TV. Read
more
21 February 2008: Fibre-optic
booster on a chip. Read
more
20 February 2008: Breaking the
performance barrier of
22-nm CMOS technology. Read
more
20 February 2008: Intel
delivers 'hard-core' eight-core
platform for PC performance aficionados. Read more
20 February 2008: CSIRO has
developed a prototype portable
device that will allow people to do business across the internet on any
computer in a trusted manner. Read more
20 February 2008: Microsoft
Corp unveiled a new
initiative on Monday that will give college and high school students
around the
world free access to technology tools used to develop and design
software. Read
more
20 February 2008: Sony to
spend $200 million on
advanced panel technology. Read
more
20 February 2008: Crystal
filter clears up fibre optic communications. Read
more
20 February 2008: Hacker's
firm doubleTwist enables
copying of iTunes. Read
more
19 February 2008:
Fast-learning computer translates
from four languages. Read more
19 February 2008: Looming end
to DVD war cheers
consumers. Read
more
19 February 2008: New
knowledge base for European Grid
Initiatives online. Read
more
18 February 2008: Microchip processing
technology is being updated at faster and faster rates in our age of
silicon
chip wizardry. By the time you unpack your smart new laptop or digital
camera,
the technology that went into making it is already becoming outdated.
But a
solution to the problem is now at hand. Read
more
18 February 2008: A high-speed
wireless technology that
is still in development promises to make mobile Web surfing about four
times
faster, but its impact on the embattled network equipment industry will
be much
less dramatic, according to industry executives. Read
more
18 February 2008: Machines
will achieve human-level
artificial intelligence by 2029, a leading US
inventor has predicted. Read more
18 February 2008: Computer
models give an edge for
spotting winners. Read
more
18 February 2008: New
technology makes 3-D imaging
quicker, easier. Read
more
18 February 2008: Touch but don't
look: EU project to advance touch technology. Read
more
15 February 2008: Security
systems can now block the
first computer viruses attack on cell phones, but the mobile industry
sees new
risks stemming from upcoming open software platforms such as Google's
Android. Read
more
15 February 2008: After
replacing paper maps for
millions of drivers, GPS technology is now being put into mobile phones
and was
one of the most-hyped developments at this week's Mobile World
Congress. Read more
14 February 2008: Researchers
are cannibalising the
Sony PlayStation 3 console and other gaming hardware, turning them into
low-cost supercomputers to model pharmaceutical molecules and black
holes, the
weekly New Scientist says. Read
more
14 February 2008: Users of
social network sites like
Facebook will soon be sharing their exact whereabouts with their
friends in
real-time, owing to new technology that uses the mobile phone as a
tracking device,
experts say. Read
more
14 February 2008: Mendacious
machines controlled by
hackers that reroute Internet traffic from infected computers to
fraudulent Web
sites are increasingly being used to launch attacks. Read more
14 February 2008: The United
Nations World Food
Programme (WFP) has joined forces with Vodafone to work on a standard
telecommunications system for aid agencies around the world to improve
logistics and response times to disasters. Read
more
14 February 2008: The European
Joint Conferences on
Theory and Practice of Software (ETAPS) will be held from 29 March to 6
April
in Budapest, Hungary,
where internationally renowned researchers will talk about current
issues in
software science. Read
more
14 February 2008: An EU-funded
researcher at the French
national centre for scientific research (CNRS) has been selected as one
of
three winners of the prestigious Turing award. Dr Josef Sifakis is the
first
French citizen to be awarded the prize that is often described as the
Nobel
Prize for computing since its creation in 1966. Read
more
14 February 2008: Gliding to
gold -- world-beating
software could boost British swimming. Read more
12 February 2008: Demand for
video reshaping internet. Read more
12 February 2008: Researchers
design copper connections
for high-speed computing. Read
more
12 February 2008: New
technology allowing a group of
vehicles to exchange data automatically with each other and with
traffic
control centres could pave the way for a more efficient and safer
European road
network. Read more
12 February 2008: Move over,
compact discs, DVDs, and
hard drives. Researchers in Japan
report progress toward developing a new protein-based memory device
that could
provide an alternative to conventional magnetic and optical storage
systems,
which are quickly approaching their memory storage capacities. Read more
12 February 2008: Netflix
Inc., the online movie rental
company, said Monday it is switching exclusively to the Blu-ray format
for
high-definition DVDs, following four major movie studios in selecting
the Sony
technology over one pushed by Toshiba Corp. Read more
12 February 2008: The first
mobile phones fitted with
Google's Android software platform made their debut at an industry
trade show
on Monday, a milestone for the Internet giant as it looks to dominate
the
wireless world. Read
more
12 February 2008: Sony
Ericsson on Sunday announced a
new premium handset aimed at capturing the Web convergence market,
blending
multimedia with mobile Web communication in its first product using
Microsoft
Corp.'s operating system. Read
more
12 February 2008: 'T-ray'
breakthrough signals next
generation of security sensors. Read
more
12 February 2008: Russia
has become a "superpower" of spam e-mail, becoming the second most
prolific country after the United States
in producing junk emails, a computer security firm said Monday. Read more
11 February 2008: The popular
wireless technology known
as Bluetooth could get a lot faster next year by taking advantage of
Wi-Fi
technology already built into many gadgets. Read more
11 February 2008: New research
project captures traffic
data using GPS-enabled cell phones. Read more
11 February 2008: Taxi! Novel
location-based services
hailed. Read more
11 February 2008: With a
special kick-off meeting in Gothenburg,
Sweden, the
European
Network of Excellence HiPEAC (High-Performance and Embedded
Architecture and
Compilation) has now been launched. The network will coordinate nine
research
clusters that will look into on-chip multi-cores technology and
customisation,
leading to heterogeneous multi-core systems. Read
more
11 February 2008: The most
established names in telecoms,
Internet and media will come together next week in Barcelona
for the Mobile World Congress, one of the world's biggest events for
the mobile
phone industry. Read
more
11
February 2008: The EU-funded TEAM
research project
will be holding a workshop entitled 'Agile Knowledge Sharing for
Distributed
Software Teams' as part of the Software Engineering 08 conference on 19
February in Munich, Germany.
Read
more
8
February 2008:
A new energy-capturing knee brace can generate enough electricity
from
walking to operate a portable GPS locator, a cell phone, a motorized
prosthetic
joint or an implanted neurotransmitter, research involving the University
of Michigan shows. Read more
8
February 2008:
Three years ago a team from Bell Labs took on a very daunting
challenge –
put an optical networking system on a commercially manufactured silicon
chip,
load it with a smorgasbord of sophisticated opto-electronic devices in
a
combination that’s never been done before, and make it easy to mass
produce. Read more
8
February 2008:
Human-computer interaction has not improved enormously since Mark
Twain's
time, when the typewriter was invented. A European research task force
hopes to
change that by making human-computer interaction, well, ‘similar’ to
the way
humans do it. Read
more
8
February 2008:
A new detector combines a laser with a mass spectrometer to provide
on-the-spot analysis that researchers hope will have applications
ranging from
evaluating a tumor as it is removed to quickly detecting explosives in
luggage.
Read
more
8 February 2008: Two
researchers from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering have created a
send/receive
chip that functions as an active array, sending out a matrix of 49
simultaneous
ultrawideband radar probe beams and picking up the returned beam
reflections. Read
more
8
February 2008:
The wheels of the European Institute of
Innovation and
Technology (EIT) were set in motion this week. Read
more
8
February 2008:
Stakeholders will discuss 'The future of the internet -
perspectives
emerging from R&D [research and development] in Europe'
from 31 March to 1 April in Bled, Slovenia.
Read
more
7
February 2008:
Drapers’ Company Junior Research Fellowships are given for research
in the
sciences, and will be offered this year for research in the fields of
engineering science, materials science and Earth sciences. Read more
7 February 2008: A
new version of video chat software ooVoo released this week allows
users to
record chats, perhaps to post them to video-sharing sites like YouTube
or just
to keep them for posterity. Read
more
7
February 2008:
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has realized the
world's
fastest circuit technology for embedded DRAM for System LSI, achieving
a speed
of 833MHz at 32Mb density. The technology will be applied to graphic
processing
LSI. The technology was today introduced at the ISSCC (International
Solid State
Circuits Conference), held at San Francisco
CA
from February 3rd. Read
more
7
February 2008:
SanDisk Corporation today announced the introduction of Multi-Level
(MLC)
NAND flash memory using 43 nanometer process technology co-developed
with
Toshiba Corporation in Japan.
Read more
7 February 2008:
A new ASTM International standard for urban search and rescue
robots and
components tackles humble logistics problems that, left unsolved, could
hamper
the use of life-saving robots in major disasters. Read more
5 February 2008: A comprehensive, clinical nomogram tool, the
Sunnybrook Prostate Cancer Risk Calculator – the first to use all known
risk factors for prostate cancer – is available online to help men
determine individual prostate cancer risk in consultation with their
primary care physician. Read more
5
February 2008: Mood disorders could be
caused by a loss of our inherent, reflexive avoidance of aversive
events, according to a new study. Researchers from UCL in London
and Columbia University
in New York used
computational modeling techniques to integrate what appeared to be
blatant contradictions between serotonin's roles in different states of
health. Read
more
5 February 2008: Researchers
at MIT and Texas Instruments have unveiled a new chip design for
portable electronics that can be up to 10 times more energy-efficient
than present technology. Read
more
5 February 2008: Engineers
at the University of Massachusetts
Amherst have found that a strong electric
field can stabilize the surface of metals and other solids that conduct
electricity, inhibiting the formation of cracks caused by stress. Read
more
5 February 2008: The
2008 IST (information society
technologies)-Africa conference and exhibition
will take
place in Windhoek, Namibia,
from 7 to 9 May 2008.
Read
more
4
February 2007:
In a significant step towards improving the design of future
catalysts and
catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip”
devices. Read
more
1 Feburary 2008: Integrated
circuits, such as the silicon chips inside all modern electronics, are
only as
good as their wiring, but copper conduits are approaching physical
performance
limitations as they get thinner Read more
31 January 2008: A discovery by scientists at the Carnegie Institution
has opened the door to a new generation of piezoelectric materials that
can convert mechanical strain into electricity and vice versa,
potentially cutting costs and boosting performance in myriad
applications ranging from medical diagnostics to green energy
technologies. Read
more
31 January 2008: A
group of computational biologists
at Virginia Tech have created a mathematical model of the process that
regulates cell division in a common bacterium, confirming hypotheses,
providing
new insights, identifying gaps in what is understood so far, and
demonstrating
the role of computation in biology. Read
more
30 January 2008: For some
women, digital mammography
may be a better screening option than film mammography, according to
newly
published results from the Digital Mammographic Imaging Screening Trial
(DMIST). Read more
30 January 2008: Osteoporosis,
a common age-related
disease, is being investigated by a group of biomechanical engineers at
Vienna
University of Technology (TU Vienna). Read
more
29 January 2008: A tiny,
implantable device has pulled adult stem cells out of a living rat with
a far greater purity than any present technique. Read
more
29 January 2008: A new
medical imager for detecting and guiding the biopsy of suspicious
breast cancer lesions is capable of spotting tumors that are half the
size of the smallest ones detected by standard imaging systems,
according to a new study. Read more
29 January 2008: In
a significant step towards improving the design of future catalysts and
catalytic reactors, especially for microfluidic “lab-on-a-chip”
devices, researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory and the University
of California at Berkeley,
have successfully applied magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to the study
of gas-phase reactions on the microscale. Read more
29 January 2008: While
X-ray images easily show up the
difference between bone and soft tissue, there's not enough contrast
between
the soft tissues to tell them apart. Read
more
25 January 2008: A home access network capable of delivering high
bandwidth services and content at transmission speeds of one gigabit
per second could soon become a reality thanks to a newly launched
European research project. Read
more
25 January 2008: The Celtic
Initiative, a EUREKA
cluster, will be holding its third official event from 27 to 28
February in Helsinki, Finland.
Read
more
25 January 2008: Researchers
at the Picower Institute
for Learning and Memory at MIT report in the Jan. 24 online edition of Science
that they have created a way to see, for the first time, the effect of
blocking
and unblocking a single neural circuit in a living animal. Read more
24 January 2008: TEAM 0.5,
the world's most powerful
transmission electron microscope — capable of producing images with
half‑angstrom
resolution (half a ten-billionth of a meter), less than the diameter of
a
single hydrogen atom — has been installed at the Department of Energy's
National Center
for Electron Microscopy
(NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Read
more
23 January 2008: Researchers
have developed a new way
to detect protein movements inside cells, which signal a variety of
cellular
changes such as those in cancer cell development. The method could help
diagnose cancer in the future. Read more
22 January 2008: The tiny copper wires that connect different areas of
an integrated circuit may soon limit microchip-processing speeds. Read more
22 January 2008: Scientists
have discovered a way of speeding up the production of hollow-core
optical fibres - a new generation of optical fibres that could lead to
faster and more powerful computing and telecommunications technologies.
Read
more
22 January 2008: The EU's Joint
Research Centre (JRC) has published a million sentences translated into
22
official EU languages in a bid to help the development of
computer-assisted
translation technologies and software. Read
more
22 January 2008: European researchers
have developed a way of producing extremely detailed x-ray images using
conventional imaging equipment such as that found in hospitals and
airports. Read
more
16 January 2008: Around the world, many scientists are working on
various models of a quantum computer. One of the proposed models is a
quantum computer that makes use of electron spins. Read more
16 January 2008: A
supercomputer that could help
answer some of science's biggest questions will be unveiled on Monday. Read
more
16 January 2008: An
international team of scientists under the aegis of the Integrated
Infrastructures Initiative for Neutron Scattering and Muon Spectroscopy
(NMI3)
has discovered a new type of interaction between a magnetic field and
electrons
on the inside of a superconductor. Read
more
16 January 2008: The European
Robotics Research
Network (EURON) is organising the second European Robotics Symposium
(EUROS),
to take place from 26 to 27 March in Prague,
the Czech Republic.
Read
more
14 January 2008: U.S.
researchers have made a very small research tool that may one day help
scientists probe the activity of genes and proteins in a single cell,
they said on Thursday, opening the door to a new realm of genetic
research. Read
more
14 January 2008: A
European project using plastic fibre and off-the-shelf components could
make optical networking so affordable and simple that installation
could be a DIY job, making faster internet technology a reality. Read
more
14 January 2008: The
Romanian National Authority for
Scientific Research (ANCS) and the Romanian Office for Science and
Technology
(ROST) in Brussels are
organising a
seminar on science and technology (S&T) cooperation between the EU
and the
Western Balkan countries, to take place on 17 January in Brussels,
Belgium. Read
more
10 January 2008: The Ames Lab
senior metallurgist and Iowa
State University
adjunct professor of materials science and engineering is playing a
major role in advancing electric drive motor technology to meet the
enormous swell in consumer demand expected over the next five years. Read more
10 January 2008: A
new report from the National Institute of Standards and Technology
shows that investment in measurement science has and will continue to
have a dramatic effect on innovation, productivity, growth and
competitiveness in and among high technology sectors. Read more
10 January 2008: Strange-behaving
Crystals Could Have Impact On Research, Technology. Read
more
10 January 2008: Mathematicians
at the University of Liverpool
have found that it is possible to gain full control of sound waves
which could lead to improved medical scans, for technology such as
ultra sound machines. Read
more
10 January 2008: The
European Commission has released
details of the first security projects to be financed under the
Information and
Communication Technologies (ICT) theme of the Seventh Framework
Programme
(FP7). Read
more
9 January 2008: Atom-thick
sheets of a carbon compound called graphene should smash the record for
room-temperature conductivity, say UK
researchers. Read
more
9 January 2008: Materials
that bend sound waves backwards could be used to make perfect sound
proofing and sharper medical scans, say UK-based researchers. Read
more
9 January 2008: The
director of the International
Polar Year (IPY) programme office, Dr David Carlson, has called for a
comprehensive data storage facility to share the information gathered
during
the IPY.
Read more
8 January 2008: A high-energy form of ultrasound imaging developed by
researchers at Duke University's
Pratt School of Engineering produces pictures of liver tumors that are
better than those made with traditional ultrasound, according to
results of a clinical study. Read more
8
January 2008: MRI imagery is emerging
as a non-invasive way to determine the existence and extent of hepatic
fibrosis. Read
more
8
January 2008: Flu viruses must be able
to pick a very specific type of lock before entering human respiratory
cells Read
more
8 January 2008: Making
cars and planes more
energy-efficient, economical and safe is the aim of the EU-funded
MERASA
('Multi-core execution of hard real-time applications supporting
analysability') project. To achieve this, researchers from six
countries have
set out to develop embedded processors that use multi-core technology. Read
more
8
January 2008: A
seminar on how to boost the involvement of small and medium sized
enterprises
(SMEs) in research and development (R&D) calls will be held in Brussels,
Belgium, on 14
January.
The event will focus in particular on SMEs in the information and
communication
technologies (ICT) field. Read
more
19 December 2007: A
student has used piezo-electric technology originally developed for
European satellites to power a novel wristwatch insulin pump for people
with type 1 diabetes. Read
more
19 December 2007: Installation
of the world’s largest silicon tracking detector was today successfully
completed at CERN. Read
more
19 December 2007: ISIS
Second Target Station -- protons on target. Read more
19 December 2007: Bypassing
decades-old conventions in making computer chips, Princeton
engineers developed a novel way to replace silicon with carbon on large
surfaces. Read more
19 December 2007: The
European Defence Agency (EDA) has
awarded €13.1 million to three research and technology projects under
its newly
launched Joint Investment Programme on Force Protection (JIP-FP).
Read more
18 December 2007: Separating particular kinds of cells from a sample
could become faster, cheaper and easier thanks to a new system
developed by MIT researchers that involves pushing up the cells with a
laser beam "fire hose." Read
more
18 December 2007: PET/CT
imaging exhibits significantly higher sensitivity, specificity and
accuracy than conventional imaging when it comes to detecting malignant
tumors in children.
18 December 2007: The
National Institute of Standards
and Technology (NIST) has developed an imaging system that quickly maps
the
mechanical properties of materials--how stiff or stretchy they are. Read
more
18 December 2007: Pre-commercial
procurement in the research and development (R&D) domain is being
underutilised, according to the European Commission. A new
communication
published on 14 December seeks to launch a debate on how to encourage
more
public spending on R&D and the development of technology. Read
more
17 December 2007: An ultrasound scanner that provides more detailed 3D
images of the deformed blood vessels within a tumour could help doctors
determine the boundary between cancerous and healthy tissue during
surgery. Read
more
17 December 2007: Two
supercomputing networks have
successfully joined forces in a distributed simulation of the
effectiveness of
drugs on mutant strains of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV). Read
more
14
December 2007: Stereo image technology
allows doctors to view two digital mammograms as one 3-D picture, and
promises to help them spot hard-to-detect tumors. Read
more
14 December 2007: The
Techinnov innovation and development forum will be held in Paris,
France, on 7
February. Read
more
14 December 2007: A
new EUREKA project is
tackling the challenge of the web of the future. In the framework of
the CELTIC cluster programme for telecommunications Read
more
14 December 2007: Taiwan
scientists and engineers have invented a nonvolatile organic memory
device. The
device uses gold nanoparticles mixed with a polymer that is wedged
between two
aluminum electrodes. Read
more
13 December 2007: Using computer simulations, researchers at the University
of Illinois have
demonstrated a strategy for sequencing DNA by driving the molecule back
and forth through a nanopore capacitor in a semiconductor chip. Read more
13 December 2007: The
European Parliament has given its
support to the EU's first four Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs),
voting in
favour of them by a large majority at a plenary session in Strasbourg.
Read
more
13 December 2007: An event
promoting the French
Ile-de-France region as a region of digital innovations will take place
in the
Committee of the Regions' building in Brussels,
Belgium, on 19
December. Read
more
12 December 2007: A technique for controlling the magnetic properties of
a commonly used blue dye could revolutionise computer processing power,
according to research published recently in Advanced Materials.
Read more
12 December 2007: University
of Queensland researchers
are part
of an international team to have made the first ever execution of a
quantum
calculation, a major step towards building the first quantum computers.
Read more
12 December 2007: Early
identification of adverse
effects of drugs before they are tested in humans is crucial in
developing new
therapeutics, as unexpected effects account for a third of all drug
failures
during the development process. Read more
11 December 2007: Infinitely
secure cryptography that renders any computer unhackable. Computers
that can solve the structure of a complicated protein at the drop of a
hat. Read more
11 December 2007: A Memorandum of
Understanding on closer collaboration has been signed by two European
standardisation bodies in the field of information and communication
technologies (ICT) research. Read
more
11 December 2007: Photonic
crystal fibre’s ability to
create broad spectra of light, which will be the basis for important
developments in technology. Read
more
10 December 2007: The EU-funded DILIGENT
(test bed digital library infrastructure on grid enabled technology)
project has enabled one of the world's largest collections of
multimedia metadata to be available to all for research purposes after
completing a data challenge on image feature extraction. Read
more
10 December 2007: An
international winter school on grid computing will take place from 6
February to 12 March. The school is organised by the ICEAGE project,
funded under the EU's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6). Read
more
10 December 2007: Researchers
have developed a laser system to investigate soot development in diesel
engines. Read
more
10 December 2007: Supercomputers
that consist of thousands of individual processor "brains" connected by
miles of copper wires could one day fit into a laptop PC, thanks in
part to a breakthrough by IBM scientists announced today. Read more
10 December 2007: Scientists
have known which genes are
linked to inflammation, but now researchers at Wake
Forest University
Baptist Medical
Center
have organized this information to develop a powerful tool to aid
investigators
in studying the genetics of inflammatory diseases. Read
more
7 December 2007: A newly
released software program will let health authorities at the site of an
infectious disease outbreak quickly analyze data, speeding the
detection of new cases and the implementation of effective
interventions. Read
more
7 December 2007: A
significant milestone for the Hubble Space Telescope successor, the
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), is on course to be reached before
Christmas with the testing of the verification model of the
Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI) at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in
Oxfordshire. Read
more
7 December 2007: Much of the
gaseous mass of the universe is bound up in a tangled web of cosmic
filaments that stretch for hundreds of millions of light-years,
according to a new supercomputer study by a team led by the University
of Colorado at Boulder.
Read more
7 December 2007: If
the move from the typewriter to
the computer was a revolution, then the next stage in evolution could
see
humans interacting with computers inserted into their clothes. Read
more
7 December 2007: Researchers
at the University of
Leicester, UK, are tackling the problem of software evolution and
degradation
in the framework of the EU-funded project Leg2Net (From Legacy Systems
to
Services in the Net). Read
more
7 December 2007: The
Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and Turkish Research and Business
Organisations (TuR&Bo) will hold a networking reception on 11
December in Brussels, Belgium.
Read
more
6 December 2007: In about 20 percent of women with breast cancer who
plan to undergo a lumpectomy, breast magnetic resonance imaging reveals
important diagnostic information that alters their treatment plan. Read more
6 December 2007: The
European Commission is set to
significantly increase its funding into the development of technologies
which
protect the privacy of users on the internet, announced the Commission
Vice-President Franco Frattini. Read
more
5 December 2007: Detecting the presence of specific genes in a DNA
sample can be like looking for a needle in a haystack. Read
more
5 December 2007: The
EU-funded MolDiag-Paca project
(Novel molecular diagnostic tools for the prevention and diagnosis of
pancreatic cancer) is investigating new methods for early detection of
pancreatic cancer with the help of molecular imaging. Read
more
5 December 2007: The Feel of
Cancer Cells - Future diagnostic tests for cancer may probe cell
stiffness. Read
more
5 December 2007: The world's most
powerful medical magnetic resonance imaging machine, the 9.4 Tesla at
the University of Illinois at Chicago, has successfully completed
safety trials and may soon offer physicians a real-time view of
biological processes in the human brain. Read more
5 December 2007: Two
climate change conferences are taking place this week: the United
Nations forum in Bali, Indonesia
and a second meeting gathering animated creatures on an island in
cyberspace. Read
more
5 December 2007: The
European Commission has published
a call for proposals under the 'Information and communication
technologies'
(ICT) theme of the 'Cooperation' aspect of the Seventh Framework
Programme
(FP7). Read
more
4 December 2007: Sending an unmanned spacecraft to the outer fringes of
the solar system requires extensive planning. Read more
4 December 2007:
The European Technology Platform on
Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS) will be holding its annual forum from
12 to
13 December in Brussels, Belgium.
Read
more
3 December 2007: Treating
breast cancer with a type of
heat therapy derived from MIT radar research can significantly increase
the
effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read
more
30
November 2007: Treating breast cancer
with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT radar research can
significantly increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read more
30 November 2007: The
German government on Thursday launched a secure Internet search engine
to allow children to surf the Web without any risk of them finding
violent or sexual content. Read more
30 November 2007: With
their target completion date just a year and a half away, scientists
and technicians at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) are quickening
their pace to install and test the rest of NIF’s 192 lasers and prepare
for a new round of preliminary experiments in 2008. Read more
30 November 2007: An
EU-funded project developing an
intelligent healthcare monitoring and decision-support system is about
to start
testing two applications. Read
more
29 November 2007: Millions of
Americans, especially
children, are needlessly getting dangerous radiation from "super
X-rays" that raise the risk of cancer and are increasingly used to
diagnose medical problems, a new report warns. Read more
29 November 2007: Using
a novel imaging technique to study autistic children, researchers have
found
increased gray matter in the brain areas that govern social processing
and
learning by observation. Read
more
29 November 2007: A
new radiological diagnostic tool called stereo mammography allows
clinicians to
detect more lesions and could significantly reduce the number of women
who are
recalled for additional tests following routine screening mammography. Read more
29 November 2007: Center
in Philadelphia have used PET imaging to see hyperactive cancer genes
inside
breast tumors in laboratory animals, marking the first time such gene
activity
has been observed from outside the body. Read more
29 November 2007: A
colour X-ray machine that can detect the chemical make-up as well as
the
structure and shape of a sample has been demonstrated by UK
researchers. Read
more
29 November 2007: A technique
for controlling the
magnetic properties of a commonly used blue dye could revolutionise
computer
processing power, according to research published recently in Advanced
Materials. Read
more
29 November 2007: Fuel
cells can be expensive and they typically don’t last as long as their
internal
combustion counterparts. Read
more
28 November 2007: Scientists can only develop new cancer drugs or search
for cures by testing their theories on the real thing. Read more
28 November 2007: In the
future, patients who arrive at a hospital Emergency Department
complaining of chest pain may be diagnosed with a sophisticated CT
scan. Read more
28 November 2007: Treating
breast cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT radar
research can significantly increase the effectiveness of chemotherapy. Read more
28 November 2007: The
Networked European Software and Services Initiative. NESSI, will be
holding its second annual general assembly in Brussels,
Belgium, on 11 and
12 December. Read
more
28 November 2007: The
European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technical Research
(COST) will hold a conference on the potential of new communication
technologies for older and disabled people and how research can help
the industry deliver this potential on 7 February in Brussels,
Belgium. Read
more
28 November 2007: Using a
computer model simulation, Haruichi Washimi, a physicist at UC
Riverside, has predicted when the interplanetary spacecraft Voyager 2
will cross the "termination shock," the spherical shell around the
solar system that marks where the solar wind slows down to subsonic
speed. Read
more
28 November 2007: The
Centenary Institute unveiled a powerful microscope unlike any other in Australia.
Read more
28 November 2007: Meteorologists
See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events. Read
more
28 November 2007: A
laser-driven motor has been
demonstrated by Japanese researchers. Future versions could provide
pinpoint
mechanical control in places that electric motors cannot normally go,
they say.
Read
more
28 November 2007: A new,
high-tech identification
system developed in Japan
will improve accuracy and significantly reduce the time it takes to
identify
victims of mass disasters. Read
more
27 November 2007: Using
room-temperature processing,
researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have fabricated
high-performance field effect transistors with thin films of Carbon 60,
also
known as fullerene. Read
more
27 November 2007: How
can we prepare for the natural hazards that will result from
environmental
change" How can we predict the effect of climate change on the Alps
and other regions of Switzerland"
How can we assess whether the use of natural resources is sustainable?
By
bringing the way we measure and model the environment firmly into the
21st
century. Read more
27 November 2007: The
Competitiveness Council of the European Union on 23 November paved the
way for
establishing four Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), agreeing to
provide €7.6
billion in funding for the public-private partnerships. In addition,
the council
made further headway regarding the realisation of the European
Institute of
Technology (EIT). Read
more
27 November 2007: A team of
European scientists has
published the details of its research into three-dimensional photonic
crystals
which they believe could revolutionise the world of telecommunications.
Read more
27 November 2007: For
the past several decades, virtually all electronics devices have been
based on
the CMOS logic system, which uses semiconductors and transistors to
form digital circuits. Read
more
27 November 2007: The
first ever event devoted to French competition poles and Italian
technology
districts and parks will take place in Milan,
Italy
on 28 November. Read
more
23 November 2007: A
long-sought device able to produce a beam of 'T-rays' that could
revolutionise airport security and medical scans has been created by
persuading normally independent quantum junctions to work together. Read
more
23 November 2007: ENIAC,
the European Technology Platform on nanoelectronics, has decided to
make the development of medical applications one of its main
objectives. Read
more
23 November 2007: A
long-sought device able to produce
a beam of 'T-rays' that could revolutionise airport security and
medical scans
has been created by persuading normally independent quantum junctions
to work
together. Read
more
22 November 2007: EU Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security,
Franco Frattini, has spoken of the need to use technology to protect
European citizens, as well as to safeguard their privacy. Read
more
22 November 2007: In
an effort to find an answer to the
problem of identifying smuggled special nuclear material (SNM),
researchers at
Sandia National Laboratories in California
say a neutron scatter camera they are developing may be able to detect
radiation from much greater distances and through more shielding than
current
detection instruments. Read
more
22 November 2007: A team of US
scientists poring over the intestines of a tropical termite have a gut
feeling
that a breakthrough in the quest for cleaner, renewable petrol is in
store. Read more
21 November 2007: Complex
living systems would benefit from being modelled as if they were
computer programs. Read
more
21 November 2007: Trust2008,
a conference creating a scientific and networking platform covering
trust in information technology (IT) systems will take place in Villach,
Austria, on 11 and
12 March. Read
more
21 November 2007: Twelve
European knowledge-based
organisations have joined forces with the goal of establishing a
European
infrastructure to help preserve and provide permanent access to digital
scientific information. Read
more
20 November 2007: Physicians at the Rebecca and John
Moores UCSD
Cancer Center
will present the initial outcomes of their use of a new device that
delivers radiation therapy to a specific tumor site. Read more
20 November 2007: A
conference on information and
communication technologies (ICT) research collaboration will be held in
Mexico City, Mexico,
on 6 and 7 December. Read
more
19 November 2007: The Max Planck Society invites applications from
outstanding young scientists in all fields of research pursued by the
Max Planck Society (biology and medicine; chemistry, physics and
technology; and human sciences). Read
more
19 November 2007: It's kind
of like SETI@home, but with PS3s instead of PCs and molecules instead
of aliens. In the latest volunteer scientist program, called PS3GRID,
anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation3 can donate their system´s
downtime to compute enzymatic reactions and ion conductivity to help an
international team of biomedical researchers. Read more
19 November 2007: Positron
emission tomography or PET scans can help clinicians diagnose and treat
some cancers, but it is not clear yet whether the imaging technology
helps people with cancer live longer and healthier lives Read
more
19 November 2007: Scientists
are closer to developing
novel devices for optics-based quantum computing and quantum
information
processing. Read
more
16 November 2007: DNA-based
computing just got a big
boost. A method of amplifying weak chemical signals in a way that can
be
tailored to specific molecules has brought DNA-based circuits closer to
practical applications. Read
more
15 November 2007: There's
growing worry about global warming, but how much of it is the work of
that power plant just outside town? Read more
15 November 2007: It
takes only a tiny magnetic field to see clear through a person's head,
a new study shows. Read
more
15 November 2007: A
team of researchers have developed
a robot control system based on electroencephalograph (EEG) signals,
which
could help paralysed people regain some independence. Read
more
14 November 2007: UK
researchers have developed a new technology which could lead to much
quicker
detection times for a variety of potentially fatal contaminants. Read
more
13 November 2007: Studying the sea's tiniest inhabitants is set to get a
lot easier thanks to a new device developed by German scientists. Read
more
13 November 2007: The
European Commission's Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive
Agency EACEA has issued a call for tenders for a study of indicators on
information and communication technologies (ICT) in education.
Read more
13 November 2007: A
new pan-European supercomputing
network will enter its preparatory phase on 12 November with a project
presentation at the international supercomputing conference SC07 in Reno,
USA. Read
more
9 November 2007: The e-safety
deployment workshop and
awards ceremony will be held in Brussels,
Belgium,
on 14 November 2007.
Read
more
8 November 2007: Most people have a few gigabytes of files on their PC.
In the next decade, astronomers expect to be processing 10 million
gigabytes of data every hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. Read more
8 November 2007: Researchers
at the University of
Granada (UGR) have developed a new system to determine the age of
living
subjects using chest and dental x-rays. The new technique could help to
judge
the age of immigrant minors more reliably. Read
more
7 November 2007: Some 45 research
projects have been awarded 30 million hours of computing time on Europe's most
powerful supercomputers
by the Distributed European Infrastructure (DEISA) as part of the DEISA
Extreme
Computing Initiative (DECI). Read
more
7 November 2007: Denmark
and the Netherlands
now have the highest broadband penetration rates, while Ireland,
Germany
and Sweden
had the highest growth in broadband subscribers over the past year,
according
to new figures from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development
(OECD). Read
more
2 November 2007: A selfless
act of destruction – exemplified by the way honeybees die to defend
their hive – has inspired a novel way of securing computer networks
against malicious hackers. Read
more
2 November 2007: IBM and the
U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory announced
completion of a contract for a 445-teraflops Blue Gene/P system for the
Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF). Read more
2 November 2007: A
PET scan (positron emission tomography) that measures uptake of sugar
in the brain significantly improves the accuracy of diagnosing a type
of dementia often mistaken for Alzheimer’s disease. Read more
2 November 2007: Physicists
in Arizona State
University have designed a
revolutionary laser technique which can destroy viruses and bacteria
such as AIDS without damaging human cells and may also help reduce the
spread of hospital infections such as MRSA. Read more
2 November 2007: U.S.
researchers have developed a magnetic sensor smaller than a grain of
rice and
sensitive enough to detect a fetal heart beat. Read
more
31 October 2007: UC San Diego
electrical engineers have developed the world’s most complex “phased
array” – or radio frequency integrated circuit. Read more
31 October 2007: Researchers
from four European
countries have joined forces to develop technologies for capturing and
sharing
experiences. The project ExpeShare attempts to go beyond web-based
sharing of
digital multimedia content, trying to create novel peer-to-peer
networking
solutions. Read
more
30 October 2007: The
third International ICT21 Forum on sustainable development, new
technologies and information society will take place on 30 and 31
October in Valenciennes, France.
Read
more
30 October 2007: The
European Commission has postponed legislation on workers' exposure to
electric magnetic fields, which would have restricted the use of
life-saving medical imaging devices.
Read more
30 October 2007: Researchers
at Purdue and Duke
universities have developed a technique that uses a magnetic field to
selectively separate tiny magnetic particles, representing a highly
sensitive
method for potentially diagnosing disease by testing samples from
patients. Read
more
30 October 2007: A new
ultra-high resolution
mammography system that detects cancerous tumors with higher-quality
images,
more efficient radiation exposures and lower cost has been developed by
a team
of U.S.
and
German scientists. Read
more
29 October 2007: Moderate to severe chronic
liver disease can be predicted with the use of diffusion-weighted MRI
(DWI). Read
more
29 October 2007: Combined positron emission
tomography and computed tomography (PET/CT) is currently widely used in
the clinical diagnosis of cancer to provide functional and
morphological imaging. Read
more
29 October 2007: Using an advanced
three-dimensional mapping technique developed by UCLA researchers, the
team analyzed magnetic resonance imaging data from 24 patients with
amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and 25 others with mild
Alzheimer’s disease. Read
more
29 October 2007: Discussing the best ways to measure
human feelings and emotions is the aim of a new European expert
platform. Results of the platform FEEL EUROPE will help to create the
basis for novel research topics, technologies, cooperation and
innovations across various applications and industrial branches,
believe participants in a new EU-funded project. Read
more
29 October 2007: The European Parliament has voted to
boost funding for the
European Institute of Technology (EIT) and Galileo, the European
satellite
navigation system, at its first reading vote on the draft budget for
2008. Read
more
26 October 2007: Lasers are at the cutting edge of surgery. From
cosmetic to brain surgery, intense beams of coherent light are
gradually replacing the steel scalpel for many procedures. Read
more
26 October 2007: NASA's
James Webb Space Telescope
will use a new advanced technology network interface called
"SpaceWire" that enables the components on the telescope to work more
efficiently and more reliably with each other. Read more
25 October 2007: ENIAC, the European
Nanoelectronics Initiative Advisory Council, has decided to make the
energy
efficiency of electronic equipment one of its main objectives. Read
more
25
October 2007: Investigating
the use of near field communication (NFC) technology in everyday life
is the aim of a EUREKA project headed by the Technical Research Centre of
Finland (VTT). Read
more
25 October 2007: Two researchers from the French
National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control
(INRIA), Christine Morin and Christine Azevedo-Coste, have been awarded
the 'Excellencia Prize 2007'. Read
more
25 October 2007: Wireless biosensors that
monitor pathogens in water and
measure blood pressure or cancer biomarkers in the body are shrinking
to
nanometer dimensions.
Read more
24 October 2007: The European Science Foundation
(ESF) has called for greater collaboration across Europe on research
on medical imaging. Read
more
24 October 2007: Blind
and partially sighted people can now safely stroll along a path along
the shore of Lake
Maggiore in
northern Italy, thanks to an initiative from the European Commission's
Joint Research Centre (JRC) and the town of Laveno Mombello. Read
more
24 October 2007: Applications
of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are varied and so
is its future. Incorporated into a modern, mobile, multimodal
high-speed communication system, ICT will pave the way to better
safety, improved health, information and entertainment accessible
anywhere at any time, according to Wolfgang Wahlster, director of the
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). Read
more
24 October 2007: Arizona
State University’s
Center for Applied Nanoionics (CANi) has a new take on old memory, one
that
promises to boost the performance, capacity and battery life of
consumer
electronics from digital cameras to laptops. Best of all, it is cheap,
made
from common materials and compatible with just about anything currently
on the
market. Read more
24 October 2007:
Blocks of carbon nanotubes can be used to create effective and
powerful
pressure sensors, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer
Polytechnic Institute. Read
more
23
October 2007: The
societal dimension of information and communication technology (ICT)
was the centre of attention at the Information Technology for European
Advancement (ITEA 2) Symposium 2007. Read
more
23 October 2007: A
virtual hospital and a home for 'assisted living' using an information
and communication technology (ICT) system are just two of five pilot
sites planned in the framework of a project entitled NUADU. Read
more
23 October 2007: Researchers have been working
on nanowires and microchips
so tiny that they could be used to build supercomputers that could fit
in the
palm of your hand. Read
more
19 October 2007: The European
Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for
tenders
for a mid-term review of the i2010 initiative. Read
more
19 October 2007: The European
Commission's Information Society and Media DG has published a call for
tenders
for a study on privacy and trust in the ubiquitous information society.
Read
more
19 October
2007: The second
wave of the European Network of Living Labs
(ENoLL) has been launched at a Portuguese Presidency event in Brussels, bringing
the total number of ENoLL members to
51. Read
more
18 October 2007: After
expanding across Earth, the
Internet is now set to spread into outer space to reach parts no
network has
gone before, one of its co-creators predicted Wednesday. Read more
17 October 2007: Hitachi, Ltd.
(NYSE:HIT) (TOKYO:6501) [profile]
and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) announced that
they have developed the world's smallest read-head technology for hard
disk drives, which is expected to quadruple current storage capacity
limits to four terabytes (TB) on a desktop hard drive and one TB on a
notebook hard drive. Read more
17 October 2007: A European network of national
research portals, sharing
information and working together to generate an interest in science
among the
public and businesses alike - this was the vision set out during a
presentation
of the Italian National Research Portal at the European Parliament on
15
October. Read
more
15 October 2007: A new technology developed by
scientists at Emory University
will allow researchers to more easily discover subtle and overlooked
genetic variations that may have serious consequences for health and
disease. Read
more
15 October 2007: A Princeton-led research team
has created an easy-to-produce material from the stuff of computer
chips that has the rare ability to bend light in the opposite direction
from all naturally occurring materials. Read more
15 October 2007: The effect is called giant
magnetoresistance, but it
enables amazing things at the miniature level. Two European scientists
won the
2007 Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for their discoveries of the
phenomenon,
which spurred some of computing's most astonishing developments, from
video-playing handheld devices to PCs whose storage capacity now seems
all but
limitless. Read
more
11 October 2007: The German Federal
Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and partners from German
industry
have announced a €900 million investment in molecular imaging research.
The
so-called 'Innovation Alliance Molecular Imaging' will provide funding
for
joint projects involving the research and industry sectors. The aim is
to
develop new contrast media, devices and software. Read
more
10
October 2007:One
day soon, laboratories may grow synthetically engineered tissues such
as muscle or cartilage needed for transplants. Read
more
10 October 2007:A new nanowire-based memory
device being developed by
researchers at IBM could combine the best qualities of the various
types of
memory used today, driving down costs and improving performance. Read more
9 October 2007: University
of Cincinnati (UC)
radiologists
have developed a new technique for capturing images of chest veins that
eases
diagnosis of venous diseases. Read
more
8 October
2007: The Jacobs Foundation is an international charitable
foundation, with a base in Switzerland,
whose mission is to use science-based knowledge, understanding and
education to
foster the welfare, social competence and human potential of future
generations
of young people. Read
more
5 October 2007: An
international team has opened a virtual bazaar, called PAZAR, which
allows biologists to share information about gene regulation through
individually managed 'boutiques' (data collections). Read more
5 October 2007: Scientists
at Florida State
University’s National High
Magnetic Field Laboratory and the university’s Department of Chemistry
and Biochemistry have introduced a new material that could be to
computers of the future what silicon is to the computers of today. Read more
5 October 2007: A new European news
platform Imooty.com provides direct access to the latest breaking
stories from
around the continent, in areas such as science, politics and business. Read
more
4 October 2007: The coordinator of an
EU-funded project into blindness has won the 2007 Altran Foundation
Award for
his work on the development of an artificial retina. Read
more
3 October 2007: Integrating
silicon microchip technology with a network of tiny fluid channels,
some
thinner than a human hair, researchers at The Johns Hopkins University
have
developed a thumb-size micro-incubator to culture living cells for lab
tests. Read more
2
October 2007: Europe's research
ministers hope to adopt a final decision on Joint
Technology Initiatives (JTIs) in November, enabling the four JTIs
proposed so
far to get underway in 2008. Read
more
28 September 2007: The European Parliament
has backed the European Commission's proposal to set up a European
Institute of
Technology (EIT) by a large majority, but called for a name change to
include
the word 'innovation', and an initial pilot phase. Read
more
27
September 2007: The
energy alternative company Solio will release a hand-held solar battery
recharger on October 15, 2007.
Read more
27 September 2007: Researchers based at the University
of Pittsburgh have created
the best
method so far of assembling wire-like structures only a single molecule
wide, a
significant step in science's increasing attempts to reduce the
circuitry size
of electronic devices to the single molecule scale and provide smaller,
faster,
and more energy efficient electronics. Read more.
27 September 2007: U.S.
physicists have coaxed tiny artificial atoms into communicating in an
advance
that may lead to super-fast quantum computers, the researchers said on
Wednesday. Read
more
26
September 2007: Some
37 national grid projects have teamed up as part of the European Grid
Initiative (EGI) to set up a distributed computing network that will
enable laboratories to collaborate via thousands of computers merged
into one supercomputer. Read
more
26 September 2007: The European Commission's
Directorate-General for Information Society and Media has issued a call
for tenders for a study on optimising the use of the radio spectrum by
the public sector in the European Union. Read
more
26 September 2007: The Governing Body of Darwin
College, Cambridge,
and Microsoft Research Limited jointly offer a stipendiary research
fellowship
supporting research in the field of adaptive computing (including
topics such
as pattern recognition, probabilistic inference, statistical learning
theory
and computer vision). Read
more
26 September 2007: Lymph nodes appear to play a key role
in spreading low doses of prion diseases such as scrapie or bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) to the central nervous system (CNS),
according to new research from German scientists. Read
more
26 September 2007: Scientists have discovered the brain
region which controls whether excess energy should be stored as fat or
burned in our muscles. The researchers hope that their findings will
lead to the development of new treatments for obesity. Read
more
26 September 2007: British pharmaceutical giant
GlaxoSmithKline said Monday that the European Union has allowed it to
market Cervarix -- a vaccine used to protect against cervical cancer. Read more
26 September 2007: For more than a decade, Steve
Stice has dedicated his research using embryonic stem cells to
improving the lives of people with degenerative diseases and
debilitating injuries. His most recent discovery, which produces
billions of neural cells from a few stem cells, could now aid in
national security. Read
more
26 September 2007: By better understanding how
antimicrobials bind and thereby get inactivated in the mucus of air
passages, researchers at the University
of Illinois may have found
a way to help cystic fibrosis patients fight off deadly infections. Read more
26 September 2007: For years researchers in
neurology have believed that people with Huntington’s disease have more
children than the general population because of behavioral changes
associated with the disease that lead to sexual promiscuity. Read more
26 September 2007: The Human Papillomavirus (HPV)
is considered the cause of one of the most important sexually
transmitted diseases nowadays, and affects both men and women. Read more
26 September 2007: The treatment that more cancer
patients receive may one day depend on their genes. With an increasing
number of biological clues available, doctors hope they will be able to
customize more patients' treatments based on their genetic profiles. Read more
26 September 2007: Researchers at the Swedish
medical university Karolinska Institutet (KI) and the Swedish Institute
for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) have identified the biochemical
mechanism behind the adhesive protein that give rise to particularly
serious malaria in children. Read more
26 September 2007: A team, led by researchers at
the Carnegie Institution, has found a key biochemical cycle that
suppresses the immune response, thereby allowing cancer cells to
multiply unabated. Read
more
26 September 2007: Researchers at the Zhejiang
University, Hangzhou
have discovered that mimecan and Thioredoxin Domain-Containing Protein
5 (TXNDC5) were differentially expressed in colorectal adenoma. Read more
26 September 2007: In
research conducted in budding yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae),
scientists at Rockefeller University have now identified the cellular
event that marks the moment when a cell knows it is big enough to
commit to cell division and spawn genetic replicas of itself. Read more
26 September 2007: Scientists in Aberdeen
have identified two genes that identify which breast cancer cells are
resistant and which respond to a common chemotherapy treatment. Read more
26 September 2007: A novel strategy to hopefully
beat into oblivion one of the most aggressive forms of acute
myelogenous leukemia combines the strengths of some of the newest
leukemia agents, researchers say. Read more
26 September 2007: Cancer cells circulating in the
blood, or circulating tumour cells (CTCs), are known to be associated
with a bad prognosis in women with metastatic breast cancer. Read more
26
September 2007: Italian
scientists will announce today (Monday September 24) that they have
found a new and promising target for anti-tumour therapy in cancer. Read more
26 September 2007: Researchers in California
are reporting new evidence explaining pomegranate juice’s mysterious
beneficial effects in fighting prostate cancer. Read more
26 September 2007: Space flight has been shown to
have a profound impact on
human physiology as the body adapts to zero gravity environments. Read more
24
September 2007: From
artificial kidneys to robots as nursing staff in hospitals, information
technology (IT) is becoming increasingly important in preventive
healthcare and the treatment of diseases. But not everything that is
technically possible will also be accepted, say researchers from the
German Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI). Read
more
24 September 2007: Radiation oncologists and
urologists at the Kimmel Cancer
Center
at Jefferson and Thomas
Jefferson University
Hospital in Philadelphia
have begun using a real-time system to implant radiation-emitting seeds
in
prostate cancer patients.
Read more
24 September 2007: A group of
computer scientists, mathematicians, and biologists from around the
world have
developed a computer algorithm that can help trace the genetic ancestry
of
thousands of individuals in minutes, without any prior knowledge of
their
background. Read
more
20 September 2007: Leading experts from some of the world's top
corporations and research institutes will set out their vision of the
next-generation Internet, its enhanced interactivity, and how users,
business, scientists and citizens may exploit its new possibilities, at
a conference in Ottawa, Canada,
on 3 October. Read
more
20 September
2007: The University
of Manchester is developing
high-speed data crunching technology that will be crucial to the
success of one of the greatest scientific projects of the 21st century. Read more
20 September 2007: Boxes that sense
the weight of their
contents and books that talk back when pages are turned could be
developed
using technology being tested by researchers at MIT in the US.
They are making paper with wires, sensors, and computer chips embedded,
a
technology dubbed 'Pulp-based' computing. Read more
14
September 2007: The
second international workshop on building technology-enhanced learning
solutions for communities of practice will be held in Crete, Greece, on 17 September. Read
more
14 September 2007: New research led by the U.S.
Department of Energy's
Argonne National Laboratory physicist Matthias Bode provides a more
thorough
understanding of new mechanisms, which makes it possible to switch a
magnetic
nanoparticle without any magnetic field and may enable computers to
more
accurately write and store information. Read more
13 September 2007: Researchers at
the University of Illinois
have discovered a way to generate light and reduce damage in a leading
candidate for next-generation microelectronics lithography. The
technique could
help pack more power into smaller computer chips. Read more
12
September 2007: The
European Commission has proposed a series of actions to boost
Europeans' e-skills. According to recent reports, Europe is likely to
face a growing e-skills shortage in coming years. Read
more
12 September 2007: Computer engineering professor at UH
receives NSF grant to partner with
UC-Riverside, Seagate Technology. Read
more
11 September 2007:The first symposium on research,
internet and knowledge networks will be held in Bordeaux, France on 27-28 September. Read
more
11 September 2007:IBM scientists have created a
novel molecular switch that is able to turn on and off without altering
its shape. Read
more
11 September 2007:A new way to harness wind energy
may take off now that
computers have learned to kite surf.
Read more
7
September 2007: German
and Swiss researchers have developed the world's fastest personal
computer (PC) forensic system to copy and protect evidence in criminal
cases involving computers and digital networks. The IT FORENSIC project
was supported by EUREKA. Read
more
7 September 2007: Jean Michel Sellier, the
founder of SouthNovel, has
decided to make his Aeneas3 tool, a very advanced simulator for Monte
Carlo quantum transport in semiconductor devices of general
3D
shape for organic and inorganic materials, available to the entire
scientific
community as a free software tool under GPL license. Read more
4
September 2007:
Sensors can monitor production processes, unmask tiny cracks in
aircraft hulls,
and determine the amount of laundry in a washing machine. In future,
they will
also be used in the human body and raise the alarm in the event of high
pressure in the eye, bladder or brain. Read more
3
September 2007:
A grant of $221,145 from The Department of Education, Science and
Training
(DEST) International Science Linkages programme will support the
e-Health
Research Centre’s involvement in the AMIDA project (Augmented
Multi-party
Interaction with Distant Access). Read
more
30 August 2007: NASA's images
from the Apollo moon
landings, the Voyager planetary flybys and the many space shuttle
missions will
be accessible through a central, searchable Web site under a
partnership
between the space agency and the nonprofit Internet Archive. Read more
23 August 2007: The
ubiquitous Flash video player will soon support
the same technology behind next-generation, high-definition DVDs, but
don't expect
online clips to look great on giant television screens for some time. Read more
23 August 2007: Blog service
providers in China are
"encouraged" to register users with
their real names and contact information, according to a new government
document that tones down an earlier proposal banning anonymous online
blogging.
Read more
23 August 2007: Engineers at
the University of California, San Diego have
constructed the
highest-resolution computer display in the world with a screen
resolution
up to 220 million pixels. Read more
23 August 2007: A recently
disclosed
fraud involving hundreds of thousands of people on the Monster.com jobs
Web
site reveals the perils of leaving detailed personal information
online,
security analysts say. Read more
23 August 2007: Digital films
of
outstanding picture quality are set to attract movie fans back to the
cinema.
At the International Broadcast Convention IBC in Amsterdam on September
7-11, Fraunhofer research scientists are
presenting important components of an all-digital film-production
chain. Read more
23 August 2007: In 1971,
before most
people had even used a computer, legal scholar Arthur R. Miller wrote
that the
rise of databases being harnessed by credit agencies, governments and
corporations was creating a difficult problem: "balancing privacy and
efficiency." Read more
23 August 2007: Imagine
cruising the
heavens from your desktop and seeing all the spectacular images from
NASA's
Hubble Space Telescope. Exploding stars and faraway galaxies are just a
mouse
click away through Sky in Google Earth. Read
more
23 August 2007: Car
shopping? Maybe
you should go to the videotape. Jarring images of vehicles crashing
into test
barriers are becoming more prevalent on the Internet, giving
safety-conscious
car shoppers another tool when searching for the right car. Read more
22 August 2007: An eye
tracking
experiment published in the Journal of Computer-Mediated
Communication
revealed that college student internet users have an inherent trust in
Google's
ability to rank results by their true relevance to the query. When
participants
selected a link from Google's result pages, their decisions were
strongly
biased towards links higher in position, even if that content was less
relevant
to the search query. Read more
22 August 2007: Cars already
automatically lock doors when they sense motion and turn on warning
lights if
they detect potential engine problems. But they are about to get
smarter. Read more
22 August 2007: Viacom Inc.'s MTV Networks and
digital
media company RealNetworks announced Tuesday a digital music joint
venture that
will compete with Apple's dominant trinity of the iTunes store, iPod
player and
iPhone. Read more
22 August 2007: Wells Fargo
& Co.
announced early Tuesday it has fixed a computer glitch that some
customers said
left them unable to access their online bank accounts or get cash from
ATMs. Read more
22 August 2007: To support
its
embedded technology customers, Intel Corporation announced today plans
to
extend its embedded NOR flash products to the 65-nanometer (nm)
generation. Read more
22 August 2007: Social-networking
site Bebo Inc. said Tuesday it will launch a Microsoft-powered
instant-messaging program this fall. Read
more
22 August 2007: The
Associated Press
and NBC Universal reached a deal that allows AP to include video links
and
other exclusive content from the 2008 Summer Olympics in a premium
online
service, the companies said Tuesday. Read
more
21 August 2007: Snoopers
won't stand
a chance if you enter your PIN using only eye movements. Read more
21 August 2007: Is it
possible to
"feel" an object while being in another location? This is a question
addressed by several technologies on show at the SIGGRAPH 2007 computer
conference in San Diego, California, US, earlier
this month. Read
more
20 August 2007: Skype said
its
Internet phone service has returned to normal after a software bug left
many
users unable to log on for two days. Read
more
20 August 2007: Dell's
internal
investigation into its accounting problems is over, leaving up to a
$150
million hit on earnings in its wake. Now, it may be the feds' turn. Read more
20 August 2007: A US
hacker's
homemade program to pinpoint origins of Wikipedia edits indicates that
alterations to the popular online encyclopedia have come from the CIA
and the Vatican. Read more
20 August 2007: Nokia Corp.,
the
world's largest mobile phone maker, said Friday that it has asked the United States to ban
imports of chipsets made by Qualcomm Inc.
along with phones and other products made with those chipsets. Read more
20 August 2007: North Korea is expected
to register an Internet country address
this year as the isolated communist state takes cautious steps towards
global
information technology, an official said Friday. Read
more
20 August 2007: The first
known
pirated copy of "The Simpsons Movie" to make it onto the Internet was
tracked to a home raided by Australian police Friday, authorities said.
Read more
20 August 2007: Mobile phones are a potential gold
mine for
advertisers, the most personal and intimate way to communicate and
engage with
subscribers - more than 2 billion of them and counting worldwide. Read more
20 August 2007: EMC Corp. can't celebrate too long
after
spinning off a 10 percent stake of its VMware Inc. software unit in
what became
the biggest technology stock offering since Google Inc. Read more
17 August 2007: News audiences are ditching
television and
newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information,
in a trend
that could eventually see the demise of local papers, according to a
new study
Wednesday. ... Read more
17 August 2007: Two longtime rivals in computing,
IBM Corp.
and Sun Microsystems Inc., plan to cooperate on some server
technologies, a
move that could put pressure on their joint competitor Hewlett-Packard
Co. Read more
17 August 2007: An
engineering marvel at the time, today they are instantly recognizable
as
Compact Discs, a product that turns 25 years old on Friday - and whose
future
is increasingly in doubt in an age of iPods and digital downloads. Read more
17 August 2007: Computer
maker Dell
Inc. on Thursday said it will reduce more than four years' worth of
earnings by
up to $150 million after an internal probe found the company misled its
auditors
and manipulated results to meet performance goals. Read
more
17 August 2007: "My husband
isn't home tonight. Would you like to..." reads the suggestive e-mail
on
the computer screen. Obviously, the sender has no idea that the
recipient is
78-year-old grandmother Kikue Kamata. Read
more
16 August 2007: Ultrafast
quantum
computer uses optically controlled electrons. Read
more
10 August 2007: A conference on the objectives and
challenges of the second information society technologies (IST) call
for
proposals under the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) will take place on
10 and
11 June in Hertfordshire, UK. Read
more
10
August 2007: The
e-Power network is
organising a conference on regional responses to developing information
and
communication technologies (ICT), to be held on 3 and 4 July in Vienna, Austria. Read
more
10 August 2007: The EU funded project
SCULPTEUR is developing a new way of visiting Europe's greatest
galleries and
museums, making endless queues and sore feet a thing of the past. Read
more
10
August 2007: The
'innovations-report' portal, with over 18,000 pages on new
technologies,
research results and innovative practices, has been relaunched with a
new
design, enabling users the find the desired information in seconds. Read
more
10
August 2007: In
a world
first, Fujitsu has achieved the basic read/write capability of ideally
ordered
alumina nanoholes on a 2.5” magnetic disk with a flying head. Read more
9 August 2007: Two of Germany's top research bodies have joined
forces to create
the 'Jülich Aachen Research Alliance' (JARA), in what a government
minister has
described as a 'forward-looking' move. Read
more
9 August 2007: The third summer school organised by CoreGRID, a European
network on grid and peer-to-peer technologies, will take place from 3
to7 September in Budapest, Hungary. Read
more
9
August 2007: The European
Commission's Directorate General for Information Society and Media has
issued a call for tenders on monitoring and control: today's market,
its evolution until 2020 and the impact of ICT (information and
communication technologies) on these. Read
more
9
August 2007: Finding out
whether that unusual sore in your mouth is cancerous
should become a lot faster and easier in the years ahead. Read
more
7
August 2007: Pulp and paper plants in the future may
operate at
lower energy levels as the result of a new joint technology developed
by Oak
Ridge National Laboratory and Swagelok Company of Solon, Ohio. Read
more
6 August 2007: Researchers from
the University of Delaware and Washington University in St. Louis have figured out how to train synthetic polymer molecules to
behave--to literally “self-assemble”. Read
more
6
August 2007: The European Commission has published the first
joint call for proposals within the thematic area “Information and
Communication Technologies” (ICT) and “Security” of the 7th
Framework Programme. Read more
6 August 2007: Britain's
Department of Transport has launched a Web site designed to let new car
buyers choose the most environmentally friendly vehicle for their needs. Read more
6
August 2007: Comission has issued
a joint call
for proposals for the 'Information and Communication Technologies' and
'Security' themes of the Cooperation Programme under the Seventh
Framework
Programme (FP7). Read
more
3 August 2007: Researchers at Temple
University have observed and
documented electron transfer reactions on an electrode surface at the
single
molecule level for the first time. Read more
2 August 2007: CORDIS, the Community
Research and Development Service has launched a new environment
information
service under the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). Read
more
31 July 2007: German scientists have developed a new
software tool capable of identifying pictures of chemical structures in
patent files. The aim is to make these pictures computer-readable and
retrievable. Read
more
31 July 2007: The Committee recommends a long-term
cohort study to find out more about the long term effects of mobile
phone use, as well as a study using personal dosimeters to accurately
assess individual exposure to RF fields. Read
more
31
July 2007: A
workshop to prepare a new agenda for science communication will be held
in Strasbourg, France from 8 to 10 November. The event is organised by the
EU-funded EARTHWAKE project, which aims to use the appeal of popular
strands of European TV to create a new awareness and interest in
science. Read
more
31 July
2007: The
European Defence Agency has issued a call for tenders concerning
disruptive COTS (commercial off-the-shelf technologies) development in
the IT (information technology) area. Read
more
31 July 2007: EDIT, the European Distributed
Institute of Taxonomy, is
organising a meeting on DNA barcoding in Europe, which will
take place from 3 to 5 October in Leiden,
the Netherlands. Read
more
27
July 2007: A conference entitled
'Interoperability in iGovernment' will take place in Rome, Italy from 11 to 12 October. Read
more
27 July
2007: EU-IndiaGrid, the European and Indian
Grids for e-Science Network Community, is organising a training
workshop, which will take place from 24 to 28 September in Pune, India. Read
more
27
July 2007: Following a year of
research and development, the EU-funded BRIDGE project is now preparing five pilots
to test Electronic Product
Code (EPC) and Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technologies. Read
more
26 July 2007: The blueprint
for a tiny,
ultra-robust mechanical computer has been outlined by US researchers. Read more
26 July 2007: The
European Commission's Information Society and Media
Directorate-General has published a call for tenders for a study on the
potential of the 'Living Labs' approach including its relation to
experimental
facilities for future Internet-related technologies. Read
more
25 July 2007: Imagine a chip,
strategically placed in the brain, that could prevent epileptic
seizures or allow someone who has lost a limb to control an artificial
arm just by thinking about it. Read
more
25 July 2007: The cancer risk
from CTCA for women in their twenties seems to be much higher than for
other groups. Read
more
25 July 2007: Using
a novel technology that adds
multiple innovations to a very high-performance crystalline silicon
solar cell
platform, a consortium has achieved a record-breaking combined solar
cell efficiency
of 42.8 percent from sunlight at standard terrestrial conditions. Read more
24 July 2007: The Polymer
Department at Risø-DTU invites applications for a postdoctoral
position in
biopolymer nanocomposites research as part of a project funded in 2007
by the
Danish Strategic Research Council. Read
more
24
July 2007: All materials and products eventually come to
the end of
their useful life, and those made with nanotechnology are no different.
Read more
24
July 2007: The notion of generating electricity from
flowing blood,
pulsating blood vessels, or a beating heart may seem like science
fiction. But
scientists are reporting a stride in that direction in the August 8
issue of
ACS' Nano Letters, a monthly journal, with development a more powerful
nanogenerator for powering implantable biomedical devices and other
small
electronics. Read
more
24
July 2007: By taking advantage of the full range of ways in
which
molecules can interact with and bind to one another, a team of
investigators at
the Carolina Center of Cancer Nanotechnology Excellence has created
nanoparticles that assemble themselves layer by layer. These
nanoparticles,
which contain two different types of imaging agents, also contain Read more
24 July
2007: As
a surgeon performs a minimally invasive procedure at Cedars-Sinai
Medical Center
in Los Angeles, surgeons
observing in Boston or Mexico
City or London
will notice a remarkable improvement in clarity, compared to the view
they would have had in the past. Read
more
24 July 2007: More efficient and less costly
solar cells, solid-state
lighting and industrial catalysts are potential applications of atomic
layer
deposition (ALD), Read
more
23
July 2007: A
new service has been launched
by CORDIS, the Community Research and Development Information Service,
as part
of the effort to coordinate Europe's extensive research activities. Read
more
23 July
2007: The
European Commission
has authorised Germany
to give EUR 120 million to researchers to work on the Internet
search engine technologies project THESEUS. Read
more
23 July 2007: Hospital
officials said it's the longest stay the cardiothoracic ICU has had,
and that a
lot of technology was used to keep Wilson Guthrie alive. The lifesaving
device
is in clinical trials and hasn't been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration. Read
more
23 July
2007: Working
with an
organic semiconductor, electrical-engineering researchers at the University
of Arkansas have fabricated
and
tested two similar but slightly different biosensors that can measure
important
physiological signs.
Read more
20
July 2007: The
European Commission has awarded an 'excellent' rating to the OPERA 2
(Open PLC European Research Alliance) project, which aims to develop an
open standard for the next generation of powerline technology. Read
more
20 July 2007: The new, high-tech i-LIMB
bionic hand, with five motorized fingers, will soon be sold in Britain
for about $17,000, The Telegraph reported Thursday. Read more
20 July 2007: The International Space Station
is now accessible in cyberspace, the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration announced Thursday. Read more
20 July 2007: An international collaboration
by researchers at the Salk
Institute for Biological Studies, the University
of Chicago, and the
Max-Planck
Institute for Developmental Biology developed a simple method to comb
whole
genomes for all the software fixes and security patches accumulated
over time. Read
more
20 July 2007: A tumor paint
developed by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital Research
Institute and Fred Hutchinson
Cancer Research
Center
will help surgeons see where a tumor begins and ends more precisely by
illuminating the cancerous cells. Read
more
19 July 2007: An
international collaboration at the
Michigan State University National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory
has
demonstrated a new technique for studying particles traveling at
one-third the
speed of light. Read
more
19 July 2007: A basic
scientist in the Department
of Surgery at Jefferson Medical
College and the Kimmel
Cancer Center
at Jefferson has shared a patent on what may
someday be
a ubiquitous tool in DNA analysis. The discovery could have a range of
applications, from forensics to cloning to bioterrorism. Read more
18
July 2007: The
Civilian European Land-Robot Trial (C_ELROB) will take place in
Monte Ceneri, Switzerland, from 13 to 16 August. Read
more
18 July 2007: Leading
European economics libraries have won a EUR 2 million
contract to create a networked service providing open access to
economics
information and showcasing Europe's leading research results. Read
more
18
July 2007: The
European Commission's Information Society and Media
Directorate-General has published a call for tenders for a study on
requirements and options for actions in Radio Frequency Identification
(RFID)
technology in healthcare. Read
more
18
July 2007: More
than 14 million Americans under age 64 have a physical disability,
according to
the 2005 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. A large
percentage of these persons have little or no use of their hands to
manipulate
a computer or access the Internet. Read more
18
July 2007: A
Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about
to have
a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience's
International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. Read more
18
July 2007: Using
innovative physics, researchers have proposed a system that may one day
bring
proton therapy, a state-of-the-art cancer treatment method currently
available
only at a handful of centers, to radiation treatment centers and cancer
patients everywhere. Read
more
17 July 2007: An
EU-funded project into palpable computing has cruised through its
toughest test
to date.
Read
more
17 July 2007: A
new EUR 2.45 million research programme has been launched in Ireland,
focusing on mobile phone technology. Read
more
17 July 2007: The
first soil moisture maps with a spatial resolution of one km are
available
online for the entire southern African subcontinent. As soil moisture
plays an
important role in the global water cycle, these maps, based on data
from ESA’s
Envisat satellite, will lead to better weather and extreme-event
forecasting,
such as floods and droughts.
Read more
17 July 2007: Scientists
at the Naval Research
Laboratory (NRL) have efficiently injected a current of spin-polarized
electrons from a ferromagnetic metal contact into silicon, producing a
large
electron spin polarization in the silicon.This demonstration by NRL
scientists
is a key enabling step for developing devices which rely on electron
spin
rather than electron charge, a field known as semiconductor
spintronics, and is
expected to provide higher performance with lower power consumption and
heat
dissipation. Read more
16 July 2007:
A new worldwide scientific portal has gone
online, offering researchers and interested members of the public free
access to more than 200 million pages of international research
information. Read
more.
16 July 2007: An information day on the second call of the 'Information
and Communications Technologies (ICT)' programme of the Seventh
Framework Programme (FP7) will take place in Tel Aviv, Israel on 23 July.
Read more
16 July 2007: One
is at Baltimore's Sinai
Hospital. Outfitted with
cameras, a screen and microphone, the joystick-controlled robot is
guided into the rooms of Dr. Alex Gandsas' patients where he speaks to
them as if he were right there. Read more
16 July 2007: The European National Research and Education Networks
(NRENs) have accomplished a milestone by setting up the first dynamic
user-requested high-speed circuit between Ireland and Greece. Read
more
16 July 2007: Testing exhaled
breath with a small sensor array can detect lung cancer with moderate
accuracy,
researchers report. Read
more
13 July 2007: Unique technology that uses the enzymes of fireflies
to read the genetic code of DNA has been installed at the University
of Liverpool. Read
more
13 July 2007: High-tech dental lasers used mainly to prepare
cavities for restoration now can help eliminate bacteria in root
canals., The study, conducted by researchers in Austria,
credits the development of miniaturized, flexible fiber tips for
allowing the laser to be used in endodontic (root canal) treatment. Read
more
13 July 2007: For
electrical charges racing through
an atom-thick sheet of graphene, occasional hills and valleys are no
big deal,
but the potholes—single-atom defects in the crystal—they’re killers. Read more
12 July 2007:
U.S.
scientists are developing a technology that allows mobile electronic
devices to
communicate by sending vibrations through bones. Read more
11 July 2007: The EU's Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Executive Agency (EACEA) has issued a call for tenders for a study on
the
impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) in primary
schools. Read
more
11
July 2007: Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is not yet
sophisticated enough to pose a threat to our privacy. But this could
change in
the very near future, and measures must be in place to safeguard
personal data
and secure personal freedom for when that change occurs.
Read more
11
July 2007: Typically,
photons can pass by one another unchanged. However, a
number of important scientific and technological applications can be
enabled by
using matter as a medium for photons to talk with one another. The
problem?
These interactions are generally weak.
Read more
11 July
2007: Israeli scientists have developed a mobile math lab
application for
cell phones, providing students with experiential, interactive ways to
learn
math. Read more
11 July 2007: Scientists
have produced a novel type of nanoparticle that they say
could make it possible to dramatically increase magnetic-based data
storage on
future generations of computer hard drives. Read more
10 July 2007: ROSEMEAD,
California (Reuters) - Ford Motor
Co. on Monday
announced a partnership with utility Southern California Edison to test
a fleet
of rechargeable electric vehicles and said it expected to sell such
plug-in
hybrids within the next decade if battery technology keeps pace. Read
more
10 July 2007: The increasingly high-tech US
military always needs better batteries. So its research branch, the
Defense
Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) based in Virginia, US, is
funding a
project to develop betavoltaic batteries – cells that generate current
from
radioactive materials that emit electrons (so-called beta emitters). Read
more
10 July 2007: Nanotechnology researcher Angela
Belcher is working with viruses to make them do good things. By
exploiting a
virus's ability to replicate rapidly and combine with semiconductor and
electronic materials, she is coaxing them to grow and self-assemble
nanomaterials into a functional electronic device.
Read more
10 July 2007: CORDIS, the
Community Research and Development Information Service, has launched an
online
service to provide comprehensive coverage of the research and
innovation
initiatives to be carried out under the Portuguese Presidency of the EU
Council
(1 July to 31 December 2007). Read
more
9 July
2007: The 'Fourth Ministerial eGovernment Conference' will take
place from 19 to 21 September in Lisbon, Portugal. The conference will aim to demonstrate the positive
impact of e-government on the European economy and citizens' welfare. Read
more
9 July 2007: Scientists
have come up with a tiny generator
that could power embedded electronic devices such as pacemakers without
the
need for batteries. Read
more
9 July
2007: Transforming Finland
into an information society is the goal of a new action plan recently
unveiled
by the Finnish Government. The plan, which covers 2007 to 2011,
addresses the
practical steps needed to develop a ubiquitous information society. Read
more
9 July
2007: A conference entitled
'Berlin 5 Open Access: From Practice to Impact: Consequences on
Knowledge
Dissemination' will be held in Padova, Italy, from 19 to 21 September.
Read more
9 July 2007: With the help of a
supercomputer and a clever algorithm, scientists can now pinpoint how
specific
viral mutations allow HIV to hide from the body's defences, and thereby
wreak
havoc within cells. Read
more
9 July 2007: BLOODchip is currently
the safest and most precise technique for genetically determining blood
groups,
enabling the reduction of adverse reactions in blood transfusions. Read
more
5 July 2007: A sugar-cube-sized
electric generator that feeds on environmental vibrations has been
developed.
It could power swarms of wireless sensors or even medical implants,
researchers
claim. Read
more
5 July 2007: New research led by University of New Hampshire
physicists has proved the existence of a new type of electron wave on
metal
surfaces: the acoustic surface plasmon, which will have implications
for
developments in nano-optics, high-temperature superconductors, and the
fundamental
understanding of chemical reactions on surfaces. Read more
5 July 2007: By guiding light through
liquid-filled channels smaller than a human hair, researchers at the University of California, Santa
Cruz, and Brigham Young University
have succeeded in building a silicon chip that can detect tiny
particles one at
a time. Read more
4
July 2007: The EU-funded
technology research project
GUIDE (Government User Identity for Europe)
offers a technological, institutional, policy and socioeconomic forum
for
secure and interoperable e-government electronic identity services and
transactions for Europe. Read
more
4 July 2007: There are some real challenges ahead for chip
designers, particularly in moving deeper and deeper into the nanoscale,
where at some point in the near future they will reach physical limits
of the traditional logic MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect
transistor) structure. Read more
4 July 2007: Electromagnetically-induced
transparency, or EIT, has been known in the visible realm for quite
some time.
The process is used to control such characteristics as dispersion and
absorption in gases, allowing the gases to become transparent at a
certain
wavelength from an interacting laser. Until now, EIT has not been used
in
x-rays. Read more
4
July 2007: The
European Commission has launched a public consultation on ways to
strengthen
the global competitiveness of Europe's
Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) industries. These are the ICT regulatory
framework and associated issues, such as intellectual property rights;
research
and innovation; and social aspects, such as bridging the digital
divide. Read
more
3
July 2007:
What is the best method of communicating the results of European
scientific
research? This question is more and more frequently the focus of debate
around Europe
as science and communication increasingly intertwine. Recognising this
trend,
the European Commission is taking steps to be at the forefront of this
development. Read
more
3
July 2007:
Argonne reached another milestone in the design
and
construction of the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS) undulator
system.. It
will be the first X-ray laser to combine the brilliance of laser
sources with
the penetrating power and atomic sensitivity of X-rays. Read
more
2
July 2007: Pseudo-satellites, ground-based substitutes used
when signals from ‘real’
satellites are not available, can deliver accurate positioning
information in
places where conventional solutions fail. This was demonstrated on 27
June in Helsinki harbour as part of a project
supported by ESA. Read
more
2 July 2007: The European conference
on complex systems will be held in Dresden, Germany,
from 1 to 5 October. The goals of this annual conference are to reflect
on
recent progress in the field of complexity science and to significantly
increase the actively involved community. Read
more
2 July 2007: The 14th edition of
EuroAnalysis will be held in Antwerp, Belgium, from 9 to 14 September 2007. The emphasis
of this year's event will be on the essential role that analytical
chemistry
plays in the preservation of humankind's natural and cultural
environment. Read
more.
29 June 2007: In the race to
make computers more
powerful, magnets may be out and lasers may be in. Ultra-rapid pulses
of
polarized light fired from lasers, new tests show, can outperform
conventional
magnetic data writers by as much as two orders of magnitude. The
technology
could form the foundation of a new generation of computers that link
lasers to
their hard drives. read
more
29 June 2007: The European
Commission has
relaunched its award-winning science film portal, AthenaWeb, with the
aim of
boosting science film production and circulation in Europe.
read
more
29 June 2007: The European
Commission has launched
a call for proposals for pilot projects for cooperation between
European
Institutes of Technology. read
more
29 June 2007: An EU-funded
consortium will address
one of the perceived barriers for the adoption of open source software
and
prove once and for all that software which is free and publishes its
source
code, is capable of outperforming anything else on the market.
‘Flossquality.eu’ is an initiative made up of the three EU research
projects:
QUALOSS, FLOSSMETRICS and SQO-OSS, demonstrating a strong commitment
between
partners involved in different projects. The intention is that this
initiative
will facilitate access to information by disseminating news via a joint
RSS
feed. ‘Flossquality.eu’ will transform the cooperative way of working
between
these corresponding projects into hard evidence regarding software
quality in
an open source. read
more
28 June 2007: The first
supercomputer capable of
crunching through a thousand trillion mathematical operations every
second has
been announced by IBM. This is roughly equivalent to the combined
processing
power of a 2.4-kilometre-high pile of laptop computers. read
more
28 June 2007: As healthcare
fraud across Europe
reaches a staggering estimated cost of EUR 30 billion per year, an
EU-funded
project is developing a digital detective to investigate healthcare
cheats. Read
more
27 June 2007: After months of
negotiations,
ministers attending the EU's Competitiveness Council on 25 June reached
agreement on a 'general approach' to a draft regulation to establish a
European
Institute of Technology (EIT). Read
more
26 June 2007: European
Council urges forward movement on JTIs, EIT and Galileo. The European
Council
is confident that the final decision of Council and European Parliament
will be
taken before the end of this year. Read
more
25 June 2007: A team of
chemists at Brown University
have devised a simple
way to synthesize iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires while
controlling both
size and composition. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic
alignment are
one key to the next generation of high-density information storage, but
have
been difficult to make in bulk. read more
22 June 2007: The Joint
Research Centre (JRC) of
the European Commission has released a software tool to help chemical
companies
comply with the new REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and
Restriction of Chemicals) legislation. read
more
22 June 2007: An
international summer school on
grid computing will take place from 8 to 20 July in Mariefred,
Sweden. read
more
22 June 2007: The lack of
comprehensive
high-quality data makes it difficult for weather models to provide
accurate
predictions for rainfall. This can result in great damage or even loss
of life
if severe weather warnings are delivered late or not at all. This is
particularly true for upland areas. So in order to get a handle on the
problem,
the Delft University of Technology has decided to participate in a
major
international experiment in the Black Forest, Germany,
which will help scientists to better understand the causes of rain.
Running
from 1 June to 1 September 2007,
the experiment is using an airship and other aircraft, as well as
ground-based
observations. read
more
22 June 2007: Photo-detectors
that analyse
scattered light in the ultraviolet (UV) range of the spectrum are often
used in
situations where the rapid detection of hazardous biological and
chemical agents
in air is required. Each type of material demonstrates a sort of
optical
fingerprint; this can be shown, for example, by laser excitation. To
this end,
photo-detectors with an extremely narrow bandwidth are required, which
only
respond to particular wavelengths. Enter European and Indian
scientists, who
teamed up to offer the world an innovative solution. Their work was
published
in the journal Applied Physics Letters in February 2007. read
more
22 June 2007: The European
Commission's Environment
Directorate-General has issued a call for tenders concerning a
biodiversity
knowledge base. The overall objective of the present contract is to
assist the
Commission in the development of an information system to support the
biodiversity policy cycle in the EU. read
more
21 June 2007: A new EUR160
million technology
programme on safety and security has been launched by Tekes, the
Finnish
National Technology Agency. The programme's priorities are in line with
those
of the new 'Security' thematic area of the Seventh Framework Programme
(FP7). read
more
21 June 2007: An intelligent
system that can tell
mechanics which parts of a car need servicing was unveiled on 18 June
at a
European technology show in Strasbourg,
France.
read
more
20 June 2007: Call for
proposals EAC/26/07 - Pilot
projects for cooperation between European Institutes of Technology.
Deadline : 15 August 2007.
This call for
proposals aims at establishing pilot networks that will design,
implement and
test new models of integrated partnerships between the actors involved
in
technological innovation and transfer (such as universities, research
organisations, small, medium-sized and large companies, innovation
centres,
etc.). read
more
20 June 2007: Call for
proposals - Information and Communication Technologies.
Deadline:
09
October 2007
at 17:00:00 (Brussels local time). read
more
19 June 2007: The speed of
collaborative research
based on Europe's network of supercomputers has
become
quicker than ever thanks to a new major upgrade. The EU-funded project,
Distributed European Infrastructure for Supercomputing Applications
(DEISA),
has increased its connectivity speeds ten-fold to 10 gigabits per
second,
through the GÉANT2 pan-European research and education network. read
more
19 June 2007: A one-day
workshop entitled 'ICT for
active ageing at work' will take place on 5 July in Brussels,
Belgium. read
more
18 June 2007: A device that
can hold hundreds of
atoms in a 3D array, and image each one individually, has been
developed by
scientists in the US.
The machine is an important stepping stone towards the development of a
quantum
computer, they say. read
more
18 June 2007: The European
Commission has adopted
an action plan on 'Ageing well in the information society', and has
proposed a
new research initiative on the same theme, to be supported under
Article 169 of
the Treaty. read
more
15 June 2007: Researchers at
Delft University of
Technology have succeeded in carrying out calculations with two quantum
bits,
the building blocks of a possible future quantum computer. The Delft
researchers are publishing an article about this important step towards
a
workable quantum computer in this week’s issue of Nature. read more
14 June 2007: The European
Commission has published
a call for proposals for the eParticipation Preparatory Action.
eParticipation
aims to harness the benefits of information and communications
technologies
(ICT) to improve legislative and decision-making processes, and to
enhance
public participation in such processes at all levels of government
decision-making.
read
more
14 June 2007: The European
Commission has published
a call for proposals for the Cooperation Specific Programme:
Information and
Communication Technologies of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). read
more
13 June 2007: The Ninth
European Conference for the
Advancement of Assistive Technology will take place from 3 to 5 October
in San Sebastian, Spain.
read
more
13 June 2007: The European
Commission has published
a call for proposals for the Cooperation Specific Programme:
Information and
Communication Technologies of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). read
more
12 June 2007: Output and
turnover growth has been
significantly higher in the high-technology manufacturing sector than
for less
technology-intensive activities, according to new figures from
Eurostat. read
more
12 June 2007: E-skills are one of
the building blocks for European competitiveness and prosperity in the
21st
century, while the way forward to widening and deepening e-skills in Europe is through
dialogue with
stakeholders, said Günter Verheugen, European Commissioner for Enterprise
and
Industry, at the launch of the Industry Leadership Board. read
more
12 June 2007: A workshop on
immersive projection technology, together with a symposium on virtual
environments, will take place in Weimar, Germany, from 12 to 15 July. read
more
6
June 2007: As
information and communication technologies bring many benefits to
societies, an
EU funded project is aiming to help bridge the digital divide in South
America by developing interactive broadband services via
satellites. The BRASIL (Broadband to Rural America over Satellite
Integrated
Links) project, whose motto, 'Broadband any Place via Space', reflects
its
mission to harness satellite technology in order to deliver broadband
services
to companies and isolated households across South America.
read
more
5 June 2007: EU
Information Society and Media Commissioner Viviane Reding has applauded
efforts
in Greece to catch up with the rest of the EU in broadband access and
coverage,
but called for further policy measures, principally in regulation, to
guarantee
Greece a place at 'the forefront of broadband innovation'. read
more
5 June 2007: With
the race on to build knowledge economies worldwide, many academic
institutions
are looking at new ways to increase the diffusion of their knowledge.
One
option is the use of open educational resources (OER), which, according
to a
new report from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and
Development
(OECD), is a rapidly growing phenomenon that offers learning
opportunities to
an unprecedented number of users worldwide. At the same time, this new
trend is
challenging established views and practices of how teaching is
organised and
carried out, and how knowledge is shared. read
more
5 June 2007: An
information day on the 'eParticipation' call for proposals will take
place in Brussels, Belgium
on 29 June. read
more
31 May 2007: A
recently launched project could make it easier to rescue vulnerable
people lost
in the urban jungle. The CityBee project, funded by the EU's Sixth
Framework
Programme, is working on developing a low-cost wireless metropolitan
network
based on Location Based Services (LBS) wireless technology, which could
be used
for locating and providing useful services to lost citizens. read
more
31 May 2007: A
new EU-funded project is using robots to help disabled children learn
how to
play. Playing is an important part of childhood; through play, children
learn
about the physical and social environment, the self and how to develop
social
relationships. However, children with cognitive, developmental or
physical
disabilities may find it harder to play. This affects their learning
potential
and can result in them becoming socially isolated. read
more
30 May 2007: An
international information technology (IT) security conference entitled
'innovation and responsibility' will take place on 4 and 5 June in Berlin,
Germany. read
more
30 May 2007: The
European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society
and Media
has issued a call for tenders for a study on the economic impact of
interoperable electronic health record and e-prescription in Europe.
read
more
28 May 2007: The
SEE-Innovation Project second mentoring workshop will be held in Istanbul,
Turkey, on 7 June 2007. The event is
aimed at small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that want to find project partners
or
coordinators for the ICT (information and communication technologies)
theme of
the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7). The workshop will be
project-oriented,
and will be mainly composed of networking sessions. In addition to
general and
technical information on ICT challenges, networking sessions will
include
project idea presentations. read
more
25 May 2007: As Europe
pursues its goal of becoming the most competitive and dynamic
knowledge-based
economy in the world, it is seeking to develop the infrastructure
needed to
power the next generation of Grid technologies. Grid technologies
connect
computers and scientific instruments, bringing together users from
around the
world and from different companies in a single, 'virtual' organisation.
In
turn, members of this virtual organisation can share knowledge
instantly and
easily access and store shared data. read
more
24 May 2007: A
basic agreement on the European Institute of Technology (EIT) can be
expected
in June, said German Education and Research Minister Annette Schavan
following
a meeting of the EU Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 21 and 22
May. read
more
24 May 2007: The
fourth annual ARTEMIS Conference will be held in Berlin,
Germany on 4 and 5 June 2007. Currently a
European
Technology Platform, ARTEMIS is now set to be the new Joint Technology
Initiative (JTI) on embedded systems research. As well as the latest in
embedded systems research, the event will also present the ARTEMIS
Joint
Undertaking. read
more
23 May 2007: A
networking workshop dedicated to adopting e-infrastructures, business
challenges and user needs will be held on 7 June 2007 in Hamburg,
Germany
after the 4th EU Conference on Research Infrastructures. read
more
21 May 2007: The
IANIS+ eGovernment Policy Seminar will take place on 25 May in Brussels,
Belgium. read
more
21 May 2007: The
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics recently
increased
its numbers to 18 following the addition of two Polish universities,
the University of Warsaw
and the University of Wroclaw.
The two universities
formed a consortium of their own in a move to become the Polish branch
of the
European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics, or ERCIM,
network
which fosters international research cooperation in ICT. Poland
joins Hungary
and the Czech Republic
as the third country from the 2004 ascension states to join the
network. The
newly established branch, the Polish Research Consortium for
Informatics and
Mathematics, or PLERCIM, hopes to serve as a conduit for increased
cooperation
between Polish researchers and their European colleagues. read
more
17 May 2007: The
European Commission is now on the road to creating the first ever
Europe-wide
public-private partnerships to boost research and development, having
adopted
proposals for initiatives in two strategic industrial sectors. The
Commission
presented two Joint Technology Initiatives (JTIs), worth approximately
€5
billion, on embedded computing systems, to be known as ARTEMIS
(Advanced
Research and Technology for Embedded Intelligence and Systems), and on
innovative medicines (Innovative Medicines Initiative). read
more
16 May 2007: Road
safety is a major concern in Europe, with
around 40,000
people dying in road accidents every year, and more than 1.7 million
sustaining
injuries. The EU-funded Highway
project has climbed into the driving seat and developed a pioneering
traffic
information service which it hopes will reduce the number of road
accidents. read
more
16 May 2007: The
European Association of Automotive Suppliers, CLEPA, will host a
technology day
entitled 'Future automotive technologies: road safety, environment and
intelligent components' on 27 June in Brussels,
Belgium. read
more
16 May 2007:
Meteorological
services centres in Europe and abroad are eager
to
collect the latest findings from the European research and development
project
SIMDAT. So far, the consortium SIMDAT Meteo has been focused on
establishing a
Virtual Global Information System Centre (VGISC) for the national
meteorological services of France,
Germany
and the
UK.
With EUR 11
million in financing from the European Commission, and coordinated by
the
Germany-based Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific
Computing
(SCAI), SIMDAT has its sight set on speeding up the uptake of grid
technologies
in industry and services the world over. read
more
16 May 2007: The
European Network of Excellence HUMANIST (Human Centred Design for
Information
Society Technologies) will hold a tutorial on 'Safety and design of new
transport technologies' in Lyon, France, on 21 and 22 June 2007. read
more
15 May 2007: In
the dying days of the German Democratic Republic (GDR), Stasi officers
were
ordered to destroy their reports by shredding and then burning them. So
numerous were the reports, that shredding machines stopped working, and
officers were forced to tear the documents by hand. A problem with
transport
meant that the estimated 45 million A4 sheets of paper were not burned.
read
more
14 May 2007: The
European Commission has given the green light to EUR 37.6 million in
French
state aid to 'Unlimited Mobile TV', a research project on broadcasting
television over mobile telephones. read
more
14 May 2007: A
conference on e-infrastructures will take place from 25 to 28 June in Rio
de Janeiro, Brazil.
read
more
11 May 2007: An
information day on the second call of the information and
communications
technologies (ICT) programme of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7)
will take
place on 22 May in Brussels, Belgium.
The event will provide an introduction to the ICT work programme, as
well as
information the thematic area's second call 'Accessible and inclusive
ICT'.
Participants will be given the opportunity to present project proposal
ideas
during the event. read
more
11 May 2007: i2010,
the flagship principle of the renewed Lisbon
partnership for growth and employment, calls for the further
development of Europe’s
broadband infrastructure. A group of European firms has joined up to do
just
that. The three firms have come together under the auspices of the
EUREKA
programme, which encourages market focussed R&D among its members,
to study
ways of delivering broadband internet access over traditional cable
television
lines. read
more
11 May 2007: A research team in Germany has developed a computer-software system to piece
together
some 45 million pages of secret police files ripped into 600 million
pieces.
The files were torn up nearly 18 years ago by panicking agents of
communist East Germany's dreaded State Security Service (Stasi). read
more
10 May 1007: The
Innovative Actions Network for the Information Society (IANIS+) will
hold an
e-infrastructure policy seminar on 16 May in Brussels,
Belgium. read
more
9 May 2007: The
Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK) and
Turkish
Research and Business Organization (Tur&Bo) Brussels, together with
the
European Commission's Information Society and Media Directorate General
are
organising an information and communications technologies (ICT)
networking
event, followed by a reception, for 22 May in Brussels, Belgium. read
more
9 May 2007: Multitel,
a scientific technology research centre based in the Walloon region of Belgium,
is organising a networking event followed by a reception on 23 May in Gosselies,
Belgium. read
more
9 May 2007: A 3-D
technology developed to help NASA astronauts practice making repairs in
space
is set to revolutionize the way people watch movies by 2009, when a
wave of
live-action 3-D movies hit theaters. read
more
8 May 2007: A
series of workshops on e-inclusion research will take place on 21 May
in Brussels, Belgium.
read
more
7 May 2007: IBM
uses self-assembling material in chip advance. IBM has developed a way
to make
microchips run up to one-third faster or use 15 percent less power by
using an
exotic material that "self-assembles" in a similar way to a seashell
or snowflake. read
more
7 May 2007: TER@TEC
2007, a conference on high performance computing, will take place on 20
June in
Versailles, France.
read
more
4 May 2007: Identifying
the benefits of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and promoting
their
development is the goal of a new Communication adopted by the European
Commission on 2 May. The right to the protection of personal data is
enshrined
in Article 8 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European
Union, and
the Data Protection and ePrivacy Directives set out in detail the
obligations
of the data controller as well as what happens if a data subject's
rights are
breached. read
more
3 May 2007: Although
Europe is good at coming up with ideas, it could
do
better in turning these ideas into products. This innovation challenge
is the
starting point for a new online business networking portal.
i-techpartner aims
to connect researchers and technology transfer offices with small and
medium-sized innovative companies, innovation experts, corporate
partners and venture
capital investors throughout Europe. read
more
3 May 2007: The
16th IST Mobile and Wireless Communications Summit will take place in Budapest,
Hungary, from 1 to
5
July. read
more
1 May 2007: The
drive to get European citizens to go digital would appear to be
gradually
paying off, according to the findings of an EU-wide survey. It finds
that more
than half of European households have a computer - 4% more than in a
similar
study done at the end of 2006, while increasing numbers of people are
switching
to broadband and wireless internet access. read
more
1 May 2007: The
Irish Government has launched a new EUR 2 million 'Tech-Check'
programme to
help small businesses make better use of technology. read
more
30 April 2007: A team of
researchers has, for the first time, hacked into a network protected by
quantum
encryption. read
more
30 April 2007: MEDEA+, the
European industry-led
initiative for advanced cooperative research and development (R&D)
in
microelectronics, will host a conference on design automation in Grenoble,
France, from 22 to
24
May. read
more
30 April 2007: Annoyed by
the tangle of power cords under your desk? A sheet of plastic invented
by
researchers in Japan could one day make for tables and walls that
power devices
placed on them — without any need for wires or plugs. Computers could
be
powered through the desks on which they sit, for example, or
flat-screen
televisions through the walls where they hang. read
more
26 April 2007: An
international symposium on bioinformatics will take place from 25 to 27
June in
Barcelona, Spain.
Co-organised by INFOBIOMED and SEMANTIC MINING, two Networks of
Excellence, the
event will serve as a forum to present results obtained, and for
discussing
current issues surrounding biomedical informatics. read
more
26 April 2007: A
workshop on future e-inclusion themes for the work programme of the
Competitiveness
and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) will take place on 15 May in Brussels,
Belgium. read
more
24 April 2007: A
Dutch-Finnish partnership with
funding from EUREKA has
developed
technology to provide high-speed Internet access through existing
copper
coaxial cable TV connections without the need for a modem. read
more
23 April 2007: EU Member
States and Iceland,
Liechtenstein
and Norway
have
adopted a common declaration on their commitment to pursue structured
cooperation on cross-border electronic health services across Europe.
'By adopting today's Declaration, we seek to ensure that, in the
future,
electronic health services for Europe's
citizens do not
stop at national borders,' said the German State Secretary at the
Federal
Ministry of Health, Dr Klaus Theo Schröder. read
more
23 April 2007: Europe’s
digital infrastructure recently received a boost with the announcement
that a
new converged optical-data network has been successfully brought
online. The
new network, linking Europe’s educational and
research
networks, will enable scientists to communicate and share data with
maximum
reliability and protection. High speed core links are designed to carry
up to
40 connections of 10Gb/s each, allowing speedier transmission of
information,
further integrating the European research community. read
more
23 April 2007: RXP is British
Council's contestable
international fund for young researchers. Awards of up to £5,000
are available
to fund collaborations between NZ and UK
scientists. RXP is designed to help develop new research links between
higher
education institutions and research laboratories in the UK
and other countries. RXP funding can cover travel and living costs for
a
short-term collaboration of between one week and three months duration.
The
research link can be in any area of science, engineering and
technology,
including social sciences and humanities. RXP is open to 'early stage
researchers'. This means applicants must either obtained a doctoral
qualification or be within twelve months of completing one; have no
more than
two years full tenure in a university or research institute; have no
more than
six years overall active researcher experience.See http://www.britishcouncil.org/nz-opportunities-rxp.htm
20 April 2007: EU Member
States have given the green
light to the agreement on research and development activities in the
field of
intelligent manufacturing systems (IMS). The decision was adopted at a
recent
meeting of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council. read
more
20 April 2007: Do you
remember the 'USD100 one
laptop per child' project developed by the founder of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), Nicholas Negroponte? Well, the idea has
crossed
the Atlantic and been given a European twist in
the form
of an EU funded project to assist Europe's
increasing
elderly population. The recently launched Older People's e-services at
home
(OLDES) project will develop an easy-to-use, plug-and-play
technological
platform for tele-assistance and tele-company which should retail at
the low
cost of €100 per person. read
more