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
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.