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Academics meeting Granger to discuss NHS IT
News The NHS IT director general Richard Granger has invited a group of dissident technology academics to a meeting on Thursday where he will reiterate his case for pressing forward with the National Programme for IT (NPfIT).
[April 20, 2006, 11:15]
Academics demand inquiry into NHS IT
News A group of UK computer science academics have called for the Government to rethink its strategy for reforming the technology infrastructure of the NHS. In an open letter sent to the Parliamentary Select Committee on Health on Tuesday, 23 academics...
[April 11, 2006, 13:25]
Academics demand NHS IT review
News A group of leading UK-based academics have again called on the Government to undertake an immediate and independent review of the NHS' multi-billion pound IT programme, NPfIT. On Friday the academics wrote to the House of Commons Health Committee...
[October 10, 2006, 17:05]
PC industry ridiculed by academics and researchers
News That's the gist of what academics and engineers told IT workers gathered here this week for the three-day Association for Computing Machinery conference. Computers are illogical machines in dire need of a total overhaul, and the information...
[March 14, 2001, 12:27]
Academics demand inquiry into NHS IT
Talkback On the subject of academics reviewing the project, I feel they are the wrong people - you need people from the trenches. I have 36 years in frontline IT and, although I'm not 100% up on the NHS Project, I can surmise where it may have gone wrong by...
[April 21, 2006, 12:46]
Academics praise open source development
Talkback The big problem for researcher is how to access the proprietary source code.
[February 16, 2005, 15:23]
Academics praise open source development
News Academics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece analysed over 5 million lines of code from various software development projects, according to the January issue of technology magazine ACM Queue.
[February 16, 2005, 12:15]
Academics meeting Granger to discuss NHS IT
Talkback I emailed comments 2 days ago but they haven't appeared. Did you get them?
[April 22, 2006, 17:54]
Academics meeting Granger to discuss NHS IT
Talkback Discussions concerning public services (or anything else that concerns tax money) should be public or made public shortly after the discussion. At least before a decision is made.
[April 20, 2006, 22:45]
Academics scrutinise open-source culture
News Open-source developers have long done their work in the public eye. Now, they're doing it under an academic microscope. Walt Scacchi, a senior research scientist at the University of California at Irvine's Institute for Software Research, has been...
[January 6, 2004, 11:05]
Leading the Web: not just for academics
News The 15th International World Wide Web Conference, to give it its full title, appears to have been a resounding success. The event, held in Edinburgh, has seen a resurgence in interest in the technology of the Web, not just from its traditional...
[May 26, 2006, 16:15]
UK academics get £53m supercomputer
News UK researchers are to have access to the largest scientific supercomputing service in Europe by the end of the year, following a deal to build a £53m supercomputer near Warrington in Cheshire. The supercomputer has been commissioned by the...
[July 17, 2002, 16:20]
Academics search for clues after supercomputer attacks
News Academic supercomputing labs continue to clean up Linux and Solaris servers targeted by unknown attackers during the past month, as law enforcement officials investigate the crimes. The attacks compromised servers at several supercomputing labs and...
[April 16, 2004, 10:20]
Microsoft offers a glimpse of Sphere
News A group of academics will be among the first people outside Microsoft to see Sphere, a spherical surface computer developed by Microsoft Research. A group of academics gathered in Redmond this week will be among the first outside Microsoft to see...
[July 29, 2008, 8:48]
NHS dismisses calls for IT review
News A group of IT academics has failed in its latest request to instigate an independent review into the NHS's National Programme for IT. But the NHS's chief executive David Nicholson turned down the academics' latest challenge, after Thomas called for...
[February 6, 2007, 11:12]
Forrester: Consider unorthodox sources for IT staff
News Academics are really an overlooked talent," said Forrester analyst Sam Bright. One of the side benefits of building partnerships with colleges to identify potential leads in students is that academics also come to understand what IT has to offer.
[July 26, 2007, 14:02]
Justice is supposed to be blind, not deaf and dumb...
Talkback "We are not judging on what the academics said, or what other people say" So you commission a report, get a whole team of academics together to gain insight into a field which is not only highly technical, but has been deliberately obscured by...
[February 9, 2007, 11:51]
UK tech students farm out coursework to India
News Academics at Birmingham City University have detected 1,000 students cheating worldwide since they began monitoring the websites in 2004. Lancaster and Clarke want academics to test whether students have detailed knowledge about their work by...
[June 26, 2008, 9:15]
Forum: The fate of wireless security
News Academics, business executives and members of government agencies will join forces to discuss their concerns about wireless security. About 20 academics, business executives and members of government agencies begin meeting behind closed doors in...
[May 14, 2002, 9:46]
ID card plan 'worryingly vague'
News The government's ID cards plan and cost estimates remain "worryingly vague", according to academics at the London School of Economics (LSE). The academics also want a new round of reviews by the Office of Government Commerce because of the changes...
[October 24, 2006, 13:30]
