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Edinburgh University: 'Wireless Creates A Dynamic Learning Environment'
White Papers Studying at the University of Edinburgh (UoE) places students at the heart of one of Europe's most popular cities. The UoE decided to deploy wireless access across the entire campus. In order to craft an inclusive wireless strategy, a working party...
[February 7, 2006, 23:00]
Green Supercomputer Unveiled In Edinburgh
News A supercomputer 10 times more energy efficient and up to 300 times faster than its traditional equivalents has been unveiled in Edinburgh. Called Maxwell, the computer has been built at the University of Edinburgh and uses field programmable gate...
[March 21, 2007, 9:22]
Parallel Computing And Serial Stupidity
Blog Just back from the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC), where I had a most interesting conversation with some of the people behind the Maxwell experimental high performance computer. Meanwhile, the trip back from Edinburgh to London via GNER...
[May 1, 2007, 1:59]
News Burst: Email Cheating Row Hots Up
News The email-cheating row, in which 117 undergraduates on the Computer Science course at Edinburgh University were accused of cheating by "collaborating" on course work, hotted up Tuesday when the Edinburgh Student Union Association (ESUA) blamed...
[August 24, 1999, 15:49]
Quaytech Training Case Study
White Papers Access to customised computer training has been identified by Skillnet Edinburgh as a requirement. Through Quaytech, Skillnet Edinburgh have been able to supply black and minority ethnic people with computer training tailored to individual...
[June 21, 2006, 0:00]
Free Wi-Fi Goes Beyond The Fringe
News People visiting the Edinburgh Fringe festival this year to sample the latest theatrical, musical and comedy performances are being offered an added bonus -- free wireless Internet access. Semiconductor maker Intel has set up a stand at Princes...
[August 13, 2003, 13:15]
Thursday
Blog Thursday 12/12/2002One of the casualties of the Great Fire of Edinburgh last weekend was the Edinburgh University School of Informatics, which has a well-deserved reputation as being one of the hotbeds -- sorry -- of artificial intelligence research.
[December 13, 2002, 16:39]
Mobile Phones Let Scottish Drivers Pay And Display
News Drivers wanting to park at one of central Edinburgh's pay-and-display (P&D) car parks can now use their mobile phones to pay the fee. Edinburgh City Council expects the mPARK phone pay system to reduce the number of people that do not buy tickets...
[November 18, 2003, 11:40]
IT Revamp Saves Council £5m
News The City of Edinburgh Council has reported savings of £5m in direct IT costs and expects to save £6.4m over five years from a major transformation project The project has involved BT replacing Edinburgh's dated infrastructure with Microsoft-based...
[September 3, 2007, 13:44]
Exam System Slammed In Email Cheat Row
News The email cheating row in which 117 undergraduates on Edinburgh University's Computer Science course were accused of cheating in their exams hotted up Tuesday, with the Edinburgh Student Union Association (ESUA) blaming course organisers for the...
[August 25, 1999, 11:12]
UK's Fastest Supercomputer Unveiled
News The largest and most advanced supercomputer in the UK has been unveiled in Edinburgh. The supercomputer is based at the University of Edinburgh's Advanced Computer Facility and will cost £113m over six years.
[January 15, 2008, 8:40]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog After much fruitless enjoyment in various Edinburgh bookshops, we ended up in Waterstone's -- you're ahead of me now. Certainly not in Edinburgh Waterstone's, which celebrated 2005 by sacking the man -- Joe Gordon -- for blogging vaguely...
[January 14, 2005, 12:30]
Citrix: Business IT Must Innovate To Survive
News Speaking at the Citrix iForum in Edinburgh, Templeton said companies must be prepared to meet the challenges of consolidation, disruption, globalisation, regulation and the arrival in the workplace of the next generation of tech-savvy youngsters...
[June 6, 2007, 8:51]
Creative Focus: Festival's Creative Guru Talks Art
News The Edinburgh Festival would play host to the work. ZDNet UK News: Hannah, what exactly are you doing at the Edinburgh Festival? Hannah's animated piece - Angels in motion - is on show at the Edinburgh Festival (9th-31st August) or you could try...
[August 12, 1998, 17:12]
Blogger Axed By Waterstone's
News Gordon's blog, which covers everything from the city of Edinburgh to UN scientists in Iraq, also mentions his work in one of the chain's Edinburgh branches. An employee of book chain Waterstone's has been fired for material he included in his blog.
[January 11, 2005, 11:55]
Scotland Suffers St Andrew's Day Hacks
News The seven sites targeted include the historical and cultural destinations www.dunbar-scotland.com and www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk as well as a string of commercial sites. A spokesman for one of the defaced sites, www.edinburgh-tattoo.co.uk, which is...
[December 1, 2000, 14:25]
SDSL Reaches Glasgow
News Businesses should be able to get connected to the new service within one month, and the company also plans to offer SDSL in Edinburgh in the future. Scotland On Line says it is the first IT provider to offer SDSL to businesses in Scotland, but...
[September 26, 2002, 17:00]
Grid Software Project Widens Scope
News Globus has since added two European members as key partners: the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the Swedish Centre for Parallel Computers. The Edinburgh researchers have expertise in work that lets databases run on grids, while the Swedish...
[September 3, 2003, 9:59]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog To Edinburgh this time -- apple tart and coffee -- where I sit and write this diary. And iForum is at Edinburgh, therefore so am I. Friday 4/6/2004 The party continues into the small hours, with all manner of Dellians, PRs, event organisers...
[June 4, 2004, 17:30]
Real Stories Of Virtualisation
News We had pretty much one application per server and, while our headquarters are in Edinburgh, we had about 20 offices across the UK, so there were storage and remote-management issues. The organisation, which is based in Edinburgh, is one of the UK's...
[August 10, 2006, 13:15]
