Compare research cuts with the NHS mega project
Talkback The carefully designed cuts (£29 million for EPSRC) compare with what is described in a 5 page report in Private Eye (1179, 2 March to 15 March) as `blowing £12.4 billion on useless IT for the NHS'. The cuts in EPSRC funding should be related to...
[March 2, 2007, 8:57]
BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News On Monday the British Computing Society (BCS) expressed particular concern over cuts to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) funding amounting to £29m, which the BCS says could have a negative effect on the ability of the...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
UK academics get £53m supercomputer
News The supercomputer has been commissioned by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), and will be maintained by a consortium led by the University of Edinburgh, with the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research...
[July 17, 2002, 16:20]
Air-based battery promises 10 times the power
News This allows lithium ions and electrons in the cell to react instead with oxygen in the ambient air, according to a press release from the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), which finances the research.
[May 21, 2009, 11:45]
Gov't grants £250m for tech-research centres
News The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has allocated the money for the doctoral research centres at 22 universities across England and Scotland. Technology research has received a significant boost, with £250m of funding...
[December 8, 2008, 12:11]
E-Government think tank launched
News Brunel University's School of Information Systems, Computing and Mathematics (SISCM) will run the group, with central government funding through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
[August 4, 2005, 14:40]
IT @ Heart Of Next Industrial Revolution
Blog Sponsored by the UK Computing Research Committee (UKCRC), and backed by the BCS (British Computer Society) the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC), IET and the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (CPHC), the Grand...
[March 13, 2009, 8:32]
