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Funding crisis threatens SETI@home
News The future of SETI@home, an Internet-based distributed computing experiment to find radio signals from intelligent alien life-forms, is in serious danger as academics behind the project face a funding crisis.
[October 15, 2002, 9:07]
SETI@home director denies funding crisis
News Werthimer recently emailed SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Australia chairman, Frank Stootman, informing him that the US-based academic research group had stopped work to include Australia in the next generation of the project...
[October 18, 2002, 10:09]
3G debt threatens future of telecommunications
News European telecommunications companies are facing a new crisis that threatens to bring them to their knees within two years, stifling the development of next-generation wireless innovations and even stalling the economy, experts warned Wednesday.
[November 15, 2000, 14:51]
Google selects Project 10^100 themes
News Create real-time natural-crisis tracking system: "Make rapid-response crisis-mapping data available to help policymakers better co-ordinate response efforts during hurricanes, earthquakes, tsunamis and other natural disasters.
[September 25, 2009, 15:55]
BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News In November last year the BCS warned that the UK faces a looming IT skills crisis, citing a 30 percent fall in students beginning full-time undergraduate computer science degrees since 2001. Funding for research councils has been slashed by £68m...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
SETI@home looks for user funding
News The director of SETI@home -- a high-profile distributed computing experiment to find extraterrestrial life -- has made a plea to his users for funding after denying late last month that the project was facing a funding crisis.
[November 13, 2002, 9:38]
HP Thin Clients Deliver Affordable Classroom Computing
White Papers And it was facing a crisis even without those other challenges. The Pawtucket School Department faces the same challenges as schools nationwide: reduced funding, increasing state and local mandates, and growing class sizes.
[June 12, 2009, 1:20]
Analysis: Unbundling gets unbundled
News Independent telecoms analyst Maev Sullivan puts the blame for the lack of interest in unbundling firmly at the feet of the current funding crisis. Shares have crashed and it has become much more difficult to find funding for new ventures.
[January 31, 2001, 9:45]
UK lagging on innovation
News It added: "This decline is probably contributing to the crisis in the public research sector, due to inadequate public funding and the assumption that the gap would be covered by private sources. Given the strong policy push in the UK to increase...
[January 16, 2006, 15:10]
South Korea: High-tech hothouse
News The 1997 crisis hurled the country into economic chaos, devaluing the stock market by 75 percent and raising unemployment to 6.8 percent. The South Korean government plays a fairly active role in shaping the direction of industry, though it has...
[June 24, 2004, 10:05]
Bush unveils final cybersecurity plan
News The DHS will also be responsible for responding in the event of a crisis, for providing technical assistance to the government and private industry, for coordinating efforts between agencies, and for performing and funding research to support...
[February 17, 2003, 8:19]
KPNQwest struggles back after shutdown - but for how long?
News A sale of the Eastern European part of KPNQwest's network has not happened yet, despite that fact that it was being negotiated before the crisis began and has been described as "imminent" several times in the last few weeks.
[July 25, 2002, 10:46]
US tech research faces crisis
News But some of the engineering legends attending the Marconi Society event say the nation is facing a crisis, as industry-run research withers and government spending is slashed. Traditionally funding in computer sciences has come from the US...
[November 10, 2005, 14:55]
Linux looks good on server
News Eazel's closure highlights the crisis facing the Linux desktop business. Eazel, a company working on an easy-to-use Linux desktop graphical interface and file manager, closed its doors last week after failing to raise a second round of funding.
[May 22, 2001, 11:51]
Why AOL wants developers to put passion over profit
News How much do you think the global financial crisis is going to hit the developer community? We're already starting to see, in some sense, the capital markets and some of the venture funding start to be more cautious.
[October 10, 2008, 16:51]
From boom to bust and back again
News After the crippling 1997 Asian economic crisis companies in the region searched for a new avenue that would bring in revenues at the lowest cost. Richard Lai, dollarDEX's managing director, said the key to weathering through the crisis was to have...
[November 29, 2005, 14:25]
Businesses urged to invest in staff training
News The UK's long-standing skills crisis, and the reluctance of employers to invest in training, are both identified as barriers to future success. Intellect said its primary concern is the lack of support and funding for computer-science students.
[March 18, 2008, 8:09]
Linux gives voluntary sector a boost
News This created a crisis but also caused growth in the free software industry. Bailey hopes that the project will be able to get funding from the UK government's ChangeUp programme, which is investing £9m to improve IT support in the voluntary sector.
[September 15, 2004, 16:20]
US considers rating office for sex sites
News One company's product blocked from view a Web page on China's response to the growing AIDS crisis and another page listing dietary information for blood-borne diseases, he told the commission. s Yahooligans, said some form of government-industry...
[August 4, 2000, 14:20]
High temperature superconductors blow cold
Blog Comment It is far too early for you to conclude that cold fusion cannot solve the energy crisis. When he published positive results, all of his funding was cut off; he was ordered not to discuss the results or attend conferences; and he was reassigned to a...
[March 7, 2007, 22:59]
