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BCS: Funding cuts will harm computing research
News Funding for research councils has been slashed by £68m this year, from £196m to £128m, the government announced last week, with science and technology councils bearing the brunt of the cuts. Last week, the chief executives of several research...
[February 27, 2007, 11:50]
Outsourced IT doesn't cut it for councils
News Councils that have outsourced their IT don't perform as well as those running an in-house service, according to the latest research from Socitm, and industry group for public-sector IT managers. According to Martin Greenwood, programme manager for...
[May 23, 2005, 14:25]
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]
UK councils fail e-service test
News Research tested response times to email queries submitted via the Web sites of 15 councils, ranging from London boroughs to rural areas, and compared them to the performance of other European countries and the US.
[August 13, 2003, 11:10]
Councils reprimanded over Web promotion
News Councils are losing money by failing to encourage the public to use online services as people are still opting to contact staff in person, new research has found. However, it seems that councils have to-date invested little in promotion...
[August 16, 2005, 16:50]
Is AMD losing its supercomputing lustre?
News The government-backed Central Laboratory of the Research Councils (CLRC) has established the "supercluster" in Oxfordshire's Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for use with work on genomics, climate modelling, computational fluid dynamics and other...
[April 18, 2002, 16:55]
UK to get 100 teraflop supercomputer
News HECToR will be built and managed by the Research Councils of the UK. HECToR is an ambitious plan to build a supercomputer for Britain's scientists to use in their cutting-edge research. HECToR will be an indispensable tool for scientists across the...
[April 3, 2006, 17:35]
UK's fastest supercomputer unveiled
News The procurement was managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council on behalf of Research Councils UK, with some of the money coming from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills.
[January 15, 2008, 8:40]
Anger over EC medical data-sharing scheme
News The UK Research Office to the EU (UKRO), which is funded by many UK research councils, is also understood to be involved. Within the next few days, an initiative called the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP) will be adopted as...
[January 26, 2007, 10:51]
UK loses its nanotechnology lead
News Basic toxicology work, although vital, may not be the most innovative or cutting-edge research and thus will rightly not be funded by the Research Councils," it argued. Commenting on the report's findings, Steffi Friedrichs of independent research...
[March 30, 2007, 14:25]
Grid computing 'vital to Europe's future'
News NGS started operating in September last year with four nodes funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Council for the Central Laboratory for the Research Councils.
[June 1, 2005, 12:55]
Government pledges boost for grid technology
News Science and innovation minister Lord Sainsbury, who has been leading a review of innovation policy, said the government will have increased funding of Research Councils to scientific and engineering research from £1.3bn in 1997 to nearly £3bn by...
[December 17, 2003, 12:55]
E-government needs tech-literate generation
News The Portfolio study revealed that the telephone currently dominates as the main method for contacting local councils, regardless of age, sex, region or social status, the only exception to these trends being the use of direct debit to pay council...
[January 17, 2003, 14:01]
Scottish council pays up for Microsoft licence breach
News This is a classic case of the deal being too good to be true and proves that local councils are not immune to unscrupulous vendors," said Mike Newton, programme manager for the BSA. Local councils should be setting a good example, operating within...
[January 11, 2002, 17:01]
Startup Spotlight: ihavemoved.com
News At a council level, we are also dealing with Manchester and Newcastle county councils, who currently have huge audit trails where we can help them to make massive savings. See techTrader for more technology investment news, plus quotes and research.
[May 4, 2000, 15:45]
Asia outstrips Europe, US in fibre rollout
News Asian countries continue to surpass Europe and North America in the adoption of fibre-to-the-home technology, according to a new global ranking study by the FTTH Councils of Asia-Pacific, Europe and North America.
[July 25, 2008, 8:20]
Councils sack staff over misuse of DWP data
News Computer Weekly used Freedom of Information requests on councils to uncover information on the misuse of the CIS data. The DWP said it could not confirm the incidents, as they are a matter for councils.
[August 10, 2009, 12:05]
Grid computing to solve Big Bang queries?
News Central Laboratory of the Research Councils e-Science Centre at RAL. The mysteries of dark matter, multiple dimensions and even the conditions following the Big Bang could be solved with the help of the world's biggest computer grid — a big chunk...
[November 24, 2005, 12:55]
Campaigners criticise '£10bn NHS IT overspend'
Blog Comment This has always being the case though with the British government and councils, irregardless of what the topic may be they see us the British tax payer as a bottomless pitt. Yet if you went to a small business link to seek funding to setup your own...
[November 23, 2009, 21:57]
Union fears IBM job cuts could hit UK first
News Media reports predicting IBM job losses have appeared in France, Germany and Sweden in recent weeks, which Wesley believes were sparked by discussions between IBM and local worker councils. Ian Wesley, Ovum research director, believes that the bulk...
[May 5, 2005, 13:50]
