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AIDS research grid project gathers support
News Over 20,000 computer users have signed up for a distributed computing project that uses spare PC cycles to help research into AIDS and HIV. The team behind FightAIDS@Home announced on Monday that the World Community Grid had enjoyed its most...
[December 5, 2005, 17:15]
Online Research and Project Management Solutions Generate New Ideas and Protect IP
White Papers It wanted to build on its existing e-learning platform to heighten learning and communication, by addressing these gaps: Lack of a tool to enable students to work and conduct research; Inability to optimize project planning and management using...
[January 11, 2008, 0:01]
A Research Note on Virtual Project Management Systems
White Papers The objective of this paper is to report intermediate research results on the comparison and benchmarking of two tools that are developed as Virtual Project Management Systems (VPMS). Based on the theoretical framework for VPMS of Zigurs, Evaristo...
[April 14, 2006, 1:01]
Compare research cuts with the NHS mega project
Talkback The cuts in EPSRC funding should be related to Government plans to target research funding. Appointments are made on applicants ability to attract research funds, and the question is whether the award of research funds allows for pioneering...
[March 2, 2007, 8:57]
Clinical Data Warehouse Project Aims to Improve Neurotrauma Care and Research
White Papers Leaders of the University of California, San Francisco's (UCSF) Brain and Spinal Injury Center (BASIC) say that situation is tragic - and they've undertaken a two-year project with the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and the Intel...
[January 1, 2009, 0:00]
UK government launches artificial intelligence drive
News The UK government is attempting to boost Britain's involvement in intelligent computing by launching a research project into cognitive systems. The government said on Tuesday that the pilot project would examine how work on artificial intelligence...
[April 30, 2002, 17:40]
Open source: Developing markets and anti-Americanism
News Rishab Ghosh, programme leader of an open source research project at the Maastricht Economic Research Institute on Innovation and Technology For example, the South African government has funded a project to translate OpenOffice.org into the 11...
[November 14, 2005, 11:00]
COHSE: Dynamic Linking of Web Resources
White Papers This paper presents a description of the COHSE collaborative research project between Sun Microsystems Laboratories and the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. The focus of the project was an application to enable the...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
Implementing IPv6 in an Organization
White Papers During a research project done in 2004 there was concluded that the migration to IPv6 could be done without too many problems. This is what this paper and project is about. Because this research was done on paper it would be interesting to test...
[March 10, 2005, 2:00]
Intel unveils its 80-core processor
News Intel has built its 80-core processor as part of a research project, but don't expect to take advantage of it just yet. Chief technical officer Justin Rattner demonstrated the processor in San Francisco last week for a group of reporters, and the...
[February 12, 2007, 9:15]
Group cracking Xbox 'for the public good'
News The Neo Project, which is using distributed computing to crack the main security code in Microsoft's Xbox games console, says it is confident its activities will stand up under legal scrutiny because they could have research and social benefits.
[January 15, 2003, 11:39]
Oracle joins European grid project
News Oracle announced on Wednesday that it is joining a major European research project aimed at boosting grid computing, which is a technique for divvying up intensive computing tasks among multiple systems.
[December 5, 2003, 9:30]
EU invests millions in nanotech research
News The European Commission detailed on Monday plans to invest in a new research project that will explore breakthroughs in semiconductor materials, process and design. Among the companies that have already pledged participation in the nanotechnology...
[March 9, 2004, 8:25]
UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing
News Microsoft is backing a UK universities project to research new ways of cutting the cost of supercomputing. Professor Simon Cox of Southampton's School of Engineering Sciences is leading the project. The goal of the project is to learn how to...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
IBM 'Quicksilver' flash sets data-speed record
News The research project, under way at IBM's Hursley Lab in Hampshire and the Almaden Research Center in California, uses flash solid-state drives (SSDs) coupled with scalable storage virtualisation technology.
[August 29, 2008, 13:19]
The British Library needs you
Blog From Monday to Wednesday this week, the British Library in St Pancras is host to a conference on the Digital Lives Research Project. The project has been, and continues, under the auspices of some mainstream cultural and educational institutions...
[February 10, 2009, 20:02]
Robot race draws crowd
News The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency said on Thursday that 106 teams have applied to participate in the Grand Challenge, an off-road race for unmanned vehicles slated to take place in March 2004, and that 86 teams have submitted technical...
[October 31, 2003, 8:25]
Microsoft seeks to build more useful thesaurus
News The Next Generation Writing Assistance project within Microsoft's research unit is aiming to build a more useful thesaurus, by tapping techniques used to translate languages. We've taken the actual translation tables.and said: 'If a word in Chinese...
[February 24, 2009, 10:25]
BBC launches open source network testing platform
News That project is also hosted on SourceForge, and forms part of BBC R&D ongoing research programme into new broadcast technologies. The Kamaelia project, released on Tuesday, is designed to simplify the creation and testing of new protocols for large...
[December 22, 2004, 14:10]
IBM, Harvard tap grid computing for solar-cell study
News By spreading out the computing research across numerous computers, Harvard researcher Alan Aspuru-Guzik said that the project can be completed in two years. Harvard University and IBM have launched a project to identify cheap solar-energy materials...
[December 8, 2008, 14:42]
