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UK supercomputing push gets Microsoft backing
News The University of Southampton on Wednesday is launching the Professor Simon Cox of Southampton's School of Engineering Sciences is leading the project. The University of Stuttgart in Germany is also taking part in the scheme, creating a virtual...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
Web-science pioneer is made a dame
News Web and multimedia research leader Professor Wendy Hall [pictured], of the University of Southampton, has been made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In November, Hall was one of three professors from the University of...
[January 2, 2009, 11:53]
IT research centre faces tough rebuilding task
News The fire that partially destroyed the University of Southampton's Mountbatten Building, wiping out two key IT research centres, has left staff, students and some private companies with a massive headache as the extent of the damage and the cost of...
[November 2, 2005, 16:15]
Berners-Lee pushes web science
News Representatives from the University of Southampton and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on Thursday announced the Web Science Research Initiative (WSRI), a multidisciplinary project to study the social and technological implications...
[November 3, 2006, 9:27]
Oxford Handbook of General Practice, 2nd Ed. (OHGP2™)
Downloads Oxford Handbook of General Practice, 2nd Ed.powered by Skyscape Author(s): Chantal Simon, University of Southampton and Hazel Everitt, University of SouthamptonPublisher: Oxford University Press A lifeline for the busy GP, this reference covers...
[October 18, 2006, 8:00]
Prof Dame Wendy Hall's reaction to her honour
Blog When we learned of the New Year's honour bestowed upon web sciences pioneer Prof Wendy Hall, of the University of Southampton, we naturally approached her for her reaction. But it is also a tribute to the many people I have worked with over the...
[January 5, 2009, 11:42]
Noise emitted by ears used for biometric recognition
News Thanks to a research grant awarded in 2007, Stephen Beeby, an engineer at the University of Southampton, UK, and his team of investigators have been working to establish OAE as a robust biometric characteristic.
[April 15, 2009, 15:02]
High Productivity Computing...
Talkback University of Southampton, UK http://www.soton.ac.uk/ses/research/mshpci/index.html We have developed the concept of High Productivity Computing at Southampton, in collaboration with Microsoft by working with many academic and industrial partners.
[August 18, 2009, 16:49]
Campaign calls for diversity in engineering
Blog Ergo, the Royal Society of Engineering has launched its Diversity in Engineering Campaign, fronted by none other than the recently-honoured Professor, Dame etc Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton.
[January 15, 2009, 14:02]
Tackle skills shortage, urges government CIO
News The BCS is involved in various projects to raise the profile of IT as a profession, including schools outreach projects, such as the University of Southampton National Cipher Challenge, which encouraged school children to crack codes.
[May 18, 2007, 11:55]
Can a human love a robot?
News Nigel Shadbolt, professor of artificial intelligence at the University of Southampton is unconvinced about the role robots -- intelligent or not -- will play in our lives. Kevin Warwick, professor of cybernetics at Reading University, cites Sony's...
[January 23, 2001, 14:01]
Microsoft takes on supercomputing
News In the UK, the company works closely with, amongst others, the University of Southampton. Simon Cox, Professor of Computation Methods at the University, said that the Computer Cluster Server is "one tool that you need for high performance along...
[June 9, 2006, 14:25]
Next IT entrepreneurs nurtured by uni networks
News The first universities to express an interest in principle commitment to the Stem UEN are Cambridge, Cranfield, Hertfordshire, Oxford, Reading and Southampton, while Coventry University is supporting the innovation UEN.
[November 25, 2008, 8:22]
Floating computers fight climate change
News It works in partnership with the British Oceanographic Data Centre, the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton and the UK Hydrographic Office. Credit: University of California, San Diego (UCSD) This Argo float was deployed in October 2007 in...
[November 23, 2007, 14:29]
How private lives are being redefined online
Video Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton discusses the data-privacy and social implications of this with ZDNet UK's Colin Barker, at the British Library's Digital Lives conference. People are sharing digitally captured details of their...
[February 13, 2009, 15:04]
How private lives are being redefined online
News Dame Wendy Hall of the University of Southampton discusses the data-privacy and social implications of this with ZDNet UK's Colin Barker, at the British Library's Digital Lives conference. People are sharing digitally captured details of their...
[February 13, 2009, 15:20]
EU committee gives 'file-sharing' law go-ahead
News Lilian Edwards, a law professor at the University of Southampton and author of the Pangloss blog, wrote on Tuesday that she was "relieved" to have heard Harbour say he would accept further revision of the amendments if they were deemed to be too...
[July 8, 2008, 16:43]
Tuned transistors make cheaper chips
Blog Which is why a recent announcement (pdf) from the University of Southampton is so interesting. Here, the stuffing isn't actually lumpier, it's that the pillowcase has got so small that the grains of sand look like pebbles.
[November 6, 2008, 15:12]
Cabinet Office seeks developer feedback on data site
News The site was developed by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the web, and Professor Nigel Shadbolt of the University of Southampton. The department, which revealed its plans on a digital engagement blog post earlier this month, has set up a beta...
[October 26, 2009, 13:21]
Government Web site puts lives at risk
News This claim is backed up by the director of Southampton University Health Care Research Unit Steve George. found that in three test cases based on everyday medical problems, a dangerous amount of inconsistent advice was given over the helplines.
[August 9, 2000, 7:10]
