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. He was unavailable for comment — he is attending the conference in Seattle — but a source close...
[November 16, 2005, 9:20]
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 We want to throw some light on forecasting what these new technologies might lead to in the human sense, in the community sense — and in the business," said Wendy Hall, a professor of computer science at the University of Southampton.
[November 3, 2006, 9:27]
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]
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]
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. In the same way that a pillow filled with pebbles is harder to get smooth than one stuffed with sand, chip makers are finding it harder to make...
[November 6, 2008, 15:12]
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. Potential emergencies may be overlooked by the NHS Direct system according to a survey published Tuesday by the Consumers' Association.
[August 9, 2000, 7:10]
Anti-Sniff Software Inadequate - BugTraq
News One security expert from the Electronic Computer Science Department at Southampton University criticises the program "Anti-Sniff" for only detecting behaviour associated with sniffing, rather than sniffing itself.
[July 27, 1999, 11:28]
UK Education System Failing Tech Industry
Talkback University of Southampton www.soton.ac.uk/~ktakeda We realise this problem at Universities, such as Southampton. So we're trying to inspire young people to see where a high tech career can lead them.
[August 14, 2006, 19:15]
UK Looks To Unify Telephones And The Internet
News Essentially it's a way of referring to an Internet service through what looks to be a phone number," explained Dr Tim Chown of the Department of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton.
[August 20, 2004, 17:40]
EU Telecoms Vote Prompts File-sharing Fears
News Lilian Edwards, a law professor at the University of Southampton, has written extensively on the subject on her Pangloss blog. A high-level European vote on communications legislation will take place on Monday evening, raising fears that alleged...
[July 7, 2008, 17:12]
Concerns Grow Over IPv6 Migration
News Daley's view was backed by Tim Chown, systems administrator for the University of Southampton's school of electronics and computer science and a member of the UK's IPv6 taskforce. European businesses are being held back from migrating to IP version...
[June 15, 2007, 13:52]
Countdown To CeBIT
News ZDNet UK's Rupert Goodwins will be travelling to Southampton University on Wednesday to talk to Tim Berners-Lee, the man credited with founding the world wide web. One of the highlights of the European tech calendar, CeBIT, the world's largest...
[March 13, 2007, 7:46]
UK And India To Establish Virtual R&D School
News BT will be joined in the consortium by IT consultancy Intergence Systems, plus 10 UK universities: Cambridge, St Andrews, University College London, Queen Mary, Southampton, Lancaster, Bristol, Ulster, Surrey and Birmingham.
[December 3, 2007, 10:51]
Super Computer Does Lottery
News According to scientists in the Department of Electronics and Computer Science, seven is the most popular number and is chosen 25 percent more than 46, the least popular. Players tend to select numbers towards the centre and top of the lottery...
[December 23, 1998, 6:01]
