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Unique Search Engine for the Web by Swedish Researcher

Jan Erik Solem is part of a research team in applied mathematics that is working with image analysis and computer vision. In his dissertation he shows how…

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Highlights from EGEE’06: Top Grid Application Innovations

This was announced at the EGEE'06 conference in Geneva, Switzerland, along with the prize for the two best demonstrations of applications on the Grid shown at…

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SmartTouch Project: Innovations Bringing Services Closer

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is managing a new international co-operative project SmartTouch targeted at finding new, versatile applications for…

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New Models Enhance Reliability of Virtual Organizations

A virtual organisation is one whose members are geographically apart (usually working via networked computer applications) while appearing to others to be a…

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NICE Italy Enhances GENIUS Grid Portal for EGEE Compatibility

NICE Italy will develop its GENIUS Grid Portal and EnginFrame FrameWork, to make them compatible with the EGEE middleware gLite. “NICE has always been a strong…

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W3C Unveils Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications

Today, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) introduces a suite of documents that will make it easier for Web site developers to make dynamic Web content…

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World’s largest scientific Grid sustains a million jobs per month

These computing tasks were submitted by scientists from diverse fields of research, and range from simulations of molecular drug docking for neglected diseases…

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Computer-Aided Detection Enhances Breast Cancer Screening

Scientists at The Universities of Manchester and Aberdeen and Cancer Research UK have found that the workload of radiologists could potentially be halved by…

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Kent IT Clinic Nominated for Prestigious IT Industry Award

The awards are given to those whose challenges and achievements deserve recognition and whose thinking has set them apart from the crowd. KITC’s nomination is…

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Empowering UK E-Science: OMII-UK’s New Partnership

The Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute UK (OMII-UK) provides software and support on which the UK e-Science community and its international collaborators…

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McMaster University Launches Interactive VR Simulator for Students

McMaster University has unveiled the first interactive motion simulator to be used for teaching undergraduate students how to develop software for simulated…

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UGR’s Small Antenna Design Ranks Among Europe’s Top 20 Innovations

Specifically, in the design of antennas by means of numeric formulas applied to describe certain complex geometries. Their work has managed to develop…

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ForumOxford Hits 1000: Exploring 457 New Discussion Topics

So what of discussions? There are a total of 457 topics. Over the last 4 months, which includes the quiet month of August, 171 new topics have been added, an…

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Boosting software developers' productivity

European software designers, often working in university laboratories, create some of the world's most sophisticated and reliable software systems. However, it…

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CERN Grid Leadership Honored by GRIDtoday Awards

The awards were presented by the publishers of GRIDtoday, a leading source of news on Grid technology for the business world. These awards signal the growing…

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Imaging Tech Revives 700-Year-Old Sacred Hindu Manuscript

Scientists who worked on the Archimedes Palimpsest are using modern imaging technologies to digitally restore a 700-year-old palm-leaf manuscript containing…

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