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Real-Time Trust Solutions for Secure Digital Certificates

CertiVeR, a European research project under the eTEN programme, developed and launched a complete and decentralised service for certification authorities (CAs)…

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Real-Time Decision-Support System Aims to Save Lives

This is the background to the AMIRA IST project, which aimed to develop a more sophisticated version of the platform first seen in the IST project RIMSAT. The…

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London University Spin-Out Secures Funding for Clinical Trial Software

Founded in 2004, IXICO provides state of the art image analysis solutions for pre-clinical and clinical trials that are based on sophisticated computer…

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EGNOS Enhances Navigation During Tour de France Stages

This year, the trials, conducted in partnership with the race organiser – Amaury Sport Organisation (ASO), took place over two of the tour’s stages: the…

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Safer Mountain Flights: Innovations in Aviation Technology

It would appear that there are radars, land-based services and so on – why is it that aircraft and helicopters continue to crash, especially during take off…

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New Protocol Transforms 3D Design in Uni-Verse Project

The protocol and applications utilizing the protocol are developed in a project called Uni-Verse coordinated by KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology,…

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Turning on the rural broadband tap…

Between 25 and 40 per cent of Europeans have no affordable, effective access to the 1s and 0s that constitute the ABCs of the rapidly emerging knowledge…

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European Airborne Campaign Enhances Sentinel Imagery Research

The Sentinel satellite series, which are being developed by ESA in support of the European Global Monitoring for Environment and Security programme (GMES),…

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Watson voted one of AI’s ‘10 to watch’

Dr Richard Watson at the University’s School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS), has been awarded one of the first ever IEEE Intelligent Systems’ ‘10 to…

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University of Granada Develops Multilingual Oncology Database

The result is a database with hierarchical data consisting of 1896 concepts related to cancer and 4033 words in Spanish, English, and German. According to the…

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New Cornell Method Creates Natural-Looking CG Blonde Hair

Reproducing this effect in computer graphics has always been a challenge. Computers can create three-dimensional structures resembling hair, but the process of…

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Biometrics Boost Mobile Security: Identity Verification Innovations

Though security applications that verify a person’s identity based on their physical attributes, such as fingerprint readers or iris scanners, have been in use…

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'Womb' service for student midwives

Sheffield Hallam University has just taken ownership of a state-of-the-art mother and baby simulator to give student midwives practical experience of birthing…

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Advancements in Nanoscale Microelectronics Production

Silicon wafer-based complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology dominates IC manufacture. Its energy efficiency will continue to make it the…

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High-Altitude Broadband: The Future of Wireless Connectivity

The CAPANINA project, which uses balloons, airships or unmanned solar-powered planes as high-altitude platforms (HAPs) to relay wireless and optical…

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Exploring Telepathy: Innovations in Virtual Reality Testing

The system, which immerses an individual in what looks like a life-size computer game, has been created as part of a joint project between The University's…

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