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Centres for innovation Futures - 28 June 2010 Centres for innovation

Microsoft Innovation Centres around Europe aim to help harness great ideas and turn them into successful...

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Going for Go Futures - 28 June 2010 Going for Go

Go is a game so complex that raw computing power was never going to be enough to turn it into a competitive...

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Barcelona, eScience and cloud computing Futures - 02 June 2010 Barcelona, eScience and cloud computing

The Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (BSC) is taking part in a pioneering EU Framework Programme 7 project on...

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BSC-Microsoft Research Centre Futures - 02 June 2010 BSC-Microsoft Research Centre

The Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) and Microsoft joined forces in 2008 to create the BSC-Microsoft...

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MareNostrum to help scientific progress Futures - 02 June 2010 MareNostrum to help scientific progress

Sahara dust forecasting, cancer genome sequencing or the design of computer’s next generation of...

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There’s a new woman in charge Futures - 28 May 2010 There’s a new woman in charge

It’s been all change in Brussels, and innovation now has a new Commissioner. And Máire Geoghegan-Quinn has...

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Keeping an eye on the environment Futures - 27 May 2010 Keeping an eye on the environment

The European Environment Agency is using leading-edge technologies to enable citizens to find out about the...

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eSkills: helping immigrant women in Europe find employment Futures - 27 May 2010 eSkills: helping immigrant women in Europe find employment

Sylvie Laffarge tells FUTURES why eSkills are increasingly important for immigrant women looking for...

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Enabling technologies in eHealth Futures - 26 May 2010 Enabling technologies in eHealth

Europe and the US may have very different ways of funding health, but they have much in common, too. A new...

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Hungry? Reach for the cloud… Futures - 26 May 2010 Hungry? Reach for the cloud…

Superbowl Sunday is big business in the US as people all over the nation tune in to watch the American...

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Personalised healthcare: the information challenge Futures - 18 May 2010 Personalised healthcare: the information challenge

There is one game-changer that can turn the promise of personalised healthcare into a reality. It is...

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Robotics gets personal Futures - 03 May 2010 Robotics gets personal

Huge industrial robots are now a mature industry. Young French entrepreneur Jean-Christophe Baillie believes...

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Meet the new biology Futures - 03 May 2010

Biologists have long had to fight against the idea that theirs is a ‘soft’ science. Now, armed with tools from...

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Inside the cloud Futures - 28 April 2010 Inside the cloud

The cloud is one of the most popular terms in IT today but perhaps also one of the least well defined. FUTURES...

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Mundie spells out the challenges Futures - 23 April 2010 Mundie spells out the challenges

Computer science can play a major role in fuelling scientific breakthroughs in other fields, but only if it...

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eHealth systems putting the patient at the centre Futures - 01 December 2009 eHealth systems putting the patient at the centre

Interoperability and building trust in the privacy and security of eHealth systems is the route to...

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Free multimedia for the developing world Futures - 01 December 2009 Free multimedia for the developing world

What developing countries need is a stable, sustainable, robust and low-cost means of delivering services and...

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The Trento algorithm: A research recipe from Italy Futures - 01 December 2009 The Trento algorithm: A research recipe from Italy

Take an ancient town, a new university, Microsoft Research and a fresh approach to computational systems...

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Kiwigrid tames your household energy consumption Futures - 01 December 2009 Kiwigrid tames your household energy consumption

There’s a new technology coming into your home. But unlike many, this one should save you money.

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Low carbon: Public-private partnerships take up the challenge Futures - 01 December 2009 | 2 comments Low carbon: Public-private partnerships take up the challenge

Big challenges can encourage big solutions, and at the end of last year there was no challenge bigger than...

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Smart software improves environmental forecasting Futures - 01 December 2009 Smart software improves environmental forecasting

Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate.

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Computing the energy problem Futures - 01 December 2009 Computing the energy problem

In May 2009, a Brussels seminar examined the potential of computers to save energy – and the obstacles to...

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A programmer’s progress: Michał Moskal’s journey Futures - 01 December 2009 A programmer’s progress: Michał Moskal’s journey

How a student from Wrocław became an expert in software verification – via Aachen and Redmond.

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Films inspire researcher’s work on futuristic computer displays Futures - 01 December 2009 Films inspire researcher’s work on futuristic computer displays

As a teenager in 1990s war-torn Kosovo, Alban Rrustemi loved a good crime film – especially one with computing...

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Commission to propose Innovation Act Futures - 01 December 2009 Commission to propose Innovation Act

Is a European Innovation Act what’s needed to make Europe more innovative and strengthen growth and...

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EMBL’s Peer Bork recognised for work in bioinformatics Futures - 01 December 2009 EMBL’s Peer Bork recognised for work in bioinformatics

Peer Bork, who heads a team of bioinformatic researchers at the Heidelberg, Germany- based European Molecular...

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Albert II visits the Microsoft innovation centre in Mons Futures - 01 December 2009 Albert II visits the Microsoft innovation centre in Mons

On 16 June 2009, the King of Belgium, Albert II, visited one of Belgium’s innovation hotspots, the Digital...

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Time to get going again Futures - 01 December 2009 Time to get going again

When the new Commission is appointed, it will find a raft of proposals waiting for it – all aimed at putting...

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HiBi workshop seeks answers to model questions Futures - 01 December 2009 HiBi workshop seeks answers to model questions

Fifty-five researchers met in Trento, Italy, in October to look for collaborative solutions to the limitations...

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Open for innovation Futures - 01 December 2009 Open for innovation

John Wood, Chair of the European Research Area Board, gives a personal assessment of how research needs to...

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That special spark: A helping hand for innovative start-ups Futures - 01 December 2009 That special spark: A helping hand for innovative start-ups

Who would start a business development for start-ups in a slump? That’s precisely when it has to be done, says...

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Constructive disruption Futures - 01 December 2009 Constructive disruption

Microsoft’s Akhtar Badshah wants to be a disruptive influence

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The swarm is coming… Making molecular computing a reality Futures - 01 December 2009 The swarm is coming… Making molecular computing a reality

Inspired by biology, Klaus-Peter Zauner is working on a radically new kind of computer.

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The marriage of maths and ecology Futures - 01 December 2009 The marriage of maths and ecology

A new research group in Paris aims to use optimisation theory to find answers to the challenges of ensuring an...

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Interoperability the key to making eHealth work Futures - 01 December 2009 Interoperability the key to making eHealth work

Potential cost-savings from eHealth are being jeopardised because computer systems cannot talk to one another,...

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