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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft’s Akhtar Badshah wants to be a disruptive influence

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

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

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