http://www.computescotland.co.uk/ en-us Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:54:04 +0000 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:54:04 +0000 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Beachshore Design Online Management System editor@computescotland.co.uk (Gail Purvis) support@beachshore.co.uk (Beachshore Support) http://www.computescotland.co.uk//cisco-launches-big-awards-5013.php In its quest to discover and help develop emerging and early stage technology based start-ups UKCisco has launched the next stage in its British Innovation Gateway (BIG Awards IPrize) initiative. With support from JP Morgan and other partners, BIG Awards will take the form of an annual open innovation competition to discover and reward the finest examples of the UK’s most innovative start-up digital businesses and SMEs. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 13:53:08 +0000 1tScKdadkVkAgxsh9QEc http://www.computescotland.co.uk//graphene-vfett-atomic-antenna-toughest-fibre-5012.php Graphene straddles the world. At Manchester University moving into the vertical plane it becomes a vertical field effect tunnelling transistor. Over at the ORNL laboratory in Tenessee, graphene becomes a plasmonic antennae.Down under at University of Wollongong in New South Wales correctly mixed with nanotubes and PVA, it becomes the most super tough fibre material capable of mass production. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 12:44:51 +0000 BdjaIOYppRaHv5JyDd5E http://www.computescotland.co.uk//soitec-buys-nano-altatech-5009.php Silicon on insulator Soitec has acquired nano production systems producer Altatech Semiconductor S.A based at Montbonnot Saint Martin near Grenoble. The final purchase price of €15m was financed partly in cash and partly using Soitec stock, purchased by BNP Paribas Exane on the market under the share buy-back program approved by the shareholders. Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:49:50 +0000 f4asZT26CoNUIkjwMMBj http://www.computescotland.co.uk//roke-wins-conformance-monopoly-5008.php Roke Manor Research Ltd , acquired by the US Chemring Group in 2010 has been appointed by the UK Government's National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG), as UK's only Conformance Test Facility of Protocol Requirements for IP Modular Encryption (PRIME) the UK's framework to ensure interoperability between large UK government networks such as the Public Services Network (PSN) Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:50:08 +0000 vqyXrJdqohnQIe9aZoKA http://www.computescotland.co.uk//prace-grows-membership-5007.php PRACE Research Infrastructure welcomes three new members: Denmark, Israel and Slovenia, make a total of 24 PRACE members for 2012. Wed, 01 Feb 2012 16:23:06 +0000 5XdnYsBXSdcz7Tobj9bk http://www.computescotland.co.uk//browsing-can-bring-on-colour-5005.php When Gaberlunzie was fairly young, one of the more intriguing books he was shown was the one where numbers in colours helped doctors discover if you were colour blind (or colour vision deficient (CVD) to give it its preferred nomenclature) Wed, 01 Feb 2012 07:52:59 +0000 SEvxjL7qFXA5rsB2Qypr http://www.computescotland.co.uk//women-research-id-management-5004.php Professor Liesbet van Zoonen of Loughborough University and a team of women colleagues from Dundee, Essex and Northumbria universities have received a £1.36m grant to examine taboos and desires around future technologies of ‘identity management’. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 15:05:26 +0000 GM5M1s8apWaETX8x819n http://www.computescotland.co.uk//riverside-campus-opens-5003.php SAC and University of the West of Scotland (UWS) have officially launched their new £81m Riverside Campus in Ayr, a new 18,000m2 campus is situated on the Craigie Estate, next to the River Ayr and an innovative learning environment for students. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:48:05 +0000 o8M7Mah6sV0BLuvwnJzR http://www.computescotland.co.uk//software-to-exploit-multicore-5001.php Why must a programmer care for the hardware architecture when writing embedded applications for multi-core? At HiPEAC 2012, Professors Nikolaos Voros and Jürgen Becker explain how the ALMA Consortium comprising French, Greek, Netherlands and German based academic and business organisation aim to turn 'must' into 'may'. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 13:01:37 +0000 SPSTkSjSL5PdzixRk8IX http://www.computescotland.co.uk//115m-for-aerospace-marine-energy-5000.php Aerospace and marine energy are attracting more than £11.5m investment from UK government organisations, led by the Technology Strategy Board (TSB). The slant for aerospace is solving high risk challenges, while the angle in marine energy is the nitty, gritty of array technologies. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:03:50 +0000 qea3OcQ0d6DgqjKczGe0 http://www.computescotland.co.uk//midlothian-council-fined-for-data-breach-4998.php The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has imposed a monetary penalty of £140,000 on Midlothian Council for disclosing sensitive personal data relating to children and their carers to the wrong recipients on five separate occasions. The penalty is the first that the ICO has served against an organisation in Scotland. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:46:06 +0000 tOgKBkgjjeSjKvCBFADU http://www.computescotland.co.uk//visualising-slow-bio-processes-4994.php Pepric, a spin-off from Belgium research organisation imec, has successfully closed a €1.4m capital round. Pepric develops scanner systems for direct visualisation of magnetic labels and commercialises equipment for quantitative molecular detection and imaging to monitor biological processes evolving slowly over time. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:34:13 +0000 UpcUiZpnPQe9lG7vCy1I http://www.computescotland.co.uk//whisky-biofuel-as-water-loses-to-wind-4993.php THE UK government's review of feed in tariff (FIT) energy payments is estimated to have stalled £100m of hydropower investment in Scotland, while a newcomer Celtic Renewable is to use whisky by-products for the production of biofuels. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 14:21:09 +0000 n1ZSadhna9iNAOSGud7u http://www.computescotland.co.uk//dundee-is-tissue-bank-founder-4991.php The University of Dundee/NHS Tayside is one of four collaborating centre sites where breast cancer tissue samples can be donated, along with blood samples and information about the donor’s breast cancer in a revolutionary new central bank. Sun, 29 Jan 2012 12:19:42 +0000 Wnb7XEmN49zczxanZHxV http://www.computescotland.co.uk//lidar-geodata-comes-online-4988.php A highly accurate 3D map of Britain made available online by aerial mapping company Bluesky is created using data from aircraft mounted lasers that transmit light pulses that bounce off the earth’s surface the 3D map covers most of England and Wales, including all major towns and floodplains. Nothing there for Scotland? Not so! Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:47:13 +0000 oTs4AZnhzWIvMQ8R1Fsa http://www.computescotland.co.uk//rain-forest-and-flight-wing-truths-4987.php LMU biologist, Professor Susanne Renner teamed with Professor Robert E. Ricklefs at University of Missouri in St. Louis used data to dispose of the neural theory for rainforests. At Cambridge University Professor Holger Babinsky creates a 1-minute video to show it is lower air pressure above that raises a wing, not the common but wrong explanation of wing curvature creating wing lift. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 08:07:13 +0000 SjZmCMKcDiUAoHJRt2sM http://www.computescotland.co.uk//sensors-for-concrete-monitoring-4986.php Innovative sensors have been developed that will dramatically improve the ability to spot early warning signs of corrosion in concrete. More resilient and much longer lasting than traditional corrosion sensors they will make monitoring the safety of structures such as bridges and vital coastal defences much more effective as carbon steel bars used to reinforce submerged concrete in tidal zone areas are at particular risk of corrosion caused by wet conditions. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:56:48 +0000 f57jKsjRy8GtgXhEqkY3 http://www.computescotland.co.uk//devolution-impact-telecoms-and-broadband-4985.php In January 2012 the Westminster government offered to devolve to the Scottish Parliament the powers necessary to conduct a referendum on the independence of Scotland, with the possibility of repealing the Act of Union of 1707. This could return Great Britain to a Union of the Crowns, with separate parliaments under one sovereign. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:15:11 +0000 xpJgUu5ou2lgYbXr0ZFc http://www.computescotland.co.uk//weir-acquires-valves-pumps-seismic-sensors-next-4984.php The engineering group Weir has made its second acquisition in the US shale oil and gas sector with the acquisition of Dallas-based US valve maker Novatech for $176m (£113m). Perhaps it should also consider the seismic sensor market too. Thu, 26 Jan 2012 11:05:24 +0000 dBK1XqLvwpdfw20hLoyx http://www.computescotland.co.uk//north-china-brewer-uses-telemetry-4983.php China’s oldest and third largest brewer, Harbin Beer has hired British company Telemetry to serve and audit its online video advertising in China. Telemetry being the first foreign company to be permitted to serve and audit an online video campaign for a Chinese brand, within China not unjustifiably claims a major achievement. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 16:19:03 +0000 q3Ppkhud0b00tLy0Ygkd