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Morphing UAV rescue plane
A shape shifting robot plane (ASARP), small and cheap-to-build unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that is intended to cut the cost of maritime search-and-rescue missions and reduce risks to material and human lives has been successfully developed in a combined Cyprus-Israel developed project.
US data storage wars hot-up: winner unknown
Technologies' data floods need mega data storage, not to mention the ability to search, shrink, sifting and manage it. The established IT companies are feeling the need to be there and the route is through acquisition.
TAP scores £250,000 oil spares deal
While the IT community in Aberdeen considers cloud services, Aberdeen Pressure Washer Centre, a division of Turriff AgriParts (TAP) Ltd has been awarded a £250,000 contract to supply Kärcher spares to a major oil company in Azerbaijan or Gorgia
Rapid interface: chemistry & seismology
Rapid at Edinburgh University is a cost-effective and efficient way of designing and delivering portal interfaces to tasks that require remote compute resources. Already a screencast has been created where Rapid was used to develop a portal for HECToR showing how to setup an advanced computer job involving computational chemistry. Now the focus is on a better understanding of seismology research using Rapid.
Intel locks down on software
Intel has agreed to buy McAfee, the computer antivirus software maker, for about $7.7 bn in cash, as the chip giant seeks to expand its presence in security services. Which should see Microsoft, AVG, Kasperski, Zone Labs, Norton, F-Secure et al looking to polish up their own niche acts.
Probability chip takes a bow
Any UK design engineers out there feeling lyrical? Lyric Semiconductor Inc based in Cambridge Massachusetts, is a DARPA- and venture-funded MIT spin-out, has emerged from stealth mode to launch a new technology called probability processing, poised to deliver a fundamental change in processing performance and power consumption and is looking for a senior design engineer.
Silence of the logic boxes: exam revolution
transtec has installed a learning centre, laboratory and examination rooms at the University of Applied Sciences (UAS) at Darmstadt with Pano Logic Zero Clients technology being used for exams.
Numediart = New Media Art
There's something about a determined French release sitting among mainly English ones and includes the word 'numediart' which is a red rag for Gaberlunzie curiousity.
eMuCo: multicore & virtualisation phones
Embedded Multi-Core Processing for mobile communications (eMuCo) bringing the combination of multi-core and virtualisation to mobile phones. From the UK, ARM and the University of York were part of a consortium co-coordinated by Dr. Attila Bilgic and Dr. Maria Elizabeth Gonzalez of Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Participants included Infineon and Technische Universität Dresden (Germany), IBM Rational ((Sweden) and (Romania) "Politehnica" University of Timisoara.
BAE Systems HEADS up in health sensors
A recent $17m award from the US Army for BAE Systems’ Headborne Energy Analysis and Diagnostic Systems (HEADS) Generation II sensor, designed to better monitor soldiers and assist in the identification and diagnosis of combat-related traumatic brain injuries (TBI) was followed by a public first look at the Gen II HEADS device at Farnborough International Airshow, while BAE Systesm also showed off its Ultra Lightweight Warrior (ULW) equipment Deliveries on the HEADS order are expected to begin in April 2011, and completed by July 2011.
HP seeks vision beyond numbers
Hewlett-Packard's chairman, CEO and president Mark Hurd has decided with the Board of Directors to resign his positions effective immediately. Chief Financial Officer Cathie Lesjak takes over as CEO on an interim basis.
Satellite funding: location, location
The 3rd call for proposals for Satellite Navigation research and development (R&D) under the EU's 7th Framework Programme (FP7) makes available €38m in funding and is open to companies and research organisations in various areas such as ICT, Transport, Mobility, SME, Security, Electronics and Aerospace. Closer to home and high technology, ADS Scotland is organising a Workshop at Strathclyde University in September.
Bone regeneration with growth agent
Bone regeneration proof of concept research to test the hypothesis that the articular surface of the synovial joint can regenerate with a biological cue spatially embedded in an anatomically correct bio-scaffold is proved, with further investigation warranted into whether cell homing acts as an adjunctive or alternative approach of cell deliver for regeneration of tissues with different organisational complexity.
Through focus scanning optical microscope
Ravikiran Attota, a lead researcher in National Institute of Standards and Technology's Precision Engineering division, won an R&D 100 Award for his development of the Through-Focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM), which has applications that cut across a range of industries, from biotechnology to semiconductors and photonics.
Intel's silicon optical data link
Intel's demonstrates its concept vehicle, a 50Gbps silicon photonics link breakthrough which is built on early achievements including the first hybrid silicon laser co-developed at University of California at Santa Barbara in 2006 and high-speed optical modulators and photodetectors announced in 2007
Industrial Fellowship for FPGA graduate
The Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 has awarded its Industrial Fellowship for a second year to an iSLI graduate student, this year Thomas Perry, to further his research which is part of an initiative known as Field Programmable Gate Arrays ( FPGA).
Towards 1 inverse femtobarn luminosity
The world’s largest international conference on particle physics ICHEP attracted more than 1000 participants to its Paris venue to hear the four major LHC experiments – ALICE, ATLAS, CMS and LHCb – spokespeople present the measurements from the first three months of successful LHC operation at 3.5 TeV per beam, an energy three and a half times higher than previously achieved at a particle accelerator.
Diagnostics and ballasting for Oyster
Engineers at BAE Systems, whose normal forte is working in design, repair and maintenance of complex naval system will work with Aquamarine Power to develop an intelligent diagnostic system and remote ballasting mechanism for the Oyster thanks to a Technology Strategy Board grant of £450,000, which the partners match-funded, to support the 30 month R&D and demonstration project to drive down maintenance costs and maximise energy production enabling the roll-out of large-scale commercial production of Aquamarine Power’s Oyster wave energy converter.
Vendor independent cloud tools
The University of St Andrews led by Professor Ian Sommerville is involved in a £1.3m research project set to investigate the possibilities of next generation ‘cloud’ technologies for large scale and complex IT systems. Collaborating with principal investigator Professor David Cliff, University of Bristol and Aston’s Computer Science group lead by Dr Radu Calinescu, researchers will evaluate ‘cloud computing’ and associated technologies and their relevance to SME’s and large organisations in the future. Hewlett Packard is also a project partner.
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