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Browsing can bring on colour
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)
Riverside Campus opens
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.
£11.5m for aerospace & marine energy
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.
Midlothian Council fined for data breach
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.
Devolution impact: telecoms and broadband
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.
UK government gets new CIO
The head of IT at the Ministry of Justice is to become the Government's chief information offices, on the heels of Joe Harley announing his resignation from that post at the end of March. Government also looks for a replacement CIO at Department for Work & Pension where Harley held the title.
Enter online now!
Dare to be Digital, claimed as the world’s leading computer game design competition, is now open for 2012 entries – a unique opportunity for students to win industry attention and their very own BAFTA.
Girls lock-up quantum security
Quantum computers, besides offering substantial computational speedups, are also expected to preserve the privacy of a computation.
Data Analysis: Google lure for data journalism
Last November, Google announced its support for a new Data Journalism competition, organised by the Global Editors Network. The competition is now open to submissions and a London event detailed on how to compete and win a total of six prizes worth €45,000. Hopefully even if the UK makes a poor fist at it this time, it will encourage higher teaching associations specialising in journalism to push at data analysis and social network analysis tools and skills.
Ocean dataset available
FIND Maps UK's advanced online mapping website for professionals, is now authorised to deliver OceanWise marine datasets. These comprise an international range of Geo referenced Raster GeoTiffs as well as OceanWise Marine Themes (GIS compatible vector data).
Genetics: 24% intelligence impact
Scientists have estimated for the first time the extent to which genes determine changes in intelligence across the human life course and find that genetic factors may account for about 24% of changes in intelligence between childhood and old age.
Multiplicative pips additive to best ranking
An academic at the University of Hertfordshire challenges the way university league tables are calculated, presenting a radically different way of formulating UK university rankings.
Flexiant: new bosses and £1m
Having moved offices and with work on EU projects 4CAAST, Cumulo Nimbo, and Optimis,cloud automation software company, Flexiant has now secured £1m investment and appointed John Pocock and George Knox as chairman and CEO, shedding Laurence Blackall, with co-founders Alex Bligh and Tony Lucas moving to COO and CTO respectively.
Education of the heart
The Dalai Lama will deliver this year’s Margaret Harris Lecture on Religion and talk "Education of the Heart: a new world order of compassion" during his historic visit to Dundee, Inverness, and Edinburgh after several programmes in Manchester and London.
FUPOL: smart politics or an ant approach?
As Scotland opens a prototype government search portal, European and Chinese experts in political science, simulation and computing technologies are working to develop new software through a 17 partner and 12 project linked FUPOL that will allow politicians to analyse opinions expressed in social networks. But concurrently political and economic theorists could also gain pragmatic wisdom learning how an ant colony allocates food resources, according to authors of a new paper in The American Naturalist.
Scottish Government search portal
The Scottish government has launched an "experimental prototype" portal that brings together information on all its services, with the aim of making it easier for citizens and businesses to find out about government services.
Atoms up work
IBM Research has successfully demonstrated the ability to store information in as few as 12 magnetic atoms and by beginning at the smallest unit of data storage, the atom, researcher demonstrate magnetic storage at least 100 times denser than today’s hard disk drives and solid state memory chips.
Liberating ICT for schools
Hot on the heels of Raspberry Pi, the UK Information & Communication Technologies (ICT) curriculum is to be scrapped says education secretary Michael Gove, as the UK will introduce new courses of study in computers, with the emphasis on science. The development is being hailed wholeheartedly by industry experts. ScotlandIS executive director Polly Purvis welcomes the move by schools scrapping outdated ICT in favour of computing science technology.
Kilt for a cause
Focusing concerned society on issues, whether it be prostrate cancer or a lack of women in technology can range from such curiosities as UK men going hirsute with moustaches in November, or a month earlier in Seattle, men wearing kilts to the US Microsoft PASS summit SQL Server meeting, in support for Women in Technology.
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