Big Data – Different Demands, Similar Challenges?

3rd February 2010
Hamilton House, Euston
Introduction
Volumes of data, produced by experiments across the scientific disciplines, are increasing at a rapid rate. Construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN has necessitated the collaboration of 170 computer centres across 34 countries to manage the 15 million gigabytes of data the experiment will produce each year. Similar, if [...]

Qi3 Accelerates Companies to Profit

Qi3 announces the launch of its Accelerator programme – a new service which supports companies to rapidly commercialise their products; achieving early sales without the expense of full time staff, loss of equity or the payment of high upfront fees. 
 
The Qi3 Accelerator is a new way of providing interim sales and marketing management; based [...]

Detection Systems for Biological Threats – Evolving Security Needs and New Technology Solutions

Holiday Inn London Kensington Forum, SW7 4DN
Introduction
Biological threats pose a very real danger to modern society. No longer just a military threat, biological warfare is now a potential terrorist hazard. In the rapidly changing security environment, terrorists are constantly on the lookout for new weapons such as biological agents. If successful the effects could be [...]

Transport, Safety and Energy Challenges – New Opportunities and Call for Project Proposals

ESA Centre in Harwell, Oxfordshire, UK

Report from IAP Workshop at Harwell 12th November 2009
Over 120 people attended a seminar in Harwell (UK) focused on challenges in the transport, safety and energy sectors and how they may be met by novel applications of space data. The day was chaired by Alan Brunstrom, contact point for [...]

Instrumentation for Light Sources

One Great George Street, Westminster

Light Source facilities represent a significant commercial, technological and scientific opportunity. There are major new and upgraded light sources at various stages of design and development around the world, many of which require advances in instrument technology to be realised. 

The UK’s Synchrotron Radiation Source played an important role in the growth [...]

EXTREME II Technologies 2009 Event

SOLUTIONS FOR HARSH ENVIRONMENTS: SENSING, ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATIONS
Newcastle University in conjunction with ONE NorthEast is pleased to announce the “EXTREME II Technologies 2009 Event”. This regional event will showcase advanced technologies developed for harsh environments over the last decade by Newcastle University.

A wide variety of technologies are available to industry, at a high technology readiness [...]