Five Steps to Green Desktop Computing
by Howard Noble, Kang Tang, Daniel Curtis and Paul JeffreysIt is estimated that in the UK, about half of the 1.47 million desktop computers owned by further and higher education institutions are left on all the time. If power management practices are improved annual savings would be in the order of £64 million and 285 million kg of CO2 equivalents. Tools and techniques are readily available to achieve these reductions. This paper outlines the approach taken by staff at the University of Oxford who have developed a five step approach to 'green' desktop computing.
Digital Preservation Research: An Evolving Landscape
Keynote by Pat Manson
Digital preservation research tackles the problems of keeping - preserving - digital content, particularly that which is born digital and, therefore, by definition does not exist in any other format. As early as the mid 1990s the European Commission recognised that this was an emerging and important issue and started funding pioneering research projects in digital preservation. At that time the challenge of managing digital content so that it could be accessed and used reliably in the future was one that was being confronted mainly by national libraries and archives, the key institutions with the mandate to keep publications and records for the future. They were at the sharp end of facing the problems posed by the new shifts towards electronic journals and towards electronic records.
14th ERCIM Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems Workshop
by María Alpuente, Byron Cook and Christophe JoubertThe 14th ERCIM Formal Methods for Industrial Critical Systems (FMICS) workshop was held in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, on 2-3 November 2009. It was part of FMweek, the first Formal Methods Week, which offered a choice of events in the area including TESTCOM/FATES (Conference on Testing of Communicating Systems and Workshop on Formal Approaches to Testing of Software); FACS (Formal Aspects of Component Software); PDMC (Parallel and Distributed Methods of verification); FM2009 (Symposium of Formal Methods Europe); CPA (Communicating Process Architectures); FAST (Formal Aspects of Security and Trust); FMCO (Formal Methods for Components and Objects); and the REFINE workshop.
Digital Preservation: Introduction to the Special Theme
by Ingeborg Solvberg and Andreas Rauber
When digital representations of information objects first became available, they were seen as the solution to a myriad of problems relating to replication, distribution, ease of use and maintenance. Instead of filling up shelves and filing cabinets with documents, numeric data or fragile physical objects, the digital versions of these data promised to be space saving. They could also be copied and stored without loss or degradation - right up until the moment when the hardware and software environment required to interpret them became obsolete and they were suddenly lost (not degrading slowly, but in a very binary fashion, suddenly and completely lost).
InterLink Research Roadmaps Published
The Coordination Action InterLink (International Cooperation Activities in Future And Emerging ICTs), coordinated by ERCIM and ICS-FORTH, and funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Programme of the European Commission, has elaborated research roadmaps for international collaboration in the domains of Software-Intensive Systems and New Computing Paradigms; Ambient Computing and Communication Environments and Intelligent and Cognitive Systems.
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