In Brief
Book Review: "From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020"
ERCIM was requested by the Royal Society to review the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: 366, 1881 pp 3663-3838: "From computers to ubiquitous computing, by 2020"; 28 October 2008; edited by Marta Kwiatkowska, Tom Rodden and Vladimiro Sassone.
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ERCIM elects President and Vice-Presidents
During the Board of Directors meeting of ERCIM in Porto on 20 and 21 November, the current President of ERCIM, Keith G. Jeffery (STFC, UK) was re-elected as President for a further two-year term starting 1st January 2009.
ERCIM meets Günter Verheugen
ERCIM, together with INRIA Transfert, a subsidiary of INRIA to create and develop IT companies, had a private meeting in Sophia Antipolis with Günter Verheugen, Vice-President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry, during the conference 'Towards World Class Clusters' organised by the French Presidency of the European Union on 13 November. Commissioner Verheugen was very interested in ERCIM's positioning as a 'European network of research' becoming also a 'European network of innovation'. He invited ERCIM to participate in a working session on innovation to be organised by his Directorate General in Brussels for a small number of invited participants.
STFC Staff celebrate Achievements of the Atlas Centre
In December 2008, the IT staff at STFC - who had been centred in the historic Atlas Building - held a small event to celebrate the achievements since the installation of UK's first supercomputer in 1964. In January the staff move to a new building labelled R89.
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