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ICT Results
This is the home page for the ICT Results service - an online editorial service providing news and
features articles on the latest innovations from the European Commission's Information Society
Technologies (IST) research initiative. From this site you can search and browse for emerging
research results with potential for further exploitation, identify recent technology developments,
consult the Press Desk or the Investors Service, submit your own project news or events and follow
links to related IST websites.
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Teaching intangibles with technology
Teach students some facts, and they learn for one exam at a time. Teach students to think and they learn how to learn for the rest of their lives. Ambitious work from European and Israeli researchers is making it easier to help students learn to think for themselves. This is exciting stuff for teachers.
Snap, map, chat and hyperlink?
Hyperlinking reality is a huge advance for mobile navigation, interaction and for image recognition, but what can it actually do? Quite a lot, apparently, with more to come.
Reality gets hyperlinked
European researchers can now attach hyperlinks to pictures you take using your mobile phone. It offers the prospect of new ways to discover, engage and navigate your surroundings.
Special feature: Unlocking the dynamic web to form new partnerships
Most of the web’s potential can’t be tapped via websites and browsers. A smart toolkit crafted by European researchers to unlock those hidden resources has now been tested in three real-world applications.
Making digital maps more current and accurate
European researchers have designed an innovative new system to help keep motorists on the right track by constantly updating their digital maps and fixing anomalies and errors. Now the partners are mapping the best route to market.
Special feature: Unlocking the dynamic web
Most of the knowledge and services potentially available on the worldwide web can’t be accessed through browsers and websites. A new European research project has devised a smart toolkit that unlocks and links the web’s hidden resources.
Culture vultures go beyond, way beyond Google
European researchers are pushing online culture and heritage research way beyond Google by using a smart search system that is multilingual, multimedia and optimised for cultural heritage. Better yet, this promising system has wide application in other fields.
Computing in a molecule
Over the last 60 years, ever-smaller generations of transistors have driven exponential growth in computing power. Could molecules, each turned into miniscule computer components, trigger even greater growth in computing over the next 60?
Poor-man’s supercomputing goes commercial
Grid computing technology has long been the darling of cash-strapped academics in desperate need of raw processing power. Now a groundbreaking European research effort has created an industrial-strength platform already appearing in commercial applications.
Grid applications: a new way to do business
Grid technology developed by European researchers offers a new way to do business, with partners working simply, seamlessly and ‘virtually’ around a common goal. It is already having a big impact, in a variety of applications.
Virtual organisations become a reality
European researchers have developed a suite of tools that make it simple, safe and secure to deploy grid computer systems across corporations and throughout the supply chain. The work means that virtual organisations can become a reality.
Removing user constraints from digital rights management
Bridging the often-large gap between the commercial imperatives of digital content providers and the requirements of users who buy their content has been achieved by a team of European researchers.
Rolling out flexible displays for the mass market
European researchers have developed a cost-effective method for manufacturing flexible displays in much the same way that newspapers are printed. Their work promises to revolutionise packaging, advertising and even clothing.
Robust watermarking offers hope against digital piracy
Watermarks have been used for centuries to prove the authenticity of bank notes, postage stamps and documents. Now European researchers are considering them as a new tool in the fight against digital piracy and to authenticate and verify the integrity of digital media.
Safer, better, faster: addressing cryptography’s big challenges
Every time you use a credit card, access your bank account online or send secure email cryptography comes into play. But as computers become more powerful, network speeds increase and data storage grows, the current methods of protecting information are being challenged.
Learning by blogging
Many students learn best working together on structured, self-directed projects. European researchers have created software that links student blogs and other social software tools into a virtual collaborative learning environment.
Sights and sounds of ICT 2008 - the ICT Results Diary
It happens every two years. It is the biggest event of its kind in Europe. It draws Europe’s luminaries in the field of information and communications technology. It is ‘ICT 2008’, the EU’s flagship event in this important field. ICT Results brings you a diary of interesting projects, and some of the sights and sounds of the event this year in Lyon.
Bringing lab-on-a-chip to a surgery near you
If doctors were able to conduct efficient genetic analysis at the point of care, using inexpensive, portable equipment, it would revolutionise disease detection and treatment. European researchers are close to enabling this revolution.
ICT 2008 Diary: Not as easy as it sounds
In a hub of sights and especially sounds centred around the ICT for Entertainment exhibition at ICT 2008, the EASAIER project stands out.
ICT 2008 Diary: More than words
If you have a passion for communicating, then the PASION project is worth a look. Its mantra “more than words” plays on the notion that communication is not the sum of the words coming out of our mouths, but a combination of non-verbal and contextual information as well.
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