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Andrew Purcell
Editor

Andrew Purcell is the editor of iSGTW and is based at CERN, near Geneva.

Recent articles by this author:

  • Building a neural network in your bedroom May 15, 2013 - 9:57am
    At TedxCERN, 18-year-old Florida high school student and Google Science Fair Winner, Brittany Wenger, explained how she built a neural network to help tackle breast cancer.
  • CERN and OpenAIREplus launch new European research repository May 8, 2013 - 9:12am
    Zenodo is an online repository, developed and hosted at CERN, which allows researchers to share publications and supporting data, facilitating open collaboration. The repository is launched today (8 May, 2013) and is designed specifically to help '...
  • Cryptography and security at ISC'13 April 17, 2013 - 9:49am
    Michael Hortmann, a leading expert in cryptography from the University of Bremen will be chairing a session on cryptography and security at this year’s International Supercomputing ’13 conference.
  • Golden opportunities for e-infrastructures at the EGI Community Forum April 17, 2013 - 9:49am
    Last week, iSGTW was at the European Grid Infrastructure Community Forum 2013. Find out what Nancy Rothwell, Peter Coveney, Kostas Glinos, and Steven Newhouse had to say during the opening plenary session. The quartet touch on a range of topics, from...
  • Seeking synergies in Switzerland March 27, 2013 - 11:48am
    'CRISP', is a European project established to help encourage and enable collaborating partners to combine their know-how and complementary expertise in the field of physics research in an effective manner. iSGTW reports from their 2nd Annual...
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  • Measuring the success of European e-infrastructures March 13, 2013 - 3:54pm
    Last week, the 10th e-Infrastructure Concertation Meeting took place, hosted by the European Commission Services with the support of the e-ScienceTalk project. Find out what delegates at the event had to say on the subject of measuring...
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  • Listening to the music of the brain could be key to treating epilepsy March 6, 2013 - 8:40am
    Thanks to the high-speed GÉANT network and the computing power of the European Grid Infrastructure, researchers in Italy are creating music from electroencephalography data. Listening to these melodies could help researchers forecast impending...
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  • The role of e-infrastructures in natural-disaster response March 6, 2013 - 8:40am
    As the second anniversary of the largest earthquake in Japanese history approaches, Ben Katsumi explains how cloud computing helped the relief effort following the natural disaster. Plus: Discover how reseachers at the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency...
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  • CERN and Oracle celebrate 30 years of collaboration February 13, 2013 - 11:22am
    On Friday 1 February, 2013, CERN and Oracle celebrated 30 years of collaboration. In addition to providing hardware and software to CERN for three decades, Oracle has now been involved in the CERN openlab project for 10 years.
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  • Forecasting the challenges and highlights of Cloudscape V with Wolfgang Gentzsch February 13, 2013 - 11:22am
    Wolfgang Gentzsch, co-founder of the UberCloud HPC experiment and advisor to EUDAT, speaks exclusively to iSGTW about the challenges facing cloud computing in the run up to this month’s Cloudscape V conference in Brussels, Belgium. 
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