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Bob Jones

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  • Feature - Project profile: ESFRI June 30, 2010 - 1:00am
    Feature - Project profile: ESFRI Image courtesy GridTalk So, just what is ESFRI?The European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI) is a European Commission initiative whose role is to guide policymaking on Research Infrastructures (RIs) in...
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  • Feature - Global science up-close: workshops in India June 2, 2010 - 1:00am
    Feature - Global science up close: workshops in India Gurdwara Bangla Sahib Sikh Temple in New Delhi, India. Image courtesy youngrobv, all rights reserved. Editor’s note: Every month, readers from 134 different countries read iSGTW. One of the...
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  • Feature - From EGEE to EGI: Plain talk with Bob Jones and Steven Newhouse May 5, 2010 - 1:00am
    Feature - From EGEE to EGI: Plain talk with Bob Jones and Steven Newhouse At the Uppsala Gala Dinner, Bob Jones of EGEE handed over to Steven Newhouse of EGI his most prized possession — a crown made from all the name tags he collected from...
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  • Feature - Lining up new grid users with gqsub January 6, 2010 - 1:00am
    Feature - Lining up new grid users with gqsub Stuart Purdie, of the University of Glasgow, receives an award for his work on gqsub, from Bob Jones of EGEE. Image courtesy EGEE09 Grid computing is often seen as the domain of big science, involving giant...
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  • Feature - Grid makes a SPLASH in underwater archaeology July 1, 2009 - 1:00am
    Feature - Grid makes a SPLASH in underwater archaeology Up to 3.2 million square kilometers of the European continental shelf (about 40 per cent of Europe’s land mass) was exposed as dry land during the periods of lower sea level that persisted...
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  • iSGTW Feature - Enter the age of computer merchants December 3, 2008 - 1:00am
    Feature - Enter the age of computer merchants Goods for sale: companies like Digital Ribbon can quickly and easily connect clients with computing resources tailored to their needs. Image courtesy of sxc.hu Modern researchers are not short of ambition....
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  • iSGTW Feature - Celebrating the development of the LHC grid October 8, 2008 - 1:00am
    Feature - Celebrating the development of the LHC grid Wolfgang von Rüden unveils the cermonial globe sculpture, before an audience in CERN's globe-shaped building. Image courtesy of GridFest Last Friday, 3 October, grid-enthusiasts gathered...
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  • iSGTW Feature - EGI Workshop at EGEE 08 October 1, 2008 - 1:00am
    Feature - We must not be afraid of the future: EGEE to EGI Time to turn off this road and transition to the next.Image courtesy of www.gerards.be. At last week’s Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE) conference in Istanbul, the audience received a...
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  • iSGTW Opinion - Celebrating one year of International Science Grid This Week November 14, 2007 - 1:00am
      Opinion - Celebrating one year of International Science Grid This Week iSGTW celebrates one year of reporting on grid computing initiatives across the globe. In the last six months, visits to the iSGTW Web site have increased almost six-fold...
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  • iSGTW Feature - I'm being shadowed: voices from the GAP November 7, 2007 - 1:00am
      Feature - I’m being shadowed: voices from the GAP Eleven female staff from CERN’s IT department were kept under close surveillance yesterday, shadowed by female students from a local high school as part of the Enabling Grids for E-...
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