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28 September 2011

Exploring history with HyperCities

It's true: history is made every day. But it hasn't been made quite like this before. With a digital humanities platform called HyperCities, users are now involving 3D reconstructions, multimedia, archival maps, social media feeds, and hypertext to create or explore historical narratives.

Miriam Boon
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48-hour grid security challenge

A team from the Netherlands has mimicked a global attack on the Worldwide Large Hadron Collider Computing Grid, and released their results at a technical forum in Lyon, France, last week.

Jacqui Hayes
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Getting every researcher digital

The next European framework funding program, which begins 2014, was introduced at the EGI Technical Forum in Lyon last week, and will set aside 80 Billion Euros for research and innovation.

Catherine Gater
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Hat trick for Alzheimer’s grand challenge
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Study up, puny human!

IBM's Watson, the computing system that famously competed on Jeopardy!in February 2011, will be attending the supercomputing conference SC11 in Seattle later this year.

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