Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 A workshop on the integration of knowledge, semantics and digital media technology will take place in London, the UK, on 25 and 26 November. The event is co-sponsored by the...
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 The European Commission has outlined the next steps that it intends to take towards establishing an EU programme for security research in a communication to the other EU...
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 The European Commission has responded to the recommendations of the high level panel of experts, led by Ramon Marimon, on the new instruments of the Sixth Framework Programme (...
Brussels, 10 Sep 2004 The European Commission has published a call for tenders for the evaluation of progress towards a European Research Area (ERA) for information society technologies (IST). The...
Geneva, 10 Sep 2004 I. OVERVIEW 1. The Intergovernmental Committee on Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folklore ("the Committee") has developed several defensive...
Washington, September 9, 2004 Current policies that allow scientists and the public unrestricted access to genome data on microbial pathogens should not be changed, says a new report from the...
Britain since the Seventies
The Quest for Consciousness
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the story of a doomed marriage: "In 1913, when Anthony Patch was twenty-five, two years were already...
The Birth of the Modern World 1780-1914
The Crimean War
The Struggle for Mastery
The Guardsmen