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Athanasia Nikolaou

The known unknowns - the outstanding 49 questions in Earth sciences (Part I) - 4 views

geolog.egu.eu/...49-questions-in-earth-sciences

planetary science PHY climate space. materials

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  • Athanasia Nikolaou on 05 Sep 14
     
    Open questions in geoscience. Food for thought
Dario Izzo

The Noah's Ark Principle (1984) Torrents | Torrent Butler - 3 views

torrentbutler.eu/10880-the-noah-s-ark-principle

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  • Dario Izzo on 05 May 14
     
    Next ACT movie Pleaseeeeee
Thijs Versloot

Linked Open Earth Observation Data for Precision Farming - 1 views

www.linkedeodata.eu

EO farming applications

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  • Thijs Versloot on 10 May 14
     
    Lots of Earth Observation data has become available at no charge in Europe and the US recently and there is a strong push for more open EO data. With precision farming, advanced agriculture using GPS, satellite observations and tractors with on-board computers, the farming process is performed as accurately and efficiently as possible. This is achieved by combining data from earth observations with other geospatial sources such as cadastral data, data on the quality of the soil, vegetation and protected areas. This enables the farmer to find the optimal trade-off in maximizing his yield with minimal use of fertilizers and pesticides while respecting environmental protection.
Thijs Versloot

Sunlight to jet fuel - European collaboration SOLAR-JET produces first solar kerosene - 4 views

www.solar-jet.aero/...ldquosolarrdquo-kerosene-6.php

solar fuel kerosene propulsion CO2

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  • Thijs Versloot on 05 May 14
     
    With the first ever production of synthesized "solar" jet fuel, the EU-funded SOLAR-JET project has successfully demonstrated the entire production chain for renewable kerosene obtained directly from sunlight, water and carbon dioxide (CO2), therein potentially revolutionizing the future of aviation. This process has also the potential to produce any other type of fuel for transport applications, such as diesel, gasoline or pure hydrogen in a more sustainable way.
Alexander Wittig

PQCRYPTO ICT-645622 - 0 views

pqcrypto.eu.org/press.html

Math Cryptography

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  • Alexander Wittig on 11 Sep 15
     
    Horizon2020 project on post quantum cryptography just released their first draft of recommendations for quantum computer safe encryption algorithms. No big surprise with the symmetric algorithms (what's used today is fundamentally sound), but the asymmetric public-key methods will be interesting.
Juxi Leitner

DEISA Infrastructure and Resources - - 0 views

www.deisa.eu/...infrastructure

infrastructure INF technology science

shared by Juxi Leitner on 29 Aug 10 - Cached
  • Juxi Leitner on 29 Aug 10
     
    european cloud? well at least computational power
Isabelle DB

Electric solar wind sail spacecraft propulsion - 6 views

www.electric-sailing.fi

propulsion energy

shared by Isabelle DB on 15 Oct 10 - No Cached
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  • Isabelle DB on 15 Oct 10
     
    Do you know this one ? (no time to go through the bookmarks...)
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  • duncan barker on 15 Oct 10
     
    Not sure whether the group has seen this idea before, but it seems interesting. I like it
  • LeopoldS on 18 Oct 10
     
    yes, we did have a look at it, I think back in 2007 but its maybe time to re-assess it ... will put it on the miscellaneous list for Dejan, the new propulsion and plasma RF to come in January ...
  • Luís F. Simões on 09 Dec 10
     
    They just got 1.7 million euros from the EU "to build the laboratory prototypes of the key components of the electric sail": http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/121643
  • LeopoldS on 11 Dec 10
     
    very interesting info indeed!!
Christos Ampatzis

Rates of Scientific Fraud Retractions - 6 views

blogs.nature.com/...rates-of-scientific-fraud

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  • Christos Ampatzis on 19 Nov 10
     
    Good to see "The Netherlands" not in the top list... Btw Fraud detection becoming hot potato in EU funding...
  • LeopoldS on 20 Nov 10
     
    not surprising since usually EC staff has no clue what people do with their funds once the are allocated ... as long as there is a report and a website :-)
LeopoldS

French National Police Force saves €2 million a year with Ubuntu | Canonical - 0 views

www.canonical.com/about-canonical/resources/case-studies/french-national-police-force-saves-€2-million-year-ubuntu

INF

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  • pacome delva on 25 Nov 10
     
    Be careful, the article is written by the company who did the migration to Ubuntu. Here is a comment by a police guy from IT (in french...). In brief he says that tyhe migration was not a problem for most of the people; exepc for some probleme with access. But it did cost money ! and the saving was not the main argument. "Personnellement concerné par la news qui n'en est pas une, je peux vous assurer que le message de Canonical est surtout commercial... Le choix d'Ubuntu est dû à son hégémonie et le fait que ce soit basé sur du Debian qui est considéré comme très stable. La distrib est d'une maintenance plus aisée que la plupart de celles qui ont été testées. "4500 postes" veut dire "4500 unités de gendarmerie" donc dans les brigades que vous connaissez... Pour ce qui est d'OpenOffice, le passage s'est fait assez tranquillement sauf pour les applis Access qui ont eu un peu de mal à passer sur le module Base...La plupart ont été reprise au sein d'applis php/mysql ou d'applis centralisées... Aujourd'hui, les gendarmes qui je le rappelle ne sont pas informaticiens mais vivent pour vous (au sens le plus strict je vous l'assure) utilisent donc firefox/thunderbird et oppenoffice en clients lourds, le reste étant des applis sur l'intranet ou "invisibles" pour l'utilisateur. Le passage à Ubuntu ne gène en rien dans l'utilisation car le trio précédemment cité est déjà connu et maîtrisé par nombre de mes collègues. Je ne suis pas censé m'exprimer en lieu et place de mes supérieurs mais à titre personnel, le choix d'Ubuntu est un choix intelligent car c'est une distribution avec une prise en main très accessible et avec une maintenance vraiment aisée pour les spécialistes informatiques dont je fais partie...Il ne faut pas oublier qu'une distribution plus élitiste aurait été maîtrisée par moins de monde et donc la maintenance aurait été plus coûteuse... Donc aujourd'hui nous "maîtrisons" cette part de notre infrastructure et la trans
  • Ma Ru on 25 Nov 10
     
    Lotus Notes doesn't run on Linux anyway...
nikolas smyrlakis

DIME | Dynamics of Institutions and Markets in Europe - 4 views

www.dime-eu.org

CMS dynamics innovation economics europe

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 09 Mar 10 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 09 Mar 10
     
    an active and open community for whoever interested and the new YGTs RFs in Innovation/ Economics/ CMS etc.
Ma Ru

trois, deux, un, ... celebration of the 30 years of service - 1 views

www.happybirthday-ariane.eu

ariane space esa technology

shared by Ma Ru on 14 Apr 10 - Cached
  • Ma Ru on 14 Apr 10
     
    Some time ago ESA posted two cool videos aimed to promote the Ariane programme. The website is the final product, I believe.
Joris _

Alliant, EADS Unit Set Sights on Rocket Venture - 0 views

online.wsj.com/...4422204576130482887509152.html

space NASA human

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  • Joris _ on 08 Feb 11
     
    ... some competition in the commercial space launcher market ? I kind of wonder why EU, or ESA, still doesn't push for anything in this market!
LeopoldS

Human Brain Project - Goals - 3 views

www.humanbrainproject.eu/goals.html

AI bio technology science

shared by LeopoldS on 20 May 11 - No Cached
  • LeopoldS on 20 May 11
     
    can we contribute in any way to this - or alternatively benefit from this research already now?
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 20 May 11
     
    Watch out!! I read quite a lot about the contribution by EPFL (apparently coordinator) and their boss, Henry Markram. From what I read, this is not really science, but mainly a PR campaign. The main motor in this project is attracting a lot of money and the main aim to do so is promising a lot of stuff that nobody will be able to deliver. Accordingly, Markram is a very controversial person in the business...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 20 May 11
     
    Oups, sorry! Of course I meant, "the main MEAN to do so...", but the aim justifies the means. Well, that's exactly Markram's motto, I guess.
  • LeopoldS on 21 May 11
     
    interesting info indeed ... I though still think that the overall goal of this project, even if too ambitious for the time being is interesting, no?
  • Luzi Bergamin on 22 May 11
     
    It's not about interesting or not, it's about serious science or not. Also the goal of a fortune-teller is interesting, isn't it? Any description of a good science project is too ambitious, that's normal and not necessarily PR. But personally I think there is a certain limit where a science project becomes a bad SciFi thriller. This one here is a dime novel, I think. But the too ambitious is not the only point I became very doubtful. I have seen quite a number of scientists and engineers from different fields; what I read about the character and attitude of this guy just hints towards the worst case scenario. It's presumptive evidence, I know...
  • LeopoldS on 22 May 11
     
    that bad! wow ....
  • Luzi Bergamin on 22 May 11
     
    You know me, I'm the bullshitter... You remember Kurzweil and his Singularity-nonsense. In a way this was very similar. Though I think Kurzweil and Markram are very different characters (The Singularity essentially is a religion, I can't see anything like that in Markram's claims) they seem to share an important point: they are both complete nerds that apparently never spent a single thought on the limits of science (in its English meaning) in general nor of their particular research field in specific. One may find this excusable, I don't. But even then, they make claims that the nerdest nerd must know that they are completely unrealistic and thus I just have to assume that they claim their nonsense on purpose. The reason in Markram's case clearly seems to be money. But all this does not mean that these nerds cannot produce valuable results.
LeopoldS

Europe tackles huge fraud : Nature News - 5 views

www.nature.com/...474265a.html

science inf EU

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  • LeopoldS on 16 Jun 11
     
    they used names of scientists and research centres without these actually knowing about their involvement it seems.... I am wondering what they actually reported back in terms of results? randomly generated papers? Christos?
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  • Luzi Bergamin on 16 Jun 11
     
    surprised? of course not! schadenfreude? yes, a lot!
  • Christos Ampatzis on 18 Jun 11
     
    Probably some bored project officer "accepted" the deliverables as reasonable? What worries me is the last paragraph by the Committee on Industry and Research (Space is in there..., all RTD is there...) Are we going to simplify procedures or tighten more??? Because there is a lot of talk about simplification in FP8: which is not well received by Parliament/Council and co...
  • Luzi Bergamin on 18 Jun 11
     
    Hopefully I'm wrong, but I'm very pessimistic. I guess they will impose even more control, ask for even more detailed description of the results that will be delivered and concentrate even more on project funding instead of funding open research.
  • pacome delva on 20 Jun 11
     
    maybe this is what happen when there is so much paper involved... a simple phone call to one of the research scientist and the fraud is unveiled :) or maybe the "bored project officer" has a brand new mercedes...
Christos Ampatzis

FP7 Space Call 5 launched! - 6 views

ec.europa.eu/...cooperation

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  • LeopoldS on 21 Jul 11
     
    link broken ...
  • LeopoldS on 22 Jul 11
     
    thanks - works now
nikolas smyrlakis

Sweden's Pirate Party wins EU seat |Technology |guardian.co.uk - 0 views

www.guardian.co.uk/...elections-pirate-party-sweden

guardian.co.uk pirate bay sweden elections

shared by nikolas smyrlakis on 08 Jun 09 - Cached
  • nikolas smyrlakis on 08 Jun 09
     
    The Pirate Party isn't related to the Pirate Bay torrent site, but it wants to legalise internet file-sharing and protect people's privacy on the net
Ma Ru

Euroscience Open Forum 2010 - 2 views

www.esof2010.org

science conference Europe

shared by Ma Ru on 24 Apr 09 - Cached
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  • ESA ACT on 24 Apr 09
     
    A conference ACT should consider going to.
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  • Ma Ru on 23 Apr 10
     
    Perhaps some of ACTers will find this conference interesting... One of the talks: "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" [Edit] Oh, I see someone has already posted this link... a year ago. Anyway, if anyone of you plans to go, let me know - I'll be around ;-)
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Just came back from ESOF 2010... I was on look for ACT agents undercover, but either they were not there or the cover was good enough... Anyway here's a few remarks from me (I could write a nice report... if you paid): 1) In general, to say that ESA was underrepresented on the conference as a whole is not enough (I guess ESA just failed to notice the event taking place). For instance, on the GMES presentation, ESA as such was not mentioned at all... at some point I started to wonder if ESA is actually involved in the project, but now I checked the website and apparently it is. On the other hand, GMES presentation was crap anyway, as after 1:15 of talking, I didn't gain any knowledge of what GMES is and what its contributions to the EU community will be. 2) There was a lot of talk about LHC and particle research (well, at least among those that I attended). Some of them were very good, some of them rather crap... 3) "Would Einstein be on Twitter? Exploring the potential and limits of Web 2.0 in science & science communication" talk - quite interesting, but focusing mainly on Science-to-Wide Public and Science-to-Journalists communication. Not really on Science-to-Science (as in Ariadnet). There was quite an extensive discussion with the public. You may be interested that Nature is trying to stimulate Web 2.0 communication, running blog service, but also I think a kind of social network - perhaps you'd like to have a look. In general the conclusion was that Web 2.0 is not so useful for scientific communication because practising it requires TIME (blogs, etc.) and often some professional skills (podcasts/videocasts, etc.), and scientists have neither of these. This can be run on corporation level (like ESA does actually), but then it looses the "intimate" character. 4) "How much can robots learn?" talk... very nicely presented: understandable by the wide public, but conveying the message... which is something like "we can already make the robots do stuff absolutely imp
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Well, my comment was cut in half, and I don't feel like typing it again... the most important highlight from the rest is that the only presenter from ESA (ESTEC) did not show up on his talk because his department was undergoing some sort of audit on the same day :)
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    Fantastic comment - or better report!! thanks very much Marek! Who was the supposed no-show speaker from ESA?
  • Ma Ru on 08 Jul 10
     
    Bernard Foing (he is actually one of the 8 ESA employees who have their own page on Wikipedia)...
  • LeopoldS on 08 Jul 10
     
    written almost entirely by a guy called a "quest for knowledge" ... who will this be????? :-)
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