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Digital heirlooms, your lifetime on a chip

Digital heirlooms, your lifetime on a chip

When Richard Banks’ grandfather died about five years ago, he left behind a suitcase filled with hundreds of photographs, many depicting his... More
The smart way to roll out smart grids

The smart way to roll out smart grids

Governments around the world are racing to invest in smart electricity grids to reduce energy consumption and battle climate change. The European... More
Smart collaboration cuts energy consumption

Smart collaboration cuts energy consumption

Electricity companies around the world are racing to develop equipment to help homes and apartments automatically slash energy use. These “smart... More
Keeping an eye on the environment

Keeping an eye on the environment

On June 20th 2012, in the presence of Prime Minister of Denmark Helle Thorning-Schmidt, sustainability legend Gro Harlem Brundtland, IPCC Chair... More
Mundie spells out the challenges

Mundie spells out the challenges

Computer science can play a major role in fuelling scientific breakthroughs in other fields, but only if it can meet its own grand challenges, said... More
Kiwigrid tames your household energy consumption

Kiwigrid tames your household energy consumption

There’s a new technology coming into your home. But unlike many, this one should save you money. More
Low carbon: Public-private partnerships take up the challenge

Low carbon: Public-private partnerships take up the challenge

Big challenges can encourage big solutions, and at the end of last year there was no challenge bigger than Europe’s response to the economic... More
Smart software improves environmental forecasting

Smart software improves environmental forecasting

Environmental scientists face many challenges in monitoring and understanding our planet’s changing climate. More
Computing the energy problem

Computing the energy problem

In May 2009, a Brussels seminar examined the potential of computers to save energy – and the obstacles to realising that potential. More
Life support for the planet: Trees and climate change

Life support for the planet: Trees and climate change

Software tools that help researchers to study the role of forests in climate change could make it easier to understand a wide variety of natural and... More
Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers

Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers

Microsoft’s first European “mega data centre”, which opened recently on the western outskirts of Dublin, uses 50 per cent less... More
The marriage of maths and ecology

The marriage of maths and ecology

A new research group in Paris aims to use optimisation theory to find answers to the challenges of ensuring an efficient and sustainable future. More
Putting computer science to work on biodiversity

Putting computer science to work on biodiversity

As concerns about global warming grow, scientists are turning to sophisticated computational models to better understand and ultimately predict the... More
Green ICT: the industry must lead the way

Green ICT: the industry must lead the way

The European Commission has called on national governments and companies to apply information and communications technology (ICT) solutions to improve... More
What a GIG!

What a GIG!

One of the gigs at this year's Roskilde Festival, the largest music festival in Europe, didn't take place on the stage but in the trash. Microsoft... More
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