Yesterday saw the end to the highly stimulating day and a half International Research Forum (IRF) hosted by SAP at the Lindner Hotel & Sporting Club Wiesensee. The annual invitation-only forum brings together the leading thinkers from academia and industry around a preselected topic and the theme of this year’s event was "Future Internet: Right…
This week saw over 2500 participants attend a large EU meeting: "From Economic Recovery to Sustainability". This large meeting combined large public-private partnerships in the areas of: Factories of the Future, Energy Efficient Buildings, Green Cars and the Future Internet. Each of these areas is associated with a significant pool of funding and at the…
Yesterday was the first day of an EU Commission lead Consumer Summit which incorporated extensive content on Web 3.0. The overall focus of the Summit, opened by Mr. John Dalli, European Commissioner for Health and Consumers, was on services for consumers and in particular on access, fairness and choice. Specifically, the Summit aimed to develop…
The beginning of this week saw over 350 Future Internet stakeholders from academia, government and industry meet with the Kista Science City in Stockholm. This meeting, part of the series of six-monthly Future Internet Assemblies, enables the leaders of over a hundred EU projects representing a budget approaching 500M Euros to collaborate on key issues…
So began the feedback from the mid-term review of the SOA4All project, held last week in Brussels. From a relatively slow start the three external reviewers of the project now agreed that the project is performing very well. As one review said: �it is now fun to be a reviewer�. SOA4All is a large EU…
This week saw a highly stimulating workshop on how Semantic Technologies could support the Future Internet held in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium in Berlin. The workshop combined a number of leading players from the semantics arena and from the main areas of the Future Internet, namely from the: Internet of Services, Internet of…
The new EU-funded SEALS project had a very positive kick-off meeting in Madrid a few weeks ago, where representatives of the 10 consortium members gathered and started to work on creating a platform for the automatic evaluation of semantic-based technologies. The SEALS Platform will provide an integrated set of evaluation services and test suites which…
This week saw the kickoff meeting of the mEducator project, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Funded as Best Practice Network under the eContentplus programme of the European Commission after receiving outstanding review feedback, 13 partner institutions will collaborate throughout the next 3 years within mEducator to provide innovative, service-oriented eLearning solutions enabling specialized state-of-the-art…
More than ever the Global Economy and Society depends on the Internet – all major sectors of industry, from transport and banking to entertainment and education are moving online. With today�s 1 billion Internet users soon to be joined by 3 billion mobile online devices Internet usage will need to become fully pervasive, incorporating a…
On the 2nd and 3rd of April the SOA4All project had a very successful first year review in Brussels. Service Oriented Architectures for All (SOA4All) is a Large-Scale Integrating Project funded by the European Seventh Framework Programme, aiming to realize a world where billions of parties are exposing and consuming services via advanced Web technology….
