http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk This section acts as a central repository for news stories from the Oxford e-Research Centre. To receive news updates as they become available you can subscribe to our RSS feed. daily 1 2008-03-25T23:02:04Z http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/oxford-recognised-by-gchq-as-leader-in-cyber-security It was announced today by GCHQ, one of the three UK intelligence agencies, that Oxford University has been recognised as an Academic Centre of Excellence in Cyber Security Research. The award recognises the University’s long track record of excellence in this area of research and aims to ensure that work done at Oxford helps to protect the UK from cyber attack as well as opening up new business and research opportunities. No publisher adi 2012-04-01T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/university-of-oxford-awarded-a31.25-million-to-promote-high-performance-computing The University of Oxford is pleased to announce that it has been successful in attracting £3.7m of funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) through a collaborative bid with the Universities of Bristol, Southampton and UCL to create a Centre for Innovation in High Performance Computing methods and technologies. No publisher adi 2012-03-25T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/e-research-centre-director-appointed-as-university-cio Professor Anne Trefethen, Director of the Oxford e-Research Centre, has been appointed to the new post of Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the University. In addition to her duties as CIO, Anne will continue to oversee the e-Research Centre until a new Director has been appointed. No publisher adi 2012-03-05T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/dataflow-project-beta-software-released-seeking-test-users The JISC/University Modernisation Fund sponsored DataFlow Project at the University of Oxford have completed a beta software release and are looking for test users! No publisher adi 2012-02-20T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-marina-jirotka-joins-visiting-committee-for-the-the-institute-of-systems-science-at-the-national-university-of-singapore Dr Marina Jirotka has been invited by The Institute of Systems Science at the National University of Singapore to be a member of a Visiting Committee of international experts to carry out an assessment of the Master of Technology (MTech) degree programme with specialisations in Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering in February 2012. No publisher adi 2012-02-06T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/virtual-research-environment-for-cancer-imaging-sandbox-release The Virtual Research Environment for Cancer Imaging (VRE-CI) based at the Oxford e-Research Centre has now released its SharePoint Sandbox Solution as open source in Codeplex under the New BSD License. No publisher adi 2012-02-03T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/cibnor-and-oxford-e-research-centre-memorandum-of-understanding We are delighted to announce that the Oxford e-Research Centre and the Northwestern Centre of Biological Research (CIBNOR ) in Mexico have now in place a Memorandum of Understanding.... No publisher adi 2012-02-01T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/isa-framework-project-featured-in-nature-genetics Details on the ISA Framework project are included as part of Nature Genetics Editorial "It's Not About The Data" No publisher adi 2012-01-30T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/new-standards-allow-disparate-data-sets-to-integrate Led by researchers at University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University, (USA), more than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make possible the consistent description of enormous and radically different databases compiled in fields ranging from genetics to stem cell science, to environmental studies. No publisher adi 2012-01-29T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/winning-project-announced We are delighted to announce that the Imagery Lenses for Visualizing Text Corpora project, on which the e-Research Centre's Professor Min Chen is a Principle Investigator, has been chosen as one of the winners of the 2011 Digging Into Data challenge. No publisher adi 2012-01-04T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/call-for-papers-symposium-on-a-framework-for-responsible-research-and-innovation-in-artificial-intelligence In recognition of the Turing Centenary, the society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) will be holding a joint meeting with the International Association of Computing and Philosophy (IACAP): 2-6 July 2012 in Birmingham, UK. No publisher adi 2011-11-18T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/uk-national-grid-service-ngs-adopts-globus-online The UK National Grid Service (NGS) has adopted Globus Online as the preferred data movement method for its users. All computing resources available to the NGS community have been added as transfer endpoints in the Globus Online system, a hosted service for high performance data movement, and NGS has been enabled as an identity provider for the service. Using their NGS credentials, users can quickly and easily log in to Globus Online and move files among NGS servers, or between an NGS server and the user’s local server or laptop. No publisher adi 2011-11-15T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/dr-segolene-tarte-ahrc-fellowship The AHRC has awarded Dr Ségolène Tarte a nine month fellowship which will focus on “Digitally Curating Knowledge Creation: Understanding and Recording the Process of Interpreting Cultural and Historical Artefacts”. No publisher adi 2011-11-01T00:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/crispy Large research infrastructures like the ESRF (European Synchrotron Radiation Facility), SKA (Square Kilometer Array) and X-FEL (X-Ray Free Electron Laser) are built on the premise of making available to scientists the latest in technology for use in scientific experiments. This often requires joint R&D efforts, and the CRISP Project is bringing together eleven main players from across Europe to address four key technology areas for the big science of tomorrow. CRISP was launched on 17 October at the Czech Embassy in Paris. No publisher adi 2011-10-26T23:00:00Z News Item http://www.oerc.ox.ac.uk/news/epsrc-commits-over-a33.5-million-of-support-for-collaborative-computational-projects EPSRC has recently refreshed its support for Collaborative Computational Projects (CCPs), ensuring that those communities undertaking cutting edge computational science in the UK are supported. Oxford are leads or co-leads of 4 of the new CCPs and took 40% of the funding. No publisher adi 2011-10-20T23:00:00Z News Item