European Technology

Archive: 05-2012

• Why there’s no quick fix to get open source into government

  A Whitehall insider explains why take-up of open source has been so slow in government - and how difficult it will be to increase its deployment.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 31, 2012, 5:53 AM PDT

• How open source software can head off IT disasters

  Government is discovering how open source software provides a free and readily available way of testing whether big ideas will work

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 30, 2012, 7:09 AM PDT

• Artificial Intelligence: What happened to the hunt for thinking machines?

  Mankind has long been fascinated by the idea of intelligent machines, but in the information age the sci-fi dream of creating a human-like AI appears increasingly anachronistic.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 25, 2012, 4:48 AM PDT

• Wanted: A BBC Micro for the 21st century

  Why we need a modern-day successor to the classic eight-bit BBC Micro to inspire the next generation of programmers.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 24, 2012, 8:14 AM PDT

• Cern: Where the Big Bang meets big data

  The home of the Large Hadron Collider is to be a testbed for developing big data technologies

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 22, 2012, 8:01 AM PDT

• London 2012: Tech systems face their most critical hurdle

  The IT system underpinning the London Olympics will undergo a major test next week.

  Posted by Steve Ranger | May 17, 2012, 7:30 AM PDT

• Am I a man or a machine? My role in the hunt for AI

  How taking part in a Turing Test to find the first thinking computer made Nick Heath realise he is more like a machine than he thought.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 16, 2012, 1:04 PM PDT

• D-Day for AI as the Loebner Prize comes to the UK

  The Loebner Prize, the annual hunt for a thinking machine takes place in the UK tomorrow.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 14, 2012, 9:20 AM PDT

• Raspberry Pi: Five ways business can use it

  The $40 Linux computer is a tempting replacement for expensive, high-end machines in a number of business tasks.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 9, 2012, 6:58 AM PDT

• Offshoring jumps as cash-strapped companies step up outsourcing

  The global economic crisis is sparking a boom in IT offshoring as India’s major IT suppliers grew four times faster than their competitors in 2011.

  Posted by Nick Heath | May 9, 2012, 3:38 AM PDT