The Human Brain Project: navigating brain networks
Building a research infrastructure to harness multiple disciplines and computing, to help advance neuroscience, medicine and computing to the benefit of society.
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Deep learning in cancer treatment: the algorithm that learns how to make us feel better
It is difficult to predict the course of a disease without knowing its past. For this reason, data analysis is taking on an increasingly crucial role.
The Armenian Data Cube: a successful collaboration for environmental sustainability
Game-changing technology for remote sensing Earth Observation and national-level data visualisation to measure productivity of pasture land, the presence of pollutants, and the impacts of natural phenomena such as erosion or droughts.
How a university in Scotland recovered from a ransomware attack
When Dundee and Angus College, in Scotland, UK, was brought to a halt by a cyberattack, its leadership had to face a new reality. “It dawned on me that, in a digital sense, there was no college; everything had been wiped. That was a pretty low moment,” says principal Simon Hewitt. Ironically, the first point…
Closing the digital divide during COVID in Ireland
Over a period of just eight weeks, national research and education network HEAnet partnered with Dell Technologies to supply over 16,700 students from 36 Universities, Institutes of Technology, and ETBs across Ireland.
OpenUP2U: accessible education in times of crisis
In an effort to support continued learning during the COVID-19 pandemic, the EU-funded Up2University (Up2U) project rapidly accelerated development of a version of its trusted, remote learning platform, and offered it to all schools and universities across Europe.
The digital search for a COVID-19 cure
COVID-19 researchers in Finland get priority access to the Puhti supercomputer.
Supporting Big Data research in Azerbaijan
E-governance is the current focus of Big Data research by Professor Ramiz Aliguliyev to help resolve some of the difficulties researchers face with managing ever-expanding volumes of data.
Opening the door to Europe’s digital language library
The CLARIN research infrastructure (or simply “CLARIN”) was set up in 2012. Its objective is to make digital language resources from Europe accessible to humanities and social science researchers through a single sign-on.