Strategic impact. Please describe the strategic impact of the project in addition to the impacts identified above by adding a few bullet points for each releveant area in the table below.
Strategic impact. The important scientific and social impacts of dissemination projects that span national and international borders were outlined by Xxxxxx Xxxxxx, Head of Unit “GÉANT & e-Infrastructures, Directorate General for Information Society and Media, European Commission” in the GridBriefing Annual Report 2008-20097, produced by GridTalk: “Today, grid e-Infrastructures are facing significant challenges such as sustainability and the transition to a more user-driven and service-centric model. Grid computing has already engaged in the process of transitioning to a sustainable model of operation that would integrate at European level the corresponding national operations. This new pan-European organisation model will open grid e-Infrastructures to all scientific disciplines and complement national funding strategies in support of e-Science. Thanks to grid computing many prominent results have been achieved that directly affect people’s lives. It is essential to show the world and especially European citizens how European-funded research e-Infrastructures are working for them. Responsible and open communication plays an important role in ensuring public support of the European grid e-Infrastructures activities. This is where projects like GridTalk, disseminating the benefits, success stories and challenges of grid computing to a wider audience, play an important role. The effective communication of complex technical or scientific matters to a wider audience not only increases the public appreciation and support to scientific progress but also inspires the younger generations to get involved in the research process.” The need for dissemination projects to communicate the success stories and societal impact of grid computing and other EC funded e-Infrastructures has not diminished since GridTalk started in April 2008, and in fact with the transition to a new model for grid computing in Europe through the European Grid Infrastructure this is more important than ever. While dissemination will be carried out very effectively by XXX.xx and the National Grid Initiatives in their own countries, there will still exist a strong need to offer a global picture of this field to the scientific community and the general public. E-ScienceTalk will be ideally placed to communicate this overview and its global context to the wide-ranging audiences already established for its products through the GridTalk project, and earlier in the case of the GridCafé and iSGTW, which have built up a l...
Strategic impact. The purpose of the combination of collaborative activities and coordination and support actions proposed in NEXPReS is to further improve the research infrastructures for long baseline interferometry in Europe (VLBI, but also LOFAR). By its very nature this requires a European and often global approach. The continuation of the networking activities established in the past through the EXPReS project will ensure that this e-Infrastructure will be further integrated and consolidated by means of the most advanced ICT methods. The Service Activities will directly boost the scientific capacity of these large-scale facilities, leading to new, exciting scientific research by a larger user community. The R&D activities in the Joint Research Activities will explore new techniques enabling future capabilities in radio astronomy, and provide feedback into the ICT domain. Clearly, the proposed programme has all the qualifications to be considered as an Integrated Infrastructure Initiative, and will give Europe a leading role in the fields of radio-astronomy, long-haul, wide band connectivity, streaming computing and fast storage. Networking Activities will xxxxxx the cooperative culture established in our community over decades, but also provide a platform for interdisciplinary collaboration between radio astronomers and ICT infrastructure providers. Proper management is a common goal for all participants and this is implemented in WP1. Other objectives that will be addressed in Networking Activities include the strengthening of virtual communities. This is indeed the main activity of WP3 and WP4, which support the discussion platforms for EVN-NRENs and the e-VLBI Science Advisory Group. Both expert groups are essential for reaching the decisions that enforce and improve both the technical functioning and operational procedures of the infrastructure. Most of the funds are allocated to the organisation of meetings, which will definitely also attract parties from outside the consortium. However, these meetings are just the starting point for discussions and collaborations that will mostly work through e-mail and other means of communication. The EVN-NREN platform (WP2) is important for spreading good practices on high-speed connectivity beyond the NEXPReS partners, as well as discussing options and standards for the future. By associating these meetings with for example e-VLBI workshops, as has happened in the past, this activity plays an important role in disseminating ...
Strategic impact. Current European strength in mobile and wireless technologies means that global comput- ing applications like those above are an important potential market, of real importance for future competitiveness. This project will contribute new understanding of the principles and limitations behind such applications, vital for their eventual development into working products and services. The direct application of the individual workpackages is to generate results and knowl- edge that we shall pass through to the future projects that will build systems like these on a large scale. Several of the detailed avenues of research planned are speculative and even risky, in the anticipation that even if some are found impractical, this “negative” information is also useful to those trying to build concrete systems. As such, the strategic impact of this project will be on other, forward-looking, research projects that can draw on our work to more effectively build working systems for global computing.
Strategic impact. MOLTO is addressing the task of high-precision translation of restricted language, which in the past has not belonged to the main stream of machine translation, but which is becoming increasingly relevant due to the advent of the Semantic Web. We expect the technology created in MOLTO to help greatly in the multilingual distribution of web content and also in its usage for information access and retrieval. MOLTO translation will be highly interoperable with Semantic Web standards (such as OWL) and adaptive to standard tools (web browsers and translators’ tools). The interoperability with Semantic Web standards will open existing ontologies and entity knowledge bases for the needs of MT tools. In turn grammar-based translation will strongly impact the way humans access structured knowledge, by providing NL query rendering to ontologies. The semantic retrieval results will also be rendered to grammatically flawless textual representations and presented to the end users as a high usability alternative to traditional table and graph based visualizations. Additionally, the grammar/ontology interoperability will empower knowledge extraction directly from text - a powerful metadata acquisition technique strongly desired by the Semantic Web, as a metadata layer struggling to capture the semantics of existing Web content. Translators are easy to build for new domains and to extend to new languages. They can even learn to translate better “on the fly”, by the use of example-based grammar writing, lexicon extension with minimal human intervention, and new statistical/grammar-based hybrid methods. A typical MOLTO translation system will work on a well-defined domain equipped with an ontology. The MOLTO developer’s tools will permit a domain expert, even without training in linguistics, to efficiently build a system that translates between an ontology and natural language. What is needed is a domain-specific lexicon and a set of example sentences describing the key properties of objects in the domain. This is made possible by the GF Resource Grammar Library (RGL) and the technique of example-based grammar writing. Porting the system into a new language is even easier, since the main relations between ontology and natural language tend to be similar in different languages; yet this similarity need not be followed, but can be overridden by transfer rules, most of which can be applied at compile time.
Strategic impact. The objective of the SustainCity project is to provide a scientifically sound tool to help land and urban planers professionals to identify new challenges and to prepare adequate policy responses. The project has a strong potential impact on the further advancement of methodological and substantive issues in the scientific study of local sustainable development, as well as on the scientific background of relevant local policy formulation. The originality of the project is to propose an improved model which will be totally adapted to the European context, and that is comprehensive enough to explore the interactions between economic, social, environmental and demographic factors at the local level. The project will advance the knowledge base that underpins the formulation and implementation of economic, social and environmental policies for European cities and urban areas. Through the different WPs, the project will explore the concepts to be used and organised into a model in order to provide relevant insights and indicators on land planning issues on the middle and long-term perspectives.
Strategic impact. Potential Impact on Industrial/research Sector Information reserved to specialists and lack of interoperability Information overload Inadapted or unpersonalized interfaces Poor value-added to information Proprietary access systems Exchange free metadata instead of sharing copyrighted music Enhance transparency and mobility in the HIFI domain thanks to IPv6 Mobility has been a tremendous gain in telecommunication. With the advent of IPv6 all listening devices can have their own IP address and connect anytime anywhere to Internet. With Bluetooth and similar wireless systems this mobility is even more effective for music listening anywhere at home. Transparency and mobility are key features for the applications targeted in the project. Complement traditional keyword navigation content-based approach throughout the information process Design and validate new technologies for segmentation, source separation and connection between low level audio features and high level music features European dimension and Added value
Strategic impact. This contribution offsets the cost of ice for a number of programs in the city including hockey, figure skating and recreation programs. Not having ice in ASA would require all of these activities to take place at MAYSA Arena and would present some scheduling difficulties.
Strategic impact. The special assessment of nuisances, specifically tall grass and weeds, is governed by City Ordinance section 22-6.
Strategic impact. Traditionally, low temperature research work has been small-scale table-top science, con- ducted in isolated university laboratories which have evolved around a single professor. The re- search was focussed on a narrow topic and each group has developed its own refrigeration and measurement techniques. The community still continues to operate on this way. A young professor is exhausting his/her energy when setting up alone his ultra-low temperature laboratory, which usu- ally takes up to 4-5 years. The community is fragmented into sub-critical units, which alone lack the capacity to offer services to other fields or to attack large-scale cross-disciplinary problems. At the same time emerging topics in nanophysics, material science and quantum information processing demand novel low temperature equipment, methods and services. Today there are perhaps 10 ultralow temperature laboratories in the world with large con- centrations of microkelvin refrigerators and technology, and the potential to provide and develop services beyond the low temperature community. Three of these facilities are in Europe (AALTO, CNRS and ULANC). One of these, AALTO, has served as a single-site access-given facility in 1995-2008 (ULTI projects). Most of the users (70%) of AALTO facilities came from the traditional quantum fluids and solids community. During the last 5 years, however, the fraction of nanoscien- tists among the users has steadily increased. The MICROKELVIN Collaboration has to be seen as the next evolutionary step in the inte- gration and restructuring of European ultralow temperature infrastructure. This next step cannot be realized on national level, taking into account the small number of large low temperature facilities in Europe. MICROKELVIN will take into account the present potential of its partners, restructuring their infrastructure and optimising their operation on a European scale, to attack both traditional and new problems. The impacts of MICROKELVIN will be several, both in terms of improved infra- structure and access services, improved knowledge dissemination, better practices, new products and scientific outputs. We can list the main outcomes as follows:
a) Improved European infrastructure in the microkelvin field for higher capacity and quali- ty services, both in the access-giving units and those jointly involved. This is the prime aim of our integrated action.
b) A better educated workforce in the access-giving centres with enhanced microkelvin ski...
