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	<title>Siegfried Reich</title>
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	<description>Sigi's blog on R&#38;D and FTI policy issues</description>
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		<title>Standards on the Internet &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; together with nic.at (Austria&#8217;s Internet Registry), we organised the so-called 4th &#8220;IT-Businesstalk&#8220;. Alex Mayerhofer (nic.at) gave an excellent presentation on how standards on the Internet emerge. I would like to share slide No. 2 of his presentation (the presentation can be found  at http://www.it-businesstalk.at/fileadmin/www.it-businesstalk.at/praesentationen/event4/Alex-MayrhoferIETF_Nicat.pdf).
Here is slide No. 2:


Would you guess what this map [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2010/03/06/standards-on-the-internet/</link>
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		<title>Trust Researchers &#8211; An initiative worthwhile supporting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Trust Researchers is a declaration to the attention of the European Council of Ministers and the Parliament. 

The background (text taken from the declaration at http://www.trust-researchers.eu/index.php?file=background.htm):


&#8220;Currently research is funded according to many input oriented indicators.


At present the financial regulation &#8211; the relevant legal funding framework &#8211; treats research in similar way as procurement processes for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2010/03/02/trust-researchers-an-initiative-worthwhile-supporting/</link>
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		<title>Evaluating European Framework Programmes</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to participate in a discussion organised by FFG (Andrea Höglinger and Sabine Herlitschka) on the evaluation of the European Framework Programmes. The (excellent) presentation was given by Peter Fisch (head of unit A3 Evaluation and monitoring of programmes in directorate Inter-institutional and legal matters – Framework programme). The powerpoints are available here (only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2010/01/18/evaluating-european-framework-programmes/</link>
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		<title>HMD special issue on eTourism</title>
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		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/12/21/hmd-special-issue-on-etourism/</link>
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		<title>Where does European research funding go?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

The image above shows the average yearly funding in Mrd. EUR (2.5 for FP5, 3.4 for FP6 and 7 for FP7 sofar) vs. number of projects funded.

There is a short, well written article in research eu, issue June 2009 (unfortunately it is not yet available online at http://ec.europa.eu/research/research-eu/index_de.html). The article is about the development of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/09/13/where-does-european-research-funding-go/</link>
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		<title>SECIT &#8211; Cooperation between Salzburg Research and UPT Timisoara</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This days, the advanced networking centre (ANC) of Salzburg Research is organising a Workshop on &#8220;SECIT &#8211; Security IT&#8221;. This is a joint undertaking with UPT Timisoara, Rumania.

Our main idea is to join forces concerning evacuation scenarios: UPT for instance, offers know-how in the domain of object recognition, i.e., they can count the number of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/08/25/secit-cooperation-between-salzburg-research-and-upt-timisoara/</link>
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		<title>Opening of ditact summer school 2009 &#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; with Prof. Sissi Closs as Keynote Speaker.
She started her carrier by studying computer science at the University of Munich. Interesting to see that she came to research because she wanted to do dance courses and Siemens Munich was the only employer that offered flexible working hours at that time (that was in the seventies), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/08/24/opening-of-ditact-summer-school-2010/</link>
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		<title>Viviane Reading on &#8220;Digital Recovery&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Viviane Reading presented &#8220;Investing in a digital recovery: ICT and innovation driving growth&#8220;. A well written statement!

What I take from that

Based on an OECD analysis, two sectors merit investment (for future prospects): &#8220;green, low carbon economy&#8221; and the &#8220;networked economy&#8221;

Why is ICT important for recovery? Because there is a direct link between investment in IT [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/08/18/viviane-reading-on-digital-recovery/</link>
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		<title>Generation Innovation</title>
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This summer we are hosting a total of 9 students doing internships. The programme is supported by the ministries bmvit and bmukk and is called &#8220;generation innovation&#8220;.


The themes the students covered includes

Usability

Tag Clouds

Flash Overlays

geotaging on the iPhone

Open Street Map Clients

Rich-Client-Applications


We got some very good feedback by the students. Firstly, the got a completely different view [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/08/05/generation-innovation/</link>
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		<title>A successfull viva on MM content re-use in the Semantic Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened to be external examiner of Tobi Bürger&#8217;s viva entitled &#8220;A Conceptual Model for Intelligent Content for the Semantic Web&#8221; (with Dieter Fensel as 1st supervisor; University of Innsbruck/STI2). And today Tobias successfully passed his viva. Congratulations!
IMHO opinion this work is interesting as it offers 	

a concise definition of the user requirements

a conceptual model [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.salzburgresearch.at/~sreich/2009/06/12/a-successfull-viva-on-mm-content-re-use-in-the-semantic-web/</link>
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