The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest and longest established professional society of individuals involved in all aspects of computing. Its Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) promotes sound public policy and public understanding of a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Europe TPC is pleased to submit the following comments

The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is the world’s largest and longest established professional society of individuals involved in all aspects of computing. Its Europe Technology Policy Committee (Europe TPC) promotes sound public policy and public understanding of a broad range of issues at the intersection of technology and policy. Europe TPC is pleased to submit the following comments

The EU is close to finalising plans for the European Cybersecurity Industrial, Technology and Research Competence Centre, including choosing its location and agreeing how much member states will contribute. With the last negotiation on terms imminent, EU policymakers are still discussing whether the member states should make payments voluntarily and deciding the voting rights on the centre’s deci

The search engine ViruSurf discloses the changes of the genome of the virus responsible for the pandemics. Since the beginning of 2020, labs from all around the world are sequencing the material from positive tests of people affected by COVID-19 and then depositing sequences mostly to three points of collection: GenBank, COG-UK, and GISAID. A fast exploration of this huge amount of data is import

EIB finances soft- and hardware developer KINEXON with €15 million to support the company’s expansion in the growing internet of things market KINEXON’s precise real-time localisation and edge computing solutions are used in the worlds of industry and sport – they include SafeZone, an application that helps users keep a safe physical distance to avoid coronavirus infections and allows non-invasiv

The year 2020 opened with several terrible news items. Notwithstanding, every cloud has its silver lining. Back on 17 January, students from Esade Business School met with David Damian and Omar Mohsine at the United Nations in New York. What started as a simple introduction then in New York turned into a strategic partnership in the following months. Within the UN, the Jesuit university connected

John Higgins “It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.” Charles Darwin’s “survival of the fittest” theory of evolution could also apply to organisations. As they adapt to changing circumstances, they adjust their responsiveness, effectiveness and efficiency. And that is what is taking place across the world as digital technol

Hermann Hauser, vice-chair of the European Innovation Council’s advisory board. Photo: Wikipedia Commons. Brussels should set up a €100 billion technology sovereignty fund to compete better in a world dominated by giant American and Chinese tech companies, according to one of Europe’s best-known tech investors. “Unless we do this, we will become even more dependent on two countries than before,”

“Universities of Applied Sciences are important players in the region. They connect theory and practice, ideas and implementation, research and applications. This makes them a linking pin spanning research and education, business and society”. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte shared this message during the launch of UASNL, a European network for Dutch universities of applied sciences. A high-profi

BT installs UK’s first dedicated public 5G network for University of Warwick, bringing new opportunities for University led research, and further enhancing students’ learning experience through its EE mobile network New Innovation Alliance sees 5G co-development in Connected Vehicles, Telemedicine and Gaming industries, to inspire and educate local businesses on 5G innovation and opportunities fo

Next year will see the launch of five new public-private research partnerships in digital technologies that aim to put more flesh on the bones of EU ambitions to achieve greater technology sovereignty and to ensure European principles and ethics underpin products such as robots, machine learning, autonomous vehicles and artificial intelligence. “We are doing this for our European values,” said Th

November 4 update: Vote counting continues in the too-close-to-call US election, with president Trump already threatening legal action if the result doesn’t go his way. Below, a reminder of where both candidates stand on science and technology. As the US awaits an outcome to its election, the two candidates’ approaches on science and technology couldn’t be further apart. Former vice president J

Spin-offs that have emerged from research carried out at BSC have already created 93 high-skilled job posts, and an investment of 2,5M Euros. They offer advanced services in such diverse areas as biomedicine, aerospace and automobile industries’ security, and quantum computing. These constitution operations have entailed the transfer of 23 BSC technologies, as well as others from diverse researc

MEPs doubt that Europe needs a New European Bauhaus, a top-down science and culture project, at a time when the EU budget has been significantly reduced and the cultural sector is in crisis. “I have to say, I’m not fully convinced by what you’ve said so far. I haven’t seen the added value of this kind of initiative yet or how much it is going to cost,” said MEP Petra Kammerevert from the S&D grou

Image taken from Science|Business webinar entitled: “How will real-time data reshape our cities?”, showing possible applications of AI for EU’s Green Deal. The pandemic has dealt a body blow to many of the world’s cities. As they seek to recover from the economic and social fall-out from COVID-19, municipalities are stepping up efforts to deploy big data and artificial intelligence (AI) to improve