SICS - The Hewlett-Packard Internet Research
Institute (IRI) was founded in May 1997 to establish cooperation between
SICS and HP in promoting public domain Internet research as well as carry
on the research cooperation already established over the years between
the two organizations. Projects between SICS and HP have also been defined
that encompass wireless computing and communication, integrated Internet
services, IP next-generation protocols, and high speed switching. In 1997,
there were a number of HP sponsored projects at SICS on the topics above
and SICS researchers were involved in the IRI Seminar Series that took
place at HP Labs in Palo Alto, CA, as well as at other HP installations
in Bristol, UK, in Cupertino and Roseville, CA. The IRI continues its work
in its second of three years during its first phase and welcomes suggestions
for Fellows and projects from all members of the Internet research community.
See also http://fog.hpl.external.hp.com/news/bristol_sweden.html
GMD - Carl Adam Petri, former Director
of GMD's Institute for Foundations of Information Technology, was awarded
the Werner von Siemens Ring in the presence of the German President, Roman
Herzog, patron of the Werner von Siemens Ring Foundation. Ernst O. Göbel,
chairman of the Foundations's advisory board and president of the Federal
Institute of Physics and Metrology presented the ring of honour to Carl
Adam Petri for his achievements in computer science and the design of complex
systems during a ceremony gathering many guests of honour at Schloß
Birlinghoven, the headquarters of GMD. Carl Adam Petri who retired in July
1991 after 23 years' research work at GMD introduced the domain of Petri
Nets which was named after him and in which more than 5000 publications
are now available worldwide. Petri also holds the Order of Merit of the
Federal Republic and the Konrad Zuse Medal of the Gesellschaft für
Informatik.
CLRC - CLRC will be holding a series of
Open Days at its Rutherford Appleton Laboratory site (UK) between Friday
26 June and Wednesday 1 July this year. We hope that many of you will be
able to call in to see some of the work of the Central Laboratory. There
will be a Public Open Day on Saturday 27th and an Industry Day on Monday
29th , together with other special events for schools and colleges. For
information on what will be happening please take a look at http://www.cclrc.ac.uk/Opendays98/.
SZTAKI - New Laboratories joined the Autonomous
Research Division - In 1997 a consolidation programme was initiated
by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences with the aim of concentrating the
research teams working in fields closely related to each other and of actualizing
the support of the different scientific areas following their present weight
in the country and in the international cooperation. In this process, since
January 1998, the SZTAKI and the Research Institute for Measurement and
Computer Techniques (MSZKI) have been merged. Two new laboratories were
formed from the researchers of the MSZKI having joined the SZTAKI. The
Communication Protocol Laboratory (head: Prof. Dr. Katalin Tarnay) deals
with the theory and practice of protocol engineering. The theoretical work
focuses on the analysis of test sequences, first of all on the methods
of test case selection and the theory of test execution. The goal of the
practical work is to develop a set of engineering tools based on SDL, MSC,
ASN.1 and TTCN editor and compilers. These loosely coupled software components
form PROCONSUL (PROtocol CONSULting system) widely used for different protocols.
The Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems (head: Prof. Dr. Péter
Kacsuk) is engaged in three main research fields of high performance computing:
parallel software engineering, investigation of implementing logic programming
languages on parallel computers and organization and programming of massively
parallel multithreaded architectures. Members of the Laboratory have developed
the GRADE graphical parallel programming environment and the LOGFLOW parallel
Prolog system. The Laboratory is involved in several international projects
(COPERNICUS, ESPRIT and TEMPUS). Detailed information on the activities
of the Laboratory can be found at http://www.lpds.sztaki.hu/.
CWI - The Telematics Institute - a
national institute bringing together knowledge institutions and companies
in the field of telematics was officially opened 11 February 1998.
The importance of this event was emphasized by the presence of cabinet
ministers Ritzen (Education, Culture and Science) and Wijers (Economic
Affairs), whereas Agriculture minister Aartsen, due to illness at the last
moment, had himself replaced by one of his officials. The Telematics Institute,
the first of four technological top institutes to be created, results from
a joint effort of the above three ministries. The Institute's nucleus is
formed by the former Telematics Research Centre, based in Enschede, The
Netherlands. The participating knowledge institutions are the Dutch organization
of applied research TNO, Delft Technological University, Twente University,
and CWI. Seventeen companies are involved, including IBM, KPN, Lucent Technologies,
ING and Rabofacet as participants. Out of several submitted proposals,
two CWI projects have been granted so far: Quality in Future Networks,
and Second Generation Search Engines.
