ERCIM News No.24 - JANUARY 1996

C O N T E N T S

Editorial by Prof. José Manuel Tribolet, INESC

• ERCIM Meetings in Budapest
• EU endorses ERCIM Digital Document Initiative
• ERCIM - European Union Panel Discussion
• First ERCIM Librarians Meeting
• SGFI signs Swiss ERCIM Membership
• Christer Samuelsson awarded Cor Baayen Fellowship
• ERCIM Workshop on Systems and Control
• ERCIM Working Group on Control and System Theory
• AQUARELLE - sharing Cultural Heritage through Multimedia Telematics
• ERCIM Workshop on User Interfaces for All
• ERCIM WWW Working Group International Workshop on Design and Electronic Publishing
• ERCIM Advanced Course: Partial Differential Equations, Group Theory and Variational Calculus

• European Commission funds First Open Solution for Secure Commerce Over the Internet

SPECIAL THEME:

• Introduction
• ERCIM members' policy on Spin-off Companies and Technology Transfer
• Round Table for Small and Medium Enterprises
• G7 Global Marketplace for Small and Medium Enterprises Pilot Project
• Rutherford Appleton Laboratory helps to put Milton Park on the Web
• What are Vector Fields?
• Spin-Offs from GMD - An Effective Way to Prosperity
• Virtual Studio - Integration of Real and Artificial Video
• INRIA's Spin-Off Companies - An Effective Means to improve Transfer of Research Results
• SIMULOG - A Company specialised in Scientific Computing
• ILOG - Application of Leading-Edge Research Results to Market Needs
• INESC's Spin-off Policy
• IP Global - An Internet Service Provider
• SMD Informática - Office Management Systems and Postal Automation
• Data Distilleries - putting Data Mining Technology to Practice
• General Design ...and how many interfaces have you actually designed?
• FORTH's Links with Industry
• KNOSSOS Technologies - A Spin-Off Company from FORTH
• Health Care Information Systems
• The Role of Swedish IT-Institutes in the Spin-Off and Technology Transfer Areas
• CNET - A Spin-Off from Esprit Intuitive Project
• Nordic VLSI - A Spin-off Company from SINTEF DELAB
• Technology Transfer at CNUCE-CNR
• PQE 2000 Project on Massively Parallel Systems
• Computer Science Methods and Technologies applied to the Italian Public Administration
• SIMONE Research Group
• CADMUS - A SZTAKI Spin-Off Company involved in CAD/CAM for Industry

• RAPID - A database System for rapidly changing Data
• Usable Information Technology
• Systems Theory at LADSEB
• The ARCA Project - Opening Catalogs to Search and Retrieve Protocol Functions
• New Super-Scalar Super-computing Service at RAL
• Analogy-based learning and Natural Language Processing
• Real World Computing by Interval Techniques