ma 12 jul 2010UPGRADE & UPENET Newsletter
INDEX Newsletter, July 8th, 2010
1. Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too)
2. UPGRADE Newslist Reminder
1. Latest issue of UPGRADE available (edition in Spanish too) This issue, corresponding to June 2010 (Vol. XI, issue no. 3), is available now at
this page.
This issue features the following sections:
- The first part of a broad monograph entitled "2010 - Emerging Information Technologies" which aims to help readers identify the dominant technological trends in the 2010s which will contribute to defining future scenarios in the ICT industry.
The guest editors of this monograph are Alonso Alvarez-García (Technology Observatory, Telefonica R&D, Spain), Heinz Brüggemann (Director of the Celtic Office, Heidelberg, Germany), Victor-Amadeo Bañuls-Silvera (Pablo de Olavide University, Spain) and Gregorio Martín-Quetglas (Valencia University, Spain).
- UPENET (UPGRADE European NETwork) features an article on Green ICT from the Italian journal Mondo Digitale which describes how a software-based approach, aimed at making information system configuration more effective, will lead to energy consumption reduction and will allow a longer use of PCs.
- CEPIS NEWS provides an update on some of the projects that CEPIS and its member societies are currently working on.
Most of the articles of this monograph are also published in Spanish by Novática, issue 204 (March-April 2010).
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