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Around 63% of organisations take a day or more to recover from system downtime, according to research from Acronis. Despite living in a world where businesses operate around the clock, the majority of companies are still putting their systems, and therefore their productivity and profitability, at risk by failing to protect them adequately.

Scotland has innovative voice software skills, but Wales are the experts at listening to the sound of voices, so no surprise that innovative sound-mapping software has been developed at Cardiff University. Based on human hearing it aims to help architects design-out unwanted noise from proposed room design, through the use of audibility maps. Currently looking for a software company to develop the market, long term it could have architectural impact of comfortable conversation places.

Technology developed for use in multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (MUAVs), a sophisticated autonomous computer framework of control algorithms - the first of its kind - allows one operator to control a number of vehicles from a safe position on the ground making surveillance missions significantly cheaper. The technology also offers potential in search & rescue, environmental surveillance, mining, oil exploration, surveillance and reconnaissance for traffic control, fire extinction, oceanographic or geological surveys, and marine and border inspection.

CERN has been able to take the first measurements of collisions between particles with the highest energy ever generated and performed at the new Large Hadron Collider (LHC) accelerator and recorded with the CMS Experiment, which involved a key component (the barrel pixel detector) contributed by the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI in collaboration with Swiss Universities.

A Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe (PRACE) workshop “New Languages & Future Technology Prototype” was held this week at the Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Munich, Germany for people actively involved in the assessment of prototypes, and programming languages and HPC research activities.

Developer Day Scotland (Aka "DDD Scotland") is a community event, run by community for community, which is based upon the highly successful Developer! Developer! Developer! (DDD) community conference events is intended for anyone involved in the software development or thesoftware engineering world. Delegates will typically be drawn from software professionals and soon-to-be professionals, including business analysts, designers, DBAs, software developers, software engineers, students, team leads, testers and not forgetting managers of all levels.

With a May deadline, the G8 Heads of Research Councils (G8 HORCs) have started the first multilateral call for proposals which addresses exascale computing, the fastest supercomputers of the next generation inviting researchers from the G8 nations can jointly initiate research projects and obtain the necessary funding within the scope of a new funding initiative. Researchers from Canada, France, Germany, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the USA are eligible to apply, under the leadership of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)

Inspired by the fast processing of information in the human brain, a consortium of European research institutions is developing a novel kind of computing. The EU funded project “PHOCUS” started in January aims at designing photonic systems, communicating via light, to quickly perform complex computations including the rapid processing of large amounts of data, potentially consuming far less power than current supercomputers.

The most joyous conclusion to Robert Edbert's search for a voice 2009, which he lost in 2006 after operations for thyroid cancer, has been answered by delivery of a prototype by CereProc this week. Another Scottish-made program React2 from Propeller Multimedia is providing voice therapy rehabilitation for stroke sufferers, while Affective Media uses tone and pitch of voice as indicators of driver's emotion for use with voice recognition software.

In May last year SystemC won a major contract with NHS Connecting for Health to develop and install pilot clinical intelligence systems in over a dozen NHS Trusts. The complex contract involving development of over 450 dashboard metrics, integration of data feeds from more than 50 external systems. All projects were completed and deployed successfully by the end of November 2009 it has received extremely positive feedback from the clinicians and the Trusts.

NHS National Services Scotland could decide that the recent Patient Management System contract should be widened to become a national system to cover all NHS boards in Scotland. NHS NSS, which procures IT software on behalf on Scotland’s 14 health boards and eight special health boards, selected InterSystems with Trakcare as its preferred bidder in November.

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