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Reports on the funding given to Amino Communications Ltd. by financial institutions in Cambridge, England. Promotion of technology as a way of linking functional books together; Improvement in electronic product design; Creation of flexible distributed systems architecture.

Focuses on the application of a computer system of researcher Dennis Duty which calculates the risk of students dropping out at Huddersfield University Business School in England. Computer architecture of the computer system; Insights of Duty on the trends on student drop outs and retention; Claim of Duty that the policy supports the student in whatever decision they feel is right and not necessarily to persuade them to stay; Significance of the national completion rate in higher education in comparison with that of other countries.

The article informs that the police of Wiltshire, England is helping officers spend more time on the beat and at crime scenes by giving them remote access to information systems. According to Matt Bennion-Pedley, financial director at Wiltshire Police, India-based HCL Technologies Ltd. is developing a £2 million service oriented architecture (SOA) for the force as an interface to applications. It is reported that officers will get remote access to intelligence systems, the Police National Computer, vehicle and criminal records, and photographic files.

This article reports that Mentor Graphic Corp.'s start-up support company Cre8Ventures has donated £ 2.5m of electronics design software to the Computer Architecture Research Group at Imperial College in London, England. The firm will also work with the computer architecture group to identify projects for possible start-up. The donation includes software for a range of designs.

The article reports that the Metropolitan Borough Council of Knowsley, England, is updating its IT infrastructure in a project that it hopes will deliver cost savings of £1m over the next five years. The council has signed a £2.1m, five-year contract with the company Esteem Systems to install and manage an infrastructure based largely on Sun Microsystems Inc. technology. The deal includes architecture design and implementation, the migration of applications to the new platform, remote infrastructure monitoring, disaster recovery provision and onsite support.

The article reports that computer software vendor MEGA International will participate in the June 11-13, 2007 Enterprise Architecture Conference in London, England as corporate sponsor, exhibitor, and business presenter. MEGA International will demonstrate its core competencies and specialization in enterprise computer architecture, through a presentation of a case study on GlaxoSmithKline and a showcase of its products and services. The Radisson SAS Portman Hotel is the venue of the convention organized by IRM UK.

The article reveals the UK Oracle User Group (UKOUG)'s concerns on Oracle Corp.'s Fusion middleware strategy. According to Ronan Miles, chairman of UKOUG, every user is not convinced about Fusion as an architecture. UKOUG will be meeting officially to the Oracle executives to discuss their problems in Birmingham, England during November 14-17, 2006. Fusion is a suite of middleware tools to support a service oriented architecture and a strategy to link Oracle's existing enterprise software with recent enterprise resource planning acquisitions PeopleSoft and Siebel.

The article presents the views of David May, the professor of computer science at the University of Bristol, Bristol, England, on the need for improvement in architecture design and software. According to May, there have been no major architectural improvements for a long time despite the fact that there is great scope for microprocessor developers to do new stuff in architectures and software.

The article presents a calendar of events related to the British Computer Society. The conference Software Architecture, will be held on March 14, 2006, in Croydon, England. The conference Electronic Support for Emergency Medicine, will be held on March 14, 2006, in Leeds, England. The conference Understanding IT Complexity, will be held on March 15, 2006, in Brighton, England.

The article reports that a new contact centre has meant fewer abandoned service calls and a better service for Lancaster City Council, England, and its citizens. The council established its contact centre after research among 1,000 local residents revealed that more than 80% would prefer to contact the council by telephone and wanted to have their queries dealt with at the first point of contact. The contact centre is based on Macfarlane Telesystems' open architecture servers, which run Microsoft Windows Server 2003 and Callplus, which is Macfarlane's telephony system. It uses Intel Dialogic computer telephony hardware. The system uses Lagan Frontline for its customer relationship management software, which was integrated into Callplus in less than a day, according to Lancaster City Council. Lancaster's customer service centre currently employs five full-time staff and handles up to 300 calls a day, on matters such as domestic bins, fly tipping, street cleanliness, abandoned vehicles and litter.

This article reports that Bristol, England-based parallel processor company Clearspeed is starting commercial shipments of its CSX600 processors this quarter as its technology begins to move into the mainstream. As multicore architectures become established in computing systems, with low power circuitry vital for combating leakage in sub-100nm processing, the firm's technology is being sought out by companies in high performance computing. The company has 10 OEM customers for its processor which delivers 25Gigaflops running at 250MHz using 10W.

An architecture for a quantum computer in which there is no need to address quantum bits individually has been proposed by researchers at Oxford University, England. Scientists claim the design can be applied to any potential quantum computing system, whether it uses ions in an optical trap, electron spins in quantum dots or the nuclear spins of atoms lined up in a carbon nanotube. An algorithm is performed by sending a sequence of signals to the whole device, and data is loaded and unloaded via a shift process.