|
Press Releases : Science & Research
News, leads, and media information from all over Asia. Click on categories to the right to drill down by industry.
Eight teams from six countries qualify for Knock-out Round 2 in first-of-its-kind global contest for
 Singapore, 25 June 2008 -- Eight teams from powerhouse institutions around the globe will move on to “knock-out round 2” of The Star Challenge@Fusionopolis, the first-of-its-kind competition to foster the development of the world’s next-generation multimedia search technology that is organised by the Singapore Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR).
Submitted by AY, Institute for Infocomm Research on Wednesday, 25 June 2008 at 5:08 PM
Category: Science & Research
Earthquakes Became Five Times More Energetic, Discovers Australian Scientist Dr Tom Chalko
MT BEST, AUSTRALIA--(Marketwire - June 17, 2008), 18 June 2008 -- New research compiled by Australian scientist Dr Tom Chalko shows that global seismic activity on Earth is now five times more energetic than it was just 20 years ago.
Submitted by Asia Release on Wednesday, 18 June 2008 at 11:07 AM
Category: Science & Research
Ossur and Oscar Pistorius Celebrate the CAS Ruling
REYKJAVIK, ICELAND -- (MARKETWIRE), 19 May 2008 -- At Ossur, we are celebrating that Oscar Pistorius has been vindicated and that, thanks to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), an objective process is in place that will make it possible for him to again compete in IAAF-sanctioned events, and possibly the Olympics.
Submitted by Asia Release on Monday, 19 May 2008 at 9:29 AM
Category: Science & Research
Singapore Launches Global Race for Next Generation, Multimedia Search Engine
Global, 17 January 2008 -- A*STAR announced a global competition to develop technologies for a rich media search engine that will be smart enough to identify text, audio and video containing any word, even if that word, or search term, has not yet been tagged in the internet material. Millions of search engine users around…
Submitted by David Chin, Hill and Knowlton on Thursday, 17 January 2008 at 12:17 PM
Category: Science & Research
Inauguration of the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics China on May 26th
BEIJING -- (MARKET WIRE), 25 May 2007 -- The new Kavli Institute in China is part of a network of fourteen institutes in the United States and Europe dedicated to furthering scientific knowledge in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience.
Submitted by Asia Release on Friday, 25 May 2007 at 10:17 AM
Category: Science & Research
ESOMAR Concludes a Week of Events in Shanghai: WM3 and The China Forum
Hong Kong, 21 June 2006 -- From June 4th – 7th 2006, the Chinese economic capital of Shanghai became the ‘place-to-be’ for more than 200 senior research and marketing professionals from some 40 countries worldwide. The Worldwide Multi-Media Measurement (WM3) event allowed participants to share their points of view on this key issue and to learn…
Submitted by Maria Fatima Cheong, Upstream Asia on Wednesday, 21 June 2006 at 2:53 PM
Category: Science & Research
|