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BRON2 High Level Software Design Language & C Code Generator
Improve Productivity and Quality with the BRON 2 language and C Code Generator. Modelling your system designs in BRON 2 enables engineers to express standard high level design concepts in a very concise way. This allows them to focus on what the design should be, and less on how to implement it.
Galactic ‘hailstorm’ in the early Universe
Astronomers have been able to peer back to the young Universe to determine how quasars – powered by supermassive black holes with the mass of a billion suns – form and shape the evolution of galaxies.
Women wage peace
Thousands of Jewish- and Palestinian-Israeli women have joined a movement that is spreading across Israel in opposition to repeated cycles of violence in Gaza. Yet Women Wage Peace remains overlooked by the political establishment, and largely unknown outside Israel. An event in Cambridge today will ask why, and examine its significance as a model for women’s action in times of war.
Are you making the most of your software?
This week marks ten years since training expert Karen Roem started helping Cambridge Network members by offering time-saving tricks, hints and shortcuts through her Tame your computer column on this site.
Tame your computer - think before you send
On the tenth anniversary of her regular series for Cambridge Network members, software training expert Karen Roem repeats the very first of her handy tips to help 'Tame your computer'. A decade on, and it seems many people still haven't learned 'Netiquette' - the best practice she describes for emailing a large group of people (Microsoft Outlook).
Pure Resourcing Solutions sponsors 2015 Business Excellence Awards ‘Employer of the Year’
With the deadline for nominations fast approaching, Pure Resourcing Solutions is pleased to support the Cambridge News Business Excellence Awards for a third year running by sponsoring the‘Employer of the Year’ category.
Key to media success: Prepare, Practice, Perform
Recently Sir Bob Geldof hit the headlines -not for the fundraising he was doing to support victims of Ebola, but instead for responding poorly to a question posed by a journalist and swearing twice.
How can you get the best results from your money?
Without professional financial advice, translating a proportion of your annual income to long term wealth is fraught with difficulty. It is easy to be side-tracked by following fashionable investments, concentrating on the short term or just plainly making the wrong decision!
New Head of UEA Norwich Medical School announced
Clinical cardiologist Prof Michael Frenneaux has been named as the new Head of the University of East Anglia’s Norwich Medical School.
Aqdot closes £2.55m funding round
Aqdot, a specialist chemical company originally spun out of the University of Cambridge with a focus in intelligent encapsulation, has completed a £2.55m oversubscribed funding round.
Sable&Hawkes delivers name, positioning and visual branding project for chemistry software
Seeing chemistry through new eyes. Sentira is a powerful, elegant and flexible data visualisation tool for all fields of chemistry. It is used by chemists to support more insightful and intelligent chemical data analysis. Sable&Hawkes worked with its clients to create the name and product messaging, visual brand including icon, app icon and marketing collateral.
How robust is your intellectual property position?
J A Kemp is jointly hosting a lunchtime workshop with Arthur J. Gallagher Insurance Brokers on intellectual property risks on Tuesday 3rd February 2015.
New film to raise awareness of cancer screening
An award-winning filmmaker from Anglia Ruskin University has secured a £25,000 grant from the world-leading Mayo Clinic to produce a film to educate patients about the importance of colorectal cancer screening.
Keep Calm & Carry On: Part 2 of the Spirus guide to successful event management
In Part 1 of its event management blog, Spirus talked about the importance of detailed planning. This installment deals with the event itself, and how to make sure your do gets done right.
Engineering at Microsoft Research: Open Evening
Have you ever wondered what happens at Microsoft Research Cambridge and what it’s like to work there?
Robinson College announced as finalist in UK conference awards
The University of Cambridge’s Robinson College has been named as a finalist in the Best Academic Venue category, ahead of the 2015 Meetings and Incentive Travel Magazine (M&IT) Awards.
Apprenticeships take centre stage at Cambridge Job Fair
Apprenticeships will be taking centre stage at the Cambridge News Job Fair this week for sponsor Cambridge Regional College.
Lack of exercise responsible for twice as many deaths as obesity
A brisk 20 minute walk each day could be enough to reduce an individual’s risk of early death, according to new research just published.
Evidence and objectivity
Even the best evidence is subject to interpretation bias, says The Scientific Alliance.
ACE Cultural Tours broadens appeal with Silk Pearce redesign
Design and branding consultancy Silk Pearce has completed a major website redesign to help Cambridge-based ACE Cultural Tours (ACE) – the UK’s oldest and most experienced provider of study tours and cultural travel across the world – to appeal to an even wider range of clients.
Beagle 2 Lander found on Mars
The Beagle 2 Mars Lander, the brain-child of the late Emeritus Professor at The Open University, Colin Pilinger, which was thought lost on Mars since 2003, has been found partially deployed on the surface of the planet, helping end the mystery of what happened to the mission more than a decade ago. This find shows that the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) sequence for Beagle 2 worked and the…
UK Device Developers' Conference visits Reading in 2015
The hi-tech developers conference is to visit Reading this year, in addition to Cambridge, Manchester and Uphall in Scotland.
Semiconductor Package Design Service
Cambridge based Semiconductor Packaging IP company RFMOD has launched a new "Semiconductor Package Design Service" to support companies in the successful co-design of chips and package through to product.
1plex renews Microsoft Silver Communications partner status
As an active Microsoft Partner based in Cambridge, 1plex Ltd has recently renewed its Microsoft Silver Communications status. This has involved recertifying in Lync 2013 over the past few months.
Cambridge CEO invited to join PM’s mission to Washington
Joe Parry, CEO of Cambridge firm Cambridge Intelligence, joined the Prime Minister’s trip to Washington this week, representing the best UK cyber security SMEs.