Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, and National Cheng Kung University in Tainan City, Taiwan, have announced the creation of the International Institute of Biomedical Sciences and Technology that will facilitate the collaboration of research across three continents and accelerate the development of novel bioengineering, diagnostic and [...]

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Call for Chapters (extended to March 30, 2009)
Title: “E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques”
Co-Editors:
Murugan Anandarajan, Ph.D., Drexel University, ma33@drexel.edu
Asokan Anandarajan, Ph.D., New Jersey Institute of Technology, asokan.anandarajan@njit.edu
Publisher: Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg

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E-Research Collaboration can be defined as the use of information communication technologies which enable the collaboration among individuals/group engaged [...]

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As I read about the many collaborative research efforts announced daily, I wonder how the projects actually work after the announcement. For example, “The first joint institution for research and research training in areas of mutual importance to India and Australia has been established between the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, or IITB, and Monash [...]

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In his recent book “Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation Is Changing Your World” Don Tapscott attempts to shatter the negative stereotypes of the so-called Net Geners, who currently range in age from 11 to 31. He notes that more than 81 million people in the United States were born from 1977 to 1997, [...]

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Firms that conduct research involving multiple researchers collaborate using different approaches. At one end of the scale, many smaller companies exchange research documents via email attachments, while at take other end, firms use expensive, sophisticated custom-built software to manage large-scale research projects that may span multiple countries.
Research via email attachments may be the cheapest option, [...]

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