UK: British university develops computerised international meeting organiser
April 1st, 2008
By Diane Spencer
Organising meetings in-house can be bad enough, but in this global business world the chore can be well-nigh impossible. Help is at hand. Computer scientists at Leicester University are collaborating with other higher education institutions, corporate research centres and businesses in six countries as part of a European Union (EU)-funded project, inContext, to find cyberspace ways of connecting people.
The team aims to develop technology that goes beyond current internet-based collaboration techniques such as email, calendars and short ...
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