The eEurope 2005 Action Plan was launched at the Seville European Council in June 2002 and endorsed by the Council of Ministers in the eEurope Resolution of January 2003.
The 2005 Benchmarking Report and colour cover page is now available.
Eurostat is organising a conference: "Knowledge Economy - Challenges for Measurement" in Luxembourg on 8 and 9 December 2005.
SQL Server 2005 provides a comprehensive business intelligence platform for data integration, analysis, and reporting that helps you turn insight into action and make better decisions, faster.
SQL Server 2005 supports the highest performance, availability and security to run your most demanding applications with native data encryption, secure default settings, and password policy enforcement.
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 (SP2) enables all editions of SQL Server 2005 to take advantage of the enhancements within Windows Vista and the 2007 Office System including SQL Server Analysis Services and Reporting Services improvements for Office 2007; increased interoperability; and enhanced manageability and data compression.
The Conference begins on Monday evening, December 5, 2005 with Poster and Demo Sessions and an opening night buffet (see details in Schedule of Events below).
Tutorial Program will take place on Monday, December 5, 2005 prior to the opening of the Conference.
The sessions offer high-quality posters and an opportunity for researchers to share their work and exchange ideas in an collegial setting.
Based on estimates by NASA'sGoddard Institute for Space Studies, 2005 was the warmest year since reliable wide-spread instrumental measurements became available in the late 1800s, beating the previous record set in 1998 by a few hundredths of a degree Celsius.
March 11 - In the UK, the controversial Prevention of Terrorism Act 2005 is finally given Royal Assent after one of the longest ever sittings by the House of Lords.
Please note that following the tradition of the English language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the United States and Canada in 2005; because they may have made most of their income in a later year, they may not be the top-grossing films for calendar year.
The top ten of 2005 as of May 9, 2006 (U.S. and Canada), April 16, 2006 (UK) and May 11, 2006 (Australia) are as follows:
By the end of June, despite the releases of several long-anticipated big-budget films, the US box-office was entering the 20th week of a slump in which film attendance was lower than the comparable week in 2004.
22 June2005 - Fishermen in Sumatra who survived the tsunami are having their lives put at risk by the delivery of poorly constructed boats to replace the craft they lost in the December 26 disaster, FAO warned today.
15 March2005 - International cooperation on forest fires, combating deforestation, and the role of forests in post-tsunami rehabilitation and in achieving the Millennium Development Goals are among the issues being discussed at high-level meetings at FAO this week.
17 February2005 - Updated damage assessments from southern Asia are shedding new light on the scope of the losses suffered by fisherfolk there as a result of the tsunami -- and the financial costs involved in rehabilitating the region's all-important fisheries and aquaculture sectors.
The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2005 was an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance.
PSB 2005 was held January 4-8, 2005 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii.
The 2005 bound proceedings volume is available for $50.00 plus shipping; if you are interested in purchasing it, please send an email to the PSB Coordinator at psb@helix.stanford.edu.
In most cases (like in 2005), the central path begins annular, changes to total for the middle portion of the track, and reverts back to annular towards the end of the path.
The hybrid eclipse of 2005 will be visible from within a thin corridor, which traverses the Southern Hemisphere (Figure 1).The path of the Moon's shadow begins southeast of New Zealand and stretches across the Pacific Ocean to Panama, Columbia, and Venezuela.
The second solar eclipse of 2005 is confined to the Eastern Hemisphere.
The 2005 Proceedings are now available for download.
For those of you who will be arriving in Ottawa early, we would like to welcome you to join us at the Desktop Developers' Conference from July 18th ~ 19th, 2005.
It is an event geared towards those who are doing desktop application and infrastructure development, but the topics that will be discussed are of interest to any individual who is using Linux as their desktop.
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There are a limited number of tickets available for an architectural tour of Chicago on the chartered boat, Innisfree, operated by Chicago From The Lake reserved exclusively for PLDI attendees and their guests on Tuesday, June 14, 2005.
Tickets are not included in the registration, and may be purchased separately for $50/person from the registration desk at the conference.
PLDI 2005 will be held at the Palmer House Hilton hotel in downtown Chicago.
ICWS is a forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of the art and practice of Web Services, as well as to identify the emerging research topics and define the future of Web Services computing.
ICWS 2005 is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Services Computing and will be co-located with the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC 2005).
The program of ICWS 2005 will continue to feature research papers with a wide range of topics, focusing on difference aspects of IT services.
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The 2,941 patents issued to IBM in 2005 derive from the innovative work of more than 4,500 employees.
Early in 2005, IBM provides technology and services valued at just over $3 million (and employees donate another $1.2) million to assist the victims of the tsunami that devastated parts of Asia in December2004.
In September2005, IBM makes a $3.2 million donation of services and technology in support of relief and recovery operations following Hurricane Katrina in the United States.
RECOMB - Research in Computational Molecular Biology is a well established conference in a dynamic field of science bridging computer science and biology.
In 2005 the conference will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts and promises to be the biggest and best yet with over 700 attendees expected.
The meeting consists of keynotes from the best scientists in the field and the latest research findings with presentations of contributed papers and posters.
ICFP 2005 provides a forum for researchers and developers to hear about the latest work on the design, implementations, principles, and uses of functional programming.
On behalf of the team organizing the 2005 IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference, I would like to welcome you to St. Louis, Missouri.
IEEE GLOBECOM 2005 features a diverse and exciting technical program, with results of research and innovation from an international collection of engineers in industry, government, and academia.
We are also continuing the very successful Design and Developers Forum and we have expanded the Telecom Business Forum to a three-day format, one entire day of the TBF is dedicated to Military Communications.
The World Bank’s annual Report—Global Economic Prospects 2005: Trade, Regionalism and Development 2005, was launched on November 16, 2004.
While the multilateral WTO talks remain mired in contentious debate, new bilateral and regional preferential trading arrangements are mushrooming all over the globe.
Global Economic Prospects 2005 takes on two urgent questions: can these agreements be designed to promote development in its broadest sense, and can they do so without hurting countries left out?"
Conference best paper authors will be invited to publish extended versions of their papers in the IADIS Journal on Computer Science and Information Systems.
The IADIS Applied Computing 2005 conference aims to address the main issues of concern within the applied computing area and related fields.
The applied computing field is divided into more detailed areas.
Visual Studio Home > Visual Studio 2005 Developer Center
Visual Studio 2008 (formerly known as Visual Studio code name "Orcas") delivers on Microsoft's vision of enabling developers and development teams to rapidly create connected applications with compelling user experiences for Windows Vista, the 2007Microsoft Office system, mobile devices and the Web.
Watch this space for news of Beta 2, which will release later this summer.
Yep, it's the very first day of 2005, which means it's time to open yourself up to plenty of potential ridicule and embarrassment a year from now and make your predictions about what the year ahead holds for the world of gadgets and electronics.
It looks like 2005 might be the year of PCI Express, even though they've been saying so for a while now.
As hyped as it's been for so long, 2005 will finally be the year of mass adoption.