Following a final negotiation meeting in Brussels, the EU has committed to a project worth €3.8m which aims to build advanced reconfigurable systems for service oriented architectures. Calico Jack is partnering with Universities in Aberdeen, Utrecht, Barcelona and Dublin and with Thales in the Netherlands and TMC Factory, an SME in Spain, to deliver cutting edge technology over the next three years.

A new £1.4m investment from the Technology Strategy Board this week kicks off the FABRIC project: Fashion and Apparel Browsing for Inspirational Content. This major initative is a collaboration between Calico Jack, the University of Dundee, SSL Ltd., Liberty of London and the Victoria and Albert Musuem. Calico Jack will be bringing its expertise in mobile communications to provide mobile interaction with FABRIC resources and algorithms.

As part of its commitment to providing free, high-quality software to the academic community, Calico Jack today released a new version of the Jackdaw University Development Environment, or JUDE. With the platform now in use around the world, this new version tackles many of the deficiencies in the earlier version, providing new features and enhanced levels of reliability.

A scientific paper describing Calico Jack’s work in collaboration with Dr. Ron Neville, a GP and researcher at a Dundee surgery has been accepted for presentation and publication with the leading scientific conference in the area, the International Conference on AI in Medicine. The paper describes how the Jackdaw multi-agent system has been employed to support communication between patient and doctor in the primary care system.