Calico Jack LTD

The ALIVE consortium is alive

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 12:03:01 +0000

A kick-off meeting this week sees the start of Calico Jack’s work on the ALIVE project, an exciting new pan-European collaboration looking at practical and theoretical issues in the dynamic reconfiguration of agent-mediated services.

Calico Jack Software Supporting Medical Trials

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:02:44 +0000

Live deployments start this week of software designed to improve medical trials. Calico Jack’s technology infrastructure for communications is being used to help recruitment to trials, an issue which has often slowed down or completely halted the trials process in the past. Though many people are keen to take part in medical trials, they are often not aware that the opportunity exists. GPs are being equipped with software that identifies candidates for trials, and smooths the job of inviting patients to take part. This step paves the way for widespread roll-out of the software.

Calico Jack in major new €3.8m European collaboration

Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:02:49 +0000

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.

Calico Jack goes fashionable

Thu, 01 Mar 2007 12:02:57 +0000

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.

Calico Jack wins record third SMART award

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:02:53 +0000

Calico Jack has won a record third SMART award from the Scottish Executive for work on Convergent Conversation Management. The project will deliver a new approach to managing call data, building on the commercial successes of earlier awards that were respectively used to construct a robust and highly scalable multi-agent system and mechanisms for determining rich presence information on the fly, or “emergent presence”. The latest award will allow the company and its customers to respond to demand for more effective communication management.

Calico Jack in The Times

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 08:33:29 +0000

Calico Jack joins an elite group of providers in having a small piece in a special supplement on Healthcare Technologies distributed with the Times today, describing the comapny’s innovative approach to solving practical problems in the healthcare IT landscape.

Calico Jack software bridging support services

Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:50:48 +0000

In an exciting new departure, Calico Jack’s track record in healthcare IT development has paved the way for a new contract to build software to support detoxification programmes. Mobile devices can play a key role in helping individuals through the process of detox, and Scotland Against Drugs has funded a pilot project in which Calico Jack’s software plays a key role.

Jackdaw to enable recruitment to clinical trials

Sun, 12 Mar 2006 15:01:21 +0000

Calico Jack today signed a contract to undertake R&D work building on the company’s expertise in applying multi-agent systems to solve practical problems in health-care. The “SARMA” project will construct a tool to facilitate the recruitment of patients to clinical trials, solving a serious problem in the testing and evaluation of new drugs in Scotland and the UK.

New release of Jackdaw University Development Environment

Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:17:47 +0000

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.

Calico Jack signs up Wanadoo as new customer

Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:13:31 +0000

Wanadoo has become Calico Jack’s latest customer, signing a contract for a programme of R&D work in the area of converged communications. The project will involve harnessing the power of Jackdaw in the newly emerging IMS enabled world.