2011 Turing Award Winner - Prof. Judea Pearl

2011 A.M. Turing Award Winner Judea Pearl's innovations have enabled remarkable advances in the partnership between humans and machines that is the foundation of Artificial Intelligence. Pearl has also pioneered developments in probabilistic and causal reasoning and their application to a broad range of problems.
For more:
http://amturing.acm.org/

Helix Nebula ‐ the Science Cloud

Big science teams up with big business to kick-start European cloud computing
Geneva, Switzerland - 1st-March-2012
‘Helix Nebula ‐ the Science Cloud’, will support the massive IT requirements of European scientists, and become available to governmental organisations and industry after an initial pilot phase.
The partnership is working to establish a sustainable European cloud computing infrastructure, supported by industrial partners, which will provide stable computing capacities and services that elastically meet demand.
For more:
http://www.cloudsigma.com/en/about-us/press-releases/211

Cloud computing standards - Coming Soon

The University of Melbourne has joined NTT Data and over 300 other companies collaborating on standards to help businesses specify their cloud-computing requirements under the auspices of user-focused group the Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), the group announced today as it celebrated its first anniversary in an update briefing in Melbourne.
For more:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/nab-bmw-show-off-cloud-standards-progress-339332889.htm?ocid=nl_TNB_02032012_fea_1