The EGEE project officially ended on the 31 March 2006
EGEE II started on 1 April 2006 and the new EGEE website can be found at:
http://www.eu-egee.org
ICS-FORTH
Since its establishment in 1983, the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technologyy - Hellas (ICS-FORTH) has an established tradition of internationally acknowledged excellence in conducting basic and applied research, developing applications and products, providing services, and playing a leading role in Greece and internationally, in the sectors of Information and Communication Technologies.
ICS-FORTH is highly competitive at an international level, and many of its activities are carried out in the context of European collaborative Research and Development projects.
On-going research and development efforts focus on: information systems; data and knowledge-based systems; information retrieval, including content-based approaches; cultural informatics; image processing and pattern recognition; computer vision; sensor technologies; robotics; mobile and wireless (tele-)communications; network management; computer architectures; VLSI design; network monitoring and security; computer aided design; human-computer interaction; virtual reality; universal access and usability; information and communication technologies in Healthcare; and assistive technologies for people with disabilities.
Current research efforts in emerging areas of interest, include bio-informatics, web systems and technologies, embedded systems, GRID and large-scale computing, life-like systems, semantic web
ICS-FORTH has a wealth of experience in Grid projects and will operate the Heraclion-Crete GRNET ROC and HellasGrid Resource Centre, which will be added to the EGEE infrastructure.