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RSS motCollaborative Adaptation Authoring and Social Annotation in MOT
White Paper This paper proposes a new design of the authoring system MOT (My Online Teacher), focusing on collaborative authoring and social annotation. The Web is constantly evolving, in fundamental and innovative ways. [15 Jan 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 09.01.09
Round-Up If it was a car it would fail its MOT. Usually in January, a year is still a newborn innocent, the long months ahead stretching out in front of it, full of wonder and mystery. But not 2009, oh no. Like a kid from a rough... [09 Jan 2009]
Mesh-of-Trees and Alternative Interconnection Networks for Single-Chip Parallel Processing
White Paper This paper proposes a new Mesh of Trees (MoT) implementation of the interconnection network and evaluates it relative to metrics such as wire area, register count, total switch delay, maximum throughput,... [20 Mar 2008]
Layout-Accurate Design and Implementation of a High-Throughput Interconnection Network for Single-Chip Parallel Processing
White Paper A Mesh of Trees (MoT) on-chip interconnection network has been proposed recently to provide high throughput between memory units and processors for single-chip parallel processing. The paper synthesizes and obtains the... [09 Jan 2008]
Garages seek compensation for MOT IT problems
News Garages could receive compensation from the government for lost business as a result of problems with the MOT computer system. The rollout of the system across all 18,500 UK authorised testing stations, was completed at... [11 May 2006]
Multimillion pound MOT computer system breaks down
News A multimillion pound IT system that computerised the UK's MOT testing programme suffered technical problems this week. It is meant to combat the sale of fraudulent MOT certificates. Vosa confirmed on... [28 Apr 2006]
PFI projects on the up
News Prominent projects with a technology component include roads, MOT computerisation and immigration. The number of private finance initiative (PFI) contracts signed in the UK - many for large projects with IT at their core... [24 Apr 2006]
Delayed national MOT database finally completed
News The MOT computerisation project, which aims to take a million illegal and dangerous cars off the road, has finally been rolled out to all 18,500 testing stations and garages - nearly three years later than it was... [07 Apr 2006]
Photos: MOT database targets illegal cars
Photo The MOT computerisation project is the single biggest change to the testing scheme since it was introduced in the 1960s. Vosa began linking garages to the central database last April and has now completed the rollout to... [07 Apr 2006]
Online car tax renewals extended across UK
News The Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency's (DVLA) online tax disc service has been extended nationally but will not be fully available until the end of March because of delays to the computerised MOT database project. [10 Jan 2006]
MOT computerisation PFI project delayed again
News The MOT computerisation project, which aims to take a million illegal and dangerous cars off the road, will now not be fully rolled out to testing stations and garages until at least next March - nearly three years after... [22 Jun 2005]
Leader: Should we turn our security ire on suburbia?
Leader What about fitness tests - an MOT to establish roadworthiness? Research appearing on silicon.com today suggests Europe is home to more zombie networks of compromised PCs than anywhere else in the world. [31 May 2005]
Technical glitch crashes new DVLA tax renewal website
News The service currently links to the motor insurance database to validate insurance and will shortly involve linking to a number of other external databases including the new MOT computerisation database and the Department... [22 Feb 2005]
DVLA databases only "40 per cent" accurate
News Among recommendations to improve the use of ANPR are direct links from police forces to the new computerised MOT database, which is due to go live later this year, and motor insurance databases, which flag up vehicles... [03 Nov 2004]
£200m road tax cheats to face number plate readers
News Earlier this year the government introduced a scheme using number-plate recognition technology to clamp down on lorries and buses that don't have MOT certificates. This could be extended to all 24 million vehicles on UK... [12 Sep 2003]
