In this commentary, we describe two new protein structure prediction experiments being run in parallel with the CASP experiment, which together may be regarded as the 2000 Olympic Games of structure prediction. The first new experiment is CAFASP, the Critical Assessment of Fully Automated Structure Prediction. In CAFASP, the participants are fully automated programs or Internet servers, and her...

The QBF Gallery 2014 was a competitive evaluation for QBF solvers organized as part of the FLoC 2014 Olympic Games during the Vienna Summer of Logic. The QBF Gallery 2014 featured three different tracks on formulas in prenex conjunctive normal form (PCNF) including more than 1200 formulas to be solved. Gold, silver, and bronze track medals were awarded to the solvers that solved the most formul...

We will describe new cross-lingual strategies for the development multilingual information services on mobile devices. The novelty of our approach is the intelligent modeling of cross-lingual application domains and the combination of textual translation with speech generation. The final system helps users to speak foreign languages and communicate with the local people in relevant situations, ...

The increasing number of mega sporting events, such as Olympic Games, the World Cup or Commonwealth Games, awarded to lowand middleincome countries is, at first sight, a significant move in the direction of fairness and equity. In 2010, South Africa hosted the football World Cup and India hosted the Commonwealth Games, while Brazil will be hosting the football World Cup in 2014 and the Olympic ...

In this note statistical approaches to modelling sporting performances are discussed. Final year projects based on such modelling have proved popular in the past. With the upsurge in interest in the next Olympic Games in London in 2012, such modelling could provide teachers of statistics with a rich source of meaningful student projects. Students may be more motivated to do such projects simply...