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Carole Goble, professor in the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, has been awarded the inaugural Jim Gray eScience Award at the 2008 Microsoft eScience Workshop in Indianapolis.

Accelerate Technology Laboratories (ATL) has added Dr Thomas Klinckman to its expanding LIMS implementation team.

Peter Beckman has been named director of the Leadership Computing Facility at the US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory.

AMD has appointed Alberto Bozzo as corporate vice president and general manager of its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) region

National Instruments has appointed Robert Morton as its managing director for UK and Ireland. Morton has been with NI for 14 years, having progressed from field sales engineer through to the management team.

Starlims has established Starlims Europe as a result of the May 2008 acquisition of its long-time UK partner and hired LIMS veteran Joe Peden as general manager of the new subsidiary.

Neil Kipling, founder and CEO of IDBS, has been awarded an honorary doctorate (DUniv) from the University of Surrey.

Accelerated Technology Laboratories (ATL) has promoted Fred Rider to the position of director of support services.

Interactive Supercomputing (ISC) has appointed ISC board member, Bill Strecker, as its chief technology officer (CTO), while former AMD HPC marketing director David Rich has joined as vice president of marketing.

Linguamatics has expanded into Delaware, USA and appointed Susan LeBeau as director of North American Sales.