European Strategic Programme on Research in Information Technology (ESPRIT)

1983

It was a European Union initiative managed by the Directorate General for Industry (DG III) of the European Commission. ==Programmes== Five ESPRIT programmes (ESPRIT 0 to ESPRIT 4) ran consecutively from 1983 to 1998.

1985

In 1985 ESPRIT financed a pilot implementation of the ODA concept, involving, among others, Bull corporation, Olivetti, ICL and Siemens AG. Paradise: A sub-project of the ESPRIT I project, COSINE which established a pan-European computer-based network infrastructure that enabled research workers to communicate with each other using OSI.

1988

Comparative testing and evaluation of statistical and logical learning algorithms on large-scale applications to classification, prediction and control" SUNDIAL (Speech UNderstanding DIALgue) started in September 1988 with Logica Ltd.

1998

It was a European Union initiative managed by the Directorate General for Industry (DG III) of the European Commission. ==Programmes== Five ESPRIT programmes (ESPRIT 0 to ESPRIT 4) ran consecutively from 1983 to 1998.

1999

ESPRIT 4 was succeeded by the Information Society Technologies (IST) programme in 1999. ==Projects== Some of the projects and products supported by ESPRIT were: BBC Domesday Project, a partnership between Acorn Computers Ltd, Philips, Logica and the BBC with some funding from the European Commission's ESPRIT programme, to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England.




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