The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) at University College London, another research hotbed, uses data from London's Oyster cards used to pay for public transport and Twitter messages.
The Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies (CAWCS) will work in collaboration with Oxford University, King's College London, Bangor University and the National Library of Wales on the "archaeological background of the emergence of the Celtic languages in western Europe".
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The Centre will provide advanced training and research for scientists from Central and Eastern European countries, and will also reach out to scientists from the least developed countries in Africa.
The centre designed and produced advanced electronics for the navy, including the guidance technology for Patriot missiles.
The watch, developed by the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, can be used to alert authorities and family members if the wearer is in danger.
The Norfolk Record Office has been recognised by the International Council of Archivists as the most advanced archive centre in Europe and holds collections of Outstanding International Importance.
In recent tests at the company's Advanced Technology Centre in Bristol, a special liquid has been used to construct a material that is thinner than normal body armour and yet is able to stop a low-velocity bullet.
Gary Gilbert, from the US Army's Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Centre in Frederick, Maryland, said that the teddy bear appearance was deliberate.
He says his Anti-Crisis Settlement and Accounting Centre (ASAC) is more advanced than the rudimentary barter trades so common in post-Soviet markets.
Ford has announced plans to locate its advanced car-styling centre in Britain to take advantage of London's status as a leading centre of design.
Its advanced engine-development centre, which opened this summer, hooks up an engine to a simulated computer model of an as-yet unbuilt prototype car, to see how well it performs.
The gym at the centre is stocked with the most technically-advanced equipment available, paid for by a sponsorship deal with the manufacturers.
Between the dives, which I did as part of the advanced diving course at Scapa Scuba Dive Centre, we stopped at the Visitor Centre and Museum on the island of Hoy, the former location of the naval base.
NASA, the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency, the British National Space Centre and Britain's Defence Evaluation and Research Agency hope to collaborate with researchers in the terrestrial telecoms industry to establish new standards.
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Part of what his centre will be doing is looking at how this model works when introduced to a more advanced economy.
The Motor Insurance Repair Research Centre announced this week that it is to conduct independent trials of tracking systems and other advanced security devices to see how effective they are.
Bruno Michel, manager of advanced thermal packaging at the laboratory, reckons the heat from a medium-sized data centre one consuming a megawatt of power would be enough to warm about 70 houses within a range of 3km.
"Russia might lose the most educated, advanced and critically thinking strata of a society", warns Natalya Zorkaya, from the Levada Centre.
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