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Vacancy: Research Assistant / Data manager (m/f)
UNU-MERIT, a research institute with over 50 researchers from more than 25 countries, offers a challenging and international environment for researchers and secretarial and administrative support staff from all over the world, interested to contribute to the Institute’s core mission. UNU-MERIT’s research mission is to address the social, political and economic impacts of innovation and technological change, both internationally and locally. UNU-MERIT is currently looking for a research assistant to work within an interdisciplinary team of researchers.
See: http://www.merit.unu.edu/about/20081121.php

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    Scientists find world's largest prime numbers
    Scientists in the US and Germany have found the two largest prime numbers ever calculated in a discovery which could dramatically increase the effectiveness of cryptographic systems. The two numbers were discovered within a fortnight of each other by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search project, which has spent 12 years on the task.

    The largest prime number, which has a whopping 12,978,189 digits, was discovered by a team from UCLA. The second, discovered by a computer user in Germany, has 11,185,272 digits. The search for large prime numbers (those which can only be divided by themselves or one) was sponsored by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) as part of an effort to build a near-unbreakable encryption system.

    The UCLA team will receive a USD 100,000 prize from the EFF for breaking the 10,000,000 digit record. Further prizes are available, including USD 150,000 for the first 100,000,000 digit prime and USD 250,000 for the first 1,000,000,000 digit number.

    Prime numbers are fundamental to cryptography systems, which take a large part of their strength from the difficulty in factoring primes. The larger the prime the more secure the encryption.

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    Latest publications

    Global Migration of the Highly Skilled: A Tentative and Quantitative Approach
    T. Dunnewijk, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    Learning Networks Matter: Challenges to Developing Learning-Based Competence in Mango Production and Post-Harvest in Andhra Pradesh, India
    L. Prasad Pant, H. Hambly Odame, A. Hall & R. Sulaiman, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    Private Capacity and Public Failure: Contours of Livestock Innovation Response Capacity in Kenya
    E. Keskin, M. Steglich, J. Dijkman & A. Hall, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    EU enlargement and consequences for FDI assisted industrial development
    R. Narula & C. Bellak, UNU-MERIT Working Paper
    The Heterogeneity of MNC’ Subsidiaries and Technology Spillovers: Explaining positive and negative effects in emerging economies
    A. Marin & S. Sasidharan, UNU-MERIT Working Paper


    Conferences & Seminars

    The West and the Rest in the World Economy:1000-2030 Maddisonian and Malthusian Interpretations by Angus Maddison
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, November 25, 2008
    Trying to meet the challenge of health innovation for neglected diseases: New players in an old game or a new game and some different players?
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, November 27, 2008
    Medicines for diseases of the developing world: Innovation and Economic Policy
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, November 27, 2008
    Innovation persistency
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, December 03, 2008
    The 5th International Conference on Innovation and Management (ICIM2008)
    UNU-MERIT, Maastricht, December 10, 2008


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