(Photograph) - You are not new to the Internet. We are. Academics have been using the Internet (and its predecessor, ARPANET) for a quarter of a century. Newspapers ignored it until a year or two ago...
France's Mediterranean science park wants to become Europe's 'media lab' but first it needs fast lines to the rest of the Continent. Stella Hughes reports Carrying out a word search is one of those...
Scientists can rapidly develop chemical modelling on the Internet. Henry Rzepa and Benjamin Whitaker explain Scientists and mathematicians have extended the written language by developing special...
Object-oriented technology, considered by its supporters to be the best way to model reality and build software, was the subject of a one-hour conference on the Internet last week. The event was...
Crick computing was presented with the Gold (Special Needs) prize by Gillian Shephard, Secretary of State for Education, at the BETT exhibition at Olympia, London on Wednesday for its literacy...
A team of language and technology experts from the universities of Birmingham, Bristol and Keele is at an advanced stage in the development of interactive modules for business German on CD-Rom. Each...
The eleventh edition of the CD-Rom Directory is an international guide to all CD-Rom and multimedia CD titles published in the world. It also lists all companies involved in the industry, with full...
Internet access to all Government departments will be possible soon thanks to a collaboration between the academic network operator, Ukerna, and Whitehall information systems specialists. Announcing...
The protein group in the department of chemistry at York University has been working for the past year on a virtual reality pilot project for modelling the molecular structure of drugs. Rod Hubbard,...
(Photograph) - The geography of the United Kingdom has been mapped out in multimedia on CD-Rom by Peterborough company, Photoair. "The Physical Landscape of Britain" is a fully interactive package...
(Photograph) - This week The Times Higher Education Supplement launches a new Internet Service. The major features of this service are: *InterView: job advertisements which appear in the paper will...
P. Markley, who has recently done a three-year course in ecology with the Cambridge University Board of Continuing Education, wants to know of a postal degree course in zoology. Contact: P. Markley,...
MIDDLESEX UNIVERSITY Yehudi Menuhin, violinist, was awarded an honorary doctorate at a special ceremony at the House of Lords. UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER Tom Foley, former speaker of the US House of...
UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM Research grants Dr C. Savage, Pounds 362,729 from the Medical Research Council (leukocyte-endothelial cell interactions involved in cellular immune responses and sytemic...
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON Fellows: Frederick Bullock, professor of physics and vice-provost; Margaret Clark, professor of nursing and director of the Centre for Advanced and International Studies in...