Copyright pact on cards
British and American librarians and university administrators look set to join forces in developing a framework to help institutions manage intellectual property rights as the information technology...
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MSc launched on the Internet
Southampton University has launched a master's degree course in information engineering by email. It is for employees of the computer giant IBM. Most of the modular programme comprises material...
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Pigging out
(Photograph) - Pigging out: Munch me, crunch me, electric lunch me by Louise McKeever, a second-year fine art student at Cardiff art school. The work is the result of a collaborative multimedia...
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College devises campus network
Edge Hill College has drawn up a radical strategic plan to create an information technology centre of excellence in the north-west. The college, based in Ormskirk, Lancashire but with satellite...
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Esso fuels green education package
Mechanical engineers at Surrey University have won a Pounds 15,000 grant from the petroleum firm Esso to develop a multimedia teaching and learning package for energy and environmental management....
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Robot tests virtual reality
How real is virtual reality? Psychologist Martin Crawshaw at Hull university aims to find out with help from a robot developed by his colleagues in the electronic engineering department. The device,...
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Virtual open day
(Photograph) - University student Pauline is the tour guide for the department of computing science's honours degree in its "virtual open day'' package, unveiled this week at a conference organised...
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Bristol hitches up to superhighway
Three universities in the south-west of England are to play a key role in an initiative that aims to make Bristol a world-beating "digital community". The project is being spearheaded by the South...
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Further Email
British Telecom is to link up Britain's 542 further education colleges to their own national email network from the start of next year. The initiative follows a successful six-month trial with 80...
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Netties' Gain
The Government has launched a pilot information service on the Internet. Initial contributors will be the Treasury, citizens charter unit, HMSO and the machinery of government division of the Office...
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Digital History
Southampton University and Research Publications are to work together to produce computer-based learning packages for A level and undergraduate study including Stalin and The Reform Impulse, England...
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Glittering prize up for grabs
In 1895 the Lumire brothers in France developed the Cinematographe camera-projector and in so doing helped to spawn an industry that has had a profound cultural, economic and industrial impact on the...
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Crystal-clear simulation
Our ability to model and explore complex three dimensional structures, from molecules to galaxies, has been revolutionised by new computer technology. This allows us to construct, display and...
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Legal Journal
Law school lecturers at the University of Newcastle have put the UK's first electronic law journal on the World Wide Web, via the Internet. Mike Allen and Bruce Grant launched the bi-monthly Web...
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The billion byte brain
Since the Renaissance, scientific progress has been built on two planks: theory and experiment. Although these continue to be crucial to progress, what happens when the equations are not amenable to...