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Southampton University spinoff Multicosm is the fifth company to receive investment from Amadeus, the venture capital fund whose backers include Microsoft and Reuters. 3i and Natwest have also...
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Space talk
Commonwealth of Learning's Connections newsletter has a supplement on educational technology, EdTech News. The first issue lists geostationary and low earth orbit satellite projects. The WorldSpace...
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Uncharacterised
The Council of European Professional Informatics Societies has welcomed the Czech, Lithuanian and Slovenian professional bodies as members. The East Europeans are annoyed that ISO character sets...
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Amply rewarded
One of the United States' highest scientific honours, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Engineering, has been awarded to a Southampton University professor. David Payne and Emmanuel Desurvire of the...
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Middlesex sets blueprint for digital architecture
A Middlesex University masters' course in digital architecture was validated last week and will enrol its first students in the autumn term. "This is a one-year full-time post-professional degree,"...
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Publisher calls for radical rethink on research
A rethink of the way in which professionals organise scientific communication is needed, a leading scientific publisher said this week. Hans Roosendaal, group deputy director at scientific publishers...
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Drums, wires and the e-pulse
The rapid development of audio and music technologies has spawned a new specialism - and the need for specialised courses. Allen Brown describes one of them. There are few areas of our lives that the...
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Silicon scripts set scene for pioneers of digital design
Glasgow School of Art and the University of Glasgow are preparing designers for the next millennium with the opening of a new studio, Claire Neesham reports. If you follow the signs for "The House...
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Chairs
University of Stirling. Jackie Stewart, three-times world motor racing champion and "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 1997, awarded by the Entrepreneurial Exchange, has been appointed to an honorary...
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Traces on vellum offer clues to the definitive Chaucerian text
Researchers at the Sheffield Humanities Research Institute are building an enviable reputation for their joint investigations into classic manuscripts. Tony Durham reports. Xpyment" has the Microsoft...
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Michael Pinsky
(Photograph) - Digital Brighton exports art revolution to Siberia Michael Pinsky, ArCade II artist: "Stripe Passage". In Paris, Pinsky became fascinated by an installation near the Louvre by Daniel...
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Digital Brighton exports art revolution to Siberia
This month's degree show confirms the University of Brighton's far-travelling reputation for digital art, says Sue Gollifer. At the University of Brighton the third-year fine art printmakers are...
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Yvonne McSherry
(Photograph) - Digital Brighton exports art revolution to Siberia Yvonne McSherry, third-year BA printmaking student. Top: "Sydney 2000 on 14 March 1997" and (above) "London 2000 on Good Friday 1998...
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Elections
The Chinese Academy of Science. The Indian National Science Academy Robert Cahn, professor in the department of materials science and metallurgy at the University of Cambridge, has been elected a...
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Slog on the Tyne
(Photograph) - Slog on the Tyne: Durham University triumphed on Sunday at the second Northumbrian university boat race against Newcastle University. The 1,800-metre course between Dunston Staithes...