Flatlands fly to third dimension
Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed fast software which turns flat-looking satellite pictures into landscapes with a realistic three-dimensional look. The...
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From a rock to a soft place in QuickTime
Images digitally stitched together into wrap-around panoramas make for a dramatic virtual field trip, Susan Nowak discovers. Imagine being able to walk around the mouth of a live volcano which may...
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Video editing costs fall
A new generation of digital video editing equipment, based on desktop PCs, is challenging the proprietary systems which dominate the market. UCL Images, the video studio of University College London...
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Tough nut with a sweet centre
Birmingham colleges are merging learning resources in a state-of-the-art library, Debby Raven reports. The designers of the new learning resources centre in Birmingham had a tough brief: design a...
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Clearing house for critical research
Globalisation - the movement to trans-state relations is being tracked by a new web site, John Davies reports Peter Taylor is accustomed to crossing borders. He was a member of an international...
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DTI blow to industry link
The Department of Trade and Industry has pulled out of funding a multimillion pound initiative aimed at improving links between industry and universities. But the scheme will still be launched on a...
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Hebron university reopens cautiously
Hebron's Palestinian university has been allowed to open for the first time in almost a year. As Israel's coalition government continued its cautious moves towards a partial withdrawal from the city...
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Journal on the move loses editor
Concerns for the future of reference journal Keesing's Record of World Events will be intensified by confirmation this week that the monthly's editor of 11 years, Roger East, is leaving. The journal...
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Statistician stumps England
Not many academics can claim to be directly responsible for England losing an international cricket match - but statistician Tony Lewis can. Mr Lewis, who lectures at the University of the West of...
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Internet
Every week THESIS, The THES Internet Service, provides a guide to the news, features, reviews and advertisements in the newspaper, plus a full list of institutions in British further and higher...
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Sharp-edged fuzziness
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Indexes for the pixel age
As the world's pictures are digitised and powerful interests jockey for electronic rights, Charles Oppenheim explores the maze surrounding ownership of diverse works, Roy McKeown describes progress...
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Revolting brothers
Lewis Wolpert's lively review of Frank Sulloway's Born To Rebel (THES, December 20) contains an interesting factual error. Lenin was not, as Wolpert asserts, the first-born in his family. He had an...
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Road safety advice causes danger
THE TRADITIONAL "stop, look and listen" road safety message could be putting children's lives at risk, according to researchers. Psychologists at the university of Lincolnshire and Humberside have...
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So much, by so many, for so little
The conduct of the research assessment exercise has drawn as much fire from academics as have the results. THE MOST depressing feature of The THES's coverage of the 1996 universities research...