Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL A. Campbell, professor of biomedical ethics at Otago Medical School and director of the bioethics research centre, has been appointed to the chair in ethics in medicine; R....
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Distilled information
United Kingdom chemists will already be familiar with the web sites of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chemistry and Industry magazine. Now the American Chemical Society has gone online at http://...
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Experiment with another life form
Richard Dawkins tells Stephen Pritchard what academics can expect if they are chosen as multimedia stocking-fillers. The reputation of multimedia CD-Roms for putting form before content is a...
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Appointments
(Photograph) - Bolton Institute has presented an honorary fellowship to football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. Fellowships were also awarded to Harry Tuley, former chairman of the north-west...
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Scan plan
The University of Hertfordshire has been awarded Pounds 462,000 to set up a digitisation centre which will convert more than a million pages of text a year into electronic form, making printed...
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Techno-anxieties, guilt and the restoration of a material world
IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY: ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Edited by Mary Anne Moser with Douglas MaCleod MIT Press 336pp, Pounds 35.95 ISBN 0 262 13314 8 This is a book in which it is easy to get immersed...
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Promotions
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE UNIVERSITY The following were appointed to personal readerships on August 1: P. Corris, clinical senior lecturer, reader in thoracic medicine; G. Green, senior lecturer, reader in...
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Each according to need
Helena Flusfeder follows the development of distance learning that should lead to student-constructed curricula at the Open University in Israel. Imagine hundreds or thousands of students giving live...
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Critical burden of being correct
USING Z: SPECIFICATION, REFINEMENT AND PROOF By Jim Woodcock and Jim Davies Prentice Hall 452pp, Pounds 18.95 ISBN 0 139 48472 8. APPLICATIONS OF FORMAL METHODS By Michael Hinchey and Jonathan Brown...
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Sluggish sales prompt appeals for help
The PROfiles CD-Rom series, publishing Cabinet papers released under the 30-year rule, is to be revamped following disappointing first-year sales. Following a meeting earlier this month between the...
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OU chief calls for open strategy
John Daniel, the Open University's vice chancellor, will deliver a warning and a promise to British business and universities on Monday. Sir John is giving the opening address at the World Open...
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Cable links TV to Net
In London last week cable television entrepreneur Glenn R. Jones, whose interests include the Denver-based Mind Extension University, spoke about his latest venture which combines the massive...
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Next move
(Photograph) - Brainpower is an interface for video on demand by Mahesh Ramachandra. It is part of the Mobile interactive CD-Rom produced by Middlesex University MA students on the design for...
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History at the flick of a switch
DATABASES IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH By Charles Harvey and Jon Press Macmillan 352pp, Pounds 45 ISBN 0 333 56843 5 (hbk) 331pp, Pounds 14.99 ISBN 0 333 568443 (pbk) USING COMPUTERS IN HITORY: A PRACTICAL...
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JISC appeals as cash crisis looms
The UK funding councils' Joint Information Systems Committee is pressing the higher education sector to react to its five-year strategy document, which was mailed to campuses at the beginning of the...