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Leeds Metropolitan University is using videoconferencing to help Yorkshire businesses. For example a factory in Hull can video a machine which is misbehaving, and the university's engineers can tell...
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Prize falls to bits
MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte was a surprise winner in the Krasna Kraus awards for books on the moving image. His Being Digital, which argued that when television becomes a stream of bits it can...
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Capital connects to fibre TV ring
Cable television companies which installed massive surplus information-carrying capacity when they dug up London's roads have been rewarded for their foresight by a Pounds 6 million higher education...
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Thieves cash in on chip gold rush
Thieves are using the freedom of movement found on campuses worldwide to break into computers and steal memory chips because they can be worth more than their weight in gold. The rash of computer...
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Ship shapes: James Johnson of the Natural History Museum
(Photograph) - Ship shapes: James Johnson of the Natural History Museum makes a three-dimensional laser scan of a Cymatium pileare seashell collected during the voyage of Captain James Cook's...
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BL urges national archive extension for new media
The British Library has called on the Government to act during this Parliament to ensure that non-print publications will be stored in the national archive. A proposal drawn up by a working party...
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Honorary degrees
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. DEng: Jackie Stewart, former racing driver, chairman of the Paul Stewart Racing Team; John Browne, chief executive of BP. DLitt: David Tweedie, chairman of the Accounting...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Robert Parker, fellow of Oriel College and lecturer in Greek and Latin languages and literature, has been appointed Wykeham professor of ancient history, succeeding W. G. G....
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Appointments
CHICHESTER INSTITUTE OF HIGHER EDUCATION. Philip Robinson, senior pro-rector at Roehampton Institute and principal of Froebel College, has been appointed director, succeeding John Wyatt. He will join...
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Grants
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST. European Professor T. J. T. Whittaker in collaboration with Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal, Pounds 430,000 from European Commission (Islay European shoreline wave...
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Fellowships
THE LABAN CENTRE. The Laban Centre for Movement and Dance awarded honorary fellowships to the following: Merce Cunningham, New York based-choreographer; Stuart Hopps, former associate director of...
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The second great balloon debate
Last week young scientists, plunging to earth in an overloaded hot air balloon, debated which of them should jump to allow one of them to float to safety. This week our great balloon debate focuses...
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Law firms' all-clear
A voluntary clearing house for law graduates hoping to train as barristers has won the backing of some of Britain's most prestigious sets of chambers. The Bar Council said this week it was relieved...
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A publishing mouse?
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...
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A publishing mouse?
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...