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UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. Readers: Cyrus Cooper, scientific staff, MRC environmental epidemiology unit; Fausto Ianotti, senior lecturer, clinical neurological sciences; Paul Jackson, senior lecturer...
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Grants
IMPERIAL COLLEGE Research grants: Dr D. Leak, Pounds 115,492 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (hetero- logous expression and generation of molecular hybrids of propene...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON. Fellows: Fred Bullock; June Clark; Bartolomeu dos Santos; Ken Follett; John Garside; Philip Johnson-Laird; John Kenny; Bayo Kuku; John Lennard-Jones; Tom McNally; John...
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Events
CATALYST. Royal College of Arts graduates Gary Clarke and Gary Clough will show new work (see right) at Falmouth College of Arts Gallery, Woodlane, Falmouth, until May16 (10am-4pm). The mixture of...
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Appointments
COUNCIL FOR THE CENTRAL LABORATORY OF THE RESEARCH COUNCILS. The following have been appointed to the council: Chairman and chief executive: Paul Williams. Members: Julia Higgins, Imperial College,...
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Broad mind, best spirit
Academics at the artistic end of the higher education spectrum are facing a dilemma over how to respond to the multimedia revolution. They are trying to decide whether the whizzkids of new technology...
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Refashioning boys' toys
Christine Whitehouse on a project to re-connect girls to the computing universe on their own terms. Staffordshire University has played a large part in educating computer professionals, both men and...
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Access to a life-long college
North America is leading the way in providing a rich seam of electronic learning resources which can be tapped by communities which need them the most. Keith Yeomans reports from the US on the...
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Unproportional representation
The advent of the information age - and with it the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to profoundly alter political, social and economic relations - has been trumpeted since...
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Hot Wires
Cyber maths Mathematical documents, with "live" formulae and charts that recalculate when the reader types in new figures, can now be exchanged across the World Wide Web. Mathbrowser is a Web browser...
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Southampton switches to top
The University of Southampton is to go ahead with a high-speed campus multimedia network with the help of a Pounds 1 million system funded by IBM. The network, built around an IBM SP2 massively...
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D-day for Delphic group
A consortium of 24 universities will be purchasing up to Pounds 1 million worth of the software normally used by business executives to monitor company performance and make better-informed decisions...
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Esprit catches the spirit of research
More than 900 proposals have been lodged with the European Commission for its information technology programme. According to the European Commission Directorate General, 92 proposals were made for...
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Conferences
May 15-18 JENC6 , networking. Tel Aviv http://www.terena.nl/ 18 Business wire's net conference email michael@bizwire.com 26- Virtual futures. http://www.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/faculties/social-studies/...
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Deep Thought and delusions of grandeur
One of the fascinating things about observing the effects of computers on people is their effect on so-called computer experts. They do not seem to realise, even as they pontificate on the potentials...