In the news: Tony Hey
Tony Hey has always appreciated the importance of communication. His role as director of the e-Science core programme gives him a way to help to circulate information. But having found inspiration...
Tony Hey has always appreciated the importance of communication. His role as director of the e-Science core programme gives him a way to help to circulate information. But having found inspiration...
John Gilbey on an ambitious and comprehensive look at the changing world of computers
Tony Hey charts the progress of the US and UK Open Science movement
Among the line-up of speakers at last week's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council annual conference were Gloria Laycock, director of the Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science at...
Conference debates how best to help early career researchers to thrive. Paul Jump reports
Young academics with a book deal in hand are an enviable lot in higher education circles and still a rarity, writes Anthea Lipsett. The Times Higher Young Academic Author of the Year award aims to be...
A strength of our university system is that we are still able to debate ideas in an open-minded way. David Barron (Letters, THES, June 23) notes that my faculty board will be debating the merits of...
We were grateful to Jeremy Bernstein for his kind words about our book, Einstein's Mirror (THES, March 13), but we would like to correct a couple of points that he raised in his review. Both concern...
Librarians remain an often unseen and unappreciated element of good teaching and research. Tara Brabazon interviews an extraordinary one about the challenges the profession faces at the front line of...
British scientists took their first steps into a brave new computing world this week, following an award of £5.5 million to Edinburgh and Glasgow universities to set up a national e-science centre....
Nobel Laureates and Twentieth-Century Physics
A Briefer History of Time
Brussels, 23 July 2002 UK scientists unveiled one of the key building blocks of the Grid, hailed as the 21st century successor to the Internet, at an international conference in Edinburgh, Scotland,...
The New Quantum Universe
Sir Alec Broers , vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has been named president of the Royal Academy of Engineering . Caroline Chambers has been appointed graduate pathway coordinator at...