Protein knowledgeat a click
Molecular biologists at Birkbeck College are using the World Wide Web, Tony Durham explains. The glossary group are talking about building their own room and having meetings in there." Fortunately it...
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SuperJANET brings BCS award for UKERNA
SuperJANET, the high-speed network which links 60 universities and research centres in the United Kingdom, has won a British Computer Society award for its operator, the UK Education and Research...
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Late launch
The Internet Bookshop will be officially launched at London's Cyberia cafe on Monday, though it has been online since last June. The service, run from an Oxford office, offers 7,000 titles from...
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Disk shift
Read the books, buy the CD. A reference index for Encyclopedia Britannica is now available in PC format, based on the Britannica instant Research System. Britannica CD offers the users multiple...
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CD boom
There are now more than 9,500 CD-Rom titles worldwide, an annual growth rate forecast of around 50 per cent, according to the award-winning CD-Rom Directory 1995.Multimedia CDs account for per cent...
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Frontier spirit
Education forms the focus for discussions on the ethics of wide band networks, multimedia, document image processing and electronic document delivery at the Computers for Libraries 95 conference to...
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Euro global
Al Gore, United States vice president, will give the keynote address at the G7 ministerial conference on information technologies in Brussels from February 24-26. The conference will look at ways of...
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Virtual lab for robotics goes on net
A project just launched at the University of Reading will open the door of a virtual laboratory for robotics students from universities and business around the world. Netrolab will give access to the...
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Bed tracker follows patient
A five year collaboration between higher education and a small Somerset software company has led to a new system for keeping track of hospital patients and ensuring that beds are full. Tim King,...
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Test on market value
Marketing students at higher education institutions across the United Kingdom started the new term as guinea pigs for the University of Central Lancashire's first commercial venture in multimedia....
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California accent at the RCA
Interval Research of Palo Alto, California has helped the Royal College of Art to build a new studio where postgraduate student designers will use computer technology to make life easier. The company...
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Email, faxes on the move
British Telecom has teamed up with Apple Computer to provide a complete mobile data solution aimed at academics and commerce. Until now it has been impossible to buy an off-the-shelf solution to...
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BAe finds space for staff open learning
British Aerospace has opened the last of five open learning centres that it has established at its military aircraft manufacturing sites during the past 18 months. Open learning, which is intended to...
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Students win 3-D software bonus
Autodesk is to introduce cut-price student editions of its software in the United Kingdom following the success of a similar scheme in the United States. The scheme will be available to students and...
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Labour dash for highway revolution
The Labour Party has put its parliamentary weight behind the development of broad band networks in the United Kingdom. Next week, the Policy Forum on Information Superhighways will hold a press...