Paris, 05 May 2006 A team of young explorers from the Climate Change College are on a ten day field trip, participating in ESA's CryoSat validation experiment on the Greenland Ice Sheet. To stay in...
Paris, 05 May 2006 ESA will hold a five-day Europhysics Conference at its ESRIN facilities in Frascati, Italy, from 8-12 May 2006, for data users, scientists and students working in the field of...
Washington D.C., 05 May 2006 The Peer-To-Peer Patent Project announces: "[...] The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) will hold a briefing on May 12, 2006, from 9:00 a.m. to noon in...
Luxembourg, 5 May 2006 Court notice for the OJ Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Aachen lodged on 11 January 2006 - Rhiannon Morgan v Bezirksregierung Koln (Case C-11/06...
Luxembourg, 5 May 2006 Court notice for the OJ Reference for a preliminary ruling from the Verwaltungsgericht Aachen (Germany) lodged on 11 January 2006 - Iris Bucher v Landrat des Kreises Duren (...
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Lecturers start crucial pay talks Lecturers today began a crunch meeting with employers to try to end a two-month pay dispute that is threatening to delay student graduations. The Association of...
Earlier this year, a professor of law at a state university in the US became frustrated by the misuse of laptops in class and ordered her students to leave them at the door. June Entman, who teaches...
Japanese institutions are getting the chance to work with Microsoft, but they have questions to answer before they can claim prizes, says Charles Jannuzi Microsoft spends billions of dollars on...
Virtual learning environments are being used as a teaching tool across the globe. David Jobbins reports on the latest country to get hooked up Chinese universities are expected to enthusiastically...
Information jams and long waits to publish research evidence could be a thing of the past thanks to new open- data sources that can make results available online to the scientific community, reports...
As US universities explore 'course-casting', Apple is trialling iTunes U, an academic annex to its successful music download service. Stephen Phillips listens in Homework for Deb Reisinger's second...
iPod, therefore I learn? Not just yet. A pilot suggests the iPod is still more a gimmick than an educational tool, says Michael Thomas Offering an iconic, covetable product that fits perfectly into...
How do you design efficient, flexible, Data Protection Act-friendly, institution-wide storage systems for the ever-increasing amounts of information you gather? Electronic administration is the way...
SuperJANET was not built to handle the vast amounts of data now generated by facilities such as Cern, but a new network will be able to beam even the biggest packages round the globe. Judy Redfearn...