Knees up
(Photograph) - Uneven floors and vertical walls are no obstacle for a remote-controlled robot with spider-like legs, vacuum grippers and the ability to feel intelligently for footholds. Bing Luk (...
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Colliding articles
The row over physicist Alan Sokal's spoof paper in the cultural studies journal Social Text (The THES, June 7) continues. The THES will publish a reply from one of the journal's editors next week....
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Writers' blocs lose the old plot
New forms of narrative that use interactive technology are being researched in Nottingham. A research project at Nottingham Trent University is exploring and utilising cyberspace as a home for new...
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Grants
KING'S COLLEGE, LONDON. Research grants Professor R. Poole, Pounds 182,676 from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (regulation of respiratory metabolism in the free-living...
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Euro project targets Web for radical overhaul
A pan-European ECU3.3 million (Pounds 2.7m) project to make the World Wide Web a more usable system for researchers has just been launched. Among the 23 partners in DESIRE (Development of a European...
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Design centre
A new Computers in Teaching Initiative centre is now a rare event. The 23 existing centres, which offer advice on the use of information technology in higher education, already cover most academic...
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Honorary degrees
DON STATE UNIVERSITY, ROSTOV. Peter West, secretary of the University of Strathclyde has been awarded an honorary doctorate in recognition of his participation in cooperation between the two...
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UK wins top awards
In a ceremony held in the middle of an Austrian lake, teams from the United Kingdom learned that they had swept up four of the ten European Academic Software Awards for 1995/96. The UK successes were...
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Seeking agreement
If the multi-party talks cannot come up with a solution to Ireland's political differences, perhaps the Internet can. David Newman of Queens University, Belfast is running so-called "online...
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ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY. The Robert Gordon University has launched a Pounds 10 million fundraising campaign to create chairs and research fellowships in primary health care, heritage management,...
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Fast net links eight Welsh sites with new vision
A new computer network facilitating rapid communication between eight university institutions in South Wales is being completed this summer. The system will link the University of Wales's five...
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Address space
Internet addresses - not email addresses but the unique identification numbers of Internet 'host' computers - are running out. But the shortage should be solved over the next few years as hosts...
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Northern exposure
Britain's most northerly art school has more reason than most to put its degree show on the Web, since so many potential visitors live hundreds of miles from Aberdeen. For those unable to visit the...
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Taking the lonely out of distance learning
Brian Gilding, Paul Helm and Robert McClements detail a case history of distance learning development that emphasises the personal element The Bradford Management Centre's executive development...
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All are equal in the face of loans
The Dearing inquiry is primarily about funding. Without robust proposals on how to pay for higher education, its report will be little more than platitudes. Who will find the extra cash? The Labour...