Chequing out . . .
If you were one of the many thousands turned away from the virtual doors of the Third World-Wide Web conference in Darmstadt, weep no more - but have your Visa card handy. The organisers have...
Search
-
-
CTI births agreed
Funds to set up two new centres under the Computers in Teaching Initiative have been promised by the higher education funding councils for England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland Office....
-
Critical mass at the church of the film
Hit man: Quentin Tarantino (left), arguably the best director to come out of Hollywood since Martin Scorsese, has an academic World-Wide Web page constructed in homage by Martin Small at Aston...
-
Picture of perfection as Australians confer on Web
More than 140 delegates from 21 Australian universities and 10 overseas countries arrived at the Southern Cross University earlier this month for what may have been the world's first international...
-
Open future for JANET
A tussle is looming over the future of the academic and research networks JANET and SuperJANET. As hopes of a consumer-driven "information superhighway" fade, eyes are turning to education and...
-
Science Museum launched Information Superhighway exhibition
(Photograph) - Hands-on experience: the Science Museum launched the latest event in the Science in a Box series this month with an exhibition on the Information Superhighway, which runs until...
-
Coded call for software pioneers
The Business Software Challenge to student code designers in the United Kingdom has been issued for the fifth time - but with a global perspective. This national design competition rewards students...
-
Promotions
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON. Readers: Cyrus Cooper, scientific staff, MRC environmental epidemiology unit; Fausto Ianotti, senior lecturer, clinical neurological sciences; Paul Jackson, senior lecturer...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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...
-
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,...
-
County Hall saga is still running on and on
"A Whitehall farce", Labour's Alan Milburn called it. But the charge being pressed against Sir Godfrey Taylor, of the London Residuary Body, as he faced questioning on Tuesday over the sale of County...
-
National Front vote key in French poll
Lionel Jospin may have carried the first ballot but Jacques Chirac remains the firm favourite in Sunday's French presidential election. So says Robert Elgie, lecturer in the department of European...
-
Alcohol packs little punch
A "Sting" type experiment using psychology graduates to harass volunteers has shown that alcohol has no direct influence on aggression. Niall Coggins, senior lecturer in Strathclyde University's...