Raiders target Wales
English gangs are thought responsible for a growing number of cross border raids on Welsh further and higher education institutions for their RAMs - not the woolly sort, but personal computer random...
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Porn students face action
University College London has threatened its students with disciplinary action if they misuse the college computing system, writes Jennie Bristow. Offences include "downloading pornography from the...
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Teachers lead a revolution in outward mobility after the isolation years
What kind of people are benefiting from the new technologies? Is it just the "haves", international business people and academics, who want a stake in computer mobility and connectivity? There are...
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God@universe.edu
Members of Westcott House, a theological college in Cambridge, will answer questions about the Christian faith on http://www.ely.anglican.org. Not to be outdone by the Protestants, the Catholic Churc...
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PR pages
Nottingham Trent University's press and public relations office now has a "Web magazine" (http://www.ntu.ac.uk/ppr/prhom. html) for the press, students and anyone else interested. That should not be...
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Arts on JANET
Historian Daniel Greenstein has moved from the University of Glasgow to Kings College London to head the Arts and Humanities Data Service. This national service will be available through the academic...
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Algo rhythmic
Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing have some interesting theories as to how we perceive temporal structure in music.At http://mars.let.uva.nl/ honing/ they have assembled a selection of text, diagrams...
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Suite talk
Though it has negotiated hefty student discounts on Microsoft products including Office and Windows 95, academe's software broker CHEST has not handed the student population to Microsoft on a plate....
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Widget watchers
Leeds Metropolitan University is using videoconferencing to help Yorkshire businesses. For example a factory in Hull can video a machine which is misbehaving, and the university's engineers can tell...
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Prize falls to bits
MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte was a surprise winner in the Krasna Kraus awards for books on the moving image. His Being Digital, which argued that when television becomes a stream of bits it can...
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Capital connects to fibre TV ring
Cable television companies which installed massive surplus information-carrying capacity when they dug up London's roads have been rewarded for their foresight by a Pounds 6 million higher education...
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Thieves cash in on chip gold rush
Thieves are using the freedom of movement found on campuses worldwide to break into computers and steal memory chips because they can be worth more than their weight in gold. The rash of computer...
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Ship shapes: James Johnson of the Natural History Museum
(Photograph) - Ship shapes: James Johnson of the Natural History Museum makes a three-dimensional laser scan of a Cymatium pileare seashell collected during the voyage of Captain James Cook's...
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BL urges national archive extension for new media
The British Library has called on the Government to act during this Parliament to ensure that non-print publications will be stored in the national archive. A proposal drawn up by a working party...
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Honorary degrees
HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY. DEng: Jackie Stewart, former racing driver, chairman of the Paul Stewart Racing Team; John Browne, chief executive of BP. DLitt: David Tweedie, chairman of the Accounting...