Stretch exercise in a dream world
Virtual reality has a future in helping victims of brain damage, Aisling Irwin reports. New to using an electric wheelchair, the patient crashes into walls, furniture, even passing people....
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Competition's bleeding edge
The benefits of information technologies are being distorted by crude market values that will damage academic culture, David Allen and Tom Wilson argue. We are told that the use of information...
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A few useful links
Michael Greenhalgh argues that fine art has a place on the Web but there is no substitute for seeing the real thing. Education is a development area for the Internet, for several reasons beyond those...
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Blurred division of the future
Daniel Greenstein looks at humanities computing in a digital age. Humanities scholarship was in the past characterised by solo endeavour. In the digital age, collaborative effort is fast becoming the...
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Pictures tell more than one story
Michael Greenhalgh argues that fine art has a place on the Web but there is no substitute for seeing the real thing. Less funding for more students has underlined the advantages of international and...
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Happy Herts
The University of Hertfordshire is to spend Pounds 300,000 on Genesis education management software from the MiSYS group. The first part of the installation, an admissions system, is expected to be...
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Web wins
World Wide Web inventors Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau have shared the ACM Software System Award 1995 with Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina, creators of the Mosaic browser which powered the Web...
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Senate spins Web opening
French students and school-leavers are being invited to become the first users of the Senate's new World Wide Web site to voice opinion on the problems affecting undergraduate university courses. The...
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Engineers aim for 20 bn bits a second
Engineers at Glasgow University have won Pounds 1.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to develop the technology for a new generation of optic fibre communications....
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Big push for e-libraries
A push to assemble a "critical mass" of electronic documents for the library of the future is underway at De Montfort University. The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, which...
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Dombey keeps seat
Two top lawyers have helped a senior academic defeat the University of Sussex's bid to oust him from its senate. Norman Dombey, professor of theoretical physics at Sussex, will stay for a full three-...
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Thesis
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has been improved and extended with a new listing of research opportunities and a wealth of background reading for April's Tucson II conference on consciousness. As...
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Exams stop play as sport faces fixture fix
Much has been made on the sports pages of the prospect of the FA Cup's fifth round of the stretching into infinity as bad weather forces endless postponements. But the soccer authorities are not the...
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Devolved Scotland needs successor for SHEFC
A planning and funding buffer body should be responsible for higher education under a Scottish parliament, according to a paper from the Association of University Teachers Scotland. Delegates to...
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Correction
Professor Anthony Jones's salary as rector of the Royal College of Art was Pounds 78,720 exclusive of pension contributions (Pounds 13,391) in 1994/95, not Pounds 92,111 as stated in The THES of...