Media moolah
The Department of Trade and Industry is to offer awards worth Pounds 750,000 for developers of multimedia content, including one for students or recent graduates. The scheme will be announced on July...
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Looking for anything legal
Delia Venables trawls the Internet to uncover the most useful resources for Web-phobic lawyers. Lawyers in the United Kingdom have been rather slow to get involved with the Internet. This may be...
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English engine for sense and meaning
SAMUEL JOHNSON, A DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE ON CD-ROM, Anne McDermott (editor), Cambridge University Press, (+44 1223 312393), Pounds 195 +VAT Macintosh/Windows CD, ISBN 0 521 55765 8 The...
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Stroll for Solly
Jon Solly is used to finishing in front of large fields. Two months ago, he was second in the Turin marathon, but the numbers there did not compare to the 10,000 who were behind him last night in...
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Been Pitangoed?
New players are entering the multimedia authoring software market with products they claim are cheaper, easier or simply cooler than the market leaders. Pitango, an offshoot of Israeli prepress...
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When the personal becomes public
In his fifth article on Net law, Andrew Charlesworth examines whether the Data Protection Act can be applied effectively to the World Wide Web. The collection of data about individuals has...
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Royal show
Polo: Royal Pahang, the team put together by Prince Abdullah, secured their second victory in the British Open championships when they defeated the home quartet, Cowdray Park, 11-4 at Ambersham, West...
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Appointments
SCOTTISH HIGHER EDUCATION FUNDING COUNCIL The following new members were announced by Raymond Robertson, education minister at the Scottish Office: Graeme Catto, dean of the faculty of medicine and...
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Do the sums
A new Hitachi SR2201 supercomputer will be delivered to Cambridge University at the end of September. Each of its 96 nodes has 256 megabytes of memory and performs 300 million floating point...
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A bit behind with the taxes
A Manchester team has produced a remarkable 'income return', 700 years later, Jeff Denton explains. Computer analysis of medieval tax records has detected scribes' errors which went unnoticed for...
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Council chooses direct approach overseas
The British Council's new Web site, launched last week by Jeremy Hanley, minister of state at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, is designed to make life easier for overseas students seeking places...
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Cricket bot
Nottingham University psychology lecturer Barbara Webb will share an Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council robotics grant of Pounds 107,422 with John Hallam of Edinburgh University. Dr...
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Chaos theory shakes the old ways of learning
Helena Flusfeder reports on the multimedia revolution in Israel. Changes in information technology have revolutionised education. Danny Dolev, a member of the Hebrew University's computer science...
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Chairs
ASTON UNIVERSITY Edward Feigenbaum, chief scientist of the United States Air Force and professor of computer science at Stanford University, has been appointed to a visiting professorship. CHELTENHAM...
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OECD floats 'new-deal' global research village
The industrialised countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development have outlined an ambitious proposal for a "global research village" based on the Internet. But the scheme...