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...
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Techno fare
Eugenics, global warming, chaos, smart fabrics: science in the 1990s including the scary bits is examined in Dystopia (www.hu.ic.ac.uk/ scicom/dystopia.htm), an e-zine emanating from Imperial College...
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Why Bertie and Twootie failed at university
Computerised logic teaching was the thing, in the past decade. But ten years on, what has happened? Where have all the plans and hopes gone? Most of the brave new programs of the 1980s are gathering...
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Fellowships
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL Celia Williams has been appointed the first Daphne Jackson Fellow, funded by the university and Lloyds Bank. Dr Williams will be working on a problem related to new drugs which...
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Olympics get wired
The success of the Olympic games, about to open in Atlanta, may depend as much on fibre-optic cable and state-of-the-art software as on muscle and determination. Never before has an event of any kind...
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Postal delay
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has postponed its plan to send out press releases by email. This and many other projects are on hold as the CVCP mobilises for the university funding...
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The team-built prototype
Diana Laurillard tells Tim Greenhalgh why national coordination is essential to realise lifelong learning. Not long after her appointment as the Open University's first Pro Vice Chancellor with...