Bath starts 24-hour library
Work has started on a building project at the University of Bath which will provide students with a library that never closes, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The Student Learning Centre will add an extra 200...
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Electronic imaging CD-Rom developed
(Photograph) - Jeremy Gardiner and his students in the CyberArts programme at the University of Florida's New World School of the Arts have produced a CD-Rom that surveys developing trends in...
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Class pilot hooks into JANET
A pilot scheme to test plans to connect the United Kingdom's schools to the Internet through the JANET academic network has been launched this week. De Montfort University and the Tresham Institute...
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Hot Wires
Memorial fellowship. Imperial College student Richard Shackleton is the first recipient of a fellowship established by Bell-Northern Research in memory of Nicholas Battersby. Dr Battersby, a graduate...
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Terminal fun for browsers
There were more than a few fools among the World-Wide Web community on April 1 thanks to Netscape Communications, developer of the popular Netscape browser, writes Tim Greenhalgh. At the beginning of...
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Pacific ocean link fails
An optic fibre cable that carries Australia's burgeoning Internet traffic across the Pacific Ocean failed for the first time last month - five kilometres below the surface of the sea and 2,000...
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Mirror on IT's missing half
"We have far too few information technology lecturers and far too few IT professors," says Dagenham MP Judith Church - and the "we" comprises more than half the world's population. Ms Church has...
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Wessex to sue over net 'slur' on conference
The Wessex Institute of Technology is planning to sue an Austrian university for alleged defamation on the Internet. The case will be the latest of a series of writs issued in the United Kingdom and...
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End of flat fee raises fears
From the end of this month, the "backbone" of the United States Internet will be privatised. A year ago, the Usenet discussion groups carried on the Internet were alive with speculation on the dire...
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Common thread ties together business and buyers
ITN newscaster Trevor McDonald and "education superhighway" advocate Karl Chapman will give public lectures at next week's Mediacomm 95 conference in Southampton, which also includes a multimedia...
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Goodbye to all that
(Photograph) - Goodbye to all that: Cern, the European particle physics laboratory in Geneva, has said farewell to its astonishingly successful World-Wide Web creation. The future of the Web will be...
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Auto industry launches star wars for cars
Three research councils are to give millions of pounds to a 15-year national programme to boost the United Kingdom's standing as a world leader in high-technology road vehicle manufacture. The...
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Lecturers' pay lags behind schoolteachers'
Salaries for university academics have risen by less than half the rate for school teachers since 1979. While the average increase in earnings was 37 per cent for all employees between April 1979 and...
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North Wales en route to Normal merger
Bangor University and the north Wales town's Normal College will merge on March 1, 1996. The new institution will cater for 6,700 students, and the changes will mean that two higher education...
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Government rules on primates
Primates caught in the wild are to be banned for use in research, the Government has announced. And regulations on the use of captive-bred primates are to be tightened. But anti-vivisection groups...