Sheffield steel
The barricades will be going up along the Eccleshall Road as Sheffield's two universities prepare to slug it out for the chairmanship of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals. Nominations...
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Information
There is now an opportunity to include more listings in Noticeboard and on the new Internet listings service NetGazette. The newspaper version of Noticeboard will continue to focus on the UK with the...
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How do you moo?
And hello to the director of the Nuffield Farming Scholarships Trust, Mr Bullock.
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Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from an author not famed for his brevity: ". . . If strength were granted me for long enough to accomplish my work, I should not fail, even if the results were to make...
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Creative images
The Adobe Photoshop European User Conference and Digital Images '95 exhibition will be held at the Olympia Conference Centre, London from January 25-. Subjects to be addressed at the conference...
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Correction
The caption which accompanied the top pictures in the centre-page feature in last month's Multimedia was incorrect.The pictures showed magnetoencephalogram (MEG) measurements of brain activity. This...
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PICT-ure this
A conference marking the conclusion of the Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) research will be held at Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, London from May 10-12. "...
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Single source
Guildford company, Cumana, has become the sole distributor for "PaperOut", the data retrieval software for Acorn computers which enables ordinary CD-Rom drive users to access information from...
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Open system
A new "open systems" library of more than 100 multimedia training courses for information systems professionals is now available from multimedia company, SSVC. The library covers client/server...
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Euro link
A network of 40 Euro Study Centres funded by the European Union has recently been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. The launch was marked by a live interactive...
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Lending billions
The American Online Computer Library Centre based in Ohio, handled more than one billion transactions through its PRISM service in the fiscal year 1994, with message traffic running as high as 100...
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Simple language
Pronunciation Tutor 3.0 from the Hyperglot Software Company uses the latest language learning theories and interactive technology to teach conversational skills of foreign language learning. The...
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Career on CD
An interactive computer program which helps students plan their career path has been produced by Coventry University. "Learning for Tomorrow" can be used to compile CVs or construct a personal action...
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Access at the Octagon
Graduates of Staffordshire University will soon be able to tap into the Internet at budget rates with the help of their alumni association. Association members already have ready access to the...
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NT-Unix battle over web
Microsoft has a new weapon in its struggle to lure academic and commercial computer users away from the Unix operating system. Until mid-1994, Microsoft's Windows NT operating system embarrassingly...