Robot tests virtual reality
How real is virtual reality? Psychologist Martin Crawshaw at Hull university aims to find out with help from a robot developed by his colleagues in the electronic engineering department. The device,...
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Virtual open day
(Photograph) - University student Pauline is the tour guide for the department of computing science's honours degree in its "virtual open day'' package, unveiled this week at a conference organised...
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Bristol hitches up to superhighway
Three universities in the south-west of England are to play a key role in an initiative that aims to make Bristol a world-beating "digital community". The project is being spearheaded by the South...
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Further Email
British Telecom is to link up Britain's 542 further education colleges to their own national email network from the start of next year. The initiative follows a successful six-month trial with 80...
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Netties' Gain
The Government has launched a pilot information service on the Internet. Initial contributors will be the Treasury, citizens charter unit, HMSO and the machinery of government division of the Office...
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Digital History
Southampton University and Research Publications are to work together to produce computer-based learning packages for A level and undergraduate study including Stalin and The Reform Impulse, England...
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Glittering prize up for grabs
In 1895 the Lumire brothers in France developed the Cinematographe camera-projector and in so doing helped to spawn an industry that has had a profound cultural, economic and industrial impact on the...
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Crystal-clear simulation
Our ability to model and explore complex three dimensional structures, from molecules to galaxies, has been revolutionised by new computer technology. This allows us to construct, display and...
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Legal Journal
Law school lecturers at the University of Newcastle have put the UK's first electronic law journal on the World Wide Web, via the Internet. Mike Allen and Bruce Grant launched the bi-monthly Web...
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The billion byte brain
Since the Renaissance, scientific progress has been built on two planks: theory and experiment. Although these continue to be crucial to progress, what happens when the equations are not amenable to...
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How to prevent Internet gridlock
The transport user has little interest in planes, trains and automobiles, but wants to get from A to B quickly, safely, comfortably, securely and as cheaply as possible. The information user has...
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Mining the data-lode
We may be on the slip road to the information superhighway, but unfortunately it is rush hour all day every day. It does not help that the road is clogged with HGVs with "Bulk Data" stencilled on...
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Massive job losses for FE
College managers are planning to cut thousands of senior academic jobs next year in their struggle to tackle growing financial deficits. The massive wave of redundancies is a matter of simple...
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Inquiry damns Derby
A damning catalogue of errors and mismanagement at Derby Wilmorton College is released today after a Further Education Funding Council enquiry into the governance of the college. The report calls for...
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Mid-term victors call for student funding cuts
The Republican victors in the United States mid-term election want savings that could lop billions of dollars off student loans and grants. Last week the higher education lobby was studying every...