To ubiquity and beyond
Technology that supports collaborative science must be sound, secure, simple and compatible globally before academics will adopt it widely, says Judy Redfearn E-Science requires an e-infrastructure...
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Fire up the little Einsteins
To spark schoolchildren's interest in science, researchers are letting them contribute to their projects, Olga Wojtas discovers Enabling school students to chat to a researcher in the Antarctic, use...
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Go to the Grid to sieve, sort and report
E-Science can help social scientists extract relevant and timely conclusions from masses of disparate data sources. Judy Redfearn outlines the process Social scientists often need data from several...
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What lies beneath
Grid users get easy access to powerful research tools, says Judy Redfearn Like the web, a grid accesses remote distributed resources while hiding the underlying complexities from the user. It also...
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Quest for healing
Computer simulations are a vital tool in the fight against HIV, Judy Redfearn reports Large-scale computer simulations performed using the National Grid Service are revealing how the human...
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Rehearsals of a creative connection
The performing arts and e-Science are exploring collaborations, but there are still bugs to work out, learns Judy Redfearn The performing arts have a long tradition of using cutting-edge technologies...
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The taste of success
In helping to predict the physical structures of organic molecules, the National Grid Service has aided medical breakthroughs, writes Judy Redfearn Sally Price, professor of theoretical chemistry at...
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Prick up your ears
Jisc has helped the British Library create a sounds archive that will add new dimensions to research. Philip Pothen tunes in The story is that, in the 1990s, when the British National Corpus of...
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Put your plans on the map
Wipe out the whiteboard, suggests David Jobbins, and start mind-mapping Universities are increasingly adopting mind-mapping software as a dynamic way of generating ideas. Mind maps are similar to...
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The chips are flying
Researchers at almost any university in Canada can access expensive testing equipment thanks to a 'virtual collaboratory'. Stephen Strauss reports You would not find a machine like this in any...
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Dial 'L' for library
The contents of an entire library could be carried on a mobile phone within ten years. Keith Nuthall meets a man thinking small about huge volumes of data Universities are set to benefit from a...
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ICT index page
 ICT in higher education Published in The Times Higher on October 20 2006  Leader </a>  'E-Science opportunities for academics in the arts and humanities are great, and attention is...
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Lecturer admits role in tutor firm
A part-time lecturer at Coventry University this week outed himself as a key force behind a company condemned by vice-chancellors as an "inappropriate" and "exploitative" business that could land...
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Life-risking 'spy' plan pulled
Academic protests have forced the Foreign Office to delay an anti-terror project. Phil Baty reports Two research councils put plans to enlist academics in the War on Terror on hold this week after...
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'We will explore the extent to which robots will become part of society'
Alan Winfield is enlisting the help of three metal 'friends' to raise the profile of science and engineering When Alan Winfield walks into the Institution of Engineering and Technology in London next...