Fifty years ago, IBM revolutionised computing with the launch of the world's first hard disk. It offered users the opportunity to access large amounts of data swiftly and intuitively - but at a price...
E-Science, which allows organisations all over the world to collaborate and share their work, is the way ahead for research and education, writes Malcolm Atkinson In the five years since its...
The data deluge in the arts and humanities challenges e-Science, but the developments will benefit everyone, say Peter Halfpenny, Rob Procter and David Robey The needs of the physical and biological...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
 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...