AUSTRALIA'S vice chancellors believe they have created a world first: their staff and students will soon be able to borrow library books from anywhere on the globe using a simple Internet interface....
(Photograph) - Altered states: ߣߣÊÓƵn performance artist Stelarc at the Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, University of Sussex uses his third robot arm controlled by electrodes...
(Photograph) - THE latest marine technology was on display in Brighton this week as part of Oceanography International 98. Among the inventions exhibited is this box-corer designed to collect...
Roz Picard tells Tony Durham why the search for ways to give computers emotionality is not just navel-gazing Marvin the paranoid android had a brain as big as a planet and the lack of intelligent...
As maths becomes more an integral part of diverse courses, Lindsay Aitkenhead finds that software often does not add up Sheffield Hallam University, in common with other new universities, is widening...
A cost-effective formula for large-scale computation using the Internet is proving its worth, David Bradley reports When the announcement came four years ago that the University of London Computer...
Frank Booty reports on video conferencing projects that put students in control of advanced manufacturing technology More than 4,000 students in the United Kingdom are using videoconferencing and...
The network that brings computing power to your desktop is not electronic, it is social, says William Keenan Time was when the knowledge revolution, the postmodern child of the modern scientific...
THE BOOK FROM THE SITE. Martyn Lewis. Lennard Publishing. Pounds 8.99 . - ISBN 1-85291 131 X. This cheerful guide to opportunities for young people began as a book by TV journalist Martyn Lewis and...
RELEASE 2.0: A DESIGN FOR LIVING IN THE DIGITAL AGE. Esther Dyson. Viking. Pounds 15.99. - ISBN 0 670 87600 3. This is the future according to the wired and wiry woman who swims by herself, somehow...
AFFECTIVE COMPUTING. Rosalind Picard. MIT Press. Pounds 23.50, - ISBN 0 262 16170 2. Unhumbled by their failure to replicate human intelligence, computer scientists are now doing their best to model...
(Photograph) - Jackie Street of Oxford crosses for a try in last weekend's women's varsity rugby union match, in which home team Oxford defeated Cambridge by 22 points to 5 Photograph by ROB JUDGES
THE INTERNET FOR SCIENTISTS. Kevin O'Donnell and Larry Winger. Harwood Academic Publishers. Pounds 30.00 and Pounds 14.50. - ISBN 90 5702 221 4 and 90 5702 222 2. Much more than a guide to scientific...
The Association of University Teachers Scotland plans a broad campaign in defence of the four-year honours degree, which it fears is threatened by the proposed changes in student support. Delegates...
Labour party activists attacked tuition fees at last weekend's annual Scottish conference, but delegates narrowly defeated a resolution condemning the fees as a "retrograde step". Emma Peattie, a...