Byte code with a Y chromosome
Women and Computers
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Systematic solution to the liability ofrigid thinking
Creativity and Innovation
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The parallel universe in need of aninvisible hand
High Performance Computing
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Fantasy, reality and futures collide on the Net
Fractal Dreams - Communication and Cyberspace - Cultures of Internet
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Simpler divination with a hexagram browser
The Multimedia I Ching
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First Impressions
This week's First Impressions comes from a plain talker from a bleak town who was forced to govern her feelings strictly: "There was no possibility of taking a walk that day." Entries should be...
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Promotions
University of Essex The following senior lecturers have been promoted to readerships: Geoff Gilbert,department of law; Vicky Randall, government; Nigel South, sociology; Paul Thornally, biological...
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A trip down memory lane
Drugs specifically designed to improve the memory of Alzheimer's sufferers will soon be on the market. What is to stop students, some of whom already buy 'smart' drugs on the Internet, using them too...
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Eco-cop and the gene bandits
George Monbiot is the eloquent environmental campaigner who would be down a hole protesting were it not for claustrophobia. Science, particularly genetics and biotechnology, is his latest target....
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Appointments
The British Library David Inglis, former managing director of Chapman and Hall, has been appointed director of the digital library development project. University of Central Lancashire Ian Shaw,...
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Girl power
(Photograph) - Hackney Community College was one of 23 higher and further education institutions to receive gold medals from the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace...
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Chairs
University of Edinburgh Gordon Murrary, former reader in medical statistics at the Medical School in Glasgow and founding director of the Robertson Centre for Biostatistics, professor of medical...
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Grants
Queen's University, Belfast Research contracts Professor F. Keenan, CAST-UKEA (analysis of U-V data from laboratory plasmas); Dr G. McNally, Pounds 198,256 from IRT Unit of Department of Economic...
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Honorary degrees
Queen's University, Belfast Desmond Greer, professor of common law, has been made an honorary Queen's Counsel in recognition of his services to legal education, law reform and the legal system in...
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Inaugural Lectures
Middlesex University Kelvin Chan, visiting professor of biomedical sciences, will give his inaugural lecture "Bridging the East/West Gap through Chinese Medicine" at the university's faculty of...