Senate spins Web opening
French students and school-leavers are being invited to become the first users of the Senate's new World Wide Web site to voice opinion on the problems affecting undergraduate university courses. The...
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Engineers aim for 20 bn bits a second
Engineers at Glasgow University have won Pounds 1.5 million from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to develop the technology for a new generation of optic fibre communications....
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Big push for e-libraries
A push to assemble a "critical mass" of electronic documents for the library of the future is underway at De Montfort University. The International Institute for Electronic Library Research, which...
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Dombey keeps seat
Two top lawyers have helped a senior academic defeat the University of Sussex's bid to oust him from its senate. Norman Dombey, professor of theoretical physics at Sussex, will stay for a full three-...
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Well briefed
A read-only mailing list on legal issues relating to the use of the Internet has been set up on the Mailbase academic server. It is run by the information law and technology unit at the University of...
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Book bank
The Institution of Electrical Engineers, on London's Embankment, has housed a useful collection of computer books and journals since 1977 when the British Computer Society library was merged with the...
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Free competition
At Edinburgh University Bob McGonigle sportingly welcomed Microsoft's launch of its software for Web sites, the Internet Information Server, even though this is likely to damp down demand for...
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Tiptop condition
(Photograph) - Universities in Sweden, Canada, Austria and Finland are working with the European Physical Society to create a unified resource for physics on the Internet. The Internet Pilot to...
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Multimedia
Nottingham Trent University is among 11 institutions sharing Ecu 1.4 million (Pounds 1.12 million) to build a pan-European teacher training system using the World Wide Web. Teacher trainers and...
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Firms get real with imaging
Nottingham University is hoping to lead the United Kingdom in introducing business to advanced computer imaging techniques which can monitor crops, analyse coal, or plot the progress of slow brain...
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US colleges await Net decency verdict
It is Saturday night and solemn academic study has yielded to casual electronic conversation at the Harvard University computer centre. Students perched before the glowing rows of terminals, many...
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Glacier pioneers to use Net link
A group of young mountaineers will send scientific data and pictures to the Internet from their expedition in virgin Greenland terrain this summer. Expedition leader Richard Pash, a 22-year old...
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Cash-strapped council caps Cern costs
The Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council has finally decided to cap its subscriptions to Cern, the particle smashing laboratory in Geneva. The decision, taken at a council meeting last...
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Set96
(Photograph) - Science to go: engineer Mike Rose and parasitologist Janet Spicer being biked about Glasgow to answer technical queries as part of the University of Glasgow contribution to 'Set96',...
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Thesis
THESIS, The THES Internet Service, has been improved and extended with a new listing of research opportunities and a wealth of background reading for April's Tucson II conference on consciousness. As...