St Valentine's dark side
Love is ... often accompanied by a form of morbid romantic jealousy that is attracting the interest of psychiatrists. For such excessive emotion, known in psychiatry as the Othello syndrome, causes...
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V-cs go local to contain Net costs
Australia's vice chancellors have put a price barrier on their gateway to the global Internet. Institutions will pay more to fetch a web page from overseas than they would pay to fetch the same page...
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Institute scientists open 3D worlds to whole Web
Virtue Ltd, a company started by computer scientists from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, will be at next week's VRML98 show in Monterey, California showing how Web users with modest PCs...
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Teesside University to show a virtual reality representation of the sculpture, Angel of the North, at Tomorrow's World Live Event
Developers and researchers from the University of Teesside are showing a virtual reality representation of the controversial sculpture, Angel of the North, at the Tomorrow's World Live Event at the...
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Past masters
Erlangen University has put its unique collection of antiquities on the Web, in a project funded by the German research network DFN and the telecom company DeTeBerkom. It has become one of the most...
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Talking business
A consortium led by Stephen Hagen, dean of the school of languages and European studies at the University of Wolverhampton, has won Pounds 360,000 funding from the European Union to develop an...
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Open sesame
Open Computers and Finance, a principal UK provider of hardware and specialist software in education, is one of Britain's fastest growing companies, according to the Virgin Atlantic Fast Track 100...
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In the Cannes
Student projects from the MA design for interactive media course in the Centre for Electronic Arts at Middlesex University won five places, and were the only United Kingdom representatives in the New...
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Well connected
Media Vault Ltd, a recently established multimedia company , wholly owned by Halton College, has solved the problem of creating a high-speed network between its six sites and the college with a...
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Campus connects firms
Swansea University is encouraging the area's business community to embrace information technology by linking 450 small businesses to the Internet. The university is lead partner in a Pounds 4 million...
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Hush puppy
(Photograph) - In the University of Exeter library, drama student Victoria Heath tries out the latest voice technology. Students can dictate essays, surf the Internet without using a keyboard, or get...
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Vets fill in gaps with CD prescription from pharmaceutical firm
Veterinary students are to have their education supplemented with recorded lectures on multimedia CD-Roms. The initiative is sponsored by the Cambridge-based pharmaceutical company Intervet UK and...
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Identity crisis for blue-collar dons
Paris Strikes and street protests across France by students and professors at university technical institutes were headed off last week by education and research minister Claude All gre after round-...
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Britain promotes university links
Durban THE END of apartheid opened the doors of Africa's biggest economy to foreign influence and to a greater flow of the development aid South Africa sorely needs. Higher education, a strong but...
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Peer review: democracy, sausages and lotteries
LES ALLEN 'Throw out the panels, throw out the referees and have a lottery for all the funds' My experience with the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council suggests that the concerns about...