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21 Jul 2000: Dr Roger Carpenter, University Lecturer in Cambridge's Department of Physiology, and Director of Studies in Medicine at Gonville & Caius College, was recently

21 Jul 2000: How People Extract Information from Graphs: Evidence from a Sentence-Graph Verification Paradigm.

6 Apr 2000: Image from a three-dimensional animation of an interaction between a drug (yellow molecule) and a receptor. The Department of Pharmacology is the latest

10 Oct 2000: When playing the game people tend to worry more about winning (or, in some cases, not losing too badly) than about the quality of the graphics. ... The software which people use to design 3D models tends to use both LD in its user interface with PSC

18 Sep 2000: Discover things about the University's scientific museums you never knew "Cambridge Discovery Talks" will be held fortnightly on Thursdays, at 7pm, and will

17 Nov 2000: This weakness has been noted by a number of people working with qualitative reasoning systems [Recent qualitative reasoning literature describes systems which reason about the behaviour of mechanisms, rather than circuits.

21 Jan 2000: n01se, a major set of related exhibitions, is now open at Cambridge. Cross Pattern: the destruction of palladium lipoic acid fern pattern by tobacco smoke.

17 Nov 2000: One of the main goals of the RAPT project was that assemblies be described in terms that are natural to people.

25 Sep 2000: They are somehow alluring to the kinds of people who implement ray tracers and, having a reasonably straightforward mathematical definition, are reasonably simple to implement.

17 Nov 2000: The use of the term qualitative'' here implied mainly that the level of detail in the description is similar to that used by people - the system did not carry out qualitative

17 Nov 2000: mechanics. Several people had previously worked on systems which could solve problems at the level of high school physics'', but de Kleer was the first to use qualitative methods in an

17 Nov 2000: A framework which could direct either of these strategies could also include further strategies, such as rotation, wiggling into place, or other motion strategies regularly used by people.

2 Oct 2000: People. Computer Laboratory. Microsoft Research Cambridge.

17 Nov 2000: Although the representation made it easier for a computer program to reason about object interaction, it is not necessarily a good representation for people to deal with (as would be necessary

17 Nov 2000: Likewise, the description of shape seems natural to people - consider the following extended polygon boundary description of a light bulb: Most of this shape is a circular curve, turning through about

17 Nov 2000: This is one of the disadvantages of constructive solid geometry - although it is easy for people to define a complex shape using CSG, it is not so easy to take a

21 Nov 2000: Professor Howard Chase, head of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Peter Laird, from Esso (both standing) opened the new Esso CAD Centre, along with Dr

17 Nov 2000: People, however, do not store large amounts of information that is later filtered - they store a coarse description as a first impression'', and collect more detail if necessary by focussing their

10 Nov 2000: Some people like this work and it is worth exploring it later but not now!

22 Sep 2000: Students and staff return to celebrate 10th anniversary This year marks the 10th anniversary of the University of Cambridge's business school. To mark the