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18 Jul 2000: A new Interdisciplinary Materials Research Laboratory was recently opened in the university's Department of Chemical Engineering. Professor Malcolm Mackley, of

17 Nov 2000: The aim of naive physics as stated in [Hay83] is to formally describe the world in the way that most people think about it, rather than describing it in the way ... Two examples are the force'' of sucking, and impetus'' theories of motion, both of which

17 Nov 2000: People do not naturally think of physical actions in terms of joint angles or numeric workspace co-ordinates, so high level robot programming should be done in non-numeric terms. ... A common way for people to communicate information about spatial tasks

15 Mar 2000: Detail of a molecular model of DNA. For the third time in recent weeks, Cambridge teaching has been judged excellent in a Subject Review. Molecular Biosciences

17 Nov 2000: People also appear to have difficulty reasoning about motion in three independent dimensions, so limiting a robot reasoning system to two dimensions for actual motion planning may be an acceptable restriction ... problem for people.

17 Nov 2000: The way in which people make use of the ability to consider complex shape at multiple levels of details can be emulated in two ways: a complete description of each scene ... It is the normal mode of operation for people, who seldom need to measure

23 Oct 2000: Scientists at the University's Institute of Astronomy are involved in two major space missions, one to chart the origins and future of the Milky Way and

27 Apr 2000: Margaret Atwood is a distinguished writer, poet and literary critic, and the recipient of numerous awards and prizes. Renowned Canadian author and critic

17 Aug 2000: Information for students holding an offer at a Cambridge College. If you are holding a conditional offer of a place at a Cambridge College, and have the grades

29 Nov 2000: Professor Sir Alec Broers, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cambridge, has been presented with Royal Academy of Engineering's highest award, the Prince

10 Jul 2000: This Friday 14 July, the university's Department of Engineering will celebrate its 125th anniversary. Detail from publicity material celebrating the event:

7 Jun 2000: Sir Alan Battersby, Emeritus Professor of Organic Chemistry at the University of Cambridge, is the joint recipient of the 2000 Welch Award, presented annually

20 Sep 2000: Policy on lecture course material pages. With the proliferation of lecturers who wish to place material on the web, the Laboratory has decided to rationalise location and management of individual course web pages. Each course now has its own

26 Apr 2000: Why did people want to prove the parallel postulate? Why did mathematicians feel the need to deduce the parallel postulate from the other axioms of geometry? ... Did people have some inkling of non-Euclidean geometry, some premonition that the parallel

16 Jun 2000: Art and science will be brought together in a unique fashion exhibition opening on 19 June at the university's Museum of Zoology. The exhibition aims to

15 Aug 2000: Since 1998, a multi-national archaeological project has been investigating the Iron Age hill-top settlement of Monte Polizzo, in Western Sicily. Part of the

15 Jun 2000: psychological/educational investigations of how people reason or learn with diagrams. computational reasoning with and interpretation of diagrams.

14 Jul 2000: At 11:00am on Saturday 15 July, staff of the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences will lead a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum's facilities. Work experience

18 May 2000: A new exhibition has recently opened at the university's Museum of Classical Archaeology. Called What have the Greeks and Romans ever Done for Us? it runs

26 Apr 2000: Most people associate the word geometry with things like Pythagoras's theorem, the fact that the angles of a triangle add to 180 degrees, how to bisect a line segment using ... 4. (Why did people care so much about it? A brief answer can be found here. )