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17 Jul 2000: A team of University of Cambridge researchers were recently the winners of a Tomorrow's World award for their development of a revolutionary new screening test

27 Jun 2000: This weekend Clare Hall is hosting the Tanner 2000 Calendars Symposium. Clare Hall's West Court, off Herschel Road. Most of the Symposium's events will be held

4 Feb 2000: Members of the early music group Gothic Voices, which is directed by Dr Christopher Page (second right), a Reader in the English Faculty. The English Faculty

1 Jun 2000: Cambridge University's five Designated Museums were recently delighted to receive news that they will receive grants totalling £556,965 as part of the

8 Aug 2000: Dear Confer people, We've arranged to have the final CONFER2 workshop on the 14-15 September in the Moller Centre, a nice conference centre about 1.5km from the centre

16 Feb 2000: A student in a first-year practical class in the Department of Plant Sciences Teaching Laboratory. Following the full marks awarded to the Experimental

4 Sep 2000: A week-long celebration of Theology through the Arts starts in Cambridge on Sunday 10 September. The Sounding the Depths festival is the culmination of the

6 Nov 2000: People can make successive strikes more quickly with alternate hands than with the fingers of the same hand. ... For example, many people imagine electricity as being like a fluid flowing through the circuit.

20 Sep 2000: HCI]. Borenstein, N.S. (1991). Programming as if People Mattered. Princeton. [HCI].

12 Jan 2000: With the dawning of a new millennium, a Fitzwilliam Museum exhibition and the annual Darwin Lecture Series will both address the importance of time. Tempus:

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. )

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.

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

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

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

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.

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