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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

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

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.

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

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

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