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11 Dec 2000: A huge planting scheme has started at the University's West Cambridge Site . A great avenue of lime trees and over five kilometres of native trees and shrubs

19 Dec 2000: January - Proteins that Paralyse the Mind: Progress in Brain Disease Research New research by Dr Mari Grazia Spillantini and colleagues at the Centre for Brain

20 Jun 2000: The university's Faculties of Biology, Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Veterinary Medicine are unveiling a series of major reforms to their graduate training

29 Jun 2000: Coinciding with this year's Congregations for General Admission to Degrees, being held on 29 and 30 June and 1 July, a new book associated with the Graduates

9 Nov 2000: Sounds and Spaces Cambridgeshire will be alive to the sound of music from Saturday at the Cambridge Music Festival 2000. Over 60 musical events will be held in

11 Apr 2000: The Intel Corporation recently donated 15 high-performance computer workstations to the Department of Engineering. The powerful graphics-handling facilities of

20 Sep 2000: Aims. This course is a brief introduction to discrete mathematics. It covers core elements of the subject to make the Data Structures and Algorithms course accessible to people who have not ... Recommended books. For many people the best advice is simply

10 May 2000: A leading horse charity has teamed up with genome researchers in a bid to beat the equine disease strangles. The Home of Rest for Horses, in Buckinghamshire,

2 Oct 2000: A Time of Excitement and Change In the traditional October speech in the Senate-House today (Monday), the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir Alec Broers, said that

30 Mar 2000: The University of Cambridge and Marconi plc will today unveil a £40 million funding deal which includes plans to build a world-class communications centre on

9 Mar 2000: Vice Chancellor Sir Alec Broers (right) at Pembroke College with the Secretary General of the League of Arab States (left) and the Master of Pembroke College,

20 Sep 2000: People. Motivating factors. Groups and teams. Ego. Hiring and firing: employment law. ... Up the Organization: how to stop the company stifling people and strangling profits.

27 Sep 2000: that people need - symmetric ids: -3 -2 -1 1 2 3.

4 Apr 2000: Unveiling a plaque to commemorate the Veterinary School's new Dr Lee Multi-Media Teaching Laboratory. Veterinary Students in Cambridge now have access to a

16 Oct 2000: Top of the Class The University Youth Training Programme is one of the best in the country and that's official! In an independent report by the Training

1 Mar 2000: Dr David Secher begins his new role on 1 March. Dr David Secher has been appointed Director of Research Services at the University from 1 March 2000. Research

30 Oct 2000: Royal Opening for the Wellcome Trust/MRC Building HRH the Princess Royal visited the Addenbrooke's Hospital site today (Monday 30 October 2000) and officially

5 May 2000: Letterer and alphabetician David Kindersley in his workshop. A new exhibition on the art of typography opens this week at the Kettle's Yard Gallery. Entitled

8 Jun 2000: This Friday 9 June, the newest laboratory at Cambridge University's Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy will host an open day. Some examples of the

17 Nov 2000: These aspects are:. 1. Representation of detail at multiple levels. People are able to store a large amount of detailed information about a complex object, yet also consider that object in ... 2. Independent reasoning in local contexts. Where overall

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

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. )