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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.

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