Some of you may wish to know about some of the attention we've been
attracting.
On Friday 10th.February '95 there appeared a long article in the
Times Higher Education Supplement, Multimedia Section entitled
`Protein Knowledge at a Click' by it's Multimedia Editor, Tony Durham.
He has been kind enough to email me the text of the article, and I hope
Real Soon Now to get THES's permission to mount it on our server.
I'll notify you here when it's up.
The UK perticipants may also have seen a small piece in the
Guardian's On-Line supplement, (a UK national newspaper) on the
19th.January '95 which I transcribe here :-
VIRTUAL STUDENTS
Birkbeck College at the University of London is planning to offer
its first "virtual university course" over the Internet using the
World Wide Web, and to hold discussion classes in a MOO derived from
Multi-User Dungeon games.
Multimedia tuition in the principles of protein structure will be
offered by Birkbeck's Crystallography Department in assciation with
the Virtual School of Natural Sciences at the Globewide Network Academy.
The BioMOO at the Weizmann Institute in Israel will be used as a
"virtual classroom".
The college hopes to attract 15 groups of 20 people for the free 15-week
course, which will be launched at the end of this month. Students from
as far apart as Canada and China have already registered online.
by Jack Schofield (c)1995 Guardian Newspapers
Any course participants who can attract any publicity locally are
encouraged to do so, and to keep us all informed.
You may also wish to know that we have submitted a poster entry to the
Third International World-Wide Web Conference,
<a href=http://www.igd.fhg.de/www/www95/www95.html>WWW'95</a>, to be held
at Darmstadt in Germany, 10-14 April '95
Keeping you informed,
Alan Mills at Birkbeck, for vsns-pps,
pps@www.cryst.bbk.ac.uk