Here be dragons
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David Rhind has left a chair of geography at Birkbeck College, London to take up the post of director-general of Ordnance Survey (OS). This UK government agency, with 2,400 staff, is responsible for producing maps of the UK and produces around 11 million a year with scales ranging from one-to-1,250 to showing the whole country on one sheet. It has been shown that more than half the homes in the UK contain not a single map and Professor Rhind is determined to change this. A new service is OS Superplan where a customer can go into a shop and have a large-scale map printed while he waits, with any point he wants at the centre of it.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1992
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Interference on the direct line; how British Telecom connects to academic research
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British Telecom (BT) has a total of 3.5 million pounds sterling to offer academic researchers. BT has two criteria for selecting projects; they need to be ideas which are new and changing quickly or be areas outside BT's usual operations. It is planned that one million pounds sterling will be offered to researchers over five years. With the exception of a grant to Massachusetts Institute of Technology all the present grants are to British research.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 1992
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Uneasy? He's here to help
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Manuel Castells, the author of the textbooks 'The Information Age', 'The Rise of the Network Society' and 'The Power of Identity' is interviewed about his work and the research on which it is founded. Highlights from Castells' personal life and future plans are presented.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2000
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