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Mobile users make same errors as disabled PC users
News Mobile-device users find they have the same usability problems that some disabled users encounter with PCs, according to researchers from the University of Manchester. For the study, the University of Manchester researchers re-analysed work carried...
[July 2, 2008, 17:43]
At 60, 'Baby' celebrates birth of computing
News On Saturday, it will be exactly 60 years since the world's first stored-program, electronic, digital computer flickered into life in a laboratory at the University of Manchester. All this year, the University of Manchester will be hosting a series...
[June 20, 2008, 8:00]
BBC Micro designer gets New Year's Honour
News Steve Furber (pictured), who is now a professor of computer engineering at the University of Manchester, was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He is currently heading the University of Manchester's Spinnaker project, which...
[January 2, 2008, 12:45]
British scientists create atom-thick transistor
News The researchers, from the University of Manchester, published a paper in the journal Science last week, in which they said they had managed to carve tiny electronic circuits out of a substance called graphene, with each transistor being barely...
[April 21, 2008, 14:17]
U.K. University Bids for World-Class Status With Support of Latest Operating System
White Papers The University of Manchester (UoM), based in the United Kingdom (U.K.aims to rank among the world's top 25 universities. The university regarded the computers as an important driver in delivering the aims of the agenda.
[June 20, 2007, 1:00]
COHSE: Dynamic Linking of Web Resources
White Papers This paper presents a description of the COHSE collaborative research project between Sun Microsystems Laboratories and the School of Computer Science at the University of Manchester, UK. The purpose of this paper is to summarise the project in...
[September 11, 2007, 1:00]
DTI funds research into network security
News Finally, the National Computing Centre and the University of Manchester will work on CatalysIS, a tool to improve risk culture and identify human vulnerabilities in network security. The first, to be carried out by BAE Systems and Loughborough...
[June 18, 2007, 12:22]
Games industry guns down brain damage claims
News Academics at the University of Central Lancashire and Manchester University recently found that gamers experience the same high levels of concentration and involvement as do competitors in athletics clubs.
[August 22, 2001, 17:26]
Wi-Fi: Preston to become the Paris of the North?
News The network's main servers are maintained by Manchester Computing, and the network uses wireless gateways from Bluesockets. The Preston scheme, which will blanket most of the city in Wi-Fi signals broadcast by 802.11b routers, is a partnership...
[August 10, 2004, 12:40]
Modern PCs to challenge WWII codebreaker
News Alan Turing moved on to design the Automatic Computing Engine (ACE) in 1945, while Max Newman developed the Manchester Mark 1 computer at Manchester University, the first stored program computer. Colossus, the cipher-breaking World War II computer...
[November 15, 2007, 14:09]
Apple's move to Intel driven by Transitive engine
News Founder and Chief Technology Officer Alasdair Rawsthorne developed the technology in 1995 at the University of Manchester and built a company around it in 2000. Transitive has about 65 employees, with all engineering staff in Manchester.
[June 9, 2005, 10:00]
Say hello to the UK's 'open source dating agency'
News We had a look around the UK and the only other people who were thinking along the same lines were the National Business to Business Centre in Warwick University, which was using open source software, and the National Computing Centre (NCC) in...
[December 29, 2004, 11:40]
Police crack down on Net child pornographers
News On Thursday 27 addresses across the UK were raided following six months' investigation by the Greater Manchester Police's Obscene Publications Unit. Inspector Terry Jones -- who heads up Manchester's obscene publications unit -- has seen a massive...
[December 10, 1999, 12:49]
Police will not pursue ransom hackers
News Greater Manchester Police (GMP) will not be pursuing the criminals who used a Trojan horse program to lock a Manchester woman's files and demanded a ransom to release them. Cambridge University security expert Richard Clayton pointed out that the...
[June 2, 2006, 12:50]
Eccentric book collector hoards £100,000 of online books
News Booksellers across the world were apparently duped into believing the man was a professor of linguistics from the University of Manchester and decided not to request credit card details before sending him the books.
[November 4, 1999, 10:52]
IBM puts Cell chip to work in supercomputer
News The IBM BladeCenter QS20 has the potential to give us significantly improved performance, take up less space and consume less power," said WT Hewitt, director of research computing, at the University of Manchester, where the system will provide...
[September 13, 2006, 16:20]
Euro telco super-regulator plan savaged
News That view was echoed by Professor Peter Humphreys, director of the European Policy Research Unit at the University of Manchester, who suggested that national regulators knew their individual markets best.
[October 20, 2006, 17:00]
UK company wins European ICT gong
News Ian Robinson, vice president of marketing for Transitive, also praised the Manchester University researchers, who began the QuickTransit project in 1995. A UK company has scooped a top European award for ICT innovation.
[March 16, 2007, 14:53]
IT reduces stress - except for bankers
News Suzan Lewis, professor of organisational and work-life psychology at Manchester Metropolitan University, analysed the findings and said in a statement that while IT is helping people do their jobs better there is still scope for improvement.
[December 2, 2003, 9:20]
Networks Telecom: Do you need a dedicated network monitor?
News Also, the first two letters refer to Manchester University, where it was developed. Network monitor company Mutiny has launched a sub-£10,000 dedicated network monitor, which runs on a Toshiba SG-20 mini-server appliance.
[June 26, 2002, 15:10]
