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University aids region's `high-tech' boom
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The University has launched its latest new company, coinciding
with the publication of a new study which shows that
Oxfordshire—with the University to the fore—is rapidly
emerging as one of Britain's fastest growing high-technology
regions.
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Award for Oxonian WWW creator
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Mr Tim Berners-Lee (Queen's, 1973), inventor of the World Wide
Web on the Internet, has been awarded a 1998 MacArthur
Fellowship.
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Savannah study shows thousands of new
species
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A study of an African Game Reserve, led by a group of Oxford
scientists, has uncovered thousands of species of insects and a
number of plants and even small mammals which were previously
unknown to science.
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Maths used to explain benefits of
co-operation
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Computer simulations and mathematical models have been used by
a university zoologist to explain an important characteristic of
human behaviour which appears to have been vital in our
evolution.
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Oxford has seven new BA Fellows and Arts
head
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Seven Oxford academics spanning a range of disciplines, have been
appointed to Fellowships of the British Academy (FBA) in this
year's annual election.
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