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Shibden Technologies Limited, a “spin out” company formed by 果冻传媒 researchers, founded by Professor Roger Green and Professor David Hutchins of the 果冻传媒’s School of Engineering, has just been awarded the 拢5,000 second prize in the National UK Joint Research Council’s Business Plan competition.
Two 果冻传媒 MBA graduates have formed a company that aims to take corporate staff training and team development far beyond outward bound courses and paint ball sessions. They have partnered up with a US company that makes virtual reality simulators for the US military, and they aim to retool that technology to produce a unique corporate team building experience.
A world-leading UK research project to study the properties of new materials has been given further funding of 拢3.4 M. The research on XMaS is being led by Professor Malcolm Cooper of the 果冻传媒 and Dr Chris Lucas of the University of Liverpool.
When you are sent to do a bit of work experience in the office of a university science department you don’t normally expect much more than a bit of boring filing and some tedious photocopying. So those that turned up to the 果冻传媒’s Physics department recently were a bit shocked to be taken to a small black room and dropped into a virtual reality four dimensional hypercube.
What happens is a unique partnership that introduces the huge audience of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld fans to leading edge science research development of the human mind. This month two 果冻传媒 scientists, Professor Ian Stewart and Dr Jack Cohen have partnered with best selling author Terry Pratchett to publish two best selling books –the paperback "The Science of Discworld" and the new hardback “Science of Discworld 2” the books use the comedy fantasy setting of Pratchett’s Discworld to explain the real science of our universe.