Computer screen pop-ups may slow down your work more than you think, according to new research funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.

Although the actual interruption may only last a few moments, the study shows that we then lose more time when we try to find our place and resume the task that was [...]

Software developed by an academic at Goldsmiths, University of London could spell the end for future melody plagiarism.
Dr Daniel Müllensiefen, from the Department of Psychology and formerly working in Computing, has co-published research on how to predict court decisions on music plagiarism using cognitive similarity algorithms.
The study has recently been published by the European specialist [...]

Scientists from the University of Bath have helped to develop new mobile phone software that will help epidemiologists and ecologists working in the field to analyse their data remotely and map findings across the world without having to return to the lab.
Dr Ed Feil and PhD student Fadaa al Own from the Department of Biology [...]

Computers which use light to process large amounts of data faster than ever before are just one of many ground-breaking potential applications of a new £6 million research programme at Queen’s and Imperial College London, launched today, 1 September 2009.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) is funding the two universities to establish a [...]