Chairs
Professor
Tony Hartley has been appointed to a chair of translation
studies. Within a general quest to define 'quality' in
translation, his current research is looking at ways of
automatically predicting the relative performance of machine
translation systems. His interests also include the cultural,
linguistic and technical issues of designing multilingual
software and websites.
Senate
has adopted resolutions on the retirement of the following
professors, upon whom Council has now conferred the title
of Emeritus Professor:
Professor
Richard Andrews of Italian;
Professor John Barnard
of English; Professor Neville Boden
of physical chemistry; Professor Joe
Cann of earth sciences; Professor Lionel Cliffe
of politics and development studies; Professor Anthony
Clifford of chemical technology; Professor Peter
Dale of civil engineering; Professor Michael
Darnell of electronic engineering; Professor Michael
Dixon of pathology; Professor Ron
Grigg of organic chemistry ; and Professor Stanley
Openshaw of human geography.
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