Caveats, and notes on copyright

• The purpose of these WorldWide Web pages is to provide direct access to some of my notes, to a number of the on-line resources used in preparing the lectures, and to further material. They are not a substitute for the lectures, and in fact, it is extremely unlikely that you will pass the exam if you miss a lot of the lectures. These pages do not (yet) for a complete and/or self-contained set. In particular, most of the material covered in the textbooks or the reading material used for this course, is not repeated in these pages.

• Some of the information contained within these pages comes from copyright sources. Most of these sources are pages collated from elsewhere on the WWW. To avoid unnecessary network traffic and frustration when the network is slow, I have sometimes created local copies of this material. I have made modifications to some sections to better tailor it to this course. To give due credit to the original authors, I have also added links pointing to the sources of this material.
  The originators of these resources clearly intended them to be widely distributed via the WWW; many of them are press releases and other public announcements. I therefore believe that the approach I have adopted does not breach the intentions of copyright law. If anyone has any problem with the use of copyright material in these pages, please contact me, and I will remove the offending material.

• In a similar spirit, please feel free to use the WWW pages that I have prepared for this course. However, if you make a local copy of any of this material, please include a credit and link to the original version.