The Bell tolls for universities

When Professor Steven Prawer had just about finished giving evidence at the Royal Commission on Antisemitism and Social Cohesion, Virginia Bell had a couple of questions. Actually, they weren’t so much questions as a vehicle for the royal commissioner and former High Court judge to make a point. “Am I right that in the early years of this century you were involved in quantum computing and nanotechnology at the university?” Bell asked. “And among other applications of the work you have done is a device that allows blind people to be able to recognise the faces of loved ones and read large print?”