A publishing mouse?
Cambridge University Press has refused to publish a study of Macedonia on the grounds that it could provoke Greek terrorist reprisals. Its actions dismayed the author, Anastasia Karakasidou, and...
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Equal misery reserved for e-library projects
Electronic library projects are likely to escape the worst effects of this year's higher education funding cuts. The funding bodies' Joint Information Systems Committee has taken a relatively mild 4...
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Two halves together for a better whole
Juliet Webster tells Tim Greenhalgh why she is taking a gender perspective to her new IT research job in Brussels. Juliet Webster is taking the challenge of developing civilised technological change...
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Renaissance with dog-eared edges
Mark Greengrass sees great opportunities but also a distinct threat in the development of electronically stored and revised humanities texts. How much humanities scholars still rely on the great text...
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Raiders target Wales
English gangs are thought responsible for a growing number of cross border raids on Welsh further and higher education institutions for their RAMs - not the woolly sort, but personal computer random...
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Porn students face action
University College London has threatened its students with disciplinary action if they misuse the college computing system, writes Jennie Bristow. Offences include "downloading pornography from the...
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Teachers lead a revolution in outward mobility after the isolation years
What kind of people are benefiting from the new technologies? Is it just the "haves", international business people and academics, who want a stake in computer mobility and connectivity? There are...
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God@universe.edu
Members of Westcott House, a theological college in Cambridge, will answer questions about the Christian faith on http://www.ely.anglican.org. Not to be outdone by the Protestants, the Catholic Churc...
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PR pages
Nottingham Trent University's press and public relations office now has a "Web magazine" (http://www.ntu.ac.uk/ppr/prhom. html) for the press, students and anyone else interested. That should not be...
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Arts on JANET
Historian Daniel Greenstein has moved from the University of Glasgow to Kings College London to head the Arts and Humanities Data Service. This national service will be available through the academic...
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Algo rhythmic
Peter Desain and Henkjan Honing have some interesting theories as to how we perceive temporal structure in music.At http://mars.let.uva.nl/ honing/ they have assembled a selection of text, diagrams...
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Suite talk
Though it has negotiated hefty student discounts on Microsoft products including Office and Windows 95, academe's software broker CHEST has not handed the student population to Microsoft on a plate....
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Widget watchers
Leeds Metropolitan University is using videoconferencing to help Yorkshire businesses. For example a factory in Hull can video a machine which is misbehaving, and the university's engineers can tell...
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Prize falls to bits
MIT professor Nicholas Negroponte was a surprise winner in the Krasna Kraus awards for books on the moving image. His Being Digital, which argued that when television becomes a stream of bits it can...
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Capital connects to fibre TV ring
Cable television companies which installed massive surplus information-carrying capacity when they dug up London's roads have been rewarded for their foresight by a Pounds 6 million higher education...