Deep thought
In his inaugural lecture as professor of philosophy of science and mathematics at Kings College London, Donald Gillies will pose the question: could computers become superior to humans? The lecture...
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Prince Charles backs net directory for youth
A giant directory of educational, career and voluntary work opportunities for young people has been launched on the Internet by television news presenter Martyn Lewis, with the support of the Prince...
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When the courseware inspector calls
Simon Price and Jason Probert describe the way Bristol computer buffs play detective to find software defects. Over the past few years there has been an explosion in the number of computer assisted...
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Rights issue on CD-Rom
As TLTP products begin to move into the marketplace, Michael Smith and Nigel Sternberg warn of the need for licences. The work done under the first stage of the Higher Education Funding Council for...
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Surplus to requirements?
Software engineering research, its critics claim, is poorly validated and ultimately of little use to anyone. Darrel Ince assesses the evidence. I am external examiner for the computing department at...
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The key to a new gateway
Why berate publishing on the Internet for not mimicking traditional methods, asks Fred Nash, when it can offer so many unforeseen advantages? Publication on the Internet is characterised by a...
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Instant access, distant library
Israeli universities have installed a powerful and multilingual national online cataloging system, reports Helena Flusfeder. Since the 1980s Israel's universities have shared a library automation...
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Aesthetics argued on a phone extension
Roy Ascott argues that the time is ripe for a revolutionary art gallery on the terrain of the twisted pair. You may never have navigated the Internet, visited a Web site or immersed yourself in...
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Paradox for professors and porters
Paul Guilfoyle and Stephanie Marshall on skills transfers between further and higher education. Moves towards collaboration and partnership in higher education can bring unforeseen benefits for both...
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Code makers on the ether enigma
Andrew Charlesworth cuts a path through the legal jungle on the World-Wide Web, in the first of a series of articles on Net law . It is apparent, from even a cursory survey of the Internet, that the...
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Web language with an accent on CD
A Leeds University researcher has used World-Wide Web technology to simplify multimedia publishing on the popular Microsoft Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 platforms. Peter Ward, director of the...
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Virtual sceptic disrobes the Net
WASHINGTON The Internet will not bring a cultural revolution and has been grossly oversold. Dinty Moore, a short-story writer and teacher of creative writing at Pennsylvania State University, comes...
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Surf's up on media beach
There are lies, damned lies and great big whoppers about multimedia - ask Stephen Boyd Davies and Janet Street Porter. Mr Boyd Davies, principal lecturer at the centre for electronic arts at...
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Cabinet secrets out in CD-Rom format
In a dramatic extension of information technology for the scholar, a selection of the state papers released at the beginning of this year under the 30-year rule has been published on CD-Rom. This...
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Shortlisted
Other academic projects on the awards trail include the Microcosm hypermedia system and the WinEcon economics courseware package. Microcosm, developed at Southampton University and marketed by...