Broad mind, best spirit
Academics at the artistic end of the higher education spectrum are facing a dilemma over how to respond to the multimedia revolution. They are trying to decide whether the whizzkids of new technology...
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Refashioning boys' toys
Christine Whitehouse on a project to re-connect girls to the computing universe on their own terms. Staffordshire University has played a large part in educating computer professionals, both men and...
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Access to a life-long college
North America is leading the way in providing a rich seam of electronic learning resources which can be tapped by communities which need them the most. Keith Yeomans reports from the US on the...
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Unproportional representation
The advent of the information age - and with it the potential of information and communication technology (ICT) to profoundly alter political, social and economic relations - has been trumpeted since...
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Hot Wires
Cyber maths Mathematical documents, with "live" formulae and charts that recalculate when the reader types in new figures, can now be exchanged across the World Wide Web. Mathbrowser is a Web browser...
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Southampton switches to top
The University of Southampton is to go ahead with a high-speed campus multimedia network with the help of a Pounds 1 million system funded by IBM. The network, built around an IBM SP2 massively...
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D-day for Delphic group
A consortium of 24 universities will be purchasing up to Pounds 1 million worth of the software normally used by business executives to monitor company performance and make better-informed decisions...
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Esprit catches the spirit of research
More than 900 proposals have been lodged with the European Commission for its information technology programme. According to the European Commission Directorate General, 92 proposals were made for...
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Conferences
May 15-18 JENC6 , networking. Tel Aviv http://www.terena.nl/ 18 Business wire's net conference email michael@bizwire.com 26- Virtual futures. http://www.warwick.ac.uk/WWW/faculties/social-studies/...
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Deep Thought and delusions of grandeur
One of the fascinating things about observing the effects of computers on people is their effect on so-called computer experts. They do not seem to realise, even as they pontificate on the potentials...
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Post-Gutenberg galaxy wars
The electronic medium is undoubtedly revolutionising academic communication. But it is still unclear who will benefit in the long term from this revolution. Since so much is up for grabs at this...
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Post-Gutenberg galaxy wars
It is time to stop making apocalyptic predictions about the coming of the electropublication era and to start providing concrete strategies for hastening the day. Before proposing anything, I have to...
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Root maps to missing links
The metaphorical world of bytes and wires did not exactly obsess Wendy Hall as a teenager with a gift for problem solving. Her awareness of computing capabilities was not matched by a burning desire...
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Deep joy for Web wanderers
World-Wide Web users may be wrestling already with browsers and access times - now they can have these exploratory joys in triplicate. A 3-D browser has just been released by the California-based...
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CD-Rom uncovers Shakespeare sources
Shakespeare has been fair game for electronic publishers ever since Steve Jobs threw in a copy of the Complete Works with his company's now-defunct NeXT workstation. A new CD-Rom from World...