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...
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Chequing out . . .
If you were one of the many thousands turned away from the virtual doors of the Third World-Wide Web conference in Darmstadt, weep no more - but have your Visa card handy. The organisers have...
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CTI births agreed
Funds to set up two new centres under the Computers in Teaching Initiative have been promised by the higher education funding councils for England, Scotland, Wales and the Northern Ireland Office....
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Critical mass at the church of the film
Hit man: Quentin Tarantino (left), arguably the best director to come out of Hollywood since Martin Scorsese, has an academic World-Wide Web page constructed in homage by Martin Small at Aston...
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Picture of perfection as Australians confer on Web
More than 140 delegates from 21 Australian universities and 10 overseas countries arrived at the Southern Cross University earlier this month for what may have been the world's first international...
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Open future for JANET
A tussle is looming over the future of the academic and research networks JANET and SuperJANET. As hopes of a consumer-driven "information superhighway" fade, eyes are turning to education and...
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Science Museum launched Information Superhighway exhibition
(Photograph) - Hands-on experience: the Science Museum launched the latest event in the Science in a Box series this month with an exhibition on the Information Superhighway, which runs until...
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Coded call for software pioneers
The Business Software Challenge to student code designers in the United Kingdom has been issued for the fifth time - but with a global perspective. This national design competition rewards students...