Nicola Lacey on Luce Irigaray's Marine Lover of Friedrich Nietzsche . I have spent far longer choosing the book for this column than writing the column itself. My initial enthusiasm for the project...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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/...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...