Final Word
This week's Final Word comes from a fantastic mathematician: "Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the aftertime, be herself a grown woman; and how she would...
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Speaking Volumes: The Penguin Pennings
Fred Inglis on Paul Jenning's The Penguin Pennings . In his wonderful essay "Hymns in a man's life" D. H. Lawrence speaks movingly of the great poems which have given shape to his life; but for all...
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Cyberspace: the ethical frontier
A revolution ignores moral issues at its peril, argue Simon Rogerson and Terrell Ward Bynum. Computing technology is the most powerful and flexible technology ever devised. For this reason it is...
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All power to the robots
Tony Durham meets Kevin Kelly, Wired editor and machine lover. Packing more technology than Popular Mechanics, while vying with i-D or GQ in the style stakes, Wired magazine seems a long road indeed...
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Fenland city on the frontline
Cambridge is more bound culturally to elitism and the pursuit of excellence than egalitarianism but it is about to embark on a tentative electronic experiment in that direction. The city's MP, Anne...
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Drowning in marking and time for a sea change
What do you call 500 computers at the bottom of the ocean? Most academics would say: "a damned good start!". That is understandable. They have quite enough on their plates without having to worry...
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On the borders of change
Helena Flusfeder on what the boycott of a conference in Israel means for ITlinks with the Middle East. The Arab stay-away from last month's Joint European Networking Conference in Tel Aviv prevented...
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Digging the past
John Bonner reports on how a museum put the Stone Age on the Net. Have you ever wanted to know how to make an axe from a lump of flint? You can find out while motoring along the information...
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Lessons in intertwingling
Mike Holderness finds a deeper message in the fun of electronic learning. You might say (OK, I will say) that the new playful semi-irreverent banter found on this Internet discussion list will save...
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Safety nets
Peter Sommer says that the biggest security problem for academic computers is neither hackers nor viruses but how to devolve control and responsibility. The word Internet has many different...
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Cut down to size
Edward Vielmetti Ann Arbor MI emv@Mail.Coast.NET Having once believed a bit too strongly in the myth of the Internet as a tool for transcending space and time, I am now of the opinion - having...
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Who wins?
Paul Seedhouse University of York pks3@york.ac.uk Stevan Harnad writes that the only expenses involved in producing electronic academic journals are editing expenses. He says that since authors "gain...
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Payment for publication
Andrew Odlyzko amo@research.att.comftp://netlib.att.com/netlib/att/math/odlyzko/tragic.loss .Z The crucial issue is costs. Princeton University in the United States is paying around $20 million per...
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Scramble for the electronic galaxy
Steve Halliday IT manager, School of Oriental and African Studies Peer review is likely to change. Individuals will put up publications, they will be challenged, defended, perhaps modified and...
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Harnad versus Fuller, round 2
Our debate between Stevan Harnad and Steve Fuller on electronic publishing (Multimedia, May 12) was taken up vigorously and soon branched out into at least half a dozen separate threads. Edward...