Personal assault on the senses
Pocket-sized computers which can fax messages, read email and be used as a diary are now available but how relevant or welcome are they? Peter Thomas examines the issues. A slick-looking executive,...
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The word on processing text
Towards the end of the last academic term two first-year students asked me whether I would look over some assignments that they had just completed. They were obviously pleased with their work and yet...
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Gambling on visions
As life becomes more complex, understanding its new risks requires greater ingenuity. Eva Pascoe explains. Suddenly, people have to deal with new, difficult problems such as DNA-based testing for...
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Web home for world of learning
A comprehensive information service for higher education based at the University of Bath yesterday launched a gateway on the World Wide Web. The National Information Service and Systems (NISS) has...
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Mixed media
Kathy Acker, author of Empire of the Senseless is among the speakers at Virtual Futures 1995, an interdisciplinary conference which will examine the role of cybernetic and non-linear models in the...
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Protein knowledgeat a click
Molecular biologists at Birkbeck College are using the World Wide Web, Tony Durham explains. The glossary group are talking about building their own room and having meetings in there." Fortunately it...
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SuperJANET brings BCS award for UKERNA
SuperJANET, the high-speed network which links 60 universities and research centres in the United Kingdom, has won a British Computer Society award for its operator, the UK Education and Research...
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Late launch
The Internet Bookshop will be officially launched at London's Cyberia cafe on Monday, though it has been online since last June. The service, run from an Oxford office, offers 7,000 titles from...
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Disk shift
Read the books, buy the CD. A reference index for Encyclopedia Britannica is now available in PC format, based on the Britannica instant Research System. Britannica CD offers the users multiple...
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CD boom
There are now more than 9,500 CD-Rom titles worldwide, an annual growth rate forecast of around 50 per cent, according to the award-winning CD-Rom Directory 1995.Multimedia CDs account for per cent...
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Frontier spirit
Education forms the focus for discussions on the ethics of wide band networks, multimedia, document image processing and electronic document delivery at the Computers for Libraries 95 conference to...
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Euro global
Al Gore, United States vice president, will give the keynote address at the G7 ministerial conference on information technologies in Brussels from February 24-26. The conference will look at ways of...
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Virtual lab for robotics goes on net
A project just launched at the University of Reading will open the door of a virtual laboratory for robotics students from universities and business around the world. Netrolab will give access to the...
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Bed tracker follows patient
A five year collaboration between higher education and a small Somerset software company has led to a new system for keeping track of hospital patients and ensuring that beds are full. Tim King,...
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Test on market value
Marketing students at higher education institutions across the United Kingdom started the new term as guinea pigs for the University of Central Lancashire's first commercial venture in multimedia....