A beast about to be tamed
Alison McNab and Ian Winship point to the best of the Web for novice and experienced scientists. Many people's experience of the Internet is a frustrating one, with connections being slow and useful...
Alison McNab and Ian Winship point to the best of the Web for novice and experienced scientists. Many people's experience of the Internet is a frustrating one, with connections being slow and useful...
REDSHIFT 2, Maris Multimedia, Pounds 49.95, Macintosh/Windows dual platform Right ahead of you is the biggest planet in the solar system. Multi-hued Jupiter, with its entourage of swiftly-circling...
Can technology save nature? Jan Wyllie watches the worlds of ecology and information collide at a conference in Amsterdam. On matter: a meeting between the info and eco communities" on a bright...
Stella Hughes speaks to graduates of an innovative multimedia course at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. A dozen fledgling multimedia authors and editors, the first graduates of the advanced...
Are libraries living on borrowed time? examines how Pounds 15 million is being spent on adapting for the future. Ninety-nine per cent of everything on the Internet is crud. But if you're a highly-...
In the second of four articles on Internet law, Andrew Charlesworth urges all Web masters to learn the intricacies of copyright law as it applies to their ser Any discussion of electronic publishing...
John MacColl sets out the agenda for the librarians' new online magazine. One of the aims of the eLib programme has been to raise awareness of the technological change which is transforming libraries...
A major upgrade that should lay the foundations for a broad-band European Union is planned for the spring. The European Internet backbone, Ebone, is to introduce the high speed Internet in Europe in...
Five-a-side teams of miniature robots will kick an orange golf ball around a desk-sized pitch in the Micro-Robot World Cup Soccer Tournament, to be held at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and...
The software company Oxford Molecular has signed a deal with crystallographers at Birkbeck College, London. The company will support their research and in return gets the right to market their...
Multi-campus Pennsylvania State University now lets its 80,000 students register for courses over the World Wide Web. A site developed with software from ParcPlace Digitalk helps students make their...
The Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility at De Montfort University is building a multilingual bibliography for computer ethics and is asking for items. The address is http: //www.cms.dmu.ac...
Two Web sites that offer some unique appetizers for math and critical logic are http://www.cam.org/aselby/lesson.html and http:// www.cam.org/aselbylogic_lessons.html
An advanced telematics programme for the delivery of learning, training and business information is about to begin in the far south west of England. Part-funded by Pounds 2.3 million from the...
The world's first hands-free computer, worn on the belt with a one-inch screen built into an eyeglass and responding to voice commands, will rely on software created at the University of Southampton...