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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...