NT-Unix battle over web
Microsoft has a new weapon in its struggle to lure academic and commercial computer users away from the Unix operating system. Until mid-1994, Microsoft's Windows NT operating system embarrassingly...
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Clear line
The third ISDN User Show will be held at Olympia 2, London from February 7-9. The exhibitors include network suppliers, manufacturers and distributors, software suppliers, publishers and training...
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Physical exercise
An online magazine aimed at physics researchers in universities, Government laboratories and industry has been launched on the Internet. Physics World Electronic News will complement the monthly...
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Student digs deep for winning design
A mining software package written by a University of Leeds student has won the Pounds 15,000 top prize in the Young Business Software Designer competition. Chaoshu Xu developed "Minvest" to help...
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Journal sets pace for peer review
MIT Press is to launch a peer-reviewed journal on the Internet which it hopes will revolutionise research publishing. The press has been given a $150,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to...
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Universities face Net price hike
Demand by Australian academics, researchers and commercial organisations for access to the international computer network, Internet, is doubling every nine months. The demand has forced an upgrade of...
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Academics voice fears over zapping culture
Speakers at a recent Canadian conference on the impact of the digital revolution on the classroom were certainly not blinded by technology. Edith Ackermann, a professor at France's University of Aix-...
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Totally wired
(Photograph) - Glasgow artist Charles Sandison's self-portrait of "The Artist as a young hacker", one of several works currently showing at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, ArtAIDS in...
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Centre explores personal info explosion
The University of the West of England has set up a centre to explore the strictly personal side of computers. The centre for personal information management will focus on developments which allow...
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CD-Rom guide reopens row on drop out rates
A CD-Rom version of the controversial universities guide, PUSH has been launched this week. "PUSH CD (The Multimedia Student Guide to UK Universities)" uses a similar database to the printed PUSH...
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Open road to OMI sweet home
Julian Newman looks at the new face of European research and finds hope for the future direction of funding The European Union has recently launched its fourth Framework programme for Research and...
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Task force zeroes in on profit pursuers
Bernard Donovan looks to the US for some pointers to the impending crisis looming over publishing rights in the electronic age Copyright is a serious matter these days, and, with copyright coming...
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Laptop addicts log on to best ideas
Academic chief executives in the US are discovering the benefits of email Rather than picking up the telephone or writing a memo, Robert Glidden, president of Ohio University, swivels his chair...
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Past lives on floppy disk
Mike Cosgrave celebrates new ways of accessing primary material for history's private eyes This year up to half the final-year history students at University College, Cork will take courses that...
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Guide to The Times Higher Education Supplement Internet Service
(Photograph) - You are not new to the Internet. We are. Academics have been using the Internet (and its predecessor, ARPANET) for a quarter of a century. Newspapers ignored it until a year or two ago...