On the Open highway in search of serious money
Twenty-five years have passed since the Open University was given its charter and offered home-based higher education to the British public. The early image of long-haired lecturers on television...
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UN data on CD
A major United Nations database has been published on CD-Rom, making documents more accessible to analysts, politicians and scholars. Previously the complete United Nations Bibliographic Information...
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Companies offered ethics advice
A new centre at De Montfort University is offering to help companies check that they are developing their information systems in a socially responsible manner. Simon Rogerson, director of the Centre...
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Cybercafe goes for student link
Cyberia opened its second Internet cafe last week in the wake of a row with its former access provider, Pipex. The cafe now gets its Internet feed from BT and has plans for international expansion....
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Ex-BBC music man heads City research
City University has established a multimedia research group which will investigate the technology's potential in fields as varied as hospitals and the music business, writes Tony Durham. Its director...
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Bath starts 24-hour library
Work has started on a building project at the University of Bath which will provide students with a library that never closes, writes Tim Greenhalgh. The Student Learning Centre will add an extra 200...
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Electronic imaging CD-Rom developed
(Photograph) - Jeremy Gardiner and his students in the CyberArts programme at the University of Florida's New World School of the Arts have produced a CD-Rom that surveys developing trends in...
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Class pilot hooks into JANET
A pilot scheme to test plans to connect the United Kingdom's schools to the Internet through the JANET academic network has been launched this week. De Montfort University and the Tresham Institute...
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Hot Wires
Memorial fellowship. Imperial College student Richard Shackleton is the first recipient of a fellowship established by Bell-Northern Research in memory of Nicholas Battersby. Dr Battersby, a graduate...
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Terminal fun for browsers
There were more than a few fools among the World-Wide Web community on April 1 thanks to Netscape Communications, developer of the popular Netscape browser, writes Tim Greenhalgh. At the beginning of...
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Pacific ocean link fails
An optic fibre cable that carries Australia's burgeoning Internet traffic across the Pacific Ocean failed for the first time last month - five kilometres below the surface of the sea and 2,000...
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Mirror on IT's missing half
"We have far too few information technology lecturers and far too few IT professors," says Dagenham MP Judith Church - and the "we" comprises more than half the world's population. Ms Church has...
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Wessex to sue over net 'slur' on conference
The Wessex Institute of Technology is planning to sue an Austrian university for alleged defamation on the Internet. The case will be the latest of a series of writs issued in the United Kingdom and...
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End of flat fee raises fears
From the end of this month, the "backbone" of the United States Internet will be privatised. A year ago, the Usenet discussion groups carried on the Internet were alive with speculation on the dire...
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Common thread ties together business and buyers
ITN newscaster Trevor McDonald and "education superhighway" advocate Karl Chapman will give public lectures at next week's Mediacomm 95 conference in Southampton, which also includes a multimedia...