Network guide
A 150-page guide to linking Acorn computers, aimed at the novice and experienced systems manager, Networking Acorn, has just been released by Northwest SEMERC. A utilities diskette is bundled with...
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Net gain
David Chaum, a prime mover in the development of electronic cash is one of the key speakers at a conference "Exploiting the Internet", from May 23-24 at The Forum, Cromwell Road London that includes...
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Web feat
The third international World Wide Web conference at the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics in Darmstadt, Germany includes discussion on a virtual reality web in its four-day gathering. The...
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IT ethics
ETHICOMP95, an international conference on the ethical issues of using information technology, is from March 28-30 at De Montfort University. The programme highlights fundamental issues relating to...
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Ante-theses
Librarians from a group of five United Kingdom universities are looking at ways of improving access to theses, using electronic means. Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, University College London and...
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Digging deep
The European Archaeology Web (EuArchWeb) is a proposal to establish a collaborative network of European organisations involved in archaeology, museology, and heritage management from a research and...
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More particles
NASA's moonshot programme gave us Teflon. CERN, the European nuclear research centre in Geneva, gave us the World Wide Web. Now CERN is getting back to its main business of chasing Higgs bosons and...
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Early news
The next MultiMedia will appear on Friday April 7. The THES will be published as usual on Good Friday, April 14, but without MultiMedia. From May onwards, MultiMedia will be published on the second...
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South MBA goes global
The Southampton Institute of Higher Education has launched what it believes is the first MBA by computer conferencing and the Internet. Managers at all levels will take the MBA from any location in...
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Merseyside groups link to develop networks
A public-private consortium with Liverpool John Moores University as a key participant has picked up the Government's information technology challenge. The university is collaborating with Liverpool...
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Wise move on pollution
Profit without pollution is the goal of Earthwise, a new environmental education package from Sheffield-based Sanderson CBT. The simulation package, which runs on IBM-compatible PCs, puts students in...
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Geordie desk map surveys the markets
A geographical information system and mapping application developed with the help of Newcastle University's surveying department has been brought to market by a spinoff company. The Deskmapper...
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Hong Kong tie in trouble
The University of Abertay Dundee is claiming more than Pounds 130,000 from a Hong Kong company which it says misled it over a distance-learning contract. In a Hong Kong Supreme Court writ, the...
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In profile
This is the first issue of The THES to be available to users with access to FT Profile, the leading online text retrieval system. FT Profile is available in most academic libraries and to many users...
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Student knifing fuels race fears
Police were this week playing down reports that the fatal stabbing of a London student was racially motivated, for fear of heightening factional tension on campus. A Nigerian student, Ayotunde...