Open system
A new "open systems" library of more than 100 multimedia training courses for information systems professionals is now available from multimedia company, SSVC. The library covers client/server...
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Euro link
A network of 40 Euro Study Centres funded by the European Union has recently been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities. The launch was marked by a live interactive...
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Lending billions
The American Online Computer Library Centre based in Ohio, handled more than one billion transactions through its PRISM service in the fiscal year 1994, with message traffic running as high as 100...
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Simple language
Pronunciation Tutor 3.0 from the Hyperglot Software Company uses the latest language learning theories and interactive technology to teach conversational skills of foreign language learning. The...
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Career on CD
An interactive computer program which helps students plan their career path has been produced by Coventry University. "Learning for Tomorrow" can be used to compile CVs or construct a personal action...
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Access at the Octagon
Graduates of Staffordshire University will soon be able to tap into the Internet at budget rates with the help of their alumni association. Association members already have ready access to the...
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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...