Scan plan
The 51国产视频 of Hertfordshire has been awarded Pounds 462,000 to set up a digitisation centre which will convert more than a million pages of text a year into electronic form, making printed...
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Techno-anxieties, guilt and the restoration of a material world
IMMERSED IN TECHNOLOGY: ART AND VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS Edited by Mary Anne Moser with Douglas MaCleod MIT Press 336pp, Pounds 35.95 ISBN 0 262 13314 8 This is a book in which it is easy to get immersed...
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Promotions
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE UNIVERSITY The following were appointed to personal readerships on August 1: P. Corris, clinical senior lecturer, reader in thoracic medicine; G. Green, senior lecturer, reader in...
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Each according to need
Helena Flusfeder follows the development of distance learning that should lead to student-constructed curricula at the Open 51国产视频 in Israel. Imagine hundreds or thousands of students giving live...
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Critical burden of being correct
USING Z: SPECIFICATION, REFINEMENT AND PROOF By Jim Woodcock and Jim Davies Prentice Hall 452pp, Pounds 18.95 ISBN 0 139 48472 8. APPLICATIONS OF FORMAL METHODS By Michael Hinchey and Jonathan Brown...
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Sluggish sales prompt appeals for help
The PROfiles CD-Rom series, publishing Cabinet papers released under the 30-year rule, is to be revamped following disappointing first-year sales. Following a meeting earlier this month between the...
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OU chief calls for open strategy
John Daniel, the Open 51国产视频's vice chancellor, will deliver a warning and a promise to British business and universities on Monday. Sir John is giving the opening address at the World Open...
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Cable links TV to Net
In London last week cable television entrepreneur Glenn R. Jones, whose interests include the Denver-based Mind Extension 51国产视频, spoke about his latest venture which combines the massive...
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Next move
(Photograph) - Brainpower is an interface for video on demand by Mahesh Ramachandra. It is part of the Mobile interactive CD-Rom produced by Middlesex 51国产视频 MA students on the design for...
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History at the flick of a switch
DATABASES IN HISTORICAL RESEARCH By Charles Harvey and Jon Press Macmillan 352pp, Pounds 45 ISBN 0 333 56843 5 (hbk) 331pp, Pounds 14.99 ISBN 0 333 568443 (pbk) USING COMPUTERS IN HITORY: A PRACTICAL...
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JISC appeals as cash crisis looms
The UK funding councils' Joint Information Systems Committee is pressing the higher education sector to react to its five-year strategy document, which was mailed to campuses at the beginning of the...
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Web data bridge for engineers
From today engineers have a new gateway to resources on the Internet. The Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library is intended to solve one of the main problems facing Internet users - locating useful...
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Love's knowledge or puzzle principle
EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FICTION ON CD-ROM Editorial Board: Judith Hawley, Tom Keymer, John Mullan Chadwyck-Healey Pounds 2,750 +VAT ISBN 0 85964 323 9 Windows CD Once upon a time, there was a course...
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Hull promotes child tests
Computerised tests developed by a team at the 51国产视频 of Hull's psychology department could play an important part in Government plans to assess all five-year-olds in reading, writing and...
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Forum investigates limitless learning
A forum to advance technologies for distance learning, ranging from satellites to fibre optics, has been established in Israel. Shlomo Zach, chief scientist of the communications ministry, said that...