Job web option to milk round
In a high-technology alternative to the traditional "milk-round", Coventry University is showcasing its students' skills on the World Wide Web. According to careers guidance officer David Bennett,...
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Two on net porn charges
An 11-month investigation by West Midlands police has led to two men being charged with distributing child pornography on the Internet. The charges arise from a raid by police on the metallurgy...
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Euro OU moves a step closer
Twenty-five senior educationists representing 16 countries met in London last Friday to begin work on the European Open University. The meeting, organised by the Open Learning Foundation and hosted...
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Internet Book Shop
The Internet Book Shop has more than 750,000 titles online, not as stated in last month's Multimedia. The World Wide Web address is: http://www.bookshop.co.uk
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Futures market
"The Virtual Future: policies for multimedia in the 21st century" is the title of a colloquium sponsored by the Economic and Social Research Council's Programme on Information and Communication...
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Virtual call
A special issue of the Multimedia Systems journal from ACM Springer will focus on multimedia and multisensory virtual worlds. The editors have called for papers with submission due by May 15. Details...
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Graphic study
GIS95 exhibition and conference at the national exhibition centre, Birmingham from May 23-25 aims to show the best of graphical information systems developments in the past year. Telephone: 0181 742...
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Fiscal move
The Institute for Fiscal Studies this week opened its Internet Online Service on the World Wide Web to provide a range of research and publicity information together with online book purchasing,...
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Protein rich
IntelliGenetics, the bioinformatics division of the Oxford Molecular Group, has released "GeneWorks for Networks", a local area network licensing option for the protein sequence analysis software on...
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Play on
A series of Shakespeare plays using the BBC archives has been launched on CD-Rom . The first three Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream are fully interactive and available in both...
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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...