Block buster
Leonie Winson has gathered an international group of 12 writers to collaborate electronically on an interactive science fiction/fantasy novel. It is all part of the MA in writing that she hopes to...
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Knowledge as you like it
Print-on-demand technologies are changing the way students and lecturers access information worldwide. Debby Raven tracks UK experiments in 'instant courseware' Printing out articles and chapters as...
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Up close and personal
With Peter Thomas of the University of the West of England as editor and a stellar editorial board, Springer's new journal Personal Technologies will explore the implications of information gadgetry...
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Knowledge as you like it
Print-on-demand technologies are changing the way students and lecturers access information worldwide. Jon Marcus, left, explains how a landmark US court case prompted publishers to rethink their...
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Chairs
UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL A. Campbell, professor of biomedical ethics at Otago Medical School and director of the bioethics research centre, has been appointed to the chair in ethics in medicine; R....
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Distilled information
United Kingdom chemists will already be familiar with the web sites of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chemistry and Industry magazine. Now the American Chemical Society has gone online at http://...
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Experiment with another life form
Richard Dawkins tells Stephen Pritchard what academics can expect if they are chosen as multimedia stocking-fillers. The reputation of multimedia CD-Roms for putting form before content is a...
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Appointments
(Photograph) - Bolton Institute has presented an honorary fellowship to football commentator Kenneth Wolstenholme. Fellowships were also awarded to Harry Tuley, former chairman of the north-west...
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Scan plan
The University 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 University 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 University'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...