Flashy
.edu Web sites with a touch of .com
By Steve Outing
COLLEGE students are
among the most wired of all groups. On many US campuses, 100 per cent
of students (and faculty staff) have Net access - if not via their own
PCs, then through campus computer labs and libraries. Online
penetration in universities far exceeds that of the general US
population.
Faster computers
for India: White House fact-sheet
PRESIDENT
Bill Clinton has announced an update of the US export controls on
computers to allow the US companies to sell much faster computer systems
than previously allowed. This is for the fifth
time since 1993 that the President has issued a revision of US controls
on computer exports.
They groom
future Bill Gates
By Sumesh Raizada
The
computer revolution, which came to India in early eighties, has spread
its wings in virtually all walks of life. Life in the past 15 years has
changed so much that it looks as if we have come out from the
bullock-cart age to the jet age at the speed of light. With the help of
computers, what used to be a matter of days earlier is now a matter of
minutes.
The
Webbys: Oscars for the Net
By Duncan Campbell
WILL
the Vatican enter this year? There is a special new category for best
religious website and the Vatican has a pretty snappy one (www.vatican.net).
And how about, say, the Afghanistan government? There is also a new
category for the best government site. But whoever tries to claim a
Webby in the next annual awards ceremony from the International Academy
of Digital Arts and Sciences, it is already clear that one certain
winner is...Tiffany Schlain.
On hardware
Computer & the human
anatomy
By Vipul Verma
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