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A Year Ago: The Virtual Society? - Research Begins
News A Virtual Ethnography' will be part of a much larger research program, The Virtual Society? Steve Woolgar, director of The Virtual Society? Woolgar's team began The Virtual Society programme last October, "the Leed's University research is one of...
[March 30, 1999, 7:15]
The Virtual Society? - Research Begins
News A Virtual Ethnography' will be part of a much larger research program, The Virtual Society? Steve Woolgar, director of The Virtual Society? Woolgar's team began The Virtual Society programme last October, "the Leed's University research is one of...
[March 31, 1998, 12:25]
Research Study: The Virtual Society?
News A Virtual Ethnography,' part of 'The Virtual Society? A study into how humans interact with technology is getting underway in Britain next month. programme, led by Brunel University, will film how families live with electronic gadgets ranging from...
[March 31, 1998, 11:17]
Study: Net Is No Utopia
News The most extensive academic research yet done on the social implications of the Internet -- The Virtual Society programme taking place at 25 universities across the UK -- has found that the cyber world is mirroring the social divides of the real...
[September 10, 1999, 14:05]
People Down Mice As Internet Backlash Begins
News Sally Wyatt -- one of the researchers in a multinational project entitled Virtual Society -- believes the increased commercialisation of the Web is a big factor turning people off. Steve Woolgar, director of the Virtual Society project, is looking...
[December 6, 2000, 12:21]
News Burst: Democratic Net A Myth - Research
News The most extensive academic research yet done on the social implications of the Internet -- the Virtual Society programme taking place at 25 universities across the UK -- has found that the cyber world is mirroring the social divides of the real...
[September 10, 1999, 11:12]
"myNetWorks.org" - A Rich Collaborative Web Environment For Sustainable Environmental Technology
White Papers "myNetWorks.org" is a rich collaborative web environment to convey basic principles, course materials and approaches to problem solving in the areas of Sustainable Environmental Technology and Ecological Engineering.myNetWorks.org" is created in...
[December 14, 2005, 0:01]
StorageTek Delivers Business Critical Solution For CIS
White Papers At Co-operative Insurance Society (CIS), data volumes are growing by 40 percent per annum. The company has opted for 9840 high density tape cartridges, the 9310 Powderhorn tape library and Virtual Storage Manager (VSM) to deliver a reliable, cost...
[January 2, 2006, 23:00]
Novell Case Study: EBS Building Society
White Papers EBS Building Society, based in Dublin, Ireland, offers a broad range of banking, mortgage, saving and investment products. EBS can quickly and easily create a new Linux virtual server for each new application, enabling the organisation to deliver...
[April 5, 2007, 1:00]
Ray Kurzweil: Don't Fear The Nanofuture
News What do you envision as the predominant benefit society will derive from virtual reality? It reflects an unrealistic concept of technology in our society. We'll interact with virtual personalities, virtual sales agents, virtual information...
[March 20, 2001, 11:00]
US Hackers Plan Three-day Contest
News Legally, the contest will be in a grey area, said Jennifer Granick, clinical director of Stanford University's Centre for Internet Law and Society. The Ghetto Hackers plan to create a network separate from, but running on, the Internet, using...
[August 2, 2004, 10:55]
Social Software: A Boon For Business?
News Social software such as email, instant messaging (IM) programs, blogs and personal networking services are bridging the gap between the online and offline world, and both business and society can be winners.
[May 30, 2003, 12:17]
Xansa Founder Honoured With BCS Award
News The British Computer Society (BCS) IT Professional Awards ceremony took place on Tuesday night in London. Winner: Britannia Building Society ("Really Big Programme") Winner: Britannia Building Society ("Really Big Programme")
[October 20, 2004, 18:05]
ARM Plans Fast Java Chips
News Java comes at a time when people are looking at a more connected society," said Mike Muller, ARM chief technical officer, referring to the proliferation of consumer electronics devices connected to the Internet and to each other.
[May 10, 2001, 8:24]
Jane Wakefield: The Day The Hackers Broke Microsoft's Heart
News News that Microsoft has been hacked will give the Microsoft Unappreciation Society even more ammunition in its war against the software giant. It is the building block of the whole empire and Microsoft's staunch refusal to publish it has been one...
[October 30, 2000, 6:12]
Jane Wakefield: Tuning The Telly Into The Net
News Then the Blairite army which started this obsession with an information-rich society would be able to sit back and smile. According to ntl -- the cable company from which I receive my iDTV service -- I am missing a world of opportunity, including...
[May 23, 2001, 11:49]
Accenture's King Of Blue-sky Thinking
News RFID is not just about tags; it has huge implications for how businesses operate, and how society accepts the potential of being tracked. A: There are choices dragging people apart about how to balance the physical and the virtual.
[October 30, 2007, 10:55]
Open-source Geeks Are Modern Heroes, Says Think Tank
News Britain's open-source software developers make a valuable contribution to society and the British economy through the high quality of their work, according to Demos. Demos says that these kind of people have traditionally made a contribution to...
[November 29, 2004, 14:40]
Internet To Gain Human Insight
News Daniel Berger, "chief fool" of online investment company The Motley Fool believes virtual communities will dominate the Internet in 2020, "redefining society and enhancing human experience". Women dominating the technology-driven future with men...
[September 30, 1999, 15:07]
A Year Ago: Internet To Gain Human Insight
News Daniel Berger, "chief fool" of online investment company The Motley Fool believes virtual communities will dominate the Internet in 2020, "redefining society and enhancing human experience". At The Next 20 Years, predictions of how computing and...
[September 30, 2000, 7:00]
