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Towards the end of the summer of 1969 – a few weeks after the moon landings, a few days after Woodstock, and a month before the first broadcast of Monty Python's Flying Circus – a large grey metal box was delivered to the office of Leonard Kleinrock,[...]

I’ve been in all-day meetings here at work, and during a break I Twittered some of my thoughts from the meeting and casually mentioned that I was doing so to someone who was looking over my shoulder. My comments drew some interesting responses from[...]

How to Prevent Computer Catastrophe

DISTANCE EDUCATION AT A GLANCE In order to help teachers, administrators, facilitators, and students understand distance education, Barry Willis, the Associate Dean for Outreach, and the Engineering Outreach staff present the following series of guides[...]

trust your preparations for Thursday's bibliophiliac ­extravaganza are coming on apace. It is, of course, World Book Day, the annual day devoted to ­encouraging children to read and discover the joys of imagined, ­unpixelated realms contained within[...]

My wife is getting ‘sex’ from an Internet chat room

Over the last few years, a new and disturbing phenomenon has been increasing in frequency. It’s called Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD), and it has been the subject of new research and debate. It is not currently included in the Diagnostic and Statistical[...]

As I've mentioned many times in other articles about legal matters, the law has yet to catch up to technology. It is extremely difficult for law enforcement, prisons and the courts to keep up with technological developments, and even more difficult to[...]

Friday May 15 will be the eighth annual Silver Surfers' Day in the UK, a day packed with free activities and training aimed at the estimated 9.2 million over-55s in the UK without internet access

If you are subjected to violent, crude, harassing or unwanted sexual contact from another IM user, you can count yourself among those statistics: you are a victim of cyberbullying. The good news is that you are not alone and you don’t have to accept[...]